II. Arrange the following words into groups according to the part of speech they belong to:

Development, achievement, fundamental, well-known, highly, fairness, annually, financial, supplier, virtually, growth, traditional, investment, Scottish, player, successful, progressive.

III. Give the abbreviations used for: a) the names of the days of the week; b) the names of months; c) the names of the following countries: Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America.

IV. Complete the following sentences with the. Leave a blank if the article is not needed.

1. Could you turn on ___ light, please?

2. Tom is learning to play _____ piano, did you know?

3. Children go to ____ school between the ages of five and sixteen.

4. My cousin has just joined ___ Navy.

5. Fill has _____ beautiful eyes.

6. We are thinking of going on holiday either to ___ Europe or ___ Far East.

7. We are going to have _____ dinner in _____ garden.

8. Many people think ___ old people are treated very baldly in _____ Britain.

9. Tim is a strong believer in _____ love and ______ peace.

10) Is ____ National Gallery near ___ Savoy?

V. Link the sentences to make one complete sentence that means the same. Change the base forms of the verbs in brackets to the correct form and make any other changes that are necessary.

1. I (get) to the station. The train already (leave). When I …

2. Louise (cook) the lunch. Meanwhile children (sleep). While Louise …

3. I (do) the shopping first. Afterwards, I (go) home. After I …

4. I (see) the burglary. I immediately (ring) the police. When …

5. I (check into) the hotel. Then I (phone) my boss at once. As soon as …

6. Sarah (do) the ironing. She (hear) a loud noise outside. When …

7. Marry (hear) a loud noise. She (go) outside to investigate. When …

VI. Complete the sentences below with the most appropriate adverbs from the box.

highly deeply loosely bitterly deadly considerably strictly

1. The Chamberlains were ____ religious.

2. I’m afraid I found the book _____ boring.

3. Come on! It’s _____ unlikely to snow in July!

4. Smoking in classrooms is _____ forbidden.

5. The film and the book were only ____ connected.

6. Let’s buy the paperback instead. It’s ____ cheaper than the hardback version.

7. Louise cried all night. She’s ____ disappointed about missing the school trip.

VII. Supplementary reading. Translate the article and write about the university you are studying at. The universities of scotland: Edinburgh University

Scotland has about 66 institutions providing programs of study beyond the secondary level for those students who do not go on to the universities. These include colleges of agriculture, art, commerce, and science, and in the mid-1980s the total enrollment was more than 81,000. Teacher-training colleges numbered seven, with approximately 3000 students. Of the 13 universities in Scotland, the oldest (University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, and University of Saint Andrews) were founded in the 15th and 16th centuries. Four universities have received their charters since 1960.

The University of Edinburgh, like other Scottish universities, is composed of faculties of study. There are eight such faculties at the University of Edinburgh: Arts, Divinity, Law, Medicine, Music, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine. Each faculty covers both first (undergraduate) and higher (graduate) courses and degrees. Although students are generally admitted to one faculty only, they often have the opportunity to study subjects of another faculty. Students earn a bachelor's degree (master's in the Arts Faculty) after three years or earn a degree at an honors level after four years. An extensive graduate studies program includes a 9-month diploma, a 12-month master's, and, usually, 36-month doctoral courses and degrees. Unlike students in the United States, students at the University of Edinburgh, like students elsewhere in Britain, complete professional degree programs (such as architecture, law, medicine, and veterinary medicine) as undergraduates.

The university was founded in 1583 as the “town's college” by the Edinburgh town council under a royal charter granted the previous year by James VI, king of the Scots from 1567 to 1625 (later king of England and Wales from 1603 to 1625 as James I). Until the mid-19th century the town council appointed professors, controlled the university's finances, and supervised its buildings.

By the 18th century Edinburgh, like other Scottish institutions of learning, had a reputation of providing students, regardless of economic class, with an excellent practical education at relatively affordable fees, as well as one of tolerance toward the opinions of its faculty. Thus, the Scottish philosopher and religious skeptic David Hume, although not granted a chair, was allowed to give lectures. In addition, study opportunities in the university's medical school and other areas were attracting students from around the world.

By acts of the British Parliament in 1858 and 1889 the university was made independent of the town council and became a self-governing corporation. Edinburgh was one of the first British universities to admit women as undergraduates, in 1889.

University income is derived mainly from public grants, tuition fees, and research grants and contracts. In 1901 the Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie established a fund for the universities of Scotland, including Edinburgh, with half the endowment's income allocated as tuition fees.

The Scottish writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Carlyle, and Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson were students at Edinburgh. John Witherspoon, the Scottish-born American statesman and one of the first presidents of what is now Princeton University, in New Jersey, was also a student at Edinburgh.

The library collections, with more than 2 million volumes, began in 1580 with a donation of 300 books. A notable addition came in 1649 with the books of the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden, a former university student. Modern learning resources include one of the most advanced computer networks in Europe.

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