Unit 6. Conference Participation
Active Vocabulary a meeting/a session a plenary meeting/the opening ceremony a speaker a chairman/a chairwoman/a chairperson to call upon someone/to give the floor to someone to set up/to fix the time limit to break the time limit to call attention to the time limit to stimulate discussions to ask somebody a question to call for questions to submit abstracts/ to present papers/ to give a poster presentation to take part in/ to participate in/ to attend a conference to take the floor to keep/ to stick to the point to digress from the subject to have a good/ poor knowledge/ command of English to find the knowledge of English adequate/ inadequate to … to find English hard to follow to fail to understand reports/ questions in English
Tasks: A. Answer the questions: 1. Have you ever participated in international conferences/ symposia/ congresses? 2. What was the last conference you took part in? 3. Where was the conference held? 4. What problems were considered and discussed? 5. How many participants attended the conference/session/ workshop? 6. Which paper or presentation attracted special attention and was of particular interest for you? 7. What problem did it deal with? 8. What was your presentation about? 9. What was your time limit? 10. Have you ever present a paper at the conference in English? 11. Do you find your English sufficient/ adequate to participate in international conferences? 12. Do you think you have a good/poor knowledge of English? 13. Why is it necessary/ important for a scientist to know foreign languages nowadays?
B. Complete the sentences below. Speak about your experience of conference participation. 1. Every year conferences … in our university. 2. This year I … in the conference which was held … 3. I had to … the abstract covering the problem of … 4. The time limit was … and I had ten minutes to … 5. My report … the problem which … much attention. 6. Of … interest were the reports presented by X and Y. 7. I … in understanding English, because I find my English … C. Work in pairs. Ask for and give information about your participation in a conference/symposium/congress. Share your opinions about the organization of the conference, its agenda, the chairman’s speech and the papers presented.
Unit 7. How to Chair a Conference Active Vocabulary to chair the session to give a special welcome to to attend the meeting to consider the range of subjects to schedule something for … to schedule something for … to reschedule to promote something to cancel something to hold concurrently a working group session a poster session a panel discussion an agenda an alternation to the agenda a stimulating discussion
Tasks: A. Read and practise some useful speech patterns: Introducing a speaker I have the great pleasure to introduce … Our first guest will speak on … And now I have the pleasure of introducing our first speaker … I now give the floor to … Our next speaker is … who will speak about/on … Now I’d like to call upon … who is going to speak about/on … And now I ask … to make his contribution on … Now I’m giving the floor to … who will speak about/on … Stimulating a discussion Please feel free to ask questions and make comments. Any questions or comments? Are there any questions on Mr. X’s paper? Does anyone want to ask questions to …? Any other questions? Do you have questions to ask? Who would like to comment on Mr. X’s paper? Does anyone else want to ask a question or make a comment? Are there any further comments on the paper? There are no more questions … Thank you. Ending a meeting I’d like to thank you all for a stimulating discussion. Well, I think that covers everything. All the topics seem to have been exhausted. I think it’s time we closed the discussion. Our time is up. The discussion is closed. I declare the session closed. I think we have done a good job. Thank you all. Unit 8. Presenting a Paper
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