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3. Read a Welcome letter for the ESP course written by the National Mining University teachers.

Dear Student,

 

Welcome to our classes! It’s nice to see that you are here and that you wish to study English. We would like to explain to you a little about our classes.

 

Our classes are going to study English for Specific Purposes of yours. We will study English for academic purposes and/or vocational purposes. It will greatly depend on your needs and wants. In any case while studying we will focus on the situations typical for academic environment and the environment you will find yourself in future. We will discuss topics and issues that are around us, like our families, friends, university, our feelings and how we came to this city and what for. The topics of your professional area and interest are also will be focused on, but a little bit later. We will study issues in English by using our skills in speaking, writing, reading and listening. The special attention will be drawn to study skills or ‘learning to learn’ and raising your self-awareness and organisation.

 

You have many important roles to play in our class. First, you are a representative of your community and region you have come from. Second, you also will be a researcher of your life and university community as well as a researcher in the field of your specialism area. It is important to learn about yourself as a person and to share your personal experience with your groupmates, i.e. to tell the members of your group what you know and can do using English. Third, we hope that you will feel free to tell our class what you need and want to learn. We also hope that you will report to our class about what you like or do not like about our studying. We promise we will help you to learn by developing different strategies and skills you will need to be a success in future. Fourth, in our class we will study about different topics and issues around us. It will be necessary for us not only study these issues, but also to make an action plan for your future.

 

Our role will be to provide you with choices. We will give you many options on how to study English, options on what to study and how to study it and make your plans of action. We will help you to learn English and develop both personally and professionally. We will give you feedback on your studying when you want us to do so.

 

We hope you will see that we are all teachers and learners. We can teach the English language and you can teach us about your specialism area.

 

If you have any questions, please ask them to us. We enjoy talking to you and answering your questions.

 

Sincerely Yours,

Teachers of Foreign Languages Department

 

 

4. Give the answers to the following questions, using the letter given above when necessary.

 

· What subject will be taught in the classes?

· What are the objectives of the classes? Are any of them appropriate to your needs and wants?

· What are the main roles students have in the classes? Which one of them do you agree and disagree? Why?

· What is the role of the teacher?

· Why have the teachers written this letter?

· Do you agree or disagree with the role of the teacher? Why?

· Is it a good tradition in English-speaking countries to write Welcome letters to their students?

· Would you like your teacher to write a Welcome letter or a Letter of Explanation? Why?

· Do YOU have any questions to your English teacher? If yes, write them down on a sheet of paper and give them to your teacher at the end of your class.

 

5. Compare your predictions with the answers you have got after reading a Welcome letter.

 

6. Draw a format of a letter using a Welcome letter you have read.

Speaking

7. Below is the list of words and phrases used for describing daily routine. Put them into three columns in the correct order using the supporting questions and diagram. Make a story about your daily routine. Try to use as many words from the list as possible.

 

· What do you usually do in the morning?

· What do you usually do in the university/at work?

· How do you spend your spare time?

Language to Be Used:

Working hours, to sleep, to dream, to wake up, to get up, to be busy=to work hard, to wash, to dance, break (for lunch/coffee/tea), to take a bath/a shower, to leave, to be free, to take the exam, to brush one’s teeth, to shave, subject (area), credit, canteen, colleague, teacher, to comb one’s hair, to get dressed, lecturer, to have=eat breakfast/lunch/dinner, tuner, to wash up, to deliver lectures, to get handouts, textbook, to take notes, to make notes, note-book, qualified, to be fired, to be hired, to enter, to finish school, to graduate from the university, term, dean, tutor, to get scholarship, to win/get a grant, to earn (money), holidays, leisure, hobbies, interests, radio, TV, channel, programme, quiz, cross-word puzzle, band, to turn up/down (the volume), to play the instrument, to sing, to read, exhibition, museum, show, sports, education, to learn, to take lessons, to have classes, a course, professor, undergraduate, bachelor, master, homework, timetable/schedule, assignment, task, problem, examination, module, result, mark, to pass, to fail, level, to get up early, to travel by bus, to do a lot of preparation, to write reports, to meet parents, to make lots of photocopies, to read a lot of books.

 

8. Complete the adjectives used when describing one’s daily routine with two opposites/antonyms filling the gaps with the appropriate letters. The first one is done for you.

Adjective Opposites
relaxing stressful or tense
easy di_ _ _ _ _ _ _ t or ha_ _
leisurely hec_ _ _ or cha_ _ _ c
dangerous sa_ _ or se_ _ _ _
slow fa_ _ or q_ _ _ _ k
similar di_ _ _ _ _ _ t or va_ _ _ d
invigorating ti_ _ _ g or ex_ _ _ _ _ _ _ g
punishing rew_ _ _ _ _ g or ful_ _ _ _ _ _ g

 

9. Read a description of Student’s daily routine written by a Brazilian student. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs haveor have to in present or past.

 

Well, the best three adjectives I can think of are hectic and tiring - but also very rewarding. I get extremely tired because I _______work the whole day. A student's life isn't easy in Brazil. We usually ______three or four classes a day. Each class is about 50 minutes long. One scholarship isn't enough, so I work in two different places. I _________rush from one place to another, so I don't get any time to relax. It's better now I can drive and ________a small car, but it was really difficult when I _______go everywhere by bus. I was travelling for up to three hours a day, sitting on buses, preparing my hometask and doing homework. I'm lucky because Thiago _______a good job, so we don't_______work at weekends.

There are more than 30 students in our group, so it's hard to talk to all of them at the university. I enjoy socialising with them at weekends. Then two evenings a week I took classes in driving which were very different but rewarding too. What I love about learning is the interaction with the teachers and students. I ______learnt much since I entered the university. Everyday I _______lectures in different subjects, laboratory works and seminars. That is why I _______read much to be ready for classes. Preparation for classes takes a lot of time.

 

10. Pair-work. Exchange your own experience of being a student with your neighbour. Try to use as many new words got from 79 as possible. Be ready to describe your partner’s student’s daily routine to the whole class.







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