What you need to do for next week’s meetings (24 & 26/11/2020)

• Visit the following link (Features of Academic Writing, http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm) and study the examples and vocabulary provided for using descriptive language. Incorporate such language to respond to the following task: http://www.uefap.com/writing/exercise/function/describe2.htm. Have your task ready to be shared as classwork on Tuesday.
• Translate into Greek the following extract and be ready to share it on Tuesday:

[…

Concepts of congruence and similarity equally play a major role in
terms of properties of triangles and are widely used to cover a variety
of proofs. For this reason, each one contains special principles and
rules which shall be presented analytically below.
Triangles that are congruent have exactly the same size and shape. In
order to establish congruence of two given triangles, mathematicians
use the following three basic criteria: …]

The instructor

Maria Koutraki

WEEK 3 – Sugested hw

We have already completed Unit 1 of your book, Types of Numbers, as well as paraphrasing and summarising strategies (Week 1 & 2). Don’t forget to try the suggested hw of Week 2, combining information of both the text and the videos provided in the blog.

Maria Koutraki

ANNOUNCEMENT-Today’s lesson (13/10/2020)

Today’s lesson will take place between 11.00 (not 11.15) and 12.30 without a break.

Your Instructor
Maria Koutraki

Hw For 2nd Week’s Classes-06 & 08/09/2020

Please, work with one of the intermediate level exercises of the following link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/esl_exercises/paraphrase_and_summary_exercises/intermediate_paraphrase_exercises.html

and also practise summarising and paraphrasing one type of numbers from the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7OIhvrhWT8

Your instructor

Maria Koutraki

1st Week 29/09 – ANNOUNCEMENT

Please check the following link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/esl_exercises/paraphrase_and_summary_exercises/index.html  in order to study examples of paraphrasing and summarising. Then write a paraphrasis and a summary of your own original sentence for Thursday’s lesson (01/10).

Your Instructor

Maria Koutraki

ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΗ ΟΡΟΛΟΓΙΑ 1

Οι φοιτητές που θέλουν να παρακολουθήσουν το μάθημα Αγγλική Ορολογία 1
παρακαλούνται να στείλουν ένα mail επικοινωνίας στο email της
διδάσκουσας Μαρία Κουτράκη koutraki@uoc.gr μέχρι τη Δευτέρα 28/09/2020
για να μπορέσουν να συνδεθούν στο πρώτο μάθημα της Τρίτης 29/09/2020,
11.00-13.00 μέσω WEBEX. To blog του μαθήματος είναι
https://englishformaths.wordpress.com.

2020 September Presentations

Those of you who are interested in making a presentation in the Exam period of September 2020 should check your mail. You will receive an email asking you to fill in your full name and preferable date of presentation. Then you will receive a Webex invitation link on the corresponding dates of your presentation.

 

Maria Koutraki

ANNOUNCEMENT – SEPTEMBER 2020 EXAM PERIOD – ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY FOR MATHS 1 & 2

Students of English Terminology for Maths 1 & 2 who would like to sit September 2020 exams should make a presentation through Webex – with your cameras on – on a science-oriented topic  (you may choose from a wide range  of topics, which should be relevant to your School of Technology & Engineering, possibly combined with topics taken from schools of different sciences)  The presentation should last 10 minutes. Helpful guidelines and links are provided through the blog. Try to be fluent, communicative and confident. Never just read your written work. Show that you are familiar enough with your topic. Please send me an email confirming your participation by the end of August, so that I can set specific presentation dates in September.

The Instructor

Maria Koutraki

Assignment for 2020 English Terminology for Maths 2 students

This semester you will not sit a written test in the exams period of June 2020. Instead, you will have to submit the following assignment through an email by May 31 2020.  There won’t be an extension.

“Select two different topics that would be relevant to your School of Technology & Engineering, possibly combined with topics taken from Schools of different sciences. a) Write two paragraphs according to the theory of Structuring paragraphs, followed by an extensive analysis of all the elements of academic language being used (topic sentence, controlling idea, primary and secondary supports, conclusion, method of development, pattern, cohesion devices, types of sentences, features of academic writing). b) Paraphrase one of your paragraphs and summarize the other one. You should also refer to your sources and bibliography while applying the strategies of summarizing and paraphrasing, thus avoiding plagiarism. Try to produce your own written texts. Copying somebody else’s original work will be considered a fail.”

 

The Instructor

Maria Koutraki

 

 

Briefing from our previous meetings on 07/05 & 14/05 – What you need to study

Revise Features of academic language (formality, complexity, hedging) – relevant link in the blog – and practise with all the exercises provided. Do the same with the cohesion devices and parallelism – respond to the quizzes provided in the blog.Try to practise writing short paragraphs, making the transition from paragraph to essay,  while also incorporating all language elements taught in the first two semesters (types of sentences, coherence and cohesion devices, parallelism, features of academic language etc.) Try also to apply the skills of summarising and paraphrasing while using your sourses. Refer to your sources.

Your instructor

Maria Koutraki