Project 1: Toastmaster International. Public speaking

Your assignment is to make up a public speaking according to the roles. Your speaking should include three parts table topics, prepared speeches and evaluations. Table topics give us a chance to learn how to think on our feet. Prepared speeches teach us to master specific speaking objectives. Evaluations help us to improve our listening skills and to be supportive in our feedback and recommendations. The roles to be distributed: Toastmaster (1 student); Grammarian (1 student); General Evaluator (1 student); Ah Counter (1 student); Table topic Master (1 student); Speakers (several students); Evaluators (depends on the number of speakers).

Stage 1: Distribute the roles beforehand. According to roles the students should fulfill their tasks.

Stage 2: The speakers (ice-breakers) should get prepared to the given topic of discussion on the theme “Oil and gas. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Problems and the future of this sector”. Then present their talks.

Stage 3: The evaluators should assess the speakers speeches according to the evaluation sheet.

Stage 4: Table topic discussion. The Table topic Master prepares questions on the chosen theme and ask the participants to answer on feet.

Stage 5: Toastmaster makes a conclusion.

Project 2: Job interview

You have noticed an advertisement of a big company in Almaty from one of the famous newspapers. The given company is searching a suitable person for a position as a bilingual secretary (English-Kazakh, English-Russian), an interpreter and a sales manager for international marketing and promotions department.

Make a job interview following the next steps:

Stage 1: Writean application letter (cover letter) in response to an advertisement in a newspaper for a particular position.

As you know, a job application letter must be sent with an accompanying resume. Writea chronological resumeincluding the following information:

- Your full name, mailing address and telephone number.

- Employment Objective or Career Objective.

- Previous Employment and Work Experience.

- Special skills.

- Educational Background.

- Business and Personal References.

Stage 2: Ask your colleagues or boss to write you a letter of recommendation. Ask him/her to write a letter of recommendation about you to support the application. You should include relevant information both about the business skills and the character of a person.

Write a letter of reference about your colleague.

Stage 3: Make up possible job interview questions to ask according to the suggested positions.

Make the list of questions to be asked.

Stage 4:Interview the applicants using your questions.

Stage 5: Prepare a case-study or business situation to test the applicant.

Stage 6: Give him/her business situations or case-study tasks to test his/her skills, abilities.

UNIT 3: WORLD OF BUSINESS

Communication sphere: Business

FILE 3. The development of entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector: problems and prospects. Improving the competitiveness of the products of the agricultural sector in the conditions of accession to the WTO

LEAD-IN

Comment on the following quotations:

1. “Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.”

Proverb

2. “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.”

George Washington

3. “This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.

Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, September 30, 1859”

4. “Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.”

Carl Sagan

5. “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”

Thomas Jefferson

VOCABULARY ZONE

1. Brainstorm and discuss these questions:

1. What are the main agricultural products in your country?

2. Does your country import or export agricultural products?

3. What are the innovations in the field of agriculture in your country or around the world?

4. What do you suggest to improve efficiency and output in agribusiness?

5. What problems is Kazakhstan facing today on the given sector? What are the solutions?

6. What are the scientific approaches to develop agricultural sector?

2. Search for the key wordsinnovations in agriculture from the internet. Present your findings in class. Then translate them into Kazakh/Russian languages.