1. About myself

I am Petrova Nina. I was born on the 10^th of August 1973 in the town of Gorno – Altaisk. I finished school in 1990 and entered the Pedagogical Institute. Now I am a first-year student. I am seventeen. My family is not large. I have a mother, a father and a younger sister.

My father’s name is Sergei Mikhailovitch. He is an engineer. He works in an office. He is 50 years of age. My mother’s name is Anna Ivanovna. She is a teacher. She teachers English at school. She is a good teacher. My mother is 47. My sister’s name is Tanya. She is 15 years old. She goes to school. She studies in the nineth form. She is a good pupil. She goes in for sports. She likes skating and skiing. We live in a new big house. There are three rooms in our house, a kitchen and a bathroom. My sister and I have our own room. It is not very large, but very comfortable. There are two beds, a wardrobe, a dressing table and a writing – table in our room. You can see a nice carpet on the floor. In our room we sleep and work. We usually have a rest in the living -room together with our parents.

Answer the questions:

1. What is your name?

2.When and where were you born?

3. How old are you?

4. What are you now?

5. Is your family large?

6. What’s your father’s name?

7. What is he?

8. Where does your mother work?

9. How old is she?

10. Have you a sister or a brother?

11. Where does your family live?

2. Our institute

1. Vocabulary:

1. education – образование

2. a student of education – студент - педагог

3. to enter an Institute – поступить в институт

4. a faculty – факультет

5. an establishment – учреждение, заведение

6. a department – отделение

7. geographical – географический

8. biological – биологический

9. to study – учиться

10. a study – кабинет

11. tutorial – практическое занятие

12. to attend lectures – посещать лекции

13. to take notes of the lectures – записывать лекции

14. a subject – предмет

15. a term – семестр

16. to take an exam –сдавать экзамен

17. to pass an exam – сдать экзамен

18. to fail in an exam – провалить экзамен

19. an internal student – студент - очник

20. an external student – студент - заочник

21. an extra – mural department – заочное отделение

22. free of charge – бесплатный

23. miss classes – пропускать занятия

24. a school – leaver – выпускнк школы

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2. Прочтите и переведите : а) словосочетания, б) предложения:

1. geographical faculty, history – English department, biological faculty, the Altai language department, physics and mathematics, to study different subjects, to have lectures and tutorials every day, three or four pairs a day, two terms in a year.

2. 1. There is an extra – mural department at our Institute. 2. We are internal students. 3. There are about one thousand and five hundred external students at our Institute. 4. Most of the students do not miss classes. 5. We always attend lectures and tutorials. 6. When taking an exam most of the students pass them and some students fail in.

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