8.Образовательные технологии
На занятиях используются различные
8.1. Методические рекомендации преподавателю
Преподавание дисциплины предполагает использование преподавателем всего многообразия форм и методов работы по формированию и развитию иноязычной коммуникативной компетенции студентов, включающих:
- в области развития устной речи: составление и воспроизведение диалогических и монологических высказываний (докладов, сообщений, заметок и пр.); реферирование статей из аутентичных источников, реферирование русских статей на английском языке, сжатое изложение услышанного и прочитанного; творческое развитие мыслей, тем; презентации, интервью, переговоры, телефонные разговоры, соревнования, языковые и ролевые игры, драматизация, просмотр и обсуждение видеоматериалов, фильмов и т.д.
- в области письменной речи: написание деловых писем, служебных записок, отчетов, меморандумов, протоколов собраний, сочинений на заданную тему; словарных и текстовых диктантов, тестов, эссе; электронных сообщений, факсов, докладов и пр.
8.2 Методические указания студентам
Самостоятельная работа студента может носить как индивидуальный, так и групповой характер. Она предполагает как выполнение предложенных преподавателем заданий, так и самостоятельный поиск необходимого учебного материала с использованием современных технических средств.
9.Оценочные средства для текущего контроля и аттестации студента
Задания текущего контроля
Ниже приводится примерный список вопросов для текущего контроля некоторых тем, изучаемых на первом курсе в рамках учебника
Language Leader Intermediate.
U 1. Personality
Do personal qualities help people achieve success? What qualities?
How does present-day society measure the success of an individual?
Would you rather be successful in your job or in your private life?
How do competitive relationships between people differ from cooperative relationships?
Have you ever experienced success? Why it was a success for you?
Talk about a person in your life who has inspired you to be successful.
Who is your favourite actor or actress? What do you like about him or her?
Is there any kind of film you don’t like very much? Why?
Do you prefer to see films at home or in the cinema? Why?
What kind of films/programs are popular with young people in your country?
Do you think that cinema films should have educational value?
Is it important for governments to support film-making in their countries?
Does friendship mean sacrifices?
What does being a good friend mean to you?
Would you like to have a charismatic person as your friend? Why? Why not?
Does friendship play an important role in the life of every person?
Do you think it is important to keep in contact with friends you make at school? Why? Why not?
Why do some people stay friends for a long time?
What ways do you think that entertainment media may develop in the future?
U.3 Work
What personal qualities are important for a politician/journalist/lawyer?
How much status does the job of a teacher have in Russia? Why?
What personal and professional qualities are important for a position of a marketing executive/sales manager?
What would your dream job be?
Would you like to work from home? Why?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of working from home from the point of view of an employer/employee?
What are your strengths/weaknesses?
Is it possible to find the right person for a job with the help of an interview? Give you reasoning.
Is it fair to ask killer questions at the interview? Why?
What should be included in the CV?
Can you use the same CV for all job applications?
How important is a covering letter? What is it for?
U. 7. Design
What does the concept of design include?
How did designer ideas developed throughout the ХХ century?
What is the secret of a good design?
What are the three products you couldn’t live without?
They say people in consumerist society worship material things. Do you agree with that?
What is the role of things in our society?
Do you agree that designers, like artists have a lot of freedom?
Do possessions make people happy?
Why do people buy things?
Are people in your country wise consumers?
Is the design of products important to you? Why/why not?
What products do you think designers will develop in the next few years?
What special features should clothes that you wear possess?
Do things that people buy characterize them? What kind of person would buy a commuter jacket/ exercise bicycle/spotlight player/iPod speakers?
Are handmade items popular?
Nowadays, do people still appreciate hand made products?
Should children learn to make handmade items?
Do people nowadays prefer to buy handmade items?
What are the benefits of making handmade items?
U. 9. Engineering
What engineering fields do engineers work in?
What is civil engineering
What is understood by survival engineering?
Do males make better engineers than females?
What is engineers’ contribution to society?
What is important when managing projects? Project feasibility
What rules should be observed to develop objectives?
What is the role of a survey in survival engineering?
How do simulations help?
What construction project impressed you?
What are the stages in production and launch of an engineering product?
What construction objects would capture foreigners’ imagination in NN ?
What construction problems does Nizhny Novgorod face?
What do you think of onstruction in the historical centre of ancient cities?
How could the traffic problem be solved in NN?
Задания промежуточного контроля
Ниже приводится экзаменационное задание для проверки умений говорения во 2 модуле первого курса.
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EXAMINATION CARD № 1
Answer the examiner’s questions on the topic “ Engineering”.
2.Make a mini-presentation on one of the topics suggested. You have one minute to prepare your ideas.
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Describe the travel of your dream.
Say
Where you would like to go
How you would spend your time
Explain why you dream about this travel.
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Speak about what makes people travel.
Curiosity
Practical reasons
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Indian Marriages
Marriage is one of the oldest human institutions and this is as true in Indian culture as anywhere else. In India marriage, called “Kanyadana or “donating a virgin”, is thought of as the greatest sacrifice that a father can make and for the groom as an obligation to perpetuate his bloodline. Many people believe that a marriage is still binding after death.
In early times girls were thought to be ready for marriage after puberty and later even children could be married. Divorce and remarriage were not always possible. By Medieval times Marriage was compulsory for girls, who very often married between the ages of eight and nine. Among those able to afford it, polygamy was common and rulers would often have one wife from their own region and other minor wives from other areas. Now, divorce and remarriage is possible and non-Muslim Indian men can only have one wife.
Although there are many regional variations, some features of the Indian wedding ceremony are similar throughout the country. In general weddings are very complicated events and involve long negotiations about dowry payments prior to the event. After this has been decided a day is chosen by asking an astrologer to find a lucky day. Preparations begin early because a marriage is not only one of the highlights a person’s life, but a large and complex social gathering to organize.
The night before, the bride, her friends and female relatives gather together for a party called a “mehendi”, where they paint each other’s hands and feet with Henna and dance and listen to music. Her guests often give the bride advice about married life and tease her about her future husband. Weddings are traditionally held at the bride’s home or in a temple, but parks, hotels and marriage halls are becoming increasingly popular. On the day a wedding altar or “mandapa” is built and covered in flowers. All of the wedding ceremony will be held in the altar.
The clothing a couple wear on their wedding day varies between regions and ethnic groups. Women most commonly wear a sari. The bride wears a lot of jewelry as this symbolizes the prosperity she will bring to her new family. In the South wearing flowers is common. The groom wears traditional costume or a suit. Turbans are also popular headgear.
The ceremony begins with a mixture of tumeric, sandlewood paste and oils being applied to the couples face and arms. In the past this was done to the whole body, but now it is only symbolic, with only a little being rubbed on.
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Then they are showered in flowers. After this they perform the rituals that will make them man and wife. First they garland each other and then take seven symbolic steps together representing seven gifts and seven promises.
Finally they say the vows and then they are legally married. The bride’s father or guardian takes her hands and puts them in her husband’s giving her to him. Now she is no longer a member of her father’s family, but a member of her husband’s. They then touch the feet of their elders for luck.
After the wedding ceremony, the couple go to the groom’s house. The bride should be careful to enter the house right foot first for luck. In the evening and late into the night the families and their guests celebrate with dancing, music and food.
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Circle the correct answers A – C.
1. In India weddings are …
A a duty for the man to continue his family. B thought to end at death. C a duty for the father. D seen as a benefit for the father.
2. Divorce and remarriage …
A are only possible for non-Muslims. B were sometimes not possible in the past. C have always been possible. D have only become possible in modern times.
3. Indian weddings …
A are straightforward and brief. B are thought to be lucky C are intricate and time consuming. D involve only the immediate family.
Complete the statements below. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
4. Before the wife-to-be is given recommendations about ____________________.
5. The wedding ceremony is conducted in a special ____________________.
6. The gold and jewels the bride wears represent ____________________ .
7. These days the materials applied prior to the ceremony are only ____________________..
8. After the wedding, the bride has left ____________________ and belongs to her husband’s.
9. The new bride should go into her new house _____________________.
Ниже приводится примерный список вопросов для текущего контроля некоторых тем, изучаемых на третьем курсе в рамках учебника Intelligent Business Upper Intermediate, а также в формате экзамена ВЕС Higher
BEC HIGHER PRACTICE TEST READING
PART TWO
Questions 9 – 14
• Read this text taken from an article about the structure of organizations.
• Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.
• For each gap 9 – 14, mark one letter (A – H) on your Answer Sheet.
• Do not use any letter more than once.
• There is an example at the beginning, (0).
The new organisation
Fifty years ago William Whyte, an editor at Fortune magazine, wrote a book called “The Organisation Man” that defined the nature of corporate life for a generation by looking at typical organisations. (0)…H….
Half a century on, organisation man seems almost extinct. The company that used to be most closely identified with this way of life was IBM. (9)…… It is some measure of the change that has taken place since Whyte's day that today 50% of IBM's employees have worked for the company for under five years; 40% of its 320,000 employees are “mobile”, meaning that they do not report daily to an IBM site; and about 30% are women. An organisation once dominated by lifetime employees selling computer products has been revolutionized into a conglomeration of transient suppliers of services.
(10)…… Here, globalisation of production and sales, and the large-scale shift of responsibility to outsiders for what were once considered a company's core functions—via outsourcing, joint-ventures and other sorts of alliances that involve a loosening of control over vital inputs – are commonplace.
Today instead we have “networked person”, a species that can now be observed in airport lounges, on fast inter-city trains and at motorway service stations. He is always on the move, juggling with a laptop computer, a mobile phone and a BlackBerry for e-mails, keeping in electronic touch with people he no longer regularly bumps into in a corridor. Indeed, there may be no corridor. (11)…… Organisation man did bump into people in corridors, but he was cautious about networking. In his world, knowledge was power, and he needed to be careful about sharing out his particular store of it. (12) …… He lived in a highly structured world where lines of authority were clearly drawn on charts, decisions were made on high, and knowledge resided in manuals.
Networked person, by contrast, takes decisions all the time, guided by the knowledge base he has access to, the corporate culture he has embraced, and the colleagues with whom he is constantly communicating. (13)……
And yet despite the dramatic changes in the way people work, the organisations in which they carry out that work have changed much less than might be expected. In an article in the McKinsey Quarterly last year, two of the firm's consultants argued that “today's big companies do very little to enhance the productivity of their professionals”. (14)…… In other words, 21st-century organisations are not fit for 21st-century workers.
The classic structure in which organisation man felt comfortable consisted of a number of business units that operated similarly but separately. They were controlled by a head office that determined strategy and watched over its implementation.
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