- •University
- •1.8. Read an extract from the vocabulary entry ‘School’. It is taken from Roget’s Thesaurus of English words and expression. Discuss why all these words appeared under the same headline.
- •Chart 1. The Structure of Vilnius University
- •Chart 2. The Structure of the Belarusian State University
- •Chart 3. Faculty Structure
- •3.3. Study Chart 4 and comment on a possible career of a student in an academic field. Use the following pattern for your comments:
- •Chart 4. Academic Career
- •3.5. Each of sciences has a definite code of majors. Find a proof that specializations presented in Table 2 belong to philological sciences.
- •Informational texts
- •1St year
- •1St term
- •2Nd year
- •3Rd term
- •Sociology
- •Monday 21st – Friday 25th September 2009
- •Is looking for talents!
- •If you want to know more about song and dance culture of your country, learn to dance and sing and see the world with our theatre, join us!
- •6:00 – 7:30 P.M., Main Building,
- •4.2. Which of informational texts from task 4.1. Do you need if
- •4.5. Recall the announcements you have read recently in your university (faculty, institute). Share the information you have learned from them with your classmates.
- •4.6. Read the General Note about proper communication patterns accepted in university surroundings.
- •6.6. Fill in the Self-Assessment Checklist:
- •Self assesment checklist
- •1.1. Look at the map of the Universities marked on the map of Europe. Do you know them? Pronounce their names in English. Sum up the ways universities are named.
- •1.3. Discuss the criteria used to evaluate and make a choice of a university.
- •The newest in my country My University
- •Types of Universities
- •Industrial Shop Corporation
- •Classical Research University
- •Factory University
- •4. Supermarket University
- •5. Project University
- •6. Network University
- •2.1. Read and compare texts and their interpretations. What is the difference between the text and its interpretation?
- •The rules of effective interaction in the Round Table format
- •3.3. Choose one of the topics for discussion and conduct it according to Round Table format rules (do not forget to set time limit to your discussion).
- •Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)
- •4.3. Read in Appendix e about the format of a five-minute speech and present your review in this format.
- •6.2. Choose a well-known university of the world and write why you might want to study there.
- •6.5 Fill in the Self-Assessment Checklist:
- •Self-assessment checklist
- •Topic 3
- •Interaction skills in my new world
- •1.2. Read the extract and check whether your expectations were right. Share your impressions of it. Compare yourself to Lev Tolstoy’s hero.
- •1.6. Extend your Vocabulary Map you made in 1.3. By extending the number of rays and their length.
- •1.8. Present the results of your work in 1.7. To all groupmates and discuss them.
- •White Hat Thinking
- •Red Hat Thinking
- •Black Hat Thinking
- •Yellow Hat Thinking
- •Green Hat Thinking
- •Blue Hat Thinking
- •3.5. Analyze the example when we study some activity used to solve the problem not a particular object – to do or not to do?
- •Rector’s Welcome Speech
- •5.4. Fill in the scheme ‘Hourglass’ on the activity ‘how to study successfully’.
- •5.5. To sum up Unit 3, read the story which happened to one of the authors of this book.
- •5.6. Fill in Self-Assessment checklist: self-assessment checklist
- •Appendices
- •539 School
- •Cognitive map of vocabulary article ‘the University’
- •Variants of presenting only one theme of the map – a:
- •Variants of presenting the whole text (all themes in the cognitive map):
- •International public speaking competition: judging criteria
- •Verbal technique
- •References
2.1. Read and compare texts and their interpretations. What is the difference between the text and its interpretation?
(Texts 1– 3 are translated from the book by St-Petersburg professor specializing in Latin
Vadim Rabinovich “Исповедь книгочея, который учил букве, а укреплял дух” Moscow: Kniga, 1991. p. 12 – 15).
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№ 1. Knowledge (scientia) is a word that may define the conditions under which actual understanding of what is true and what is false takes place; it may also define the act of pure speculation (speculation as thinking, considering); it may also define the prerequisites of the act of learning. Knowledge is the condition of teaching under which the student starts to learn from their own experience and in this case it is called research; otherwise knowledge is transmitted by somebody; in this case knowledge means a doctrine for the teacher and a discipline for the student.
Interpretation: As we see, knowledge is the interpretation of one’s experience (whether their own or other). The conditions, whether we (1) obtain knowledge by living, or (2) take knowledge from teachers completely relying on them, we most evidently choose by ourselves. In any case, if one chooses the second approach to obtain knowledge (that is, completely relying on teachers), it’s worth knowing that even having learnt a discipline, one needs to check it by their own (research) experience; otherwise knowledge is nothing but the doctrines of the others.
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№ 2. ‘Scientia is a science taught and studied, so its followers (adepts) are a doctor and a scholar, a master and a student in their holistic settings (linkages), otherwise, a scientist (the one who knows) and a learner (the one who learns how to become one)’.
Interpretation: Here we see the significance of interaction to obtain knowledge, as a person who studies and the one who teaches are forming a holistic set, a linkage: each element of the linkage is molding the other (each is the cortege3 of the other).
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№ 3. ‘Lectio means to listen to and get some information, to see and differentiate by seeing; to read and listen at the same time. Lectio also means collecting, making choices, reading, but also texts and their comments …’ .
Interpretation: Studying the meaning of Latin words we can discuss what ‘lectures’ or ‘classes’ at university are. Lecture is not aimed at giving knowledge. Its aim is to give opinions, attitudes, evaluation and choices (what is worth paying attention to and what is not, which definition to choose and which not). A lecture is the very beginning of knowledge: it is aimed at pushing you to reading, thinking, research, pushing you to real cognition. Listening to lectures is just a starting step to obtain knowledge.
2.2. Choose a text and propose your own interpretation. Write it down, render and discuss it in groups.
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“Europe without philology… is a civilized Sahara, damned by God. There one can still find Castles, Kremlins, Acropoloi, Gothic towns, cathedrals, but people will watch them without understanding and even may get frightened by them, not knowing what force has made them appear and which blood is running in the veins of this powerful architecture’.
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‘Why should one equal a word to what it denotes: a thing, grass, an object? Is a thing the master of the word? The word is Psyche [Goddess of the Soul – I. O]. A word which is alive and functioning, doesn’t mean an object as it is, but as if chooses it as a body for temporary living. Thus words are wandering around their objects like the soul is wandering around a left but not forgotten body.… A word as a symbol of, a word as a way of, a word as a sense of…’. The hierarchy of 4 meanings is defined by Dante in his work ‘Festivity Dinner’: ‘Direct meaning teaches us what happened; Allegory (cognitive meaning) brings us beliefs; Moral (pragmatic) meaning teaches us how to act; what you strive at is being discovered by analogy’.
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Finding a problem and discussing it |
A problem is a question to be considered, solved, or answered; e.g. math problems; the problem of how to arrange transportation.
A problem is a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; race problem – a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions; balance-of-payments problem – an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports.
Problem – noun 1. difficulty, trouble, dispute, plight, obstacle, dilemma, headache (informal) disagreement, complication, predicament, quandary.
(1. Problem. (2009). In The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.)
2. Problem (2003-2008). Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection)
3.1. Read the text and explain what a round table is in your own words (interpretation):
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What is a Round Table?
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What is its goal?
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Who participates in it?
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What is the role of its mediator?
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What responsibilities do the participants have?
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