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Create your own pdp for 2012/2013 academic year.
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Discuss your plans in groups, compare personal objectives and suggest the best way to achieve them.
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Discuss the following questions with your partner.
What springs to mind when you hear the word «university»?
Are all of the universities in Russia very good?
Is university life more about studying or having fun?
Should university education be free?
Do you think university today is different from one hundred years ago?
How has your life changed since entering university?
What was your biggest fear before you began your freshman year? Which do you prefer more, morning or afternoon classes? Why?
Match the photos with the descriptions. What do you know about these universities? Click on the photo to get more information.
Oxford University was established in 1096. It is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
There are 11,752 undergraduates and 9,621 postgraduates. Every year more than 15,000 people take part in courses offered by the Department for Continuing Education. The University, including 38 colleges and Oxford University Press employs more than 18,000 people. 41% of academic staff are citizens of foreign countries. Oxford has one of the lowest drop-out rates, only 1.6%.
The Bodleian Library, the University’s main research library, dates from 1602 and is one of the greatest libraries in the world with over 11,000,000 volumes.
Harvard University was established in 1636. It is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
The university is made up of eleven separate academic units – ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Harvard enrolls about 6,700 undergraduates and 14,500 graduate and professional students. More than 2,100 faculty members teach and advise there. The library collection consists of more than 17 million volumes.
The total 2011-2012 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $36,305 for tuition and $52,652 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.
Moscow State University was established in 1755.
More than 40 000 students (graduate and postgraduate) and about 7 000 undergraduates study at the university, and over 5 000 specialists do the refresher course here. More than 6 000 professors and lecturers, and about 5 000 researchers work for the faculties and research institutes. Every year it enrolls about 4 000 international students.
MSU campus is an extremely complex system, with 1 000 buildings and structures and 8 dormitories. The library system is one of the largest in Russia, with its 9,000,000 books, 2,000,000 of them in foreign languages.
Compare the number of undergraduate and graduate students, volumes, academic staff, etc. Note the rules of saying numbers.
Years Currencies
1636 sixteen thirty-six $7.80 seven dollars eighty
2012 two thousand and twelve €250 two hundred and fifty euros
Decimals £3.15 three pounds fifteen
16.5 sixteen point five
17.38% seventeen point three eight percent
0.185 (nought/zero) point one eight five
Bigger numbers
3,560 three thousand five hundred (and) sixty
508 347 five hundred (and) ninety-eight thousand, three hundred (and) forty-seven 1,300,402 one million three hundred thousand, four hundred (and) two
