4.4. Read about the format of a 5-minutes speech in Appendix 6.

4.5. Choose helpful paragraphs from the text on Lomonosov and prepare a 5-minutes presentation on one of the following topics:

1. What makes a person a personality.

2. The character of a scientist.

3. Knowledge of life and knowledge of profession: how these two directions coincide in a teacher and researcher.

4. Lomonosov as a universal scientist.

5. “Lomonosov as a student and a teacher”

  Check yourself!

5.1. Interpret the text and make up its summary (summary can be in the form of a final statement after interpretation or based on cognitive mapping practice; choose the one you like).

“Relationship between the experience of reading and what is now fashionably referred to in education-speak as ‘transferable skills’, that is, a spin-off in understanding, communicative abilities, and independent thinking, comes as no surprise to those of us who teach in modern universities. Whether students are reading Beowulf of Barthes, Matthew Lewis or C.S. Lewis, students are expected to emerge with an understanding of discrete subject methodologies and a solid grounding of the historical, intellectual and cultural contexts of literature. Professors of English stand united in their conviction that the experience of reading in a professional, scholarly environment should equip graduates with high-level analytic skills, the capacity for critical reasoning, self-reflection and conceptual grasp, together with the ability to learn autonomously and to exercise the flexibility of mind. However resistible we might find it, the new terminology which guides us towards thinking of literature in terms of the skills it transmits does indeed focus the mind on why we teach what we teach, and just what it is that students learn.

5.2 .Scan the text and split it into paragraphs.

Umberto eco

(taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/umbertoeco, abridged)

Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code". Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. He has also written academic texts, children’s books and many essays. Eco received a Salesian education, and he has made references to the order and its founder in his works and interviews. His family name is supposedly an acronym of ex caelis oblatus (Latin: a gift from the heavens), which was given to his grandfather (a foundling) by a city official. His father was the son of a family with thirteen children, and urged Umberto to become a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order to take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on Thomas Aquinas and earning his Laurea in philosophy in 1954. During this time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of faith. After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the state broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and also lectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). A group of avant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he had befriended at RAI (Gruppo 63) became an important and influential component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially true after the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problema estetico in San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoral thesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career at his alma mater. In 1992-1993 Eco was the Norton professor at Harvard University. Eco is a member of the Italian skeptic organization CICAP.