- •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
5. Project University
This type also originated in developed countries, in particular, in the advanced US universities and in the best Universities of the former USSR (e.g., Physic Technological University). This type doesn’t presuppose teaching groups of students. It focuses on familiarizing students with project practice and early professional training by involving students into the work at places of their future professional activity (industrial companies, corporations and laboratories).
There is a very slight difference between teachers and students in this type of universities. Team work is necessary. Students and postgraduates, involved into a scientific project, form a project team. There are different specialists in this team who have their own goals in the project. Quite a concrete input into the project is required from everyone. Being in the process of carrying out projects, students get educated. It’s important that besides universal knowledge, students acquire creative thinking, communicative and business competence.
This type is impossible in large numbers. It`s difficult to control. This University type can`t be very big, with a high number of students. This type can be accepted into big University Corporations such as educational modules (colleges, institutes and/or business schools).
6. Network University
By virtue of a growing tendency of international relations expansion, world business and economy formation, and global corporation relations growth and Universities competition, Universities (especially the strongest ones) started the so-called network model development.
They are characterized by in different geographical positions (there are offices), working under common international programs (double diplomas programs, joint projects and research programs), they produce strategies of a country development, development of economy, projects and programs for business companies and corporations, besides teaching future specialists. In such conditions a university is not just an educational establishment, it`s a kind of a holding company, fulfilling different culture functions.
This is the only type to survive in contemporary conditions. It`s impossible for a university to survive with a single educational function aiming at transmitting experience.
1.6. While reading the text ‘Types of Universities’, you have come across borrowed words like ‘basis, crisis, phenomenon, curriculum’. Do you remember the plural forms of such nouns? To refresh your knowledge, consult Supplementary Material for Unit 2. Plural Form of Nouns Borrowed from Greek and Latin.
1.7. When you encounter the word ‘credit’, which resembles the Russian word ‘кредит’, it is wise to check its English meaning. To read about this category of words, go to Supplementary Material for Unit 2. International Words.
1.8. In the text there are a number of sentences where Passive Voice is used. Did you have any difficulties in recognizing such sentences and translating them into Russian? If’ yes’, go to Supplementary Material for Unit 2. Passive Voice.
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Reading and interpreting |
Interpretation is explanation; meaning; translation; exposition; the expression of a person’s conception of anything (text, piece of art, etc.).
(Interpretation. (2009). In The Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.).
Retrieved from: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interpretation)
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Interpret vt to explain; to translate; to construe; to give one’s own conception of, as in a play or musical composition. *vi to translate between speakers of different languages. – Interpretation.