Contents

Introductory word……………………………………………………………………	5
Topic I. The world a part of which you have become…………………………..…	7
Vocabulary building………………………………………………...........	8
Reading and rendering…………………………………………………...	12
Reading schemes and tables……………………………………………...	14
Looking for information and speaking…………………………………..	23
Check yourself!..........................................................................................	29
Project work……………………………………………………………...	31
Lexical test……………………………………………………………….	32
Attachments to Topic I. …………………………………………………………….	31
1.1. Portfolio…………………………………………………………………	31
1.2. Vocabulary map………………………………………………………..	32
1.3. Cognitive map…………………………………………………………..	33
1.4. Cliches of expressing gratitude………………………………………….	37
1.5. Semantic map……………………………………………………………	38
Vocabulary (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) ……………………………………	39
Keys to Topic I………………………………………………………………………

Introductory word

Dear students, we hope that this book will help to master your English language skills. But what is also important for you, it will introduce you the university world and will help you to become a real member of the university community. We, the authors, having joint the university community in the 70^th, were very much interested in writing this book for you. We will help you understand university values and accept them as yours. We will help you see the perspectives of your future academic career if you choose one.

Being the students of one university you are immediately members of the students’ community of all the Universities of the World. At the lessons of English you will learn about your new community from your culture point of view but also from the point of view of another culture.

This textbook consists of 3 parts named topics: the 1^st one will introduce you to your new world, the second one will give you some knowledge of it, while the third one will form some skills of interacting in it. Each topic contains sections, the titles of which define targeted skills, such as ‘vocabulary building’, ‘reading schemes and tables’ etc. But what is more, it contains special information for you how to study effectively, how to introduce yourselves to research activities, how to be smart. You will know how to read and review scientific texts, formulate theses and arguments, define subject-matters and objects of research, pose problems and find ways to solve them. To speak a foreign language is not only to know words and grammar rules, but also know models of communication and patterns of behavior in certain communities within certain activities just as to form skills of interaction in different contexts. Your world is your context. University community is your new world.

Most tasks have keys to check your knowledge and skills at different stages of learning. You will also have an opportunity to evaluate yourselves, to state what you have learned and to focus on what you need to pay more attention tо in future. After each of three topics in ‘Check yourself’ section you can fulfill some tests and fill in self-assessment tables. There are several appendices here in the Module where you can find additional material on different issues including learning strategies. Tasks are marked with special symbols. With the help of them you will easily define the way you act while learning. Symbol  means that the material of the task is for your personal data bank – Portfolio. It will help you to save your work that can be useful in future and also to trace back your achievements and to make your studies corresponding to European documents on teaching and learning foreign languages (Information on portfolio see in Attachment 1.1).

Now, turn the page and open the door to our common world!

The following symbols are used in the book:

 there is an audio recording to this task;

 there is a key to this task;

 speaking in pairs;

 reading;

 the material on this task should be included into Portfolio;

 for advanced students.