- •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!
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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
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.
I will tell you a story that really happened in my life and in the life of a group of 3rd year students from the Faculty of Journalism. What is this story about and what does it teach us?
Let me start with a short note. A teacher is a person who really wants to share their knowledge with their students. A teacher, as you understand now, is also a person who is always engaged in self-education. Besides, a teacher is a person who is not easily offended at students, as students sometimes do not understand what messages their sentences really deliver. Planning to send a having in mind message, they are sending quite the opposite one.
So here is the story. Once the faculty invited a foreign lecturer (an expert in journalism) to teach the students who had a good command of English as a foreign language. It was not an exceptional case at this institution. The classes of this particular expert took place at a sports base outside the university campus and outside the town as well, so that during three days the students could spend some time at a resort place having both extensive experience of training and some rest in a beautiful place.
The classes were quite extensive: a lot of information and some practical activities were offered to the students. The trainer shared her knowledge with students in a very quick and lively manner, as she wanted to cover many different topics she considered especially important for a contemporary reporter. That is why each new task, e.g. how to compose a lead for a news story was followed by only one practical task and a quick check on the lead structure. The trainer made some critical remarks; the students accepted criticism easily and gratefully: it seemed they were on the point of grasping the whole idea how to fulfill the task, but there was no time for a second attempt, so the students were proposed to switch to a new equally important topic.
A part of the material of the training course (namely journalist ethics) was offered exclusively in the format of lecturing, though the lecture was really well illustrated with examples of what is right and what is wrong. The key rule of journalist’s ethical behavior was formulated in the following way: ‘Don’t make splashes!’ The rule was supported with the following interpretation: ‘When one criticizes some event or situation, it is the event itself (or the situation) which is under consideration, not the people involved’. In this case a reporter shouldn’t write about people being good or bad, shouldn’t switch into the evaluating mode, i.e. shouldn’t make splashes. It may also be explained with a focus on the message content: every message has its explicit (surface like) and implicit (deep) meaning. The explicit one is ‘I’ve said what I’ve said’, while the implicit one is ‘By saying this I mean that but also something else’ (and it may be ‘By saying this I meant quite the opposite’). A professional (say, a professional reporter) is to know that this implicit (potential) meaning can always be manifested to the audience. If such things happen, there is a range of possibilities that need be considered: in some countries the reporter may be sued for personal injury (though in some places this could be difficult to do); in others, the reporter could be shot.
Then came the time when the days of this training course were over and the students had a final meeting with their lecturer and also the faculty members who organized this three-day course for them, brought them to the sport base and were regular visitors of the course just as the students themselves. It was expected somehow that the students would express their thanks to the lecturer. There were several students who gave the words of gratitude. One of speeches appeared to be the following one: “Thank you very much for your classes: for these three days we’ve learnt even more than we’ve learnt for three previous years at our faculty”. (A pause…. Splashes…). So here is a question to you: What is it that the speaker had learnt during those three days of classes?
Think and write what this story is about and what it teaches us?
The authors could give you the whole list of what it teaches us, but now we are sure that you will be ready to do it yourself. Think about it and write it down.