Английский язык для аспирантов и соискателей. Минакова Т.В. - 46 стр.

        B: Sure. Perhaps, we’ll find an empty room. There are still some twenty minutes
left.
        A: That’d be just fine.

     3.3.7 Make up dialogues on the following situation. If possible use the
terminology of your own field of science.
     A Russian scientist is introducing his young collaborate to a foreign colleague.
The young researcher has heard a lot about the foreign scientists

                                       Key phrases:
     congratulations; to be a real success; I’d like you to meet my young colleague;
to be one of the best young researchers at the university; How d’you do? I’m very
happy to meet you; I’ve read many of your papers and books on computers in
education; to find them extremely interesting; I’ve just finished a new book; to be
published next year; I’ll send it over to you as soon as it comes out; it would be
wonderful; We are trying not to miss anything interesting in this field; to have a good
command of three foreign languages; Oh, I wish I could read Russian literature.

         3.4 Additional material for reading

      Один из возможных способов решения проблемы установления контактов
– использование вычислительной техники для предварительного обмена
информацией между участниками конференции.
      Professional conference organizers see great hope in the use of computers to
facilitate making contacts at conferences. This new technology can help both the
young and the more established scientists find people with similar interests.
Conference participants reregister their specific areas of interest and indicate their
preferences for meeting in small groups or on a one-to-one basis. Each participant
can also indicate the times he or she is available. The computer then matches parties
with the same interests and schedule contacts.
      Conferences can be computerized by using a message processing system.
Groups of terminals could be set up at the conference site with assistance available to
help participants use them. To retrieve your messages, you would simply type your
name and registration number. All messages for you would either appear on the
terminal’s screen or be printed out. Simple messages like “You left your coat in my
car” could be stored. But, more important, a graduate student could ask, for example,
if anyone at the conference would like to discuss his or her thesis topic. Or you could
ask a question on a particular speaker that you didn’t have a chance to ask during the
session. The speaker could answer the question some time later. You would find the
answer when you interrogated the terminal the next day. This could help young
scientists participate more fully since they are often reluctant to ask questions from
the conference floor… In the meantime, young scientists should try to discard their
assumptions that eminent people are unapproachable. In my experience, I have
always found that leading scientists were willing to talk for at least a few minutes.

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