2022-2023 academic year
Books
The books we need
504 Essential Words
Destination B2
Navigate Advanced C1
Test your English
TOEFL Speaking
Dear students please be ready to take part in our meeting on May 16, 12;00 in the Sebastatsi centre
here is the link to the program
Be ready to answer some questions and socialize about these topics
mane Piliposyan will host the meeting
In two words introduce yourself/ how long have you been here, your favourite subjects,hobbies, elective subjects
The most interesting day at school,
The most memorable trip
My Achievements
My regrets
The best advice I have ever been given
One life skill that the school has taught you
The most important personality trait that a person should have
What would you change in the Educomplex
The teachers whose lessons you enjoy
Writing topics for April
Dear students choose two topics and comment on them. You may add your topics as well
- Some people think that watching imported films or TV programmes is good way to broaden a country’s culture. Others feel that it is better to let a country make its own films. Discuss both sides and give your own view.
- Some people believe that good teamwork is what makes companies successful. Others feel that it is more important to have a good leader. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
- In many countries, governments spend a lot of money celebrating national holidays and festivals. However, some people think that spending money on these celebrations is a waste. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
- Young people are often influenced by their peers. Do the advantages of peer pressure outweigh the disadvantages?
- Many developing countries place a lot of importance on tourism. Why is this? Do you think that this is a positive or negative development?
- In the modern world, it is possible to shop, work, and communicate online without any face-to-face contact with other people. Is this a positive or negative development?
- Some people believe that traveling alone is the best way to experience a country or a culture. Others feel that it is better to travel with people you know. Discuss both views and give your own opinion
- Some people believe schoolchildren should help to create rules in their schools. Others say teachers alone should decide what the rules are. Discuss both views and give your own opinion
- Some people think that students should learn a range of practical skills at school (such as car maintenance or accountancy) alongside traditional subjects like maths and physics. Do you agree or disagree with this view?
- People’s behaviour (for example, their table manners and the way they dress) varies from country to country. When traveling to a different country, people should copy the behaviour and habits of the inhabitants of the country they visit. Do you agree or disagree?
Project Women in IT field March
Topics for writing for February
Knowing English can open a wide range of career opportunities
Managing your time will help you succeed in achieving your goals
Self-confidence is the key to achieving whatever we want in our life.
Success requires hard work, dedication, and a positive mindset.
Poverty is a global problem that affects more than 1.3 billion people worldwide.
Knowing English can open a wide range of career opportu
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Words have incredible power. They can make people’s hearts soar, or they can make people’s hearts sore.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth
Writing for January
Start the new year by turning a new page
Activities for December
Dear students, you may publish the topics on your own initiative.
Writing. Choose one of the topics and comment on it.
What is your happiest memory?
Explain a family tradition, how it developed, and its importance today.
Describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision.
What is one book that everyone should be required to read?
Should students evaluate their teachers?
Should rich people pay more taxes?
The causes of procrastination
24.11.22 Destination B2 slide 39 ex E , slide 40 F, H, I, slide 41 A, slide 42 D
Writing My was as a Sebastatsi deadline 20.11.22
17.11.2022 Grammar Tasks Destination B2 slide 29 A, Unit 5 Grammar theory, ex-es slide 33 B,34 D , Unit 6 Vocabulary slide 37
10.11.2022 Grammar Tasks Destination B2 slide 9 ex-es A B C D E H slide 14/ word formation slide 16 ex H, I
11.11.22 Grammar Tasks Destination B2 page 21 ex C D E, page 24 I, Unit 4 Revise page 2 B E G H I
Assignments for 04.11.2022
Writing My was as a Sebastatsi
Assignment for 03.11.22
Introduce yourselves and describe an achievement/ or achievements you are proud of / about 20 sentences/
Assignments for 20.10-01.11
Dear students, choose one topic and comment on it
Should students be adding their teachers on social media?
Conflicts make up a relationship healthy
Does money determine success?
Social media influences marketing.
Teaching is the profession of patient people
How to stop overthinking
Assignments for 17.10.2022
Dear students, I kindly ask you to be ready with your presentations/ please, make sure you know the topic well/
Classroom activities 03.10.2022
Navigate C1 Managing change Fish Book Review slide 8
Listening to a seminar 1.2 1.3
Grammar slide 143
Dear students, we are getting ready for the project SEB Talks/ Students Expanding Borders/, please choose the topic you would like to make a speech on, write the speech, and practice.
I will suggest some topics, you are free to add yours. The project will be presented on October 18
Are difficult experiences valuable lessons?
Is it worse to fail at something or never attempt it in the first place?
If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make them?
The best way of learning
How to speak so that people want to listen
Some steps to increase your confidence
The power of words
Classroom activities 25.09.2022
Test
Classroom activities 13.09.2022
504 Essential Words first 5 lessons
Questionnaire Section 1
Navigate C1 Reading Up to speed Get ready in five minutes
assumption ենթադրույթուն
accelerate արագացնել,
fad քմահաճույք
conventional պայմանական
with hindsight հետադարձ հայացքով
Assignments for 12.09.2022
Write about 7-10 sentences about one of the topics given below
My mood for the start of the academic year…..
Resolutions for the new academic year
Back to school. Some tips on how to start a new academic year
Choose one of the topics and comment
1.Some people believe that nowadays we have too many choices.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
2.Some people say that music is a good way of bringing people of different cultures and ages together.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
3.Some people believe that schools should select students based on their academic skills. Do you agree or disagree?
4.When people get old, they tend to believe that the world was a better place when they were younger. Do you agree with this?
5. Some people think that a sense of competition should be encouraged in children. Others believe that children who are taught to co-operate rather than compete become more successful adults. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Classroom activities
Grammar revision
Destination B2 Tenses, slides 7, 19 Questionnaire 1 / ex-es on tenses
Classroom activities for 09.09.2022
Reading How to make wise decisions
Across cultures, wisdom has been considered one of the most revered/ հարգված/ human qualities. Although the truly wise may seem few and far between, empirical/փորձառական research examining wisdom suggests that it isn’t an exceptional trait possessed by a small handful of bearded philosophers after all – in fact, the latest studies suggest that most of us have the ability to make wise decisions, given the right context.
‘It appears that experiential, situational, and cultural factors are even more powerful in shaping wisdom than previously imagined,’ says Associate Professor Igor Grossmann of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. ‘Recent empirical findings from cognitive,/ճանաչողական developmental, social, and personality psychology cumulatively suggest that people’s ability to reason wisely varies dramatically across experiential and situational contexts. Understanding the role of such contextual factors offers unique insights into understanding wisdom in daily life, as well as how it can be enhanced and taught.’
It seems that it’s not so much that some people simply possess wisdom and others lack it, but that our ability to reason wisely depends on a variety of external factors. ‘It is impossible to characterize thought processes attributed to wisdom without considering the role of contextual factors,’ explains Grossmann. ‘In other words, wisdom is not solely an “inner quality” but rather unfolds as a function of situations people happen to be in. Some situations are more likely to promote wisdom than others.’
Coming up with a definition of wisdom is challenging, but Grossmann and his colleagues have identified four key characteristics as part of a framework of wise reasoning. One is intellectual humility or recognition of the limits of our own knowledge, and another is appreciation of perspectives wider than the issue at hand. Sensitivity to the possibility of change in social relations is also key, along with compromise or integration of different attitudes and beliefs.
Grossmann and his colleagues have also found that one of the most reliable ways to support wisdom in our own day-to-day decisions is to look at scenarios from a third-party perspective, as though giving advice to a friend. Research suggests that when adopting a first-person viewpoint we focus on ‘the focal features of the environment’ and when we adopt a third-person, ‘observer’ viewpoint we reason more broadly and focus more on interpersonal and moral ideals such as justice and impartiality. Looking at problems from this more expansive viewpoint appears to foster cognitive processes related to wise decisions.
What are we to do, then, when confronted with situations like a disagreement with a spouse or negotiating a contract at work, that require us to take a personal stake? Grossmann argues that even when we aren’t able to change the situation, we can still evaluate these experiences from different perspectives.
For example, in one experiment that took place during the peak of a recent economic recession/անկում, graduating college seniors were asked to reflect on their job prospects. The students were instructed to imagine their career either ‘as if you were a distant observer’ or ‘before your own eyes as if you were right there’. Participants in the group assigned to the ‘distant observer’ role displayed more wisdom-related reasoning (intellectual humility and recognition of change) than did participants in the control group.
In another study, couples in long-term romantic relationships were instructed to visualize an unresolved relationship conflict either through the eyes of an outsider or from their own perspective. Participants then discussed the incident with their partner for 10 minutes, after which they wrote down their thoughts about it. Couples in the ‘other’s eyes’ condition were significantly more likely to rely on wise reasoning – recognizing others’ perspectives and searching for a compromise – compared to the couples in the egocentric condition.
‘Ego-decentering promotes greater focus on others and enables a bigger picture, conceptual view of the experience, affording recognition of intellectual humility and change,’ says Grossmann.
We might associate wisdom with intelligence or particular personality traits, but research shows only a small positive relationship between wise thinking and crystallized intelligence and the personality traits of openness and agreeableness. ‘It is remarkable how much people can vary in their wisdom from one situation to the next, and how much stronger such contextual effects are for understanding the relationship between wise judgment and its social and affective outcomes as compared to the generalized “traits”,’ Grossmann explains. ‘That is, knowing how wisely a person behaves in a given situation is more informative for understanding their emotions or likelihood to forgive [or] retaliate/ փոխհատուցել as compared to knowing whether the person may be wise “in general”.’
Questions
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet.
27. What point does the writer make in the first paragraph?
A Wisdom appears to be unique to the human race.
B A basic assumption about wisdom may be wrong.
C Concepts of wisdom may depend on the society we belong to.
D There is still much to be discovered about the nature of wisdom.
28. What does Igor Grossmann suggest about the ability to make wise decisions?
A It can vary greatly from one person to another.
B Earlier research into it was based on unreliable data.
C The importance of certain influences on it was underestimated.
D Various branches of psychology define it according to their own criteria.
29. According to the third paragraph, Grossmann claims that the level of wisdom an individual shows
A can be greater than they think it is.
B will be different in different circumstances.
C may be determined by particular aspects of their personality.
D should develop over time as a result of their life experiences.
30. What is described in the fifth paragraph?
A a difficulty encountered when attempting to reason wisely
B an example of the type of person who is likely to reason wisely
C a controversial view about the benefits of reasoning wisely
D a recommended strategy that can help people to reason wisely
Questions 31 – 35
Complete the summary using the list of words, A-J, below.
Write the correct letter, A-J, in boxes 31-35 on your answer sheet.
The characteristics of wise reasoning
Igor Grossmann and colleagues have established four characteristics that enable us to make wise decisions. It is important to have a certain degree of 31 ………………….. regarding the extent of our knowledge, and to take into account 32 ………………….. which may not be the same as our own. We should also be able to take a broad 33 ………………….. of any situation. Another key characteristic is being aware of the likelihood of alterations in the way that people relate to each other.
Grossmann also believes that it is better to regard scenarios with 34 ………………….. . By avoiding the first-person perspective, we focus more on 35 ………………….. and on other moral ideals, which in turn leads to wiser decision-making.
A opinions B confidence C view
D modesty E problems F objectivity
G fairness H experiences I range
J reasons
Questions 36 – 40
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?
In boxes 36-40 on your answer sheet, write –
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
36. Students participating in the job prospects experiment could choose one of two perspectives to take.
37. Participants in the couples experiment were aware that they were taking part in a study about wise reasoning.
38. In the couples experiments, the length of the couples’ relationships had an impact on the results.
39. In both experiments, the participants who looked at the situation from a more detached/անկախ viewpoint tended to make wiser decisions.
40. Grossmann believes that a person’s wisdom is determined by their intelligence to only a very limited extent.
Entertaining and interesting activities for the project week
My mood for the start of the academic year…..
Resolutions for the new academic year
Back to school. Some tips on how to start a new academic year
Write and present your ideas on
What is —————— in my control out of my control
Comment on the following topics . Choose one topic and express your viewpoint.
1.Some people believe that nowadays we have too many choices.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
2.Some people say that music is a good way of bringing people of different cultures and ages together.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
3.Some people believe that schools should select students based on their academic skills. Do you agree or disagree?
4.When people get old, they tend to believe that the world was a better place when they were younger. Do you agree with this?
5.Some people think that a sense of competition should be encouraged in children. Others believe that children who are taught to co-operate rather than compete become more successful adults. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Irina Apoyan 