Ex 1. Найдите русские эквиваленты данным словам и выражениям:
a) Higher education – высшее образование, to enter - поступить, to pass exams – сдать экзамены, to fail exams (an exam) – провалить экзамены (экзамен), first-year student/freshman – первокурсник/новичок, applicant - претендент, to be good at a subject (subjects) – быть успешным в предмете, to work hard at smth –упорно трудиться, to hand in a paper – подавать документы, to attend classes –посещать занятия, to miss classes – пропускать занятия, to do well in subjects – быть успешным в предмете, to lag behind the group – отставать от группы, to catch up with the group – догнать группу;
b) Full-time student – студент очник, part-time student – студент вечернего отделения, extra-mural student – студент заочник, fellow-students - сокурсники;
c) to run a company – управлять компанией, to go into business – войти в бизнес, to be in the diplomatic service – в дипломатической сфере, to work in the field of – работать в области , hard-working – упорно трудиться, intelligent – умный, интеллектуальный , smart -умный, honest – честный, to be cut out for smt – быть предрасположенным к чему-либо.
Ex 2. Дополните предложения словами и выражениями из упражнения 1:
1. Higher education is becoming more and more popular in this country. 2. All the first year students must hand in their project papers by the end of November. 3. During the academic year all students have to attend classes so as not lag behind the group. 4. Most of my friends entered at college and hope to become good specialists. 5. As a rule, the students who is good at a subject, help their fellow-students who have some problems with the subject.
Ex 3. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
Jack presented his graduation paper so well that he got his degree with Honors.
Джек успешно защитил дипломную работу и получил диплом с отличием.
2. The university graduated 850 students last year.
Институт выпустил 850 студентов в прошлом году.
Julie, you swim so well!!! You must have taken lessons from a dolphin.
Джули, ты так хорошо плаваешь. Должно быть ты брала уроки у дельфина.
The subject matter of my report is the economic development of England in the 15th century.
Тема моего доклада развитие экономики в Англии в 15 веке.
The teacher lectured the boys for being lazy.
Учитель отчитал мальчиков за их лень.
All my fellow-students took winter exams but not all of them passed the exams.
Все мои сокурсники сдали зимнюю сессию, но не все сдали экзамены.
Professor Warren will give a lecture on the history of diplomacy next week.
Профессор Воррен будет читать лекцию по истории дипломатики на следующей неделе.
This book does not fully cover the subject.
Эта книга не полностью раскрывает предмет (не полностью охватывает предмет).
Magda is very sociable and has a wide circle of acquaintances.
Магда очень общительная и имеет широкий круг знакомых.
The University’s history goes back to 1944 when it was founded as the first institute to train personnel for the diplomatic service.
История университета уходит корнями в 1944 год, когда он был основан как первый институт для подготовки кадров к дипломатической службе.
I am a student of Novosibirsk Law Institute
My name is Alexey, I’m from Iskitim. I am 24. I have recently graduated from Moscow Technical University Communications and Informatics a speciality – communications and telecommunications and entered the Novosibirsk Law Institute.
The Institute has a long history and a high status. The teaching staff consist of highly qualified professionals. All subjects are very interesting. We have seminars and lectures in English, Philosophy, History, Theory of State and Law, and so on. Later we are going to study law: Constitutional law, Civil law, Criminal law, Land law, Family law.
After graduation from this Institute I want to become a lawyer.
Topic: Tomsk State University
In a beautiful old park in the centre of Tomsk one can see a three-storey impressive building. It is the main building of Tomsk University. It was founded under the pressure of progressive public opinion in 1878 and opened in 1888. That is why you can see the two dates on the facade of the building. The newly-born University was the ninth in Russia and the first in Siberia.
Originally, it had only one faculty – that of medicine. The second faculty – law – was opened ten years later and two more: the faculty of physics and mathematics and the faculty of history, philology and philosophy were opened only in 1917, the year of October Revolution.
At present TSU is the largest classic university in the East of Russia. There are 23 departments, 5 branches, educating more than 23,000 students in 85 specializations and programs. The University's faculties are physics, chemistry, mathematics and mechanics, applied mathematics and cybernetics, radio physics, technical physics, geology and geography, biology and soil, computer science, history and international relations, psychology, foreign languages, philosophy, culture studies, military training, international department of agriculture and ecology, international management department. High school of business, law, economics, philology and journalism. TSU was the first to carry out multilevel and continuing education. This includes pre-admission (pre-college) education, preparing specialists, bachelors and masters, (graduate programs), post-graduate education, retraining and refresher courses. The university has established 45 centers of pre-admission training on campuses of secondary schools in different regions of Siberia and Kazakhstan which annually enable 2,000 people to study mere.
TSU offers a program Training Managers and Executives for the Enterprises of the National Economy (Presidential Management Training Initiative). Its alumni are in great demand as top and senior managers at numerous enterprises. The University has been very active in developing distance-learning programs, multimedia courses, electronic textbooks, etc. Many of them have been highly graded at international exhibitions.
Tomsk University is both the academic and research centre of Siberia. It comprises three research institutes, a lot of research laboratories, the Botanical garden founded by Professor P.M. Krylov, the Herbarium and museums of paleontology, mineralogy, zoology, archeology and ethnography which are rich in various exhibits.
The University library deserves special attention because it is well known not only in Siberia but in other parts of the country as well. Its book depository numbers over 4 million volumes and the new building of the library offers fine reading-halls to the students, teachers and researchers of the University.
The University is actively involved in international programs, has signed
agreements of cooperation with a number of foreign universities, conducts student and scholar exchange, and collaborates in joint educational programs.
In 2008 the University celebrated its 130th anniversary, which will be the great date both for the teaching staff and the students.