Our universuty-

When our boys and girls finish school they may work or enter any special secondary school or higher university. There are many university and universities in our country, where our people get higher education. Education is free of charge in our country. Most of the internal students live in hostels and get grants.

I am student of education. I study at the Gorno – Alatisk State University. It is not very large. There are some faculties and departments in it. They are bio – geographical faculty, chemico – biological faculty, philological faculty, historical faculty and physics – mathematical faculty and some others. I study at the biological faculty of the extra – mural department. So I am an external student. External students come to the University twice a year. We have lectures and tutorials. We attend lectures and get ready for seminars and pass our tests and exams. Besides winter and summer sessions there are also intermediate sessions in autumn and spring when we pass our tests and exams. We study many subjects such as biology, history, physiology, philosophy and many others. We also study English. We read, write and speak English at the English lessons. It is not easy to be an external student.

Answer the questions:

1. Who may enter higher educational establishments?

2. Are there many institutes and universities in our country?

3. What is education in our country?

4. Who gets grants?

5. What University do you study at?

6. How many faculties and departments are there at your University and what are they?

7. How often do the external students come to the University?

8. What subjects do you study?

9. Is it easy to study by correspondence? (to be an external student).

10. What do you do during examination sessions?

4. Расскажите об университете, используя план упражнения №4.

3. Great britain.

1. Vocabulary:

1. Great Britain – Великобритания

2. to be situated – располагаться

3. to lie – располагаться, лежать

4. the British Isles – Британские острова

5. an island – остров

6. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Соединенное Королевство Великобритании и Северной Ирландии

7. to consist of – состоять из

8. to include – включать

9. England – Англия

10. Wales – Уэльс

11. Scotland – Шотландия

12. Northern Ireland – Северная Ирландия

13. the English Channel – пролив Ла - Манш

14. the Strait of Dover – Дуврский пролив = Па–де-Кале

15. the Irish Sea – Ирландское море

16. the Severn – Северн

17. the Cambrian mountains – Кембрийские горы

18. the Cheviot Hills – Червиот – Хилс

19. the Cumbrian mountains - Кемберленсдские горы

20. to separate – отделять

21. surface – поверхность

22. to wash – омывать

23. to be washed – омываться

24. a lake – озеро

25. a

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    river – река

26. navigable – судоходный

27. all the year round – круглый год

28. an area – площадь

29. population – население

30. an industrial state – индустриальное государство

31. a harbour – гавань

32. highly developed –высоко развитый

33. the capital – столица

34. a coastline – береговая линия

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

1. European continent, on the British Isles, thousands of small Islands, in the west of the counrty, to the north of England, east of Great Britain, a lot of beautiful lakes, the Island of Great Britain, a flat surface, a mountainous surface, a highly developed industrial country, a densely populated country.

2. 1) The British Isles lie to north-west of Europe. 2) Great Britain is situated on the British Isles. 3) The British Isles consist of two large Islands and a thousand of small ones. 4) Great Britain includes three countries: England, Wales and Scotland. 5) There are many mountains, rivers and lakes in Great Britain. 6) Great Britain is a highly developed industrial country. 7) There are many industrial cities and towns in Great Britain. 8) There are a lot of harbours on the coastline of the British Isles, which serve as ports.

3. Прочтите и переведите текст.