- •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
4.3. Read in Appendix e about the format of a five-minute speech and present your review in this format.
4.4. Choose the proper paragraphs for preparing a five-minute speech on one of the proposed topics and present it in both written and oral forms.
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Universalism as the absence of exclusive polarities between sciences and arts.
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Leonardo’s methods of research.
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Leonardo as the archetype of the Renaissance man.
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Leonardo’s journals as a source of knowledge about the epoch and universalist approach.
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Evaluation of an invention may take years.
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Collect information and write a factual review on the topic ‘Science and People of Science’. Transfer it into a PowerPoint presentation and make a 5 – 7 minute group presentation.
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6.1. Fulfill four tasks as your lexical test:
Task 1. Write derivatives and collocations of the word ‘knowledge’.
Task 2. Build up a group of words extending the idea ‘education’.
Task 3. Translate the following words into your mother tongue:
Initiator, creator, maker, developer, explorer, observer, investigator, polymath, person of encyclopaedic knowledge;
Task 4. Write one sentence using at least 10 words from the active vocabulary of Unit 2. Use as many subordinate clauses as possible. How long can it be?
6.2. Choose a well-known university of the world and write why you might want to study there.
6.3. Interpret the text ‘Researcher’.
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Researcher
«Если в Новое время ученый – тот, кто исследует, то ученый в средние века – тот, кто знает об истинном знании. И поэтому не ученый, а ученый человек… . Нужно вернуть слову ученый этимологически первородную его стать и понять его как прилагательное, приложенное к существительному, приобщенному к субъекту – человеку, который пребывает в томительном чаянии этой самой учености, чтобы … существовать».
6.4. Find information in any easy to access source (naming the source) and give your pro or against arguments about the idea that contemporary world needs (or doesn’t need) researchers with interdisciplinary (polymath) scope of vision. Present your opinion in the format of a 5-minute speech.
6.5 Fill in the Self-Assessment Checklist:
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In column 3 (importance): ! it’s important for me !! it`s especially important for me |
In column 4 (my assessment): I know and I can do it I know it very well and I can do it easily |
80% of ticks mean that you have coped with the topic successfully.
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enough words on the topic for initial communication |
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names and locations of universities in my country and Europe |
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the Round Table format and the roles of the mediator and participants |
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what science is and what people in science are |
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about several researchers, their life and work |
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explain why I have chosen my University |
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read, interpret and make a resume of the texts on the topic |
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be a mediator of the Round Table talk |
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participate in the Round Table on the topic |
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read the texts on the topic and split them into paragraphs |
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read the text on the topic and report on information in contains |
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