EU JEP CATCH PROJECT

FIRST PILOTING

SPRING 2008

Module I

General English for University and Professional Purposes I

Instructor’s manual

for internal use only

Producers:

Svetlana Konyaeva

Marina Berezina

Elena Teleshova

Leader:

Svetlana Konyaeva

Contents

EU JEP CATCH PROJECT 1

FIRST PILOTING 1

SPRING 2008 1

Module I 1

Instructor’s manual 1

Producers: 1

Svetlana Konyaeva 1

Marina Berezina 1

Elena Teleshova 1

Leader: 1

Svetlana Konyaeva 1

DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION 8

Estimated student work time in hours 8

Syllabus 8

Teaching/learning methods 8

Practical classes, group work, discussion groups. 8

Study module teaching form 8

Plan of in-class hours 8

Schedule of individual work task and their influence on final grade 8

The structure and content of the syllabus 9

Section I (6 double periods) 9

Education system in Russia and English speaking countries 9

Section aim 9

Section II (6 double periods) 9

Section aim 9

Section III (6 double periods) 10

Scientists (famous people) 10

Section aim 10

Section IV (6 double periods) 11

Computer 11

Section aim 11

Section V (6 double periods) 11

Career prospects 11

Section aim 11

Examination/credit test (2 double periods) 12

The lesson plan 14

LEAD-IN 14

READING TEXT 15

Prereading discussion 15

READING COMPREHENSION 15

Homework 17

The lesson plan 18

Introduction 18

Recommended resources http://www.ox.ac.uk 18

LEXICAL EXERCISES 18

Active vocabulary 18

New words: 19

SPEAKING PRACTICE 19

Reading text 19

Homework 20

The lesson plan 21

The lesson plan 27

LEXICAL EXERCISES 27

Listening 27

(The purpose of the Listening exercises is to give students an opportunity of practice in listening to spoken English and to develop skills to make them better listeners. The task is to help them to understand the main points that are made – and to discourage them for listening to every single word or worrying about the words they don’t understand. 27

Transcript 28

Listening comprehension 28

Asking and answering questions: 29

What a difficult question! 29

All this routine work has to be done as a preliminary preparation to the presentation. 29

The lesson plan 31

Revision test 40

Revision Test 48

Revision test 51

The lesson plan 53

Introduction 53

Pre-reading discussion 53

ACTIVE VOCABULARY 53

READING TEXT 54

READING COMPREHENSION 54

Speaking practice 55

The lesson plan 56

Introduction to the theme 56

LEXICAL EXERCISES 56

SPEAKING PRACTICE 56

The lesson plan 58

Introduction to the theme 58

Pre-listening discussion 58

ACTIVE VOCABULARY 58

LISTENING TEXT 59

LISTENING COMPREHENSION 59

Speaking practice 60

The lesson plan 61

Introduction to the theme 61

LEXICAL EXERCISES 61

Writing practice 63

SPEAKING PRACTICE 63

The lesson plan 65

Introduction 65

The task 65

Problem-based activity 65

Evaluation 65

The lesson plan 67

Introduction 67

The task 67

Group discussion 67

Evaluation 67

The lesson plan 69

Introduction 69

The task 69

Presentation 69

Evaluation 69

The lesson plan 73

LEAD-IN 73

T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007 73

T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007 75

ACTIVE VOCABULARY 75

READING 76

Prereading discussion 76

Recommended resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Leonidovich_Kapitsa 77

READING COMPREHENSION 77

Online activity 78

Work in groups 78

Offline 78

The lesson plan 79

LISTENING 79

Transcript 79

Weather Forecast 79

Listening comprehension 79

Speaking 80

LEXICAL EXERCISE 80

ACTIVE VOCABULARY 81

LEAD-IN 82

Reading comprehension 82

The lesson plan 83

ACTIVE VOCABULARY 83

Macmillan Essential Dictionary, International Student Edition, 84

Paul Falla Collin Howlett, The Oxford Russian Dictionary, Oxford-Moscow 84

Recommended resources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel 85

Reading comprehension 85

LISTENING 86

Uncle Philip 86

Listening comprehension 86

The lesson plan 89

LEAD-IN 89

New words 90

Reading comprehension 91

simply – not difficult, not complicated, easy; quickly – fast, rapidly, speedily; actually – used to emphasize that something is true, especially when it is a little surprising or unexpected; finally – at last, lastly; nearly – almost, but not completely or exactly; 91

II. Answer the following questions in pairs: 91

On/offline activity 91

Online activity 91

Writing an e-mail (to a friend) 91

Work in pairs. 91

Writing (to a friend) 91

The Model version is just a model to show to students. 92

Model version 92

Special questions 99

Revision test 101

Revision test 103

Exercise 1. 103

The lesson plan 104