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?

Field

Object

Subject-matter

Goal – effective driving,

getting from one place to the other

Tasks

Methods

Topicality

Significance

Field – driving a car (time, intellectual growth, etc.)

Object – me, driving my car (BMW), in the streets of my town

Subject-matter – (quite complex) the car and its service, how to operate it, the rules of driving and other details necessary for effective driving, psychological, moral and other issues.

Goal – effective driving, getting from one place to another.

Tasks – to find money for getting the license, to study and pass the driving test, to learn everything that matters.

Methods – (a) psychological (persuasion): to prove to parents that it is necessary for the whole family and also for my future career, (b) cognitive: to work much, (c) pragmatic: to take responsibility on oneself, etc.

Topicality – if I learn how to drive and get the driving license, my parents will buy me a car.

Significance – new traits of character plus flexibility and mobility.

 If we successfully follow all steps coming to the last – Topicality and Significance – and find no answers to these two points, how should we treat the research problem (goal) and is it a problem at all (do we need to reach this goal then?

Otherwise, it may be wise to turn over the hourglass and to start anew. The first question here will be then: what is really topical and significant for me now?

 3.6. Analyze the disciplines you study this year or practical activities you are doing or planning to do this year. Fill the hourglass with real ideas (e.g., a foreign language, a debate club or any other social activity, morning exercises, etc.).

  Let us sum up.

Put on one after another white and black hats and look back at our work in this Part. After five minutes put on the Red hat and express your opinion in one word.

Put on Yellow and Green hats in your further work. As for the Blue one, put it and be in it, because you have just joined a university community but your real life and interaction in it is still in future.

We wish you luck and success! 

 Project work
	Get united in groups with the same values and compose for you the program-minimum and/or program-maximum for your studies at university. Present it and discuss in the format of a Round Table.

 Check yourself!

5.1. Fulfill four tasks as your lexical test:

Task 1. Write proper phrase expressions combining the words from the left and right columns.

the association	of the problem
the way	of view
the point	of students
the goal	of thinking
the significance	of the research

Task 2. Find proper verbs to the following words and phrases.

the goal	Oneself
the opinion	the problem
the subject matter	the PhD
the diploma	the significance of the research

Task 3. Match the words from two columns.

actual	difficulties
vivid	thinking
to try oneself in	knowledge
overcome	example
constructive	research

Task 4. Write derivatives of the following words.

association	(self)-realization
consciousness	admit
community	confess
thorough	expertise

Task 5. Write one sentence using at least 10 words from the active vocabulary of Unit 3. Use as many subordinate clauses as possible. How long can it be?

5.1. Look at your time table putting on any of six thinking hats and write down its evaluation from the point of view of your hat.

5.2. Read the welcome speech of the Rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela to the students; look for the key words and present a resume of this speech based on key words in a written form.