Your chart can give you concepts to speak about, serving as a so-called Semantic Map, and Charts 1-3 can provide you with words, serving as Vocabulary Maps.

You can find more information on Semantic Maps in Appendix 8, p. 182.

If you need to refresh your knowledge on how nouns denoting jobs and professions are formed, go to Grammar and Vocabulary File. Suffixes for Jobs and Professions, p. 176.

3Study Chart 4 and comment on a possible career of a student in an academic field. Use the following pattern for your comments:

If a student

continues writes defends …

…,

s/he’ll

get become …

…

Chart 4. Academic Career

² 4 Listen to Audio Recording 5, follow the speaker and repeat the names of sciences registered by academician structures. Fill in the right column of the table with the names of the faculties where these sciences are studied at your university.

Codes – names of sciences

Names of faculties

01.00.00 – Physical and mathematical sciences 02.00.00 – Chemical sciences 03.00.00 – Biological sciences 05.00.00 – Technical sciences 06.00.00 – Agricultural sciences 07.00.00 – Historical sciences 08.00.00 – Economic sciences 09.00.00 – Philosophical sciences 10.00.00 – Philological sciences 12.00.00 – Legal sciences 13.00.00 – Pedagogical sciences 14.00.00 – Medical sciences 15.00.00 – Pharmaceutical sciences 16.00.00 – Veterinary sciences 17.00.00 – Art criticism 18.00.00 – Architecture 19.00.00 – Psychological sciences 22.00.00 – Sociological sciences 23.00.00 – Political sciences 24.00.00 – Cultural studies 25.00.00 – Earth sciences

Each of sciences has a definite code of majors. Find a proof that specializations presented in the table belong to philological sciences.

Codes – names of philological specializations
10.01.01 – Belarusian literature; 10.01.02 – Russian literature; 10.01.03 – Foreign literature; 10.01.08 – Theory of literature; Textology; 10.01.09 – Folklore studies; 10.01.10 – Journalism;	10.02.01 – Belarusian language; 10.02.02 – Russian language; 10.02.03 – Slavic languages; 10.02.04 – Germanic languages; 10.02.05 – Romanic languages; 10.02.19 – Language theory; 10.02.20 – Historical, Typological and Contrastive; 10.02.21 – Applied and Mathematical Linguistics.

 Searching for information and interacting in university space

 

Ñ1 At university you come across specific texts of different types that you have to understand properly. Look through four informational texts on the university world (pp. 66–69) and match them with the following headlines: Announcement, Office Hours of University Administration, (Induction) Timetable, Study Program.

Do it very quickly as you are given five minutes at maximum.

INFORMATIONAL TEXTS

1 …………………………………………………………………..

№	Position/Department	Room	Office Hours
	Rector		Monday –Friday: 8.30– 13.00, 14.00– 17.15
	Post-graduate Department		Monday –Friday: 8.30– 13.00, 14.00– 17.15
	Accommodation Department		Monday –Friday: 8.30– 13.00, 14.00– 17.15
	Labour and Salary Department		Monday –Friday: 8.30– 13.00, 14.00– 17.15
	International Affairs Department		Monday –Friday: 8.30– 13.00, 14.00– 17.15
	Personnel Management Department		Monday –Friday: 8.30– 13.00, 14.00– 17.15

2 …………………………………………………………………..

1^st year

1^st term

 

Code

Discipline

Credit Points

Academic work

Credit

L

T

S

PT

Lab

Pr

АНЛI1113

Literature of the Antiquity

E

ВЯЗ2113

Introduction into Linguistics

E

СРЯ2113

Contemporary Russian

–

–

E

КЛЯ1113

Classic Languages (Latin, Greek)

C

ВСП2113

Introduction into Specialisation

E

Optional discipline (S1)

ИГРI2123

History and Geography of Russia

E

ЧЦР2123

Features of Russian Civilization

E

Total:

2^nd year

3^rd term

 

Code	Discipline	Credit Points	Academic work	Credit
	L	T	S	PT	Lab	Pr
ИРЯ1113	The Russian Language History								E
АЛТV2113	Literary Text Analysis								E
СРЯ2213	Contemporary Russian								E
СПЯ1213	Seminar on Linguistics								E
ЗЛ1113	Foreign Literature (medieval times – part 1 of XIX century.)								E
	Optional Discipline (a foreign language)								C
	Optional discipline								E
	Total:

 

 

L – lectures, T – tutorials, S – seminars, PT – practical training, Lab – laboratory work, Pr – practice, E – examination, C – credit

3 …………………………………………………………………..

 

 

SOCIOLOGY

2009/10

 

Monday 21^st – Friday 25^th September 2009

Date	Time	Activity	Room
21/09/09	09.00 – 10.00	Registration	Levels 3+4 Refectory (University Building)
	10.30 – 11.30	Vice Chancellor’s Speech (optional)	Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre (Tait Building)
	14.30 – 15.30	School of Social Sciences Induction	Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre (Tait Building)
	15.30 – 17.00	Reception for all Undergraduate Students	Oliver Thompson Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
22/09/09	N/A	None – self study day	N/A
23/09/09	09.30 – 12.00	Introduction to the Department of Sociology	D111/112/113 (Social Sciences Building)
	13.00 – 15.00	City Space Inductions	D518 (Social Sciences Building)
24/09/09	10.00 – 12.00	Studying Sociology session	D111/112/113 (Social Sciences Building)
	13.00 – 15.00	Meeting with Personal Tutor / Module Choice selection	Various (Social Sciences Building)
25/09/09	10.00– 12.00	Language Placement Test* (optional)	D104 (Social Sciences Building)

 

* On Wednesday morning, you will be divided into groups for an IT session on Wednesday afternoon.

** Please note: If you are considering taking a language as an optional module, you will need to attend a placement test to assess your level of competence. These take place between 10.00 and 12.00 on Friday, 25th September in Room D104, Social Sciences Building.

All First Year Students are expected to attend EVERY session on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

(Retrieved from http://www.city.ac.uk/social/dps/2009-2010/BSc%20Sociology%20induction%20schedules.doc.)

 

4 …………………………………………………………………..

Ñ2 Which of informational texts from Task 1 do you need if

· you want to find your friend on Wednesday at 2 p.m. and you know that he is studying at this time at the university?

· you want to join your university theater (debate club, etc)?

· you want to become a dormitory resident?

· you are a 2^nd year student and want to know how many subjects (courses) you can choose?

· you want to know how many credits you’ll get for the elective course?

 

1 3 Now create texts of these types:

§ Get acquainted with the study program of your major and make a list of subjects which you are studying this academic year. Write it in the form of a Studies Program.

§ Write your timetable in English.

§ Recall the announcements you have read recently in your university (faculty, institute). Share the information you have learned from them with your groupmates. Create an announcement of your own.