- •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
Rector’s Welcome Speech
As the rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), I would like to welcome you to the web page of this public institution of higher learning. Maintaining an academic tradition of more than 500 years, the USC aims to provide students with high-quality learning and research. These high standards also extend to its different services as well as to its social and environmental needs. Organized into two campuses, one located in Lugo and the other in Compostela, the USC ranges over the whole five areas of knowledge: Experimental Science, Health Science, Social and Legal Science, Technical Science and Humanities. Moreover, the USC is an institution that shows an intense research activity, developed by its 72 departments, 18 research institutes and by more than 1600 researchers, all of them coordinated by the Innovation and Technological Transfer Centre (CITT).
The history of the USC constitutes a legacy we are proud of, represented in its architectural, art and bibliographical heritage, which is still alive as nowadays continues to do great service to our society.
From Galicia, our university is projected to the European technological and scientific development. Thus, its main aim is to play a relevant role in the framework of European Higher Learning Space, which is made in agreement with the Bologna Declaration, as well as to achieve closer bonds with the Latin American University community. In relation to this, it is worth mentioning that during the 2004 academic year, our university is organizing activities related to the program The Ways of the USC in America, the already held Iberoamerican Conference of Rectors and Responsibles of International Relationships being an outstanding example of it, that resulted in the Declaration of Compostela, signed by more than 200 Iberoamerican Universities.
The USC is directly committed to the quality of learning, research and services, as stated in its Strategic Plan, by means of which it aims to project itself to the future in order to transform its present and to solve the different demands of society. The efforts made in these last years justify the existence of a Vice-rectorship of Quality and Strategic Plannig which allows for the promotion of a higher quality quota in the different fields and activities of the USC. However, it is the joint work done in our centres, departments, institutes of research and services what ultimately guarantees our progress in quality matters.
We must be aware that a new model of university is being created with the intention of reflecting the ‘post-industrial’ world. At the USC, this model implies the preservation of the characteristic features that define our university as an educative institution committed to the transmission both of knowledge and of the innovative results that emerge from research, thus helping to surmount those results left behind by the social, cultural, economic and technological transformations. In this way, the USC aims to go on being a model for our society that contributes to a sustainable development. In line with this, this web soon became a promotor of education, research and services. Besides this, it is an excellent letter of introduction to the USC, showing its identity, its work and its projects. The different pages of this website will show you an evolving university that does not forget the richness of its history, profits from its five-century heritage, and tries to go further so as to consolidate itself as a prestigious university within the current dynamic world. In essence, our University puts its knowledge and leadership in the service of the demands of our society.