Exercise 4. Answer the questions:

1. When was Nizhyn Agrotechnical Institute formed?

2. Who was the first inspector of it?

3. How many times was the name of our educational establishments changed?

4. When did the period of greatest innovations begin?

5. How many faculties are there in Nizhyn Agritechnical Institute now? What are they?

6. What qualification can students get here?

7. What do students have at their full disposal?

8. How many terms does an academic year consist of?

9. What after-school activities are the students involved in?

10. Do you always pass your exams and tests successfully?

11. What are your marks at the exams?

12. How often do you take your exams?

13. What are the students’ duties during the academic year?

14. Are you going to carry on research work?

Exercise 5. Read and act the dialogue.

Vera: Hello, Mike! What are you doing here?

Mike: Hello, Vera! I am going to the lecture. I am a second-year student of this institute.

V.: Really? But I have never seen you before. And I am a first-year student. I study at the faculty of Economics and Management. What faculty do you study at?

M.: Mechanization of Agriculture.

V.: How are you? Is it difficult to study?

M.: It depends. I have finished a specialized mathematical school where mathematics was studied more thoroughly than at other schools. Besides, I have taken part in a mathematics contest of our city and was the first at it. So it was not very difficult for me to learn such subjects as Higher Mathematics, General Chemistry, Computers and Computer Technologies, Descriptive Geometry and Computer Graphics, Physics.

V.: But what about specialized disciplines?

M.: Oh. As for me they are rather interesting. I want to be a skilled specialist so I study them thoroughly. Machines Details, Thermotechnics, Tractors and Automobiles, Theoretical Mechanics, Agricultural Machinery, Technical Service in Agriculture, Mechanics of Materials and Constructions, Theory of Mechanisms and Machines, Repairing of Machinery and Equipment, Engineering Management, Livestock Machines and many others. All of them are very important for future engineer.

V.: I agree with you. I was good at Humanities at school. So I study History of Ukraine, Philosophy, History of Ukrainian Culture, Politics, Psychology with pleasure. But I am poor at mathematical subject. After the first term, I have one academic arrear.

M.: What subject did you fail?

V.: A Higher Math.

M.: Oh, don’t worry. I shall help you to prepare for it with pleasure. When do you have a retest?

V.: Next Wednesday.

M.: If you don’t mind let’s meet tomorrow at 11a.m.

V.: That is a slice of good luck! Thank you very much.

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