- •English for
- •Contents
- •Inside a component………………………………………….……...56
- •Theme 1. Doing a degree.
- •University of Birmingham Electronic and Computer Engineering Masters/mSc with Industrial Studies
- •International students
- •Theme 2. Most famous.
- •Gauss’s law
- •1. Introduction
- •2. Gauss's Law
- •Figure 1. Electric flux through surface area a.
- •Example 1: Field of point charge.
- •Figure 2. Electric field generated by point charge q.
- •Example 2: Problem 16
- •Figure 3. Problem 16.
- •3. Conductors in Electric Fields
- •Figure 4. Electric field of conductor.
- •Theme 3. Microprocessors.
- •25 Microchips that shook the world
- •Intersil icl8038 Waveform Generator (circa 1983*)
- •Ibm Deep Blue 2 Chess Chip (1997)
- •Intel 8088 Microprocessor (1979)
- •Xilinx xc2064 fpga (1985)
- •Microprocessors
- •Theme 4. Nanotechnology.
- •Nanotechnology
- •Huge Potential of nanotechnology in medicine
- •Theme 5. Inside a component.
- •Graphene tunnel barrier makes its debut
- •New Route to Electronics Inside Optical Fibers
- •Theme 6. Holography.
- •Check how many correct answers you can give.
- •Touchable hologram: is it real?
- •Holograms and Photographs
- •In an instant, however, view point of, whereas, in order to, no matter,
- •In addition, regardless of, unfortunately.
- •Theme 7. Operating systems.
- •Computer software or just software
- •Operating systems
- •Theme 8. Microprocessor concepts.
- •Microprocessor
- •Multicore designs
- •Theme 9. Robots.
- •Types of robots
- •Different Types of Robots
- •Industrial Robots
- •Theme 10. Network basics.
- •Network basics
- •All about Broadband/ics Routers
- •Notes to the text
- •Theme 11. Telecommunication network.
- •What is a telecommunications network?
- •Lan vs. Wan Comparison - Difference between lan and wan
- •Theme 12. The future of work. Lead-in
- •Gen y-ers bring their distinct style of communicating to the job
- •Specialized Reading
- •Working at home vs. The office: The face time faceoff
- •Listening
- •07.36 – 09.02
- •09.02 – 10.08
- •10.09 – 11.00
- •11.01 – 11.37
- •"No Silver Bullet"
- •Specialized Reading
- •Why is software engineering so hard?
- •9. The Size of Accidental
- •10. Obtaining the Increase
- •Listening
- •Speaking
- •Theme 14. Management.
- •Theme 15. E-commerce.
- •Theme 17. Banks.
- •How to … functions
- •Positive sentence
- •Negative sentence
- •Question
- •Infinitive.
- •4. How can you make it perfect?
- •10)Emulate excellent speakers (find their talks on the Internet or visit live talks).
- •Function 17. How to deal with Neologisms
- •6. Cловосложение:
- •Grammar minimums Grammar Minimum I Present Simple and Present Continuous
- •Grammar Minimum 2 Past Simple and Present Perfect
- •Edinburgh.
- •Grammar Minimum 3 Present Simple Passive and Past Simple Passive
- •Future Simple and “be going to”
- •Reported Speech
- •Grammar minimum 6 Conditional Sentences
- •English Tenses: Active Voice.
- •English Tenses: Passive Voice.
- •The list of Irregular Verbs
- •Infinitive Past Simple Past Participle Перевод
10)Emulate excellent speakers (find their talks on the Internet or visit live talks).
11)When speaking in a foreign language, remember the following: a) pronunciation (check it in the Internet dictionaries); b) ask someone (or your teacher) to check your talk for grammar mistakes; c) use Presentation Phrases listed below to make your speech easy to listen to and to understand.
1.Greeting the audience |
2.Stating the purpose |
Good morning (afternoon, evening) everyone. I’d like to welcome you all here this morning. Let me introduce myself. My name is … and I am … . |
The purpose of my talk (…) is to … In my presentation today (this morning…) I’ll be talking about … (reviewing…) I’m going to talk about … |
3.Outlining your presentation |
4.Mentioning dealing with questions |
I’ll start by …, the we’ll look at … . Finally, I’ll give you … and show you … I’ll first of all outline …, then I’ll discuss …, and finally we’ll look at … . I have divided my talk into … parts: firstly, I’d like to …, secondly, … I’ll begin with … then we’ll deal with … . After that we’ll look at … I’ll be talking about three (four…) main areas: first of all I’ll describe …, then I’ll go on talking about … Finally I’ll tell you about … |
If you don’t mind, I’ll deal with questions at the end of my talk.
Please, feel free to interrupt at any time if you’d like to ask a question. |
5. The main content. | |
Getting started. |
Changing to another topic. |
I’d like to begin by … Let’s begin. OK, let’s get started. |
Now I’d like to to/let’s/let me start with/ move on to/ turn to/ go back to/ digress/ expand on/ recap on … So, we’ve looked at … and now I’d like to consider … Having looked at …, let’s move on to … This leads me to the next point which is (the question of)… So… Now, let’s … |
Referring to visuals |
Summarizing / Concluding |
I’d like you to take a look at this chart, which shows … If you look at this graph, you’ll see … The figures in this table show … As you can see from this pie chart … Just have a look at this chart for a moment … Let’s take a closer look at this figures … |
To sum up then, let me … To summarize the main points of my talk … I’d like to run through my main points again … I’d like to conclude by reminding you of something I said at the beginning of my talk … |
Finishing the talk/inviting questions |
Answering questions |
I’d like to thank you all for your attention … Thank you all for listening … Now, if there are any questions, I’ll be pleased to answer them. Now I’m ready to answer your questions. If you have any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them. If there are no more questions, thank you for your interest. |
Sorry, could you say that again, please? If I’ve understood your question correctly, you would like me to … I’m sorry. I didn’t hear you. Would you mind repeating your question? |