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- •1) Коммуникационные компетенции.
- •2) Коммуникативная компетенция владения иностранным языком1.
- •Часть 1
- •1.2. Lead-in Discussion. Answer the following questions.
- •2.1. Read the article and find the information about the changes, which have been introduced in Eton; explain the title of the article. A New Kind of Elite
- •2.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •2.2. Read the article; explain the title of the article. America’s Community Colleges: On the Ascent
- •2.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •3.1. Read the text and find the facts proving the great influence of educational technologies on the lives of students and teachers. U.S. Students and the Technological Evolution
- •3.1.1. Comprehension Questions
- •3.2. Read the article; explain the title of the article. The Issue of “Choice”
- •3.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •4.1. Read the article. A Freshman at Brown University
- •4.1.1. Notes
- •4.1.2. Key Vocabulary
- •4.2. Read the text and find the facts on the advantages of co-op education. Co-op Education in us Colleges
- •4.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •4.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •5.1.1. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •5.1.2. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •5.1.3. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •5.2.1. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 2).
- •5.2.2. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 3).
- •5.2.3. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the texts (Focus 4).
- •5.3.1. Find the English equivalents in texts (Focus 2) for the following Russian words and phrases.
- •5.3.2. Find English equivalents in texts (Focus 3) for the following Russian words and phrases.
- •5.3.3. Find the English equivalents in the texts (Focus 4) for the following Russian words and phrases.
- •5.4.1. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 2).
- •5.4.2. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 3).
- •5.4.3. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 4).
- •6.1. Render the following text in English. E-learning в помощь
- •6.2. Render the following text in English. Бизнес-образование: прагматики против академиков
- •6.3. Write an essay of 300-350 words on the educational reforms in Russia. Focus on either history of reforms or present-day developments.
- •7.1. Topics for Oral Discussion
- •7.2. Topics for Round Tables
- •7.3. Surf on the Web to find information on the European educational system. To help you we state several addresses to start with.
- •7.4. Education on the Internet
- •1.2. Lead-in Discussion. Answer the following questions.
- •2.1. Scan the text below and say what its essence is.
- •Infinite editions
- •2.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •2.2. Skim the text and find any information on the impact media violence has on children.
- •Violence in Pop Culture
- •2.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •3.1. Find the facts proving that the arts in America grow out of American culture. Bringing Art to All Americans
- •3.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •3.2. Read the following text. The Return of Beauty
- •3.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •4.1. Introduction. The cinema is an art form that is accessible to most people and it is one that most people enjoy.
- •4.1.1. Answer the questions in the quiz below to find out whether you’re a film buff.
- •4.1.2. Skimming and scanning. Read through the text quickly to find out the answers to the quiz. How many did you get right?
- •4.1.3. Choose the correct title (a-j) for each paragraph of the text (1-7). Not all the headings will be needed.
- •4.1.4. The following events are all stages in the history of the film industry. Read the text again carefully and number them 1-6 according to their historical order.
- •4.1.5. Key Vocabulary
- •4.2. Scan the text below and say what its essence is. Does the Market Produce Bad Art?
- •4.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •4.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •5.1.1. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •5.1.2. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •5.1.3. Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
- •5.2.1. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 2).
- •5.2.2. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 3).
- •5.4.2. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 3).
- •5.4.3. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 4).
- •6.1. Render the following text into English. Дитя и волшебство
- •6.2. Sum up the English version of 6.1.
- •6.3. Write an essay of 250 words on your favourite director’s creative work.
- •If you so desire, you may focus on either history of arts or present-day developments.
- •7.1. Discuss the following.
- •7.2. Look into the following statements and prove your own point of view.
- •7.3. Surf on the Web to find information on Hollywood. What kind of sites do they offer? Which do you like most?
- •7.4. Culture on the Internet
- •1.2. Lead-in Discussion. Answer the following questions.
- •2.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •2.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •3.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.1.2. Comprehension questions
- •3.2. Read the article; explain the title of the article. Scan the text and say what its essence is. Explain the author’s point of view on the problem. A Fading Taboo
- •3.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.2.2. Comprehension questions
- •4.1. Read the article. Scan the text below and say what its essence is. Explain the author’s point of view. Where Free’s a Crowd
- •4.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •4.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •4.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •4.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •5.1.1. Match the words and phrases with their definitions (Focus 2).
- •5.1.2. Match the words and phrases with their definitions (Focus 3).
- •5.1.3. Match the words and phrases with their definitions (Focus 4).
- •5.2.1. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 2).
- •5.4.2. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (Focus 3).
- •5.4.3. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (Focus 4).
- •6.1. Render the following text in English. Современная пресса Автограда
- •6.2. Sum up the English version of 6.1.
- •6.3. Render the following text in English. Проект "Карта российской прессы"
- •6.4 Write an essay of 300 words on advertising in Russia.
- •7.1. Topics for Oral Discussion
- •7.2. Look into the following statements and prove your own point of view.
- •7.3. Surf on the Web to find the information on the history of electronic media. Brief your group mates on your findings.
- •7.4. Mass Media on the Internet
- •1.2. Lead-in Discussion. Answer the following questions.
- •2.1. Scan the text to find facts proving that face-to-face communication is as widespread as ever. Skim the text and sum up the evidence in favour of electronic communication. Keep It Real
- •2.1.1. Notes
- •2.1.2. Key Vocabulary
- •2.1.3. Comprehension Questions
- •2.2. Scan the article to find all definitions of blog. Find the dates important for blogosphere. Skim the text to find out what blogs and blogging are.
- •It’s the links, stupid
- •2.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •2.3. Skim the article to find what the wiki principle is.
- •The wiki principle
- •2.3.1. Key Vocabulary
- •2.3.2. Comprehension Questions
- •3.1. Skim the article to define the new way of governing. Scan the text to illustrate the definition by some impressive statistics. A New Way of Governing in the Digital Age
- •3.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •3.2. Skim the text to decide whether it can be really safe in the cyberspace. Scan the dangers described and precautions taken. Staying Safe in Cyberspace
- •3.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •3.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •4.1. Skim the text to enumerate all aspects of the digital divide. Read the text to sum up what it is about. Bringing the Digital Divide
- •4.1.1. Key Vocabulary
- •4.1.2. Comprehension Questions
- •4.2. Look through the text to decide why it is headlined ‘Snooping Bosses’. Skim the article to find the percentage of employers who control their employees’ electronic behaviour. Snooping Bosses
- •4.2.1. Key Vocabulary
- •4.2.2. Comprehension Questions
- •5.1.1. Match the words and phrases with their equivalents (focus 2).
- •5.1.2. Match the words and phrases with their equivalents (focus 3).
- •5.1.3. Match the words and phrases with their equivalents (focus 4).
- •5.2.1. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from texts (Focus 2).
- •5.4.2. Translate the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 3).
- •5.4.3. Translate the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 4).
- •6.1.1. Интернет будущего: "Чего изволите?"
- •6.1.2. «Всемирная паутина» (www или Web)
- •6.2. Sum up the English versions of 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
- •6.3. Render the text in English. Понятие информационной безопасности
- •6.4. Write an essay of 300 words on the Internet in modern life.
- •Hatched, Matched and Dispatched
- •The Hard Turn
- •Taming the Wild Web
- •2. Render the following text into English.
- •Двойная игра – двойные ставки Британская система образования
- •Неподражаемый
- •Информационный террор
- •Vocabulary Index
6.2. Sum up the English versions of 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
6.3. Render the text in English. Понятие информационной безопасности
Под информационной безопасностью понимается защищенность информации и поддерживающей ее инфраструктуры от любых случайных или злонамеренных воздействий, результатом которых может явиться нанесение ущерба самой информации, ее владельцам или поддерживающей инфраструктуре. Задачи информационной безопасности сводятся к минимизации ущерба, а также к прогнозированию и предотвращению таких воздействий.
Что угрожает информационной безопасности
Действия, которые могут нанести ущерб информационной безопасности организации, можно разделить на несколько категорий.
1. Действия, осуществляемые авторизованными пользователями.
В эту категорию попадают целенаправленная кража или уничтожение данных на рабочей станции или сервере; повреждение данных пользователем в результате неосторожных действий.
2. "Электронные" методы воздействия, осуществляемые хакерами. Целью несанкционированного проникновения извне в сеть предприятия может быть нанесение вреда (уничтожения данных), кража конфиденциальной информации и использование ее в незаконных целях и пр.
3. Компьютерные вирусы.
Отдельная категория электронных методов воздействия - компьютерные вирусы и другие вредоносные программы. Они представляют собой реальную опасность для современного бизнеса, широко использующего компьютерные сети, интернет и электронную почту.
4. Спам. Всего за несколько лет спам из незначительного раздражающего фактора превратился в одну из серьезнейших угроз безопасности, так как электронная почта в последнее время стала главным каналом распространения вредоносных программ; спам отнимает массу времени на просмотр и последующее удаление сообщений и т.д.
5. "Естественные" угрозы. На информационную безопасность компании могут влиять разнообразные внешние факторы: причиной потери данных может стать неправильное хранение, кража компьютеров и носителей, форс-мажорные обстоятельства и т. д.
Источник: http://www.kaspersky.ru/
Размер: 1899 знаков с пробелами.
6.4. Write an essay of 300 words on the Internet in modern life.
FOCUS 7. Discussion
7.1. Topics for Round Table Discussions
1. Internet: pros and cons.
2. Internet-based education.
3. E-mail in business.
4. Web 2.0.
5. Internet experience: personal view.
7.2. Surf on the Web to find information on the recent developments in the Internet technologies.
7.3. Internet on the Internet
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20.php
http://englishforhelp.ucoz.ru/publ/6-1-0-97
http://www.careersandcolleges.com/
http://education-portal.com/index.html
http://www.studentnow.com/
http://www.wikiedu.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Make up a report on the recent developments in the Internet-technologies (Web 2.0; wikis; blogs, etc.).
APPENDIX: EXTRAS
1. Read the following texts. Render them in English.
Text 1.1.
The S-word
An elite education should be open to all who can benefit, not just those who can pay.
No exam question is as perplexing as how to organize schools to suit the huge variety of pupils they serve: rich and poor, clever and dim, early developers and late starters. Every country does it differently. Some try to spot talent early. Others winnow out the academic-minded only at 18. Some believe in parent-power. Others trust the state. Finland has state-run uniform comprehensives; Sweden, another good performer, has vouchers and lots of private schools.
The British system produces some world-class high-flyers, mainly in its private schools and the 164 selective state “grammar” schools that survived the cull in the 1960s and 1970s when the country moved to a non-selective system. But it serves neither its poor children nor its most troublesome ones well. The best state schools, especially the grammar schools, are colonized by the middle classes, and the whole system is disfigured by a long straggling tail of non-achievers.
It has been long argued that competition and freedom in education, as elsewhere, are the way to encourage innovation and raise standards for all. Parents should choose schools, and money follow the student, with more cash following the poorest and those who are hardest to teach. As for schools, they should have as much freedom as possible to decide what sort of school they want to be. The government should set some standards, measure exam results and so on; but parents, not bureaucrats, should decide which schools survive.
However, if parents choose schools, then schools must choose pupils, at least when too many apply to the same ones. Selection is not just inevitable in a system that fosters choice; it also has benefits. Grammar-school pupils do better in exams by half a grade on average – and a full grade if they come from poor families. Such a leg-up is good not just for the children enjoying those benefits but also for the country. Britain needs an elite – brilliant linguists, mathematicians, scientists, engineers – to compete with countries that focus more on excellence than egalitarianism. Restricting excellence just to those whose parents can afford to pay for it cannot make sense.
The old argument against the grammar-school system was that by selecting the brightest it condemned the masses to the scrapheap. But the point of a market is that competition brings innovation. If decisions on how to select pupils were really delegated to schools, some would undoubtedly offer a highly academic education to those with the ability to thrive on it. Others would specialize in music, or fine arts, or technical subjects – or, indeed, children who are hard to teach (especially if the latter came with the most state money). This point helps answer another longstanding concern – that, by creaming off the brightest, grammar schools are short-changing the average child, who loses the benefit of their company. That would be less of a worry if the alternatives to a highly academic education also become more attractive.
The new concern that grammar schools no longer help enough clever poor children. With richer parents coaching children furiously, the few grammar schools that remain are largely middle-class enclaves: only 2% of their students are entitled to free school meals, compared with 12% in their local areas. This is indeed a shocking figure. But it is surely an argument for better early teaching for poor children or building more selective secondary schools, not an argument to abandon even that 2% by banning academic selection.
Social mobility is a good thing, but so is elite. After all, there’s not much point in moving upwards if there’s nowhere to go.
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Source: Newsweek, 2008
Text 1.2.