D. Act out the situations

1. You have a poster report/presentation at the conference. Another participant is interested in your topic. Tell him about the main points of your research, present the results obtained, and give a short explanation of the main findings.

2. You are interested in your colleague's research and his latest findings. Ask him about the difficulties he has had in carrying out his research (experiments, analyses), and about the progress he has made.

Conference Active Vocabulary

a meeting/a session

a plenary meeting/the opening ceremony

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

a speaker

to submit abstracts/to present papers/to present poster reports

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 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. When did you last take part in a conference?

3. Where was the conference held?

4. What problems were considered and discussed?

5. How many participants attended the conference/session/workshop?

6. Which reports attracted general attention?

7. Whose report was of particular interest?

8. What problem did it deal with?

9. Did you read/present a paper at the conference?

10. Were you given the floor?

11. Was the time limit fixed?

12. Did you find your English sufficient/adequate to participate in the international conference?

13. Do you think you have a good/poor knowledge of English?

14. Did you find the speaker's English hard to follow?

15. Why is it necessary/important for a scientist to know foreign languages?

B. Complete the sentences with the words from the Active Vocabulary Section:

1. Every year conferences... in our university.

2. This year I... in the conference which was held.... 3.1 had to... the abstracts 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.

7.1... in understanding English, because I find my English....

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