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Oriental Inventions and Discoveries
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Job Satisfaction
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Earning Academic Decrees
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The art of Public Speech
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An Interview with a Freelance
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Top Devises
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11. IMMORTAL TRACKS
Inventions that Changed our Lives
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SPEAKING
READING
WRITING
GRAMMAR
The History of Academic Discipline
Academ ic Fields & Education
Review
Writing
Phrasal Verbs
(bring)
Predictions
Accelerating Universe
Abstract Writing
Adverbs
Novelties
Oriental Contributions to
Civilizations
Article
Review
Reporting Verbs
Importance of Social Need Analysis
Social Needs and Education
Report Writing
Phrasal Verb
(Come)
Professional Networking
Global Networking
Dos and Don’ts
Generalizing and
Qualifying
Discussing Personal Contentment
Employees who are Engaged
in their Work have Happier
Home Life
Newspaper Article
Time Expressions
Earning a Degree
Emergence of the D octor’s
and M aster’s
Degrees
Rubric Writing
Wish Sentences
Preparation vs. Running with W hat
you have
Public Speaking Exercises
Persuasive
Essays
Quantifiers
W hy Freelancing
Recognition
Letter of
Certificate
Phrasal Verbs
Me Gadgets
Agent 007 Gadgets
Precise and Vague
Languages
Precise Sentences
Great W orks
Minor Planet “Samarkand"
Process Analysis
Relative Clauses
Learner’s Ambitions
A Strong Motivator
Critical Writing
Tag Questions
W O R L D ’ S N E W V I S I O N
Lesson 1
ACADEMIC FIELDS
Work in groups, read the subtitles in the central fram and find out what headings they belong to.
Architecture, Planning &
Enviromental D esign'
Art & Entertainment
Law
Enforcement,
Interior
Design,
Speech Pathology, Teaching, Tourism,
Broadcasting,
Aerospace,
Pharmacy,
Public Advocacy, Accounting, Forestry,
Environmental
Engineering,
Civil
&
Human Rights, Fashion, Consumer Rights,
Journalism, Genetics,
Publishing, Politics,
Local Biostatistics, Nuclear, Dentistry,
Urban and Regional Planning, Real Estate.
Engineering &
Computer science
Government
Communications
Biological
&
Physical
Science
Law & Public Policy
1 Match the words and their definitions
1. academician
a) a way of doing something
2 . achievement
b) member of an academy
3. concerned with
c) run across or meet unexpectedly
4. discrimination
d) involved or interested in something
5. employ
e) something that has been accomplished, especially by hard work, ability,
or heroism
6.
encounter
f) to recruit or provide someone with work
7. method
g) to treat people unfairly, because of their skin colour, religion, gender,
etc.
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2 (T1) Listen to the tape. Fill in the blanks with
appropriate words or phrases.
1. Academic
fields
have _____________
sub
disciplines or branches, like social sciences,
exact
sciences, natural sciences, humanities and applied
sciences.
2. For example, Chemistry, Physics, Earth and Space
Sciences
are
______________
as the branches of natural sciences, which
____________ the rules that regulate the natural
world through scientific methods.
3. They a r e ____________by data.
4. Formal sciences like mathematics, computer
science, statistics and logic, study formal systems,
w hich________ abstract structures.
5. Humanitarian sciences or humanities are the
d is c ip lin e s ____________ with
human culture,
using methods that mainly study theoretical and
critical issues.
6. Mainly they depend on practical_________ .
7. Applied sciences________ on scientific knowledge
related to practical use.
8. Science has been a f i e l d _________ by men,
women encountered_________ in science.
3 Listen again and write the sub-disciplines in
the boxes next to the headings.
Academic
fields
History
Humanities
Social
sciences
Natural
sciences
Applied
sciences
Formal
sciences
4 Discuss the following questions with your
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