- •Contents
- •Introductory word
- •Topic 1 the world a part of which you have become
- •1.2. Were there any new words in the dialogues in task 1.1? If yes, did they interfere with your understanding of the situation?
- •1.9. Make up and role-play a dialogue with your neighbour (you may use patterns from Task 1.1). Your dialogue should contain maximum of topical vocabulary.
- •1. Tables
- •Distribution of beneficiaries of home medical-social services by administrative-territorial regions and type of locality (in absolute numbers)
- •2. Charts *
- •3. Figures
- •Figure 1.1. The structure of Vilnius University.
- •Figure 1.2. The structure of the Belarusian State University
- •3.3. Study Figure 1.3 (a general scheme of any faculty structure). Is the notion “university” reflected in the faculty structure? And if yes, in what way?
- •Figure 1.3. Faculty structure
- •3.4. Find information and make a scheme of the faculty you study at.
- •3.5. Find information and make a scheme of any chair of your Faculty or institute. Present it to the group.
- •3.8. Examine the names of sciences and their code numbers (table 1.4). Identify which sciences correlate with the name of the faculty you study at (including all specialization of the faculty).
- •3.9. Explain in the context of university studies the idea of the proverb: «Плох тот солдат, который не мечтает стать генералом». Find the English equivalent of the proverb.
- •3.10. Examine Figures 1.5 and 1.6 and comment on a possible career of a student if one chooses the academic field. Use the following structure in your comments:
- •Informational texts
- •Office hours of University administration
- •Первый курс
- •I семестр
- •Второй курс
- •III семестр
- •Ug sociology
- •Induction Timetable 2009/0 Monday 21st – Friday 25th September 2009
- •If you want to know more about song and dance culture of your country, learn to dance and sing and see the world with the theatre, join us!
- •Invites
- •Students’ sports club
- •4.3. Translate in the written form any announcement you like given in task 4.1.
- •4.4. Recall the announcements you have read recently in your university (faculty, institute). Share the information you have got in small groups.
- •4.5. Read a general note about proper communication patterns accepted in university surrounding.
- •4.6. Reproduce a communicative situations proposed in Table 1.8.
- •Appendix 1. Portfolio and Self-assessment table
- •Topic 1. “The World a Part of which You have become”
- •Appendix 2. Vocabulary map
- •Appendix 3. Cognitive Map (когнитивная карта)
- •Часть 1. Прагматические основания работы с текстом с опорой на когнитивную карту.
- •Часть 2. Теоретические основания работы с текстом с опорой на когнитивную карту.
- •Логическое основание
- •Речедеятельностное основание
- •Лингвистическое основание
- •Часть 3. Построение когнитивной карты на примере конкретного текста (Cognitive map of vocabulary article “the University”)
- •Часть 4. Варианты пересказа одной из тем текста «Университет» (тема а).
- •Часть 5. Варианты пересказа текста «Университет».
- •Appendix 4. Clichés of Expressing Gratitude
- •Appendix 5. Semantic Map
- •Vocabulary Topic 1. The world a part of which you have become
- •Adjectives
1.2. Were there any new words in the dialogues in task 1.1? If yes, did they interfere with your understanding of the situation?
1.3. Read the explanation on the notion ‘Vocabulary map’ in Attachment 1.2 and build your own vocabulary map on the topic «The university world» picking up the words from the dialogues in task 1.1 (10 words).
1.4. Work in pairs. Check your vocabulary map with the one drawn by your neighbor and give definitions to 5 corresponding words. Fill table 1.2 in the following order: first give your own definitions, then use English-English dictionaries (Collins’, Hornby, Websters’ etc). Continue filling in Table 1.2 on the words from your vocabulary map at home individually.
Table 1.2
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1.5. And now we suggest you extending your university vocabulary with the help of famous Roget’s Thesaurus of 2000 (the first edition of the dictionary appeared in 1852). Before your work with an article from this dictionary read the following five points in Russian. They explain how an article of this dictionary is organized:
1) жирным курсивом в начале статьи представлено слово, организующее словарную статью, – лексико-семантическое поле данного исходного слова;
2) курсивом представлены тематические (темообразующие, а в каких-то случаях и полеобразующие) для данного словаря слова (цифра подсказывает, где можно найти ту или иную тематическую или полевую группу слов);
3) абзац в словарной статье означает начало новой тематической группы внутри поля;
4) жирная буква в начале некоторых абзацев указывает на часть речи, в которой представлена тематическая группа;
5) в рамках абзаца через запятую помещены более близкие по значению слова, а через точку с запятой – менее близкие.
1.6. Work in small groups with the paragraph “academy” from the dictionary article «539 School». Translate it into Russian. Compare your translation with the Key.
539 School
N. academy, institute, educational i.; college, lyceum, gymnasium, senior secondary school; conservatoire, ballet school, art s., academy of dramatic art; finishing school; correspondence college; university, campus; … ; polytechnic, poly; alma mater, old school, groves of academy.
1.7. Characterize the paradigms (groups) of the English-language culture which are marked in the dictionary by semi columns ( ; ). If such a dictionary existed in Russian, do you think it could contain similar paradigms or different ones? Give some examples. Study Russian language dictionaries of synonyms and related words. Prove your opinion.