Professional English —— for students in college of mathematics and statistics Lecture 1: Introduction.

Professional English—— for students in college of mathematics and statistics

Lecture 1: Introduction

1. An introduction

2. How to survive

3. What will be covered

4. Concluding remarks

Table of Content

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Introduction to this module

Credits 20

Schedule 10 lectures (week 2-4, 7, 10-15)

Methods English-teaching & Active involvement

1. Introduction

2. Methods

3. Results (discussion)

Whether will you pass the exam?

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It depends!

But tell you the way to survive

One long presentation (40%, team work) The organization; Team-work spirit; Achievement ……

One short presentation (30%, personal) Clearance; The organization ……

One project report (30%, individual effort) My observation (1. actively involved in every course; 2. come to this

module on time; 3. creativity; 4. do not just listen, try your first time academic writing; 5.good relationship with me ……)

Your ways of putting what you have done in English

About the long presentation

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1. Form 3 groups, each choose “introduction”, “methods”,

“results” as your topic

2. Write your own topic academically, and submit report

which will be evaluated by students from other group

3. Summarize the topic from other group, and write your

idealized topic which will be finally presented in class

Week 13rd

Week 15th

About the short presentation

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1. Choose any topic you like

2. Make your presentation in the way of “introduction”,

“methods” and “results”

3. I will give suggestions to each presentation

Week 7th, 11st, 13rd, 15th

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http://idrb.cqu.edu.cn/Teaching-CQU.htm

Lecture 1: Introduction (week 2nd) An introduction How to survive What will be covered Warn up: some popular expression in math

Lecture 2: Professional writing: Introduction (week 3rd) Most popular math journals and their papers The basic characteristics of Professional English in math The popular vocabulary and characters in math Something about the paper submission and revision

Topics covered

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Lecture 3: Professional writing: Methods (week 4th) How to describe methodology in a clear way Popular methods used in journal papers Analyze several methods examples Words popular in methods

Lecture 4: Short presentation (week 7th) Opening remarks Student presentation (5 min) Teacher’s comments (1 min) Concluding remarks

Topics covered

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Lecture 5: Professional writing: Results (week 10th) How to summarize your results Analyze several results examples Phrase and word popular in results The discussion of the results

Lecture 6: Short presentation (week 11st) Opening remarks Student presentation (5 min) Teacher’s comments (1 min) Concluding remarks

Topics covered

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Lecture 7: Topics other than mathematics (week 12nd)

Physics Biology Pharmacy Computer science

Lecture 8: Short presentation (week 13rd) Opening remarks Student presentation (5 min) Teacher’s comments (1 min) Concluding remarks

Topics covered

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Lecture 9: GRE mathematics (week 14th) Ask questions Answer questions Is there better way to solve GRE questions Concluding remarks

Lecture 10: Cross evaluation of reports submitted (week 15th) Opening remarks G1: Introduction (25 min) G2: Methods (25 min) G3: Results (25 min) Concluding remarks

Topics covered

Warm up: translate

Roll’s TheoremIf a real-valued function f is continuous on a closed interval

[a, b], differentiable in the open interval (a, b), and f (a) = f

(b), then there exists a x in the open interval (a, b) such that

the derivative of f (x) = 0.

罗尔定理如果实函数 f 在闭区间 [a, b] 上连续 , 在开区间 (a, b)

内可导 , 并且 f (a) = f (b), 那么在开区间 (a, b) 至少有一点 x 使得 f ' (x) = 0.

1 ． +: and, plus , added to

• 2 ＋ 4 ＝ 6 ：Two and four is six .

Two plus four is equal to six .

Two added to four equals six .

Two and four makes six .

Two plus four will be six .

If you add two to four , you get six .

Some popular expressions in math

2 ．—： minus, taken from, subtracted from

• 8 － 3=5 ：Eight minus three is five .

Eight minus three is equal to five .

Three taken from eight leaves five .

Three subtracted from eight leaves five .

Take three from eight and the remainder is five .

3 ． X ： multiply···by···/ multiplied by / times

• 3 × 5 = 15 ：Multiply three by five is (gives) fifteen .

Three multiplied by five is fifteen .

Multiply three by five , you get fifteen .

Three times five is (makes, will be , equals, is equal to ) fifteen .

4 ． ÷ ： divide···by···/divided by / divide···into···/ into

• 24 ÷ 8 = 3 ：Twenty-four divided by eight makes (is , equals ) three .

Twenty-four divided by eight is equal to three .

Eight into twenty-four goes three times .

Divide eight into twenty-four, and you get three .

Divide twenty-four by eight, and you get three .

Enjoy more on the next lecture

Any questions? Thank you!