The document discusses requirements for writing thesis projects in foreign languages. It provides three examples of potential thesis topics: 1. Why do Russian athletes leave Russia to play sports in English-speaking countries? Using examples of a hockey player and boxer. 2. Analyzing factors influencing a country's development, including space industry achievements and international cooperation. Comparing benefits of space exploration investments between Russia and USA. 3. Examining how modern countries preserve cultural originality under globalization, using the UK and Japan as examples. The document provides outlines and methodologies for researching these topics in a foreign language. It emphasizes collecting information, analyzing factors, comparing countries, and considering different perspectives to draw conclusions.

1. О соблюдении
требований,
предъявляемых к
написанию тезисов
исследовательских
проектов на
иностранных языках
Установочный семинар «Лингва-2012»
13 ноября 2011 года

2. Why do sportsmen leave Russia for English-speaking
countries?
Anton Volchevkov and Canada, what makes Russian
hockey player to play for Ottava senators?
Kostya Tsui and Australia. Why did famous boxer choose
the farmland of kangaroo instead of living in cloudy
Albion? How did “The thunder from the downunder”
manage to became a symbol of Australia and Russia in the
same time?
When will Russians stop leaving Homeland? When will
homeland provide for them obligatory facilities?
Answers for these and other questions you will be able to
find in my project work.

3. By the way, I should mention that my choice is not
occasional. People come across these problems
every day, especially teenagers, whose nervous
system is very weak that is why IAD can cause a
nervous breakdown both of them and their
parents. That is already a great trouble of
generation gap and health.

4. Should Russia and the USA spend money
on space exploration?
Nowadays the problem of space exploration is actual all over the
world. But it takes so much money from solving the Earth problems. The main
question is: should people spend money for it?
The benefit of the country is influenced by a lot of factors. At first we
analyze the specifics of the development of space industry in both of the
countries and look at the most important achievements they made because
cooperation means sharing the ideas and technologies. After that we make a
research to find the problems that can stop the development in these areas and
the possible ways of their solutions. And the final step is to investigate the
opinion of other countries and international organizations of such experiments
and the influence of space advocacy because they can support the projects or
reject them and that will make the conclusion of the perspectives of working in
this area.
Taking into consideration the degree of the influence of all these
factors we make a conclusion on the benefit of Russia and the USA from
cooperation in space explorations.

5. Names of Great Travelers on the Map of Our District
… After this work we wrote a summary of the text. Then we
ourselves made special exercises similar to those which we
usually do while working at different texts from the textbook.
They are: 1) True, false, I don`t know. 2). Complete the
sentences. 3). Put the verb into the right form and so on…
…We have made a special book about G. Sedov,
R. Amundsen, F. Nansen, V. Bering and V. Rusanov – the
people whose names can be found on the map of our district.
The book can be used while studying the topics “Traveling”,
“Biography”, “Famous People”.

6. Тема проекта
Preservation of cultural originality of modern
countries under conditions of globalization
on the example of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Japan

7. The main purposes of this project are: carrying
out scientific-research work; analyzing and
systematization the material about the main types
of the British Parks from the Middle Ages till
nowadays; classification of the main types of the
British Parks; searching for the material about
famous Parks in Moscow and its suburbs and
finding out their connection with the British
Parks; carrying out the integration of school
subjects – World Art Culture, Moscow Studies
and English.

8. I have picked out the following problems and researched each of them separately:
• Problem of generation gaps (misunderstood; life experience)
• Accommodations problem (cost of accommodation; financial independence)
• Problem of unemployment (non-qualified teenagers)
• Problem of expensive education (high costs; financial problems)
• Problem of love (suicide)
• Alcoholism (abuse; incorrect way of growing up)
• Crime and violence (censorship in films)
• Drug abuse (a way of leaving problems)
• Smoking (a try to be adult; diseases)
• Runaways (consequence of generation gaps’ problem)
• Appearance (temporary teenage problems)
• Teen pregnancy (under the influence of TV, Internet and publicity)
• Family crisis (parents don’t have time for bringing up their children)
• Internet addiction (problem of globalization)
• Anxiety and depression (psychological problems)
• Teen suicide (emotional breakdown)
• Teenage Gambling (teenagers playing adult games)

9. The second chapter brings up the topic of the
hereditary disease of this royal family –
hemophilia. This disease was of very interesting
constitution – in official version Victoria hadn’t
got any forefathers who were the carriers of it.
So I understood that Victoria could probably be
a bastard.
In the third chapter I designed Queen
Victoria’s family tree, including all her
numerous children. Concluding, I summarize the
results of the research.

10. Halloween and Day of Ivan Kupala: Differences
and Similarities
…Starting our work, we had a hypothesis that
these two holidays have the same roots and as a
result can be regarded as originally connected
festivals…
…Doing this work we came to the conclusion
that these holidays are very different in culture
and origin, but we can find some similar
traditions…

11. The third part is a collection of biographies of the most famous Impressionist
painters and their pictures. We have paid special attention to the periods of their lives
and the most characteristic features of their methods of painting.
Edouard Manet was a French painter, whose work inspired the impressionist style.
Manet’s stylistic discoveries led to his abandoning of the conventional outline and his
shaping the forms by means of colour and tints. He painted in plein air a lot - paintings
created outdoors - but always returned to serious work in the studio.
Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist style. Monet created similar series
of works changing only the light. He painted everyday objects, including railroad
stations, or "cathedrals of the modern age" .Unlike Manet, he paid little attention to the
old masters, being influenced rather by his contemporaries. He used a mass of brush-
strokes, which are reconstructed and completed by the spectator.
Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting and sculpture. He
is one of the founders of Impressionism but he preferred to be called a realist. Degas
enjoyed painting ballet dancers and horse races and over than half of his works depict
dancers.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was an impressionist painter. Renoir was noted for the
harmony of his lines, the brilliance of his colour. In his works he loved to show the effect
of sunlight on flowers and figures.Unlike other impressionists he was interested very
much in painting of a single human figure or family group portraits. Renoir works on
the same canvas for many weeks and months, changing, adding or removing some
elements …

12. This robot is made of eight hundreds details. It has
three engines, a light gauge, a sound gauge, a
Bluetooth adapter, a pressure gauge. It is possible
to program it with the help of some special
programme. The robot has an accumulator supply.
It can move with the help of two engines.
The robot can fulfill the following functions:
1) It can grab and carry different things
2) It can pass a labyrinth which I program myself.
3) It can make out colours, react to sound, see
obstacles in front of it

13. Swiss Transport
Every day we use cars, buses, trolleybuses or even trains to go to school or to work. In other words, everybody knows
what transport we, Russians often use. But what transport is popular in other countries? For somebody it will be
difficult to answer this question. That's why, I am going to talk about transportation in European countries, to be
precise, in Switzerland. The aim of my research is to bring out what transport is mostly used by thousands of people in
Switzerland and to puzzle out what differences are between Russian and Swiss means of transport. Control of the most
important Alpine passes and the ancient routeway through the Mittelland between Rhine and Danube waterways has
given Switzerland a key position in European transit traffic. The main artery of European trans-Alpine traffic, the St.
Gotthard route, runs through Swiss territory. The large-scale technical undertakings of modern highway construction
were preceded by those of the railway system, which has thousands of miles of track and includes hundreds of tunnels,
among them the famous winding tunnels of the St. Gotthard railway, by means of which altitude differences between
valley levels are overcome. More than 99 percent of the track in the Swiss railway system has been electrified, thus
saving the country from dependence on oil imports. The Swiss Federal Railways, which constitute more than half of
the system, are operated by the federal government, while the remainder, including the numerous mountain railways,
are distributed among more than 75 private railroads partially owned by the cantons and municipalities. The Vitznau-
Rigi Bahn, the first cogwheel railway in the world, has achieved early fame. The airports of some big cities have their
own rail stations that connect witwhen hundreh the Swiss network. Switzerland is a heavily motorized country with
one of the highest numbers automobiles per 1.000 inhabitants in Europe. The network of main roads and motorways is
packed, especially during the summer and winter tourist seasons when hundreds of thousands of foreign automobiles
pass through Switzerland daily. Since World War 2, Switzerland has also maintained its own small "oceangoing fleet"
of merchant ships. Regular summer services are provided on several lakes by more than 120 vessels, which include a
few paddle wheelers. Swissair, the national airline, ranks among the world's major commercial carriers, with flights
serving all continents. As a result of my research I have come to the following surprising deductions that in some parts
of Swiss transportation has more advantages than our, Russian vehicles. Switzerland is a country much more smaller
than Russia and about two thirds of this European country is covered with mountains. Still Switzerland is all covered
with a network of roads and tunnels through the mountains. And in Russia there are only two or three main railroads
which come through The Far East. That's why I have come to the conclusion that Swiss transportation is more
advanced and maybe even more modern than ours.

14. 4. Methods.
•to find material about biological,
historical, mystic and healing properties
of trees;
•to systemize and work up the
information;
•to translate the information into the
English language;

15. Work stages:
1st stage (May-October 2007):
-choosing the subject
-defining objectives
-defining work stages
2nd stage( November-December 2007):
-gathering information
-work in Shusev’s science and research museum
-the analysis of material
3rd stage (January 2008):
-making report
-making the album with photographs
-making the computer presentation
4th stage (January-February 2008):
-school presentation and the analysis of the work.

16. The Art Of Staying In The Queues
Englishman
George’s Mikes point of view. Nothing’d changed after 30 years.
Inobservance of the queue as a mortal sin.
The paranoid pantomime. They watch at you.
Moving. Grumbling. Mimicry. Use them to express your displeasure.
They recommend. It really works.
Invisible director. Look and learn your part.
Treat people as you want to be treated by them.
“The Communist governing would do for Englishman, because they are
so great in staying in queues!”
Russians
70-year experience. Got rid if it.
Emotional nation. Goodies and baddies.
So what? I’m in a hurry too.
Thank you, sister! I’ll never forget you!
Treat people as you want to be treated by them.

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Проект 1
PARKS OF MOSCOW AND ITS SUBURBS AND THEIR
CONNECTION WITH BRITISH PARKS
Проект 2
THE RESEARCH ILLUSTRATING THE REAL COST OF
HAPPINESS
The main idea of my project can be expressed by some quotations.
Funny questionnaire and crossword can help you saving up your
money. It’s a real truth a coin can keep a ruble
What do Russians think saying “Он при деньгах”?
Проект 3
Этапы работы:
Collect all the material and form a report
Share my knowledge with other people as Owen is almost unknown in
our country.

18. 11 класс, школа № 1268 ВАО г. Москвы
Парадоксальная сущность японского «чуда»
Научный руководитель: Федорова Ольга Генриховна
The Paradoxical Nature of the Japanese “Miracle”
My research work, going under the title of “The
paradoxical nature of the Japanese “miracle”, touches upon
the subject of the phenomenal progress made by Japan in an
extremely short period of time. Moreover, we can apply the
word “miracle” not only when speaking about the
achievements of Japanese economy, but also to different
aspects of political, social and cultural life. The project
consists of an introduction, 5 chapters and a conclusion.

19. I. Introduction.
I have chosen this topic for several reasons, mostly because it seems
present-day to me. In recent years the interest to Japan on the part of
Europeans has grown immensely. Russia is not an exception. Partly
this popularity can be explained by fashion on exotic East and on
realities this fashion brings to us. Europeans are crazy about Japanese
national cuisine, martial arts, anime, etc. At the same time we can’t
help admiring superb Japanese technology which is number one all
over the world. Besides, a considerable lot of people take sincere and
serious interest in the culture of this country acknowledging works of
genius of Japanese literature, cinema, theatre and music.
The aim of my project is to investigate what factors turned a small
isolated feudal country, which remained unknown to most Europeans
until the end of the 19th century, into one of the Great World Powers.
In my research I used the methods of description, comparison,
analysis, a sociological survey and generalization of its results.

20. II. In the main part following the introduction I will try to reveal
the paradoxical essence of every aspect of Japanese life including the
history of the country, its relationship with the West and the East; its
ability to borrow and assimilate the experience of other civilizations,
and at the same time to preserve national originality. I will also
analyze the peculiarities of the national Japanese character and
what role the human factor plays in strengthening the state system.
The first chapter is devoted to the history of Japanese civilization. I
found it reasonable to point out three main periods: before the
reform of 1868, from 1868 up to the defeat of Japan in the World
War II and from the year of 1945 to nowadays. The second chapter
deals with the analysis of the factors which played a decisive role in
turning the country into a powerful capitalist state compatible with
the largest Western powers. A comparison with some of them is also
made in this part of the work.

21. In the third part of the research work I will widen the narrow meaning of
the word “miracle” used by historians to denote the powerful rush from
feudalism to capitalism in the course of 30 years and prove that this
country is unique and full of paradoxes.
The fourth part of the work is totally devoted to some peculiarities of the
Japanese national character, which is a kind of a paradox in itself, and its
role in the formation of a strong and stable state system.
In the fifth chapter the readers will get acquainted with the results and
analysis of a sociological survey which helped me to find explanation of the
growing popularity of Japan with Europeans including the author of the
project. This part is supplied with diagrams showing opinions, the rate of
interests, etc.
III. Conclusion.
In it I summarize the results of my research and express an idea that the
experience of such a unique country like Japan may be of great value to
developing countries. Besides, I hope that our interest in Japanese culture
will play a great educational role adding to the formation of moral values.

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