Τίτλος Μαθήματος: Αγγλικά για Οικονομολόγους Ι
Ενότητα: Εισαγωγικό μάθημα (INTRODUCTORY COURSE - Immersion in
an academic environment)
Διδάσκουσα: Θεοδώρα Τσελίγκα-Γκαζιάνη
Τμήμα: Οικονομικών Επιστημών
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
English for Economists I
LESSON 1
Introductory questions
- Why did you choose to study at the specific Department? Did you actually choose to do so?
- What do you expect to gain from your studies?
- What do you wish to do when you graduate?
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and
that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“We have always known that heedless self interest was
bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a
problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
John Maynard Keynes
1. Vocabulary Exercise
You are going to watch the following video on “Changing education paradigms” by Sir Ken Robinson,
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html
Before you watch it, try to guess the meaning of the underlined words presented below.
1) How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21 st century, given
that we can’t anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of next week?
2) How do we pass on a sense of cultural identity to our children, whilst they are involved in a
process of globalization?
3) I feel quite alienated from our society, as I don’t feel that anybody understands me.
4) Female employees complained of being marginalized by management.
5) A) Scientists first conceived the idea of the atomic bomb in the 1930's.
B) Fortunately, a number of fertility treatments have been developed for women who can’t
conceive a baby.
6) I studied at a public university while my brother went to Deree College, which is a private
institution.
7) It’s compulsory to attend at least 75% of all laboratory courses.
8) Deductive reasoning is the process of reasoning from a general statement to a more specific
one, while inductive reasoning, on the opposite, starts with a specific statement to reach a more
general one.
9) I realized that my trust in him was misplaced.
10) ADHD = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
11) An inspiring teacher can stimulate students to succeed.
12) Most athletes reach their peak in their mid 20s.
13) Every day another batch of papers reaches the manager demanding his attention.
14) A discipline is an area of knowledge or teaching, especially one such as history, chemistry,
mathematics etc. that is studied at a university.
15) Our views might be divergent, yet this by no means suggests that we have to argue.
16) Lateral thinking refers to a way of thinking in which you use your imagination to see relationships
between things that are not normally thought of together.
17) A longitudinal study will examine a phenomenon over a long period of time.
18) The project has involved collaboration between the Economics department and the Geography
department.
19) Unfortunately, there is often a disjunction between the skills taught in schools and the skills
demanded by employers
Here is a description of a typical university structure.
University Structure, Personnel and Administrative Bodies
A) University Personnel
1. Members of Academic Staff.
2. Visiting Professors.
3. Temporary Teaching Staff
4. (Senior) Teaching Fellows
5. Technical Laboratory Staff
6. Administrative Staff
B) I. Administrative Bodies
1. The Senate
2. The Rector's Council
3. The Rector and Vice-Rectors
The Rector and three Vice-Rectors are elected by an assigned electoral body for a four-year tenure
4. The Principal Officer
II. Administrative Bodies of the Schools
1. The General Assembly
2. The Deanship
3. The Dean
III. Administrative Bodies of the Departments
Each School is divided into Departments. The Departmental Administrative Bodies are the following:
1. The General Assembly.
2. The Board.
3. The Head.
The Departments are subdivided into Sections. The Bodies of the Section are the General Assembly
and the Director.
2. Derivatives
Fill in the table with derivatives (wherever those exist).
Verb
Noun
department
research
Adjective
Adverb
educate
dissertation
campus
scientific
graduate
admit
office
core
administrative
report
extensive
alumnus (-i)
expert
institute
register
contact
scholarship
Now use words from the above table to fill in the gaps in the following exercise.
a. Blood tests should only be administered by a medical ______________.
b. The ________________ policies need to be approved by the rector and senate.
c. These are some general guidelines regarding the ________________ of foreign students to
Higher education in Greece.
d. I will not have any ____________ hours for the winter semester as I will be away on a sabbatical.
e. Our _________________ staff is on strike so no student enrollment has taken place so far.
f. We are looking for someone with great ___________________ in the management of hospitals.
g. Please stay in _____________ by email.
h. All under_________________ students are exempt from taxes.
i. I filed for a six month tax-deadline ________________ last April but it seems I won’t meet this
deadline either!
j. Specific ________________ issues are dealt with within each department, such as programme
of studies, exam schedule, etc.
3. Writing exercise
Write a paragraph (around 100 words) describing your experience after your first week as a Medical
student at the University of Ioannina.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. Grammar exercise – Revision of tenses
Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tenses (Active or Passive).
At LSE, you will have the chance to study a broad range of subjects; some of them you may
_____________ [study] in school, some _________ [be] new to you. At one end of the spectrum are
subjects you might consider 'arts' subjects like history, at the other end you ______________ [find]
mathematics and related subjects; some subjects ___________ [have] a direct vocational or
professional link, like law or actuarial science. All ___________ [be] a useful intellectual training in
different approaches to social questions.
The School ____________ [offer] a unique opportunity to study the social sciences in a university
institution with a worldwide academic reputation, while enjoying the cultural, social and recreational
facilities of one of the world's great capital cities. Many influential developments in thinking about
society, economics and politics ______________ [originate] in work carried out at the School, including
the basis of the modern welfare state and the development of free-market economics.
[Source: http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduateHome.aspx Retrieved on 1/10/2013].
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