Seven basic questions you must answer to participate in a conference
| 1. | Why? | a. | the length of the report is determined by many factors, but generally try to make your speach reasonably short |
| 2. | To whom? | b. | what the audience knows about the subject, their status, age, culture, specific interests – the information you present should tailor their needs |
| 3. | What? | c. | the place where the report will be delivered ( a large conference hall, a small meeting room, with the help of a microphone or without it, etc.) |
| 4. | Where? | d. | the subject matter of the report |
| 5. | When? | e. | the format, or form of the report including the use of demonstration materials and handouts |
| 6. | How long? | f. | the aims of your report (evident and hidden) |
| 7. | How? | g. | the time (the first report, the last one, after of before the break, in the evening, etc.) |
c) Choose one of the conferencefrom the list below and write the answers to the questions given in exercise I-b).
1. The 3rd International Students’ Conference on Science and Technology.
2. The 11th International Symposium onApplied Engineering and Informatics.
3. The Asian Economics and Management Conference.
II. a) Read the passage and explain the meanings of the underlined words.
Your abstract should be no more than one A5 page (14.8 X 21 cm.)
In order to assist with the review/editing of your abstract please carefully observe the following formatting and style conventions:
Layout
• Author information should be Times New Roman Italics 12 point single spaced right alignment(1). It should consist of two lines single spaced (2): your name; your department/faculty and your institution/university.
• Titles should be set one line below the title(3) and in Times New Roman Bold 12 point (4).
• The body of the abstract should be set one line below the title.
• Font(5) should be Times New Roman 12 point.
• Line spacing(6) should be 1.0.
• Text should be set justified (7), block paragraph/s (no indent) (8).
• Margins should be set at 2.0 cm on top, bottom, right and left (9).
Style
• Place all titles of separately published works(10) (print, film, televisual and so on) in italics.
• Use double quotes(11) throughout except for quotes inside quotes (12).
• Avoid abbreviations such as “e.g.,” “i.e.,” “etc.” – that is, spell out the words (13).
• Use the em-dash(14) for dashes. The em-dash looks like this–that is, a solid double hyphen between words with no space before or after.
• Do notinclude footnotes(15) in your abstract. Instead weave any references(16) to authors/titles into the text of the abstract.
b) Study the example of an abstract for communication. Does the text confirm to the “house style” of the conference given in exercise II-a)? Support your answer.
KravchenkoА.D., DeshevykhА.А.
(Traffic Management Faculty, Siberian Transport University)
“Green” future of the transportation sector
Nowadays, the transportation sector is supposed to become closely related to solutions of environmental problems. Many countries worldwide face the rather conflicting needs of transport policies. Transport infrastructure improves access to job, education, leisure and other markets and obviously plays a key role in the global economy. Other concern is reducing the negative environmental impact by changing current transport policies. The most of transport modes have some economic and environmental disadvantages such as an unalterable route, air and soil pollution, noise emission and others. So, the challenge is to create flexible, environmentally friendly and cost efficient transport alternatives to prevent the negative effects of the transportation system on human health.
This problem can be solved by implementation of high technologies. European designers and engineers are now studying new public transportation concepts to offer more competitive – high-speed and an individual-oriented – vehicles as compared with present ones. Speaking about the Russian Federation, this country is just going to break ground upon implementation of new high technologies for the transportation sector. It should be noticed that new environmentally friendly vehicles are manufactured only in smallquantities.
The above-named reasons prove that the best solution of the so-called “green” problem is the mass production of eco-friendly transport units: electric and hybrid vehicles, high-speed commuter trains etc. Mass eco-vehicles use could further reduce boththe cost of transportation and negative environmental impact in the transportation sector.
Supervisor: Ivanova L.M., Associate Professor of Foreign Languages Department,
Cand. Sc. (Education)
III.
a) Find synonyms to the word combinations in the box:
| keynote speech | to call for papers |
| proceedings series | annual meeting |
| to participate in a conference | location |
| to submit papers | conference fee |
b) Cross out the word which does not fit in the following sentences.
1. The conference will be done/ be held/ be organised at the Clarion Hotel, Makassar, Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
2. We are glad to inform you that BMW is the second colleague/ business partner/ sponsor of MT-ITS 2013.
3. The full paper sending/ submission/ publishing has been postponed to 31 July 2013.
4. Welcome to the online registration/ application/ telephoning system for the Asian Logistics and Maritime Conference.
5. Standard registration money/ fee/ currencyis US $ 200.
6. The conference offers a variety of networking opportunities for people/ business parties/ participants to establish new business contacts.
7. The conference fees include proceedings/ writings/ reports in electronic format.
8. English will be the official communication/ tongue/ language of the conference.
c) Fill in the conference registration form.
PART 3 PROJECTING
SELF-WORK 2
Visual aids
I. a) Match the visuals with the verbs to describe trends and developments.
| 1) | 2) | 3) | 4) | ||||
| 5) | 6) | 7) | 8) | ||||
| 9) | 10) | 11) | |||||
| a) plunge/ slump | b) recover/ pick up | c) grow/ expand | d) peak | ||||
| e) remain steady | f) increase/ rise | g) fluctuate | h) bottom out | ||||
| i) decrease/ fall | j) stabilize/ level off | k) take off/shift up | |||||
b) Put these adjectives in the correct space in the table according to what kind of changes they describe.
| a) substantial | b) rapid | c) encouraging | d) slight |
| e) disastrous | f) enormous | g) moderate | h) disappointing |
| i) steady |
| Big | Fast | Good |
| Small | Slow | Bad |
c) It is often better to use approximate numbers in presentations. Put the following words in the correct column in the table.
| a) a little less than | b) about | c) almost | d) approximately |
| e) around | f) just over | g) just under | h) nearly |
| i) roughly | j) well over |
| - (less) | +/- (about the same) | + (more) |
II. a) Read the passage and and answer the questions:
1. Why is using visuals in your presentation very important?
2. What clichés does the speaker use in order to present visuals?
3. Is it always enough to talk about increases and decreases while presenting graphs and diagrams?
Visuals are important in any professional presentation. But when you give a presentation in a foreign language, they are even more important. Visual information is highly memorable and reduces the amount of talking you have to do.
Visuals help you to give a lot of information in a short space of time. They snapshot situations, developments, events and processes, which would take a long time to explain in words. Good visuals speak for themselves and require little or no description, but you often need to draw your audience's attention to one or more key points before you discuss them in more detail.
You don't need to know all the names of the different types of visual in order to present them. Simply say: Have a look at this. / Take a look at this. / As you can see, here... and here.... Note, that American English prefers take(take a look, take a shower, take a break). British English prefers have(have a look, have a shower, have a break).
Sometimes it is not enough to talk about increases and decreases. You need also to draw attention to the scale and speed of the change and comment on its significance.
b) Look at the chart. Study the words and word combinations below it.Read the passage and findtheclichés usedto describe the visual.
| Spending on goods and services |
| Factor incomes |
| Goodsandservices |
| Services of productive factors |
| households |
| firms |
block – блок, часть
on the left – слева
on the right – справа
on the top – наверху
at the bottom – внизу
to label – обозначать
theinnerloop– внутренний круг (кольцо)
theouterloop – внешний круг (кольцо)
arrow – стрелка
Let’s start with two blocks. The one on the left should be labeled “households”, and the one on the right “firms”. On the top of the inner loop – circle – put “goods and services” with an arrow running from the firms block to the households block. At the bottom of the inner loop put “services of productive factors” with an arrow running from households to firms On the outer loop at the top, put “spending on goods and services”, with an arrow running from households to firms. And finally, at the bottom of the outer loop, put “factor incomes” with an arrow running from firms to households.
c) Translate the passage with a dictionary (in writing).
PART 3 PROJECTING
SELF-WORK 3
Handling questions
I. a) Answer the following questions:
1. What skills are important for a speaker while he or she is debating?
2. Is it a good idea to ask a question that you plan to answer during your speech to focus the audience’s attention on the topic of your presentation (that is a rhetorical question)?
3. What makes a speaker less nervous while debating?
b) What verbal stratagem (A or B) do you use 1) when you are a speaker who is responding to a question, 2) when you are a listener who is asking a question?
| A. | B. |
| Digressing Buying time Self-correcting Placating Avoiding giving an answer | Opinion giving Clarifying/ confirming/ paraphrasing Disagreeing Attending Information seeking |
c) Study the list of English clichés below. Divide them into four groups to fill in the table.
| A. | B. | C. | D. |
| Sayyouropinion | Askfortheopinion | Accept | Reject |
1. That's certainly true.
2. May be, but I still think that it makes sense to…
3. Yes, I dobecause…
4. That’s a good idea, but…
5. Well, I think…
6. Ofcourse.
7. I thinkweshould…
8. I disagreebecause
9. Excuse me, if you don't mind me saying. I think you'll find there are very good reasons for restricting the channels for some other beers.
10. No, I don’tbecause...
11. Whatdoyouthink?
12. I’m afraid, but I disagree with you.
13. Great.
14. That's interesting you should say so and I look forward to hearing more about that in our discussions.
15. Doyouthink…?
16. Have you got any views on this?
17. Could you remind us some of the…
18. Thank you very much for your answer/you gave us a very clear idea about…
19. Wouldyouagree?
20. I agreebecause
21. How do you feel about this?
22. That’s a goodidea.
23. Yes, that’sright
24. Supposing …
25. I’m not sure about that…
26. So, itmakessense…
27. Yes, but…
28. I’mafraid…
29. That’strue, but…
d) Make a list of your own clichés to describe a verbal stratagem for a Speaker/ Listener. Learn them by heart.
II. a) What types of questions do you remember? Give 2-3 examples for each type.
b) Study the list of some typical conference questions. What types of questions can you find in the list?
1. How do you know that…?
2. What makes you say that?
3. Can you give me an example of…?
4. Has that ever happened before? How often does that happen?
5. What led up to this?
6. Who conducted the experimental work?
7. How does this system work?
8. What do you think about global mobility of engineers/managers? Is it a positive or negative phenomenon?
9. How will you use the information you obtained?
10. Is the Russian tutorial system different from European one?
11. Are there any advanced internship programs for engineers in Asian countries?
12. Did you take part in the pilot projects you have mentioned in your report?
13. Could you define the main idea of your report?
14. Why is it important to discuss the issue you spoke about?
15. Have you heard about any automated signaling systems have been implemented by Network Rail in the UK?
16. Did you mean that railways in China are more developed than in Russia? Why or why not?
17. According to information presented in your report, is the Russian Federation going to develop high-speed railways actively?
18. Can you name any foreign analogues of this technology?
19. Could you summarise the main conclusions of your research?
20. Could you explain why it is possible to use the algorithms for automatic dispatcher without a human?
21. Which principle of effective traffic management presented in your report do you consider the most effective?
22. Could you give characteristics of the computer program you have created to estimate the optimum rail route?
23. Please summarise the main results of your research applying to Russia?
24. Could you explain the definitions that you have mentioned in your report?
c) Read the passage and write 10-12 questions of different types (general, special, subject, alternative, disjunctive, indirect, rhetorical) you may ask the speaker.
The Trans-Siberian Mainline project:
A historical analysis
A. Y. Chernov
Siberian Transport University, Novosibirsk
The problem of the Trans-Siberian Mainline project of cooperation between Russia and South Korea to develop the resource base of the Far East and Siberia is one of the most pressing issues facing today’s transportation infrastructure. In particular, it is about the formation of a multi-modal transportation hub. The solution of the problem has its history.
In the 1990s trade expanded rather rapidly partly driven by innovations in the IT sector. This process of international integration in commodity, capital and labour markets is known as globalisation. The prominent role played by the industrial economies in world trade exports up to the 1990s was closely linked to their large share in exports of manufactured goods. The long-term shifts in the composition of world trade show a strong rise in the share of manufactured goods. As the result, the idea of the Iron Silk Road project appeared. Goods from South Korea to Europe expected to be transported by rail through the longest Asian corridor of over 10,000 km faster and cheaper than by sea.
Since the trade volume reached its record level of 23 billion USD last year there is an attempt to build a modern railway connecting the Pacific Ocean and Europe. According to estimations of some South Korean forwarders the early stage of the project will be profitable for both parties if they arrange the process properly. The Russian party has invested the preparatory stages, and experts from Siberian Transport University in jointly with scientists of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering are currently engaged in experimental calculations to identify the comparative effectiveness of competing versions of the project.
In conclusion it should be mentioned that the current political situation in Korea is unstable. However, taking into consideration geographical, political and economic factors it makes sense to think about other possible routes. IT can optimise this process by creating simulation programmes to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives.
IV. Grammar to notice:
- Passive Voice;
- Linking words in complex sentences;
- Questions of different types.
WORD LIST TO PART III