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• 2 Which of informational texts from task 1 do you need if

• you want to find your friend on Wednesday at 2 p.m. and you know that he is studying at this time at the university?

• you want to join your university theater (debate club, etc) ?

• you want to become a dormitory resident?

• you are a 2^nd year student and want to know how many subjects (courses) you can choose?

• you want to know how many credits you’ll get for the elective course?

 3 Now create texts of these types:

• Get acquainted with the study program of your major and make a list of subjects which you are studying this academic year. Write it in the form of a Studies Program.

• Write your timetable in English.

• Recall the announcements you have read recently in your university (faculty, institute). Share the information you have learned from them with your groupmates. Create an announcement of your own.

4 When at University you communicate not only with specific texts but also with people of different statuses. And this communication is to be organized according to specific rules.

Read the General Note about proper communication patterns accepted in university surroundings.

General Note:

If you talk to a person who works at a university (a dean, a head of the department, a lecturer, an office employee, an administrator) introduce yourself first (say your name, surname, faculty, year, group), second, formulate your question clearly, third, ask specifying questions if you don’t understand the answer and, finally, before leaving, thank them for the information you have been given. Before you enter any university office to ask a question, verbalize your question to yourself.

 7 Act out communicative situations given below. Mind the tips from the previous task.

№	Forms of greetings and self-representation (What are you? What is your addressee?)	The problem	Specifying questions from one of the sides
1	student  student	the origin of the word “university”	What is an etymological dictionary?
2	student  student	how to prepare a text summary	What is a cognitive map?
3	student  an employee at the Department of International Affairs	how to apply for becoming a participant of the Erasmus program	What is the country, language and terms of the program?
4	student  an employee at the Department of International Affairs	the number of the credits for chosen courses in the Erasmus program	Which course (compulsory or elective)?
5	student  an employee at the Dean’s Office	change the group	What is the reason for changing?
6	student  an employee at the University Chair	search for the teacher	Why do you need her/him?

  Project work

 1 Split into groups working on topics (a) ‘The Structure of Your Faculty’ or (b) ‘The Structure of a Faculty Chair’. Choose the addressee and the form of presentation by yourselves (Panel, Collage, Power Point).

2 If you want to work individually, interview somebody from your university on the topic ‘What university means to you’. Present the interview in English in a written form (printed). Do not forget to include relevant information about your interviewee.

 Check yourself!

 1 Do four tasks to check how well you have learned the vocabulary:

Task 1. Write words associated with the following University world notions:

Teacher - , lesson - , pupil - , class - , quarter - , director - .

Task 2. Write the names of professions (activities) of those who…

(a) work at a University Chair

(b) work on university research papers

Task 3. Build verb+noun constructions starting with the following verbs and choosing the right preposition after the verb (if any):

To specialize (in, on) …; to major (in, -) …; to carry (out, -) …; to enter (into, - )… .; to be (in, on) campus; to pass colloquium (in, on) …; to be (in, on) the Erasmus program (in, at), to take a course on/in, to do research in /on/into, to apply for/to, to participate in/on, train in/on.

Task 4. Write one sentence using at least 10 words from the active vocabulary of Unit 1. Use as many subordinate clauses as possible. How long can it be?

 2 Choose one the following texts, build a Cognitive Map for it and render the text with its help.

Text 1

Faculty (from Latin ‘facultas’ – possibility, capability) – a part of the higher educational establishment, where a certain cycle of adjoining scientific courses is being taught. F. is an educational-organizational part of a higher educational establishment which unites chairs (departments) that trains students and postgraduates on a number of related courses.

(! Note that in the USA universities ‘faculty’ means ‘teachers’).

Text 2

Rector (in Latin ‘rector’ – ruler, leader from ‘rego’ – I reign) – the head of the university and a number of other higher educational establishments. The r. is appointed to lead all activities of the university or other higher educational institution including curricula and programs functioning and planning of research activities. The r. is a chairperson at the meetings of the Scientific Council of the university and approves its decisions.

 3 Are the following messages adequately verbalized? If not, correct them.

№	Situation	Expression	Your answer
1	At the Rector`s Office:	а) Hello, I would like to move from Philological Faculty to the Institute of Journalism.
		b) Good afternoon. I’m from the Warsaw University. I’m Professor Tsybulsky. I was asked to bring you the papers on our universities.
2	At the Chair:	а) Good afternoon, could you tell me, please, when professor Maslow comes?
		b) Hello, I need to talk to my English teacher. Sorry, I can’t remember his name. He is middle-aged, with a short haircut and he usually wears glasses.
3	Taken from a conversation:	а) Our faculty trains in Journalism, Editorship and Management.
		b) We can study the Basics of International Journalism, Editorship and foreign languages at our faculty.
4	Taken from an Announcement:	Today, 15th of September, University Academic Council is held at the Chair of Communication.
5	At the International Programs Centre:	Good afternoon, I’m Victor Novick, a second-year student of the Institute of Journalism. I’d like to submit an application for training at the Madrid University.

 4 Speak about the university with the help of the Semantic Map below. It would be a good idea if you record your version, listen to the recording and evaluate it.

 5 The informational text below gives statistics on Moscow State University. Can it be an article in a newspaper? If yes, in what kind of newspaper and under what headline?

…………………..?

23 faculties; 11 research institutes; 323 chairs; 59 departments; 15 educational and research centers; 4 museums; Scientific library (9,000,000 books) Editorial and publishing house; Botanical garden; 20,268 university staff; 39,035 students and postgraduates; 4,307 educational staff; 4,801 research staff; 2,322 doctors of sciences (full professors); 5,478 candidate of sciences (PhD); 167 academicians and correspond-member of the Academy of Sciences; 130 academicians and correspond-member of research academies in production; 8 dormitories for 12,142 places;

Cultural Center; 3 health establishments (hospitals and rest houses); 4 kindergartens and nursery; Sport complex; ANNUALLY: About 3,500 graduates of 44 specializations of higher professional education; About 1,000 graduates of 181 qualifications 10,000 scientific publications in the country journals or abroad; 7,000 report thesis for conferences; about 180 PhD thesis; more than 80 Doctor of Sciences papers (full professor’s); 350 monographies; 150 collections of research articles; 500 textbooks and manuals; More than one million items of study and scientific equipment and devices.