- •Instructor’s manual
- •Instructor’s manual 1
- •Introduction 53
- •Introduction 65
- •Introduction 67
- •Introduction 69
- •Introduction 104
- •Introduction 125
- •Introduction 144
- •Introduction 170
- •English for Engineering Students I (in Bachelor studies) Course Description
- •Detailed course description
- •The structure and content of the syllabus
- •Section I education system in russia and english speaking countries
- •Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 3
- •Lesson 4
- •I’m not perfectly ready to answer this question, but next time I’ll try to answer!
- •Lesson 5
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 6
- •Introduction
- •Self-study materials for section I
- •Verb to be (the Present Simple Tense) Positive and Negative Forms
- •Negative forms
- •General questions
- •Alternative questions
- •Tag questions
- •The Sentence Structure
- •Section II countries and cities (traditions, customs and holidays in Russia and English speaking countries)
- •Lesson I
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 2
- •Introduction to the theme
- •Lesson 3
- •Introduction to the theme
- •Lesson 4
- •Introduction to the theme
- •Lesson 5
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 5a
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 6
- •Introduction
- •Self-study materials for section II
- •Section III scientists (famous people)
- •Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Weather Forecast
- •Lesson 3
- •Uncle Philip
- •Lesson 4
- •Model version
- •Lesson 5
- •Invention, to explode, dynamite, powerful, closet, iron, bulb, fortune, phonograph, discovery, genius, to carry out, research.
- •Inventors and Their Inventions
- •Lesson 6
- •Introduction
- •Self-study materials for section III
- •Alternative questions
- •Tag questions
- •Special questions
- •Section IV computer
- •Lesson 1
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 2
- •Lesson 3
- •Lesson 4
- •Computer Terms: Good Hackers, Bad Hackers and Busy Bloggers
- •Lesson 5
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 6
- •Self-study maerials for section IV The Present Perfect Tense formation
- •The Present Perfect Tense
- •Present perfect and past simple
- •Section V career prospects
- •Lesson 1
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 2
- •Lesson 3
- •Lesson 4
- •Lesson 5
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 6
- •Self-study materials for section V The Future Simple Tense formation
- •I’ll be… or I’ll probably be… or I don’t know where I’ll be.
- •I ________________ soon. (to leave)
- •I shall be leaving soon. Or I will be leaving soon.
Section III scientists (famous people)
prepared by
Marina Berezina
e-mail: marina_berezina_@inbox.ru
Lesson 1
The lesson plan
Lead-in (10 min)
Active vocabulary; prereading discussion (10 min)
Reading ( 10 min)
Reading comprehension (10 min)
On-line activity. Work in groups (20 min)
Off-line. Speaking practice. Work in groups (20 min)
Homework
LEAD-IN
We tried to give more additional materials, than necessary, in order to help the teachers to make the lesson more attractive and interesting.
These are the photos of:
Alexander Graham Bell – the inventor of the telephone. He was born in Edinburgh (1847 – 1922), then moved to the USA. It was on the 10th of March, 1876, when A. Bell invented the telephone. He worked with his friend Watson. In 1915, the first transcontinental line was opened.
T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007
Sofia Krukovsky Kovalevskaya was born in Moscow (1850 – 1891). An extraordinary woman, Sofia Kovalevskaya was not only a great Russian mathematician, but also a writer and advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. It was her struggle to obtain the best education available which began to open doors at universities to women. In addition, her ground-breaking work in mathematics made her male counterparts reconsider their archaic notions of women's inferiority to men in such scientific arenas.
Becky Wilson, Class of 1997 (Agnes Scott College);
Popular Dictionary Europedia, Moscow, Olma-Press, 2003).
Albert Einstein (1879 -1955) one of the most famous scientists in the world, whose Theory of Relativity brought him fame of five continents, was slow, shy and backward in his childhood. He found it extremely difficult to learn even to talk. He was born in Germany, lived in Switzerland, then moved to the USA. Mrs. Einstein said that her husband liked order in his thinking, but he didn’t like it in his living. He did whatever he wanted to, whenever he wanted to, he had only two rules of conduct. The first was: don’t have any rules whatever. And the second was: be independent of the opinions of others. In 1921 he became a Nobel Prize Winner for the discovery of the Photoeffects Laws.
T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007;
Popular Dictionary Europedia, Moscow, Olma-Press, 2003).
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) is known as one of the greatest American inventors. He invented so much that it is difficult to say which of his achievements is the greatest. He was an experimenter and a practical man more than a theoretician. He improved Bell’s telephone, organized the first world electrostation in New-York in 1882, etc.).
(Popular Dictionary Europedia, Moscow, Olma-Press, 2003).
Marie Sklodovska Curie, the greatest woman – scientist of her day, was born in Warsaw, in 1867. The daughter of a teacher of science and mathematics in a school in the town she wished to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She finally left her native land in 1891 and began a course of hard study and simple life in Paris. After she obtained her Master’s Degree in Physics and Mathematics, she wished to obtain a Doctor’s degree. Pierre Curie, her husband, joined her in the effort to find the unknown chemical element, which they called “radium”, because it was more strongly radioactive than any known metal. In 1903 they together with Henry Becquerel were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911 Marie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. So Mme. Sklodovska-Curie has become the first person to receive a Nobel Prize twice.
T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007;
Popular Dictionary Europedia, Moscow, Olma-Press, 2003)
Rudolf Diesel was a German engineer. He was born in 1858 and died in 1913. In 1897 he invented a new internal combustion engine. The engine is known as a diesel and it began a transport revolution in cars, trucks, trains and ships. The main advantage of diesels is that they run on rather cheap fuel.
T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007
Then ask students to read the names of these people and match their names on the left with profession on the right.
Alexander Bell an inventor
Sofia Kovalevskaya a mathematician
Thomas Edison an inventor
Albert Einstein a scientist, a physicist
Marie Curie a physicist
Pyotr Kapitsa a physicist, a scientist
Rudolf Diesel an engineer
ACTIVE VOCABULARY
Ask students to guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations, giving them synonyms or close meanings of them:
Prominent, to be expelled, fortress, science, scientist, scientific, founder, nuclear, to establish, incredible, to devote to, to defend, defence, entirely, technology, common knowledge, device, valve, to transmit, to prove, to disprove, capable, ahead of, to list.
prominent – well-known (хорошо известный, выдающийся);
to be expelled – to be officially forced to leave a place, organization, or school, for example, because of their bad behaviour (быть исключенным, изгнанным);
fortress – a strong building that is used by soldiers for defending a place (крепость);
science – the study and knowledge of the physical world and its behaviour, that is based on experiments and facts and is organized into a system (наука);
scientist – someone who is trained in science, especially someone whose job is to do scientific research (ученый);
scientific – relating to science, or based on the methods of science (научный);
founder – someone who starts an organization or institution (основатель, учредитель);
nuclear – relating to energy that is produced by changing the structure of the central part of an atom=atomic; nuclear power/energy (ядерный);
to establish – to make something to start to exist or start to happen; to start an organisation or a company (oсновать,учредить);
incredible – 1)surprising or difficult to believe, 2) great, extreme, or extremely good (невероятный);
to devote to – to spend a lot of time or effort doing something (посвятить) ;
to defend – to protect someone or something (защищать);
defence – protection (защита);
entirely – completely, or in every way (всецело);
technology – advanced scientific knowledge that is used for practical purposes, especially in industry (технология, техника);
common knowledge – something that everyone knows (общеизвестный);
device – a machine or piece of equipment that does a particular job (прибор, устройство);
valve – something that opens and closes in order to control the flow of the air or liquid (лампа);
to transmit – to send an electronic signal such as a radio or telephone signal (передавать);
to prove – to provide evidence that shows that something is true (доказать);
to disprove – to prove that something is not correct or true (опровергнуть);
capable of(doing)smth. – able to do something (способный к чему-либо);
to list – to mention or write things one after another (вносить в список).
Macmillan Essential Dictionary, International Student Edition.
READING
Prereading discussion
This is the photo of one of the most famous Russian physicists Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894 – 1984) who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937, the founder of the Institute of Physical Problems in Moscow. The Institute was built according to a plan which had been drawn by Kapitsa himself with equipment purchased by the Soviet Government from the Mond Laboratory in Cambridge with the assistance of Ernest Rutherford, once it was clear that Kapitsa would not be permitted to return to England.
He was appointed Director of the Institute, named after him. Kapitsa was also one of the founders of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
After the war, P. Kapitsa began to work in an entirely new field of science and technology - high-power electronics.
Kapitsa won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for his work in low temperature physics. He shared the prize with Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson (who won for unrelated work).
Kapitsa was born in the city of Kronstadt, and graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1918. He worked in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge with Ernest Rutherford for over 10 years, was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929, and was the first director of the Mond Laboratory from 1930 to 1934. During this period, he originated techniques for creating ultrastrong magnetic fields by injecting high currents into specially constructed air-core electromagnets for brief periods of time. In 1934 he developed a new and original apparatus for producing significant quantities of liquid helium, based on the adiabatic principle.
In 1934 he was on a professional visit to the Soviet Union when his passport was detained and he was not permitted to leave the country.
In August 1946, Kapitsa was removed from his role as head of the institute he created and exiled to his dacha near Moscow, over his refusal to take part in the Soviet hydrogen bomb project. In a letter to Stalin, Kapitsa described the project's leader, Lavrenty Beria, as "like the conductor of an orchestra with the baton in hand but without a score". After Stalin's death he regained his position, and remained a director of the institute until 1984. At his death in 1984 he was the only member of the presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences who was not a member of the Communist Party.
Recommended resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Leonidovich_Kapitsa
READING COMPREHENSION
There were three professional physicists were there in Russia at the turn of the XXth century: Academician Krylov and Kapitsa who was then only twenty-seven.
Young Kapitsa was keenly interested in physics.
He didn’t enter the University, because had been expelled from the Kronstadt classic school for poor academic progress.
He completed the laboratory course in two weeks instead of the usual two years.
Ernest Rutherford took personal interest in him and Kapitsa became his favourite pupil.
In the war years, Kapitsa devoted all his talent of a scientist and an engineer to the cause of the country's defence.
He proved the fact that the electrons are capable of transmitting millions of kilowatts over long distances.
Ask students to make a brief retelling about Pyotr Kapitsa, using active vocabulary
Online activity
Work in groups
Divide students into two groups and ask them to do the following task:
The first group: to find the information from the Internet:
a) about the son – Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa, his life, family and his contribution into Russian science, his activity on TV, etc.
The second group:
b) about the farther – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa: how and when he won the Nobel Prize, using active vocabulary.
Offline
Both groups are given the same websites, but they should find different information and then prepare short reports about:
Recommended resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Leonidovich_Kapitsa
http://www.thefutureofscience.org/veniceconference2005/speakers/kapitza_s.htm
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/rao/catalogues/trans/trac/trac_kapi_1.html