The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Semey State University named after Shakarim

The Department of Chemistry and Geography

Professional focused foreign language

The natural-science faculty

Specialty: Geography

For students of the 3rd course

Educational-methodical complex

Семей - 2013

1. Full name of lecturer-

Sassenova U. K- Senior teacher of Department of Foreign Philology,

Tuleugaliyeva S.S.- Associate Professor of Chemistry and Geography Department

2. Approved on meeting of department

Protocol № _____ from «_____ » ______2013

Head of Department of Chemistry and Geography

______Ontagarova D.R.

3 Discussed on meeting scholastic-methodical advice of the faculty of Natural Sciences Protocol № ____ from «______» ______2013

Chairman of educational-methodical advice of the faculty______

Dean of the faculty of Natural Sciences ______Ibrayeva L.S.

Contents:

1. Glossary

2. The content of practical lessons

3. Methodical recommendation of SIWT

4. Methodical recommendation of SIW

5. Checking measuring facilities

Glosssary

Biogeography (the study of the distribution of biodiversity over space and time. It aims to reveal where organisms live, and at what abundance.)

Climatology (the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences.)

Environmental geography (the branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world)

Geodesy (scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space)

Geomorphology (the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them.)

Glaciology (the study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice)

Hydrology (the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout Earth, and thus addresses both the hydrologic cycle and water resources)

Hydrography (the measurement of physical characteristics of waters and marginal land.

Oceanography and limnology are subsets of hydrography).

Meteorology (the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting (in contrast with climatology).

Pedology (the study of soils in their natural environment.)

Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with various environments. Human geography can be divided into many broad categories, such as:

Cultural geography (the study of cultural products and norms and their variations across and relations to spaces and place) It focuses on describing and analyzing the ways language, religion, economy, government and other cultural phenomena vary or remain constant, from one place to another and on explaining how humans function spatially.)

Development geography (the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the standard of living and quality of life of its human inhabitants)

Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth.

Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care

Historical geography is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past.

Political geography (the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures)

Population geography (the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to the nature of places.)

Transportation Geography is the branch of geography that investigates spatial interactions; let them be of people, freight and information

Geography of Tourism is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity.

Literature

Basic literature:

1.«Английский язык для географов» Еремина В.А., Майоршина С.В., Цыбина Л.П., Москва 1999.

2.English for Academic Purposes; Сафроненко О.И., Петросян К.С., Резникова С.Ю. 2008.

3.Inside Out by Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones; Mackmillan, Heineman 2004.

4.Методические указания по развитию навыков чтения и устной речи на английском языке по теме «Outstanding Scientists and Inventors» для студентов 1 курса, изучающих информационные и компьютерные технологии. Резникова С.Ю., Самолетова М.А. Часть1, Ростов-на-Дону, 2007.

5.Методические указания по развитию навыков чтения и устной речи на английском языке по теме «Outstanding Scientists and Inventors» для студентов 1 курса, изучающих информационные и компьютерные технологии. Резникова С.Ю., Самолетова М.А. Часть2, Ростов-на-Дону, 2007.

6.Методические указания по развитию навыков чтения и устной речи на английском языке по теме «Россия» для студентов 1-2 курсов естественных факультетов университетов. Скнарина И.И., Кузнецова Л.В., Ростов-на-Дону: УПЛ РГУ, 2005.

7.Методические указания по развитию навыков чтения и устной речи на английском языке по теме «Высшее образование в России, Великобритании и США» для студентов 1-2 курсов. Беляева Н.А., Кузнецова Л.В, Сытникова Е.Б., Ростов-на-Дону: УПЛ РГУ, 2005.

8.Методические указания по развитию навыков чтения и устной речи на английском языке по теме «Моя специальность» для студентов 1-2 курсов естественных факультетов университетов (часть 2). Сафроненко О.И., Белоусова М.М, Скнарина И.И.. Ростов-на-Дону: УПЛ РГУ, 2005.

9.Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises, Helen Naylor, Raymond Murphy Cambridge University Press, 2001.

10. English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises, Louise Hachemi, Raymond Murphy Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Б ) Additional literature:

Тестовые задания по контролю навыков чтения на английском языке для самостоятельной работы студентов 1 курса естественнонаучных специальностей. Мирошникова О.Х.

1. Тестовые задания по контролю лексико-грамматически навыков на английском языке для самостоятельной работы студентов 2 курса естественнонаучных специальностей. Мирошникова О.Х.

2. Тестовые задания по контролю грамматических навыков и навыков написания письма на основе общенаучной лексики английского языка для самостоятельной работы студентов 1,2 курсов. Байдельдинова А.Д. Улеева Н.М.

В ) программное обеспечение и Интернет-ресурсы

1. www.englandia.ru

2. Мультимедийный курс “Reward” (уровни elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate)

3. Мультимедийный курс “Grammar ROM”

The contents of practical lessons

Lessons № 1

Theme: Introduction

Text: My future profession

Purpose of lesson:

1. to acquaint with need of the education of this subject

2. to develop student’s speech connected with professional interest.

3. To encourage the interest to studying of this subject

My future profession

When a person leaves high school, he must choose his future profession.

It isn’t an easy task to make the right choice of future profession and a job at once. We know leaving school is the beginning of the independent life, the start a more examination of a man’s abilities and character.

As for me I would like to be a teacher of geography. To my mind, it is a very noble profession. It is very difficult to be a good teacher of geography. In high school my favorite subjects was geography

The word “geography” comes from the Greek word geo, meaning “earth” and graph in, meaning “description”. Generally it is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. It was a Greek scientist Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.) who first used this word. Geography as a science grew out from the attempts of early people to describe what they had seen on their travels. Today those who study geography describe and analyze the earth in order to explain what is where, why it is there and what significance it has.

I have always been interested in geography. I am very fond of geography and I’d like to be a geographer.

This year I have passed entrance competitive exams successfully and now I am a first -year student of Semey State Pedagogical Institute. I study at Natural Science Department. Now I am a third-term (semester) student and study geography and ecology. All our Department graduates are sure to get jobs they are willing to have. I hope the same might hold true for me as well.

Tasks and questions:

I. Answer the questions:

1. What would you like to be?

2. Say a few words about favorite subjects at school

3. Was it easy for you to choose a profession?

4. When did you decide to choose this profession?

5. Who helped you to make your choice?

6. Why have you chosen this profession?

7. Do you like geography? Why?

8. What is Geography?

9. What quality must a good specialist of your profession possess?

II. Translate the following words into your native language without using a dictionary, relying on your knowledge or guessing

Geography, earth, independent, ability, character features, inhabitants, phenomena, scientist, attempt, significance, ecology, geographer,

III. Act out the situation. Ask questions.

Recently you have got acquainted with a British student who is studying one of natural sciences at the university on student’s exchange programmed in Semey. Talk to him/her.

· Ask about his field of study and tell him/her about yours;

· Ask where and how long he/she has been studying it

· Find out his/her reasons to study it, his/her likes and dislikes;

· Say about your experience in the field of study or any practical training;

Ask about her/his plans in the future; wish good luck in learning natural III.

IV. Supply the three forms of the following verbs:

To tell, to say, to speak, to give, to keep, to make, to lead, to begin, to be, to do, to choose, to know.

V. State the parts of speech and undertine the suffixes:

· Science, information, to function, engagement, to circulate, biological, preventive, digestion, constructor, possibility, to repeat, knowledge, various, specialize, to inform.sciences.

VI . Express the following sentences in the passive.

Model: Assima answered this question.

This question was answered (by Assima)

1. They won’t study this problem. 2. They read this newspaper. 3. They attended professor Ivanov’s lectures on Mondays and Fridays. 4. Amina worked hard at her English last semester. 5. Dauren will go to London next time. 6. She can repeat these questions. 7. Our friend reads English newspapers every day. 8. She will attend classes next week

Methodical recommendations:

1. Read the text and try to understand it.

2. Look up the words you do not know in a dictionary.

3. Lead and support the conversation with partner.

4. Write a short composition about your future profession using questions.

Literature:

1.«Английский язык для географов» Еремина В.А., Майоршина С.В., Цыбина Л.П., Москва 1999.

2. English for Academic Purposes; Сафроненко О.И., Петросян К.С., Резникова С.Ю. 2008.

3. Inside Out by Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones; Mackmillan, Heineman 2004

Lesson № 2 Theme: Lexicology

Text: The Earth

Purpose of the lesson:

1. Formation of basic knowledge on biology.

2. To perceive English speech by hearing.

3. To inculcate skills ability to work with the text.

4. Introduction of new lexical material and fixing of the passed material.

1. to acquire the special text with the aim learning the necessary information.

2. to learn lexical minimum and to use it in practice.

3. to try to communicate in English.

Lexicology

Lexicology is a part of linguistics, the science of the word. “ Lexics” in Greek means having to do with words and “logos” –studying, learning.

Lexicology of Modern English investigates the problems of a word structure and word-formation, the scientific structure of words, the relations between varies lexical layers of the vocabulary, the source and the growth of the English vocabulary, the changes it has undergone in its history.

Words can be studied from different viewpoints. The general study of words and vocabulary of language universals is known as General Lexicology.

There is Special lexicology which deals with the description of the characteristic peculiarities of a given language. The evolution of any vocabulary is studied by historical lexicology. It investigates the origin of words, their change, development, structure, meaning and usage.

Descriptive lexicology studies the vocabulary of a given language at a given stage of its development. Lexicology is closely connected with phonetics, stylistics, grammar, the history of the language. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics has its own names and methods of scientific research; its basic task is a study and systematic description of a vocabulary, the origin of words, the development and current use. Lexicology is concerned with words, variable word-group, phraseological units and morphemes which make up words and their meanings.

Text: The Earth

Let's recall that our planet, Earth, is only one of the 8 planets in our solar system. 8,

not 9 because in the year of 2006 Pluto was taken away from the list of planets.

The four smaller inner planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and metal.

The four outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, also called the gas giants, are composed largely of hydrogen and helium and are far more massive than the terrestrials.

Earth is the third planet in distance from the Sun which is 149.6 million kilometers away. It is the fifth largest of the eight planets in the solar system, and the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World, the Blue Planet, and Terra.

Geography is a unique discipline as it is borderline. It touches all the other disciplines. Generally it can be split into two main sub fields: human geography and physical geography.

Physical geography (or physiogeography) focuses on geography as an Earth science. It aims to understand the physical lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and global flora and fauna patterns (biosphere).

Vocabulary:

terrestrial - земной, сухопутный

hydrogen - водород

helium - гелий

density – плотность, густота

to refer - отсылать, направлять

lithosphere - литосфера

hydrosphere - гидросфера

to value - ценить

Tasks and questions:

I. Read the text and translate it using the dictionary

II. Name the planets.

III. Complete the paragraph with the appropriate present tense form of the verbs in brackets.

Discovering your learning style … (be) an excellent way to learn about yourself and the way you … (absorb) information best. I … (be) glad I … (complete) the Learning Style test because I … (plan) to use this knowledge of myself in the future.