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Match the prepositions to the verbs: 1-15. Think of an example for at least 5 of the numbers. In – from – on – with
- Differ: in , from
- Specialize
- Associate
- Benefit
- Result
- Stem
- Elaborate
- Coincide
- Insist
- (^) Concern
- Argue
- Arise
- Comply
- Suffer
- Depend
- Distinguish My brother and I differ greatly. He is quiet and calm, and I am very loud.
Complete the sentences using the correct form of the verbs. The first letter of each word is given.
- (^) Having access to the internet for studying can r__________in information overload.
- To s___________ in life, people need qualifications proving they have the necessary knowledge and skills.
- A sedentary lifestyle is a__________ with modern illnesses such as obesity and diabetes.
- Everyone in work can b_________ from upgrading their professional knowledge.
- Studying to gain qualifications nowadays d_________ considerably from the situation 20 years ago.
- The causes of a problem cannot always be d_____________ from the effects.
- Many social and related problems s______ from illiteracy and innumeracy.
- People generally c________ with the constant changes in the modern information age.
- If universities i_________ on everyone having a qualification that includes general knowledge, it would help to raise standards.
- Too many jobs in the modern world d___________ on gaining knowledge rather than experience.
Think how to begin answering the questions below using the phrases in brackets.
- Information and studying: in what way is technology shaping the way students organize and use information to prepare themselves for the modern workplace? (benefit from) : Students nowadays are benefitting from having the ability to organize and retrieve information more easily than previous generations of students. And this is affecting how they work and develop their ideas.
- (^) Do you think accessing information and knowledge was the same in the past as it is now? In what way(s)? (differ from)
- How do you think people in the future will acquire information and knowledge?(benefit from)
- University education is often criticized for teaching knowledge that is irrelevant to the modern world. How far do you agree? (associate with)
- What advantages have devices such as mobiles and tablets brought to young people? (result in)
- With so much information available, is it becoming more difficult for young people to specialize in a particular field?(suffer from)
- Do people in employment and students suffer from information overload? What are the causes of this development? (stem from)
- (^) In terms of gaining knowledge, how is the present different from the past for students? (differ from)
Complete the following stages in the development of a language app for a mobile phone. Use the following words: testing – design – refining – uploading – submission – approval – conception – production
- The _______ of the idea for the app.
- The _______ of a proposal
- The _______of the proposal
- The _______ of the proposal
- The _______ of the prototype
- The ________of the prototype
- (^) The _______ of the prototype
“If you want the deep experience of a book, if you want to internalize it, to mix an author’s ideas with your own and make it a more personal experience, you have to read it slowly”, says Ottawa-based John Miedema, author of Slow Reading, (2009). But Lancelot Fletcher , the first present-day author to popularize the term “slow reading” , disagrees. He argues that slow reading is not so much about unleashing the reader’s creativity, as uncovering the author’s. “My intention was to counter postmodernism, to encourage the discovery of authorial content”, the American expat explains from his holiday in the Caucasus Mountains in eastern Europe. And while Fletcher used the term initially as an academic tool, slow reading has since become a more wide- ranging concept. Miedema writes on his website that slow reading, like slow food, is now , at root, a localist idea which can help connect a reader to his neighborhood. “Slow reading ,” writes Miedema, “is a community event resorting connection between ideas and people. The continuity of relationships through reading is experienced when we borrow books from friends; when we read long stories to our kids until they fall asleep.” Meanwhile, though the movement began in academia, Tracy Seeley, an English professor at the university of San Francisco, and the author of a blog about slow reading, feels strongly that slow reading shouldn’t “be just the province of the intellectuals. Careful and slow reading, and deep attention, is a challenge for all of us. “ But what’s clear is that our era’s technological venting is bringing more and more slow readers to the fore. Keith Thomas, the Oxford history professor, is one such reader. He doesn’t see himself as part of a wider slow community, but has nevertheless recently written – in the London Review of Books, about his bewilderment at the hasty reading techniques in contemporary academia. “I don’t thing using a search engine to find certain key words in a text is a substitute for reading it properly” , he says. “You don’t get a proper sense of the work, or understand its context. And there’s not serendipity, half the things I’ve found in my research have come when I’ve luckily stumbled across something I wasn’t expecting.” Some academics vehemently disagree, however. One literature professor, Pierre Baynard, notoriously wrote a book about how readers can form valid opinions about texts they have only skimmed, or even not read at all. “it’s possible to have a passionate conversation about a book that one has not read, including , perhaps especially, with someone else who has not read it,” he says in How to Talk About Books the You Haven’t Read (2007), before suggesting that such bluffing is even “at the heart of a creative process.”
Complete the summary using the list of words and phrases, A-J. you may use any letter more than once. A. The whole document G. reading lists had to be shortened B. Their analysis of sources H. their resources C. (^) Reading process I. burst of words D. To the end J. the contents E. Shorter books had to be used F. Most of the way through
Two recent research projects both suggest a sizeable proportion of the population no longer have the concentration to read articles 1. ____________. Another report suggests that the same applies to reading books, with one lecturer revealing that 2. ________and the same applies to reading books, and another that
junior colleagues did 3. ________ using a search engine rather than reading 4. _________ of a document completely. Nicholas Carr suggests that our online habits and constant exposure to news are having an impact on the way we engage with 5. ________ of articles.
