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Exercise 1. Do you remember all types of paragraphs? Can you name them? Analyze the passages once more and find the similarities in their outline format and style.

Exercise 2. Define the types of the following passages. Find the topic and the details in them.

  1. South korea: the quest to stay a high-performing Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development company

Syetarn Hansakul

Deutsche Bank Research

South Korea’s economic performance has been impressive over the past decades. Prior to the financial crisis in 1997, the South Korean economy’s average real GDP growth rate of 8% p.a. (1970-1996) was similar to other fast-growing emerging market economies in Asia like China and Taiwan. After the financial crisis, the South Korean economy’s growth rate has decelerated and now resembles the more limited dynamic of its Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) peers. During the past decade the South Korean economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.4%, strong for an OECD country and on par with Taiwan but much lower than China’s growth performance.

  1. Grasp opportunities in growth centres

Josef Auer

Deutsche Bank Research

The new global growth centres offer a myriad of business opportunities to firms in virtually every segment of the German mechanical engineering industry. The prospects are particularly bright in Russia, India and China; machinery exports to these countries may rise by a nominal 7-12% in the medium term.

Opportunities also beckon in Eastern Europe and South America, albeit on a smaller scale (potential increases of 4% and 2% p.a. respectively). Despite this positive sales outlook the German mechanical engineering sector will remain cyclical going forward. The fourth successive year of growth with an expected 9% increase in output in 2007 will not change this. The cyclical movement could be more restrained in future, however, if the emerging mechanical engineering markets succeed in decoupling from the global cycle. Phases of cyclical weakness in the traditional target markets of the US and Western Europe should then be partly offset by sustained expansion in the growth centres. This would benefit the German mechanical engineering sector. Increased stability would also boost sector margins, which have been particularly low during weak phases. If Germany's machinery manufacturers manage to score long-term gains in the new growth centres – as we expect – this will be an important step in keeping up with the US and Japan, the world’s other two sector leaders in terms of volume, which are also active in the emerging markets.

C. How to train a specialist for solving engineering problems

R. Guseletov

Novosibirsk State University

Higher technical institutions are still having basic difficulties with their curricula because the teaching staff is not ready for vital changes. The future graduate must possess qualities needed for his professional activity in the international scene. It should be noted that there are some main principles of future specialist education:

  • to train engineers of a wide field that means carrying out the duties of technologist, designer, researcher, engineer;

  • to broaden the volume of learning sciences and to strengthen ties between academic subjects. It will be possible to train the specialist for the better adaptation under new economic, social and political conditions in order to have an idea about the latest technology and equipment;

  • to include learning such subjects as psychology, methodology, religion and also foreign languages that undoubtedly create the highly-educated person.

Nowadays specialists with professional knowledge of language and practical abilities of intercultural communication are claimed in the market teams. Language proficiency is the essential part of the future engineer training.

Exercise 3. In the paragraph of description given in the text to Step II underline all the adjectives. Then write one paragraph (200-250 words) about your University.

Exercise 4. Read over your paragraph. Answer the questions on checklist 2. Write YES or NO. Exchange papers with a group-mate. Check each other’s paragraphs. Write YES or NO on your group-mate’s checklist. Use the answers on the checklist to help you to rewrite your paragraph.