Sculpting Students´ Skills

The aim of this text is to share the author´s experience with developing and teaching language activities based on statues, sculptures or installations. It has been observed that those activities have enormous communicative potential and by emphasizing the visual, creative (or even physical) dimension of the tasks students are able to apply their language skills in a very natural way. The sample activities presented in this text should demonstrate various possibilities to include three dimensional artworks into language classes. Furthermore, it is argued that it is worth experimenting with creative tasks, with less traditional sculptural art and with teaching outdoors. The statues and sculptures related to historical events or cultural controversies can provoke students to express their personal views and share their ideas; debating expectations and roles related to art in public spaces develops students´ critical thinking and cultural awareness. Activities related to abstract sculptures or installations can stimulate students´ imaginative and critical potential, and thus contribute to a more personalized and engaging foreign language practice

An example on movable approximations of a minimal set in a continuous flow

AbstractIn the present paper the study of flows on n-manifolds in particular in dimension three, e.g., R3, is motivated by the following question. Let A be a compact invariant set in a flow on X. Does every neighbourhood of A contain a movable invariant set M containing A? It is known that a stable solenoid in a flow on a 3-manifold has approximating periodic orbits in each of its neighbourhoods. The solenoid with the approximating orbits form a movable set, although the solenoid is not movable. Not many such examples are known. The main part of the paper consists of constructing an example of a set in R3 that is not stable, is not a solenoid, and is approximated by Denjoy-like invariant sets instead of periodic orbits. As in the case of a solenoid, the constructed set is an inverse limit of its approximating sets. This gives a partial answer to the above question

Słuchanie w nauce języków obcych : (ponowne) odkrywanie autonomii uczniów

The aim of this text is to discuss the possibilities of making students' natural listening habits more beneficial for their language learning. The article reflects on difficulties with listening that students themselves identify and tries to provide an insight into their practices by referring to the concepts of autonomous learning. It will be suggested that it is the lack of learning awareness and metacognitive skills that prevents students from developing their listening skills. The text also includes suggestions for practical activities that may contribute to developing these skills in class and which allow students to use them outside of the classroom itsel

Visualizing literary texts in university language courses

The article introduces benefits that using literature in university language classes brings to both students and teachers. Among those benefits, possibilities to enhance the language learning process with a visual dimension are emphasized. Concrete examples of activities based on visual materials and on visualizing techniques are demonstrated and evaluated.The article introduces benefits that using literature in university language classes brings to both students and teachers. Among those benefits, possibilities to enhance the language learning process with a visual dimension are emphasized. Concrete examples of activities based on visual materials and on visualizing techniques are demonstrated and evaluated

ZÁKONY HYDROGEOMORFOLOGIE JAKO ZÁKLADNÍ PŘEDPOKLAD PRO ŘEŠENÍ TERITORIÁLNÍ STRUKTURY UNITÁRNÍ SOUSTAVY ZEMĚDĚLSKÉHO, LESNÍHO A VODNÍHO HOSPODÁŘSTVÍ

In the presented work, the laws of hydrogeomorfhology have been defi ned on the principle of symmetry and invariance, which are to be respected at solution of territorial structure of Unitary System of Agricultural, Forest and Water Management (USAFWM). The principle of the solution is a dominant position of the geomorphologic formation Gh of a given sea-level altitude in the analyzed part of territory, which determines control and regulation of all components of water balance. The newly formed territory unit, delimited around the geomorphologic formation by water streams, was called a hydrogeomorphologic region of the third order (HGR-3).V předložené práci jsou defi novány zákony hydrogeomorfologie na principu symetrie a invariance, které je nutno respektovat při řešení teritoriální struktury unitární soustavy zemědělského, lesního a vodního hospodářství (USZLVH, resp. USAFWM). Principem řešení je dominantní postavení geomorfologického útvaru Gh o určité nadmořské výšce ve sledované části území, který determinuje řízení a regulaci všech složek vodní bilance. Nově vzniklý územní celek vymezený kolem geomorfologického útvaru vodními toky byl nazván hydrogeomorfologickým regionem 3. řádu (HGR-3)

PARAMETRIZATION OF INNER STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS ON THE BASIS OF MAXIMAL YIELDS ISOLINES (ISOCARPS)

On the basis of analysis of yield time series from a ten-year period, isolines of maximal yields of crops (isocarps) have been constructed, homogenized yield zones have been determined, and inner structures of the agricultural system have been calculated. The algorithm of a normal and an optimal structure calculation have been used, and differences in the structure of the agricultural system have been determined for every defi ned zone

PARAMETRIZACE VNITŘNÍ STRUKTURY ZEMĚDĚLSKÉ SOUSTAVY NA ZÁKLADĚ IZOČAR MAXIMÁLNÍCH VÝNOSŮ (IZOKARP)

On the basis of analysis of yield time series from a ten-year period, isolines of maximal yields of crops (isocarps) have been constructed, homogenized yield zones have been determined, and inner structures of the agricultural system have been calculated. The algorithm of a normal and an optimal structure calculation have been used, and differences in the structure of the agricultural system have been determined for every defi ned zone.Na základě analýzy výnosových řad za období deseti roků jsou sestrojeny izočáry maximálních výnosů plodin (izokarpy), stanovena homogenizovaná výnosová pásma a vypočítány vnitřní struktury zemědělské soustavy. Je využito teorie uhlíkové bilance a principu zdrojů a spotřebitelů uhlíku v soustavě. Byl využit algoritmus výpočtu normální a optimální struktury a stanoveny diference ve struktuře zemědělské soustavy pro každé defi nované pásmo

LIMITS OF THE EARTH BIOSPHERE

Evaluation of the state of CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere demands knowledge on possibilities of the biosphere – its photosynthetizing apparatus, conditions and limits of absorption. A decisive precondition is to determine relation of CO2 accumulation by photosynthesis in dependence on the water balance, especially on its control quantity – transpiration, which is stabilized by supporting of underground waters

PRINCIPLES OF HYDROGEOMORPHOLOGY AS A BASIC PRECONDITION FOR SOLUTION OF TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF UNITARY SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL, FOREST AND WATER MANAGEMENT

In the presented work, the laws of hydrogeomorfhology have been defi ned on the principle of symmetry and invariance, which are to be respected at solution of territorial structure of Unitary System of Agricultural, Forest and Water Management (USAFWM). The principle of the solution is a dominant position of the geomorphologic formation Gh of a given sea-level altitude in the analyzed part of territory, which determines control and regulation of all components of water balance. The newly formed territory unit, delimited around the geomorphologic formation by water streams, was called a hydrogeomorphologic region of the third order (HGR-3)

EQUILIBRIUM OF WATER BALANCE AS A BASIC PRECONDITION OF PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF LAND AREA

The proportion of water balance components – precipitation, transpiration, evaporation, underground waters and surface runoff – is a determining factor of stabile development of land area. But this proportion can be considerably disturbed and is permanently changing. Certain many-year averages are usually accepted as a stable state. That is why, in the presented work, we have tried to defi ne water balance on symmetry and invariance principles, to express it as a limit state, which would characterize it as a natural principle and enable comparison with the present balance