- •Язык профессионального общения:
- •Starter activity
- •Reading one
- •Moral Re-armament: History and Challenges
- •1. Give definitions of the following words and word-combinations, make use of a dictionary. Reproduce the situations they are used in the text.
- •Reading two Britain’s Moral Crisis
- •Starter activity
- •Reading one What Makes People Volunteer
- •Speech activities
- •Reading two
- •Nurse Nicky Nears Her Peak of Fitness
- •Reading one Who Uses Drugs and Why?
- •2. Check and compare your answers with your partner. Language Focus
- •Reading two
- •Europe: Drugs – Adapting To New Realities
- •Reading three
- •They're toking up for algebra class. Teenagers need incentives to keep it clean
- •Reading four
- •Partnering Against Trafficking
- •Discussion
- •Imagine you are the head of a Charity Fund. Write a report about the charity activities your fund is performing. Functional vocabulary
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •Speech Functions Bank
- •I. Interrupting People
- •Reading One Status of Women
- •Status of women and girls around the world: facts and figures (provided by the Global Fund for Women)
- •Violence
- •Insert prepositions or particles where necessary.
- •Reading two Schoolbooks and the female stereotype
- •Reading One The Qualities to Look for in a Wife
- •Reading two What’s wrong with marrying for Love
- •Reading three
- •I’m your Equal, Partner!
- •Is your relationship out of balance? Scared to stick up for yourself? It's time for a change
- •Imagine you are having a row with your male partner/husband. Work in pairs and try to make it up with the help of the Five r’s.
- •Reading One Careers and Marriage
- •1. Explain the meaning of the word combinations used in the text:
- •3. What practical tips for having a stable and fruitful marriage were given in the text? Discuss them in pairs. Reading two They'll Never Go Home Again
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •Reading three The Frustrated Housewife
- •Insert a preposition or a particle where necessary.
- •Interview several working and staying-at-home mothers about their attitude to the problems raised in the text. Present the findings of your questionnaires in class and analyse the results together.
- •Role-play. Discuss the problem.
- •General Discussion
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •I. Asking for and Giving Opinions
- •2. Use appropriate language from the boxes above to ask for and give opinions in the following situations.
- •2. Explaining and Justifying
- •1. Make the following into statements explaining and justifying using the language from the box above.
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to make statements explaining and justifying in the following situations.
- •1. Asking for Clarification
- •2. Giving Clarification
- •1. Make the following into questions and statements asking for and giving clarification.
- •2. Ask for and give clarification in the following situations.
- •1. Make the following into statements of agreement and disagreement using the language in the boxes above.
- •Reading one Censorship Debate
- •Insert particles or prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences into Russian/Belarusian.
- •Reading two bbc Chiefs Order Tough Curb on tv Sex and Violence
- •Reading three
- •Is Film Censorship Necessary?
- •Insert particles or prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences into Russian/Belarusian.
- •Reading four Censorship – What and by Whom?
- •Insert particles or prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences into Russian/Belarusian.
- •Reading two
- •Public Concerns
- •Did he follow this pattern? ________
- •Reading three Paying the Price for News
- •Functional vocabulary
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •The power of the media Speech Functions Bank
- •I. Expressing Preferences
- •II. Talking about likes and Interests.
- •Starter activity
- •Reading one Ten Ways to find the best schools
- •Bruce Kemble. News Week. 2002 Language focus
- •A Whitehall checklist;
- •Speech activities
- •Reading two Slimmed-down School Curriculum Aims to Free Quarter of Timetable for Pupils Aged 11 to 14
- •Reading three High-Stakes Games
- •Reading four
- •5 Times More Florida Kids to Repeat Third Grade State's New Policy Links Promotion to Reading Test Scores
- •Reading one Why Parents Choose to Opt out of State System
- •In the following sentences use the right particle with the verb to put:
- •Reading two
- •Reading three The City – as- School
- •Imagine that a friend of yours is considering sending his/her child to a non-government school (institute) you are working in. Write a letter either encouraging or discouraging him/her.
- •Reading one Survey Results Detail What Top Entry Level Employers Want Most
- •Reading two Employers Still Prefer Traditional Degrees Over Online Learning, Study Finds
- •Insert prepositions or particles where necessary.
- •In groups of 3 or 4 prepare and stage a debate on the prospects of online learning. For more ideas read the supplementary texts and visit the relevant web sites.
- •Reading three Two in Three Trainee Teachers who Qualify 'Are not up to the Job'
- •Functional vocabulary
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •Speech Functions Bank
- •1. Asking for More Detailed Information
- •1. Make the following into questions or statements asking for more detailed information using the language in the box above.
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to ask for more detailed information in the following situations.
- •2. Making Comparisons
- •1. Make the following into statements of comparison using the language in the box above.
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to make statements of comparison about the following.
- •3. Making generalisations
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to make generalisations about the following.
Reading two Employers Still Prefer Traditional Degrees Over Online Learning, Study Finds
Employers are still skeptical about the notion of earning a degree online and generally prefer applicants who hold degrees from traditional colleges and universities, according to a study conducted by two professors.
Given the choice between two equal candidates for a job, employers indicated that they would hire the person with a traditional degree over someone with a degree from a virtual institution, says Jonathan Adams, an associate professor of communications at Florida State University's College of Communication.
He and Margaret H. DeFleur, associate dean for graduate studies and research at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication, conducted the study. They published a report on their findings in the June 2005 issue of The American Journal of Distance Education.
"In each case, people are saying that they don't find online degrees acceptable at all," Mr. Adams says. "Ninety-nine per cent of the time people will take the traditional degree over the online."
Employers were also asked to respond to statements like: "The type of college or university (virtual vs. traditional) from which the applicant obtained his or her degree would be of no importance as a hiring criterion in our organization." Sixteen per cent of those surveyed agreed, 72 per cent disagreed, and 12 per cent gave other answers.
The researchers collected employer data by scouring help-wanted ads from eight major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Washington. Only jobs requiring college degrees were included.
The researchers sent questionnaires to 1,285 companies and received 269 responses. Because the participation number was so low, the survey cannot be considered a definitive sample, the report says, but it helps give an indication of employer attitudes toward online education. Mr. Adams says many companies are reluctant to reveal hiring strategies and might be concerned about legal implications by indicating such preferences.
Mr. Adams also noted that if a student were to earn an online degree from a well-known traditional institution, the employer would probably never know distance education was involved and would most likely assume that the degree was earned traditionally.
And there are rarely two equal candidates, Mr. Adams says. Employers still look at background and experience, and they indicated to Mr. Adams that a candidate with good credentials and an online degree might beat out someone with just a traditional degree.
Employers are more open to the idea of job candidates having taken some courses online and some in a traditional setting, Mr. Adams says. But employers seem to prefer that courses crucial to a student's major be taken in a traditional classroom, he says.
"People's tolerance for online courses is much better," says Mr. Adams, "if the courses are not part of the core of your education."
Officials at some online institutions say employers' attitudes toward distance education is mixed, but they are not surprised to hear that some people are still skeptical about hiring students with online degrees. With so many news reports about online diploma mills, online education still has an unfair stigma attached to it, they say.
Patrick Partridge, vice president of marketing for Western Governors University, a virtual institution, says employers are going to be biased in favor of what they know.
"Any hiring manager, by simply being human, is going to be more comfortable with what they experienced than something new," Mr. Partridge says. "Employers have a certain level of fear of the unknown."
Attitudes are changing quickly, he asserts. Just three or four years ago, few employers were familiar with online education, he says. Now more of them know students who have taken online courses and are even incorporating online training on the job site, he says.
In fact, many employers who are familiar with online education often like the attributes of typical online learners, he says. These students are often independent, self-motivated, and well organized, he says.
Chuck Trierweiler, director of marketing at Capella University, an online institution, says other research shows that employers are gaining respect for online education. Capella and the American Society for Training & Development, an organization that promotes workplace training and education, recently conducted their own study of online learning and found that distance education is slowly gaining credibility among employers.
"Online is still new, and it's gaining," says Mr. Trierweiler. "I've seen a lot of progress being made, and it's going to take more."
Dan Carnevale
http://chronicle.com
Section: Information Technology Volume 52, Issue 5, Page A43
Language focus
Explain what the following words and word combinations mean from the context in which they are used:
an associate professor/dean;
metropolitan areas;
a definitive sample;
legal implications;
distance education;
credentials;
an unfair stigma;
to gain credibility.
Suggest synonyms from your functional vocabulary of the following words and word combinations:
a job candidate;
new information, results;
unwilling;
prejudiced;
to include;
to advance, encourage;
to add.