1. Read these sentences spoken by university students. What is each person studying?

1. We have to know every bone in a person's body.

1. I'm concentrating on the modernist style and the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.

2. The way we use fertilizers is much more precise than twenty years ago.

3. We're going to concentrate on Freud and Jung this term.

4. I've been reading some books on time management.

5. Expressionism was really a reaction to the work of the Impressionists.

2. We 've spent a lot of time on American foreign policy and how it has been affected by various domestic problems.

6. You must know this case - it's one of the most famous in legal history.

Now mark the stress on each of your answers, check with the answer key, and practise saying the words.

2. What do you call:

1. the money some students receive if they get a place at university?

2. the qualification you get at the end of university?

3. the name we give students during this period at university?

4. teachers at university?

5. students when they have completed their first degree?

6. students studying for a second degree?

7. the study of one subject in great depth and detail, often to get new information?

8. the talks that students go to while they are at university?

3. Replace the underlined verbs with different verbs that have the same meaning in the context.

1. Who is giving the lecture today?

2. Did she receive a grant for her course?

3. Is it more difficult to obtain a place at university?

4. You have to pass the exams before you can enter university.

5. He's studying physics, I think.

6. I think they're carrying out some research into the cause of asthma.

7. I didn't take any notes in the lecture yesterday.

8. The course goes on for three years.

4. How similar is university education in your own country? Answer these questions. If possible, compare your answers with someone else from your own country and/or someone from a different country.

1. Do you need to pass examinations before you can go to university?

2. Do some students get a grant to study at university?

3. Is the tuition free if you go to university?

4. Do most students go to university at the age of 18 or 19?

5. Do more students go to university in your country than in Britain?

6. Do most degree courses last three years?

7. What is your equivalent of the British BA or BSc?

8. Do you have similar postgraduate degrees in your country?

Text 4. Read and translate into Russian the profile of the distant student.

M any distance-education students are older, have jobs, and families. They must coordinate the different areas of their lives which influence each other - their families, jobs, spare time, and studies. Distant students have a variety of reasons for taking courses. Some students are interested in obtaining a degree to qualify for a better job. Many take courses to broaden their education and are not really interested in completing a degree. In distance education, the learner is usually isolated. The motivational factors arising from the contact or competition with other students is absent. The student also lacks the immediate support of a teacher. Distant students and their teachers often have little in common in terms of background and day-to-day experiences and therefore, it takes longer for student-teacher rapport to develop. Without face-to-face contact distant students may feel ill at ease with their teacher as an "individual" and uncomfortable with their learning situation. In distance education settings, technology is typically the conduit through which information and communication flow. Until the teacher and students become comfortable with the technical delivery system, communication will be inhibited.

TEXT 4. Read the short text carefully and translate it into Russian.

Tutorial system* – консультационная система (a system, mainly in universities, in which students receive guidance in academic or personal matters from tutors)