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25٭. Write an academic report on the topic “Nanotechnology is the heart of things that we surround ourselves with every day”.
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24٭. Group discussion on the topic «Requirements for Thesis Structure and Defence in the Russian Federation and Abroad». Discuss the statements of the text “Presenting your Thesis” in the group. Express and prove your opinions; support them with the examples from your experience.
WRITING
25٭. Write an academic report on the topic “Nanotechnology is the heart of things that we surround ourselves with every day”.
26. Translate one paragraph from the text “A Neuroscientist reveals how to think differently” in the written form paying attention to its grammar, lexical, and stylistic peculiarities.
SELF-STUDY ACTIVITIES
27. Choose the correct option: adjectives and comparative forms.
1. There are several available positions / positions available for good candidates. 2. This is a fascinating paper / paper fascinating for those in this field. 3. They have a big black / black big dog. 4. We have recruited a 25-year old student / student 25 years old to work in our lab. 5. She is a professor very easy / very easy professor to work with. 6. France and Italy have patterns more evident / more evident patterns than Germany and the UK. 7. We need a capacity greater / greater capacitythan is currently available. 8. We need a capacity to process data that is greater / greater capacity to process datathan is currently available. 9. This represents a higher threshold / threshold higher than was expected. 10. The range is wider, greater is the number of values / greater the number of values, the wider the range.
28. Choose the correct option for the adverb in italics: also, either, both.
1. However, also Xs and Ys also exist. 2. However, X is only required to only process Y. 3. This operation also allows us alsoto do X. 4. Also I have also been there. 5. This also depends also on how much time you have. 6. At a conference, the only two interesting lectures will only be held at the same time. 7. If the only tool you have is onlya hammer, you treat everything in life like a nail. 8. You can only find them in one place only. 9. You only have only to sign it. 10. This will lead to bothan improvement of both x and y. 11. A small shift was noticed both for both the samples considered. 12. This should be true both in both absolute and relative terms. 13. This will not lead to an improvement eitherin either x or y. 14. Either they want either it or they don’t. 15. It will be either done either today or tomorrow. 16. This will not either improve the other methods either.
29. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the list.
reinforces, highlights, visual, dramatic, plus, intensification, crucial, theme, clarity, appendages
1. An improvement in the economic future of the lower class is _______ if the country wants to avoid a civil war. 2. Certain kinds of starfish have as many as fifty _______. 3. The discovery of oil in the 1950s had a _______ effect on the Libyan economy and society. 4. A popular _______ in Karen's artwork has always been the relationship between mothers and daughters. 5. This job requires the proper education, _______ at least three years' experience. 6. I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you _______ that last point for me? 7. With the growth of a city, _______ occurs naturally as more people and functions crowd together and mutually support one another. 8. The colour combination with the strongest _______ impact is black on yellow. 9. We missed seeing the final of the World Cup, but caught the _______ on the news. 10. Emile Durkheim suggested that religion creates and _______ social solidarity.
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30*. Choose the correct option.
1. You hardly ever see / don’t see often a tiger in the wild. 2. No matter how brave you are / are you, coming face to face with a grizzly bear is a frightening experience. 3. Cobras don’t usually / usually don’t act aggressively unless they are threatened. 4. He might not have / have not survived if he’d been alone. 5. The donkey wouldn’t move, however / no matter hard we tried to get it to take a step. 6. How he succeeded / did he succeed in riding the bull is beyond me. 7. Don’t be surprised if the dog growls at you because it always does / does always when a stranger walks in. 8. They always are / are always willing to take in a stray dog or cat. 9. That / What I saw was not a bear. It was something much bigger! 10. There / Itwas a mountain lion that attacked him, not a coyote.
31. Choose a scientific article in English concerning your own field of science from any valid information source (10 000 printed characters) and prepare its oral translation into Russian.
32. Search the Internet and go to the libraries to find scientific and technical articles on the topics of Module 6. Analyze the gathered material, then prepare a 10-minute report on the chosen topic. Give a Power Point presentation in the group.
MODULE TEST 6
Variant 1
1. Choose the correct verb form.
1. I would / would like tosubmit for publication in the Journal of Future Education the attached paper entitled “A Proposal for Radical Educational Reform” by Adrian Wallwork and Anna Southern. 2. Our aim was to test / testingthe efficiency of short- and long-duration degree courses. 3. Our study of 15, 000 male and female graduates aged between 35 and 55 found that theywould have performed far better in their careers from a financial point of view if they undertook / had undertakena one-year course at university rather than the traditional three to four-year course. 4. Our key finding is that people on shorter courses will / wouldearn up to 15% more during their lifetime. 5. The implications of this are / will benot only for the graduates themselves. 6. In fact, governments can / couldsave considerable amounts of money, and universitieswouldbe free to accept more students. 7. We believe that our findings will / shouldbe of great interest to readers of your journal. 8. The findings go against the general trend that claims that university courses would / shouldbe increased in length. 9. This research has not been / was notpublished before andis not being considered for publication elsewhere. 10. I look / am lookingforward to hearing from you.
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