My institute Topical vocabulary

accountant – бухгалтер

accounting – бухгалтерский учет

to attend classes (lectures) – посещать занятия (лекции)

available – доступный

to be good at – иметь способности к

to be headed by – возглавлять

to be popular with (the students) – быть популярным (у/среди студентов)

to be strong in a subject – быть сильным по предмету

to be weak in a subject – быть слабым в чем-либо

book-keeping – бухгалтерский учет

branch – область, сфера

building – зд. корпус

catch up (with) – нагнать, наверстать

class in – урок/занятие по

to concern – затрагивать, касаться

to consist of – состоять из

course of studies – курс обучения

credit – зачет

department – факультет, кафедра

diploma – диплом

at one's disposal – в чьем-л. распоряжении

to enter an Institute – поступить в институт

facilities – условия, удобства

faculty – факультет

to fail an examination – завалить экзамен

to fail in an examination – провалиться на экзамене

to fail in a subject – провалиться по предмету

to fall behind the group in … – отстать от группы по…

to found – основывать

full-time student – студент очного отделения

to gain – получать, приобретать

government departments – гос. учреждения

graduate from – заканчивать (ВУЗ)

to hand in papers/exercise-books – сдавать работы/тетради

to increase – повышать, увеличивать

to join – вступать в члены, присоединяться

to last – длиться

law – право, закон

lecture on – лекция по

to make a study of the rules – изучать правила

to mark – ставить балл, отметку, оценивать

mark in … (a subject) – отметка/оценка/балл по … (предмету)

non-state – негосударственный

order enforcement agencies – правоохранительные органы

part-time student – студент заочного отделения

to pass an examination — сдать экзамен

to pay attention to – обращать внимание на

prosecutor – прокурор

to read up for an exam – готовиться к экзамену

seminar on – семинар по

to sit an examination – сдавать экзамен

state bodies of ministries – министерства

state pattern – государственный образец

to take an examination – сдавать экзамен

to take notes at a lecture – делать записи, записывать лекцию

to train – готовить, обучать

to work by fits and starts – работать урывками

to work regularly – работать регулярно

Exercise 6. Read and translate the text.

My Institute

I am a student of the Belarusian Institute of Law. It is one of the best higher educational institutions among the non-state ones. It was founded in 1991. The Institute trains specialists in such branches as Law, International Law, Economics, Accounting and Audit, Psychology and Political Science within the national system of higher education. A wide range of specialities is available for everyone through the full-time and part-time courses. Thousands of students took the course of education and got the diplomas of state pattern. Many of the graduates from the Belarusian Institute of Law joined the state bodies of ministries and government departments, public prosecutors’ offices, law and order enforcement agencies.

The institute consists of three faculties: the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Law, and the Faculty of Psychology and Politology – Polish Higher Humanitarian School.

I study at the Faculty of Economics and Law. I am a first year part-time student and in future I am going to be an economist. The course of study at this department lasts five years. Our academic year begins in autumn. Our classes last from morning till evening. We attend lectures and seminars regularly. We study Economics, History, Law, Philosophy, English and some other subjects. We take notes at the lectures and prepare for our seminars at home. At our seminars we discuss different questions concerning economics and law.

Our institute is large and we has several buildings. There is a great variety of facilities in our institute. The students have at their disposal a great number of classrooms, language media centres, computer classes and labs equipped with all sorts of audio-visual aids, computers, which help them to gain more experience and to increase knowledge in the field of economics and other subjects in the shortest possible time. In the library there are thousands of books on different subjects and in different languages. As we want to become good specialists we must pay attention to modern economic literature. We read many special works in economics in the Russian and foreign languages.

It is not easy to be a part-time student, but we do our best. Twice a year we take our exams and pass credits in different aspects of economics and other subjects. We should prepare for our exams carefully, as “A good beginning makes a good ending”.