- •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
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- •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
Chart 1. The Structure of Vilnius University
Chart 2. The Structure of the Belarusian State University
Chart 3. Faculty Structure
3.2. Using your own chart as a Semantic Map (see Appendix C) and charts 1-3 as Vocabulary Maps speak about people who work and study at university, their positions, professions. If you need to refresh your knowledge on how nouns denoting jobs and professions are formed, go to ‘Supplementary Material. Suffixes for Jobs and Professions.
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:
If a student |
continues writes defends … |
} |
…, |
s/he’ll |
get become … |
} |
… |
Chart 4. Academic Career
3.4. Listen to and repeat after the speaker the names of sciences registered by academician structures (Table 1) and fill the right column of the table with the names of the faculties at which these sciences are studied at your university.
Table 1
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Codes – names of sciences
Names of faculties
01.00.00 – Physical and mathematical, sciences;
02.00.00 – Chemical sciences;
03.00.00 – Biological sciences;
05.00.00 – Technical sciences
06.00.00 – Agricultural sciences
07.00.00 – Historical sciences
08.00.00 – Economic sciences
09.00.00 – Philosophical sciences
10.00.00 – Philological sciences
12.00.00 – Juridical sciences
13.00.00 – Pedagogical sciences
14.00.00 – Medical sciences
15.00.00 – Pharmaceutical sciences
16.00.00 – Veterinary sciences
17.00.00 – Art criticism
18.00.00 – Architecture
19.00.00 – Psychological sciences
22.00.00 – Sociological sciences
23.00.00 – Political sciences
24.00.00 – Cultural studies
25.00.00 – Earth sciences
3.5. Each of sciences has a definite code of majors. Find a proof that specializations presented in Table 2 belong to philological sciences.
Table 2
Codes – names of philological specializations |
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10.01.01 – Belarusian literature; 10.01.02 – Russian literature; 10.01.03 – Foreign literature; 10.01.08 – Theory of literature; Textology; 10.01.09 – Folklore studies; 10.01.10 – Journalism;
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10.02.01 – Belarusian language 10.02.02 – Russian language 10.02.03 – Slavic languages 10.02.04 – Germanic languages 10.02.05 – Romanic languages 10.02.19 – Language theory 10.02.20 – Historical, Typological and Contrastive 10.02.21 – Applied and Mathematical Linguistics |
Searching for information and interacting in university space |
4.1. Look through four informational texts on the university world (pages 104– 107) and match them with the following headlines: Announcement, Office Hours of University Administration, (Induction) Timetable, Studies Program. (Do it very quickly as you are given five 5 minutes at maximum).