What are we going to do today

1. What are we going to do today?

1. to discuss:
• organizational questions;
2. to look at:
• useful links for effective studying
3. to set a SMART goal-> home task
4. to know each other better

2. Organizational issues

• 5 Basic requirements (Положение о текущем контроле и
промежуточной аттестации обучающихся в НГУ );
• Book:
Johnson C., Barrall I. Intelligent Business: Skills Book
Upper Intermediate. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2014
• Final tests

3. An obligatory book for the 2nd semester:

Markner-Jäger B. Technical English for
Geosciences: A Text/Work Book.
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008

4. Final test’s content:

• Oral answer
• Lexico - grammatical test
• Test listening;

5. Useful links 1:

• https://ororo.tv/en;
http://www.hamatata.com;
• http://www.esl-lab.com/
• https://www.learnathome.ru/billing

6. Useful links 2:

Vocabulary:
• http://www.macmillandictionary.com
• https://www.wordnik.com/
• http://www.economist.com

7. SMART goal for learning English

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9. What is your SMART goal ( goals) for learning English this academic year? Please, write full answers using the prompts:

(S) What exactly do you want to achieve?
(M) How will you understand that your goal is
achieved?
(A) Is it a real goal? What should you do to
achieve it?
(R) What benefits will you have when you
achieve your goal?
(T) When will you sum up the results (the end
of the semester/ the end of this academic
year)?

10. “Break the ice”

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12. Task 1

13. How does nTag badge look like?

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15. Time limit: 5-7 minutes to talk to all people

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17. Next step:

• Introduce 1 partner
• Tell what you have in common OR any
different/ interesting/ surprising facts you
have learnt while talking to each other

18. Breaking the ice

• Do you think the nTAG badge is a useful idea to
help break the ice when starting a conversation?
• Imagine you are attending a conference where
you don’t know anyone. It is the first coffee
break and lots of people are standing around
talking. How would you start a conversation?
What techniques can you think of to join in a
conversation with a group of people? Would you
use the same techniques to break the ice with
an individual?

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21. Home tasks:

1) To write about your SMART goals of
learning English (slide 9);
send your reply to [email protected]
2) Skills Book: page 83 Grammar
Reference, Review of tenses (2
exercises)
3) Page 87: Grammar Reference, Questions
( 3 exercises)