- •Английский язык для первокурсников english for freshmen
- •Часть 1
- •Введение
- •Unit 1 hi, nice to meet you!
- •Vocabulary page 1 personal information
- •Grammar-vocabulary page 2 to be (functions)
- •Speech practice
- •Fill the gaps in the sentences.
- •2. Tell the group about yourself using the Vocabulary Page 1 as an aid.
- •3. Practice mini-dialogues with your partner. Then make up dialogues on analogy of your own.
- •4. Match the following expressions used to describe what people are like: their personal features, capabilities and preferences, likes and dislikes with their Russian equivalents.
- •5. Fill in the gaps in the sentences with proper words.
- •6. Fill in the gaps in the sentences with proper prepositions:
- •7. Translate from Russian into English.
- •What are we like? what do we look like?
- •8. Read the text and translate it into Russian. What Makes People Different?
- •10. Do you have a keen eye? Can you describe your new group-mates from your memory? Describe a person who is sitting behind you without looking at him or her.
- •Vocabulary page 3 appearance what do they look like?
- •Vocabulary page 4 personal traits what is he like? what is she like?
- •11. Do you know these people? Check your answers with the chart below. Match the names of the celebrities with what they do.
- •13. Choose anyone from the list and describe him or her. Sample gapped description below may be of help:
- •14. Everyone has a hidden talent. If you want to know what yours is, take this test. Your hidden talent
- •15. Answer the following questions
- •16. Interview your group-mates and fill in the chart below:
- •17. Describe your friend (group-mate, roommate, neighbour, relative, etc). Questions for discussion
- •Unit 2 student life roller-coaster or why go to university?
- •1. Read the text and make up lists of new words according to categories: social roles, learning procedures and stages of education.
- •2. Study Vocabulary Page 5 “University Life”. Use English-Russian Dictionary to consult for the meaning of the words unfamiliar to you.
- •Vocabulary page 5 university life
- •Vocabulary practice
- •3. Match English expressions with their Russian equivalents.
- •4. Learn the following idioms find their Russian equivalents 2 explain their meanings.
- •5. Match the following Russian expressions with their English equivalents
- •Student glossary
- •6. Match the words with their definitions. Compare your answers with the information from Appendix I (English-English Dictionary). What are the Russian equivalents of these words?
- •7. Consult Appendix II English-English Dictionary for definitions of the following notions:
- •8. English language teachers use a lot of commands during an English class. Are they all familiar to you? classroom english
- •9. Translate from Russian into English:
- •10. Answer the questions Ask your these questions your groupmates:
- •11. Translate from Russian into English:
- •12. Read the text and make a list of new words. Universities of the world. Historical notes
- •12.1. Find the expressions below in the text and give their Russian equivalents. Give definitions to the words and expressions in bold type.
- •12.2. Give English equivalents to the following expressions
- •Comprehension questions
- •14. Each university has its own symbol. Match the symbols and the universities they belong to.
- •15. Read the text and retell it in brief. Harvard university changing the history of education
- •15.2. What are the most significant events in the history of Harvard?
- •15.3. What makes Harvard a very special among American universities?
- •16. Read the text and retell it in detail.
- •Festu: Past, Present & Future
- •Speech practice
- •17. Act out the following mini-dialogues substituting phrases from the lists for the ones in italics (you are welcome to add your own alternatives from the curriculum below).
- •18. Study the sample of curriculum and prepare a description of your studies.
- •20. Do you want to know how good student you are? Do the test. Study skills self assessment
- •21. On the basis of the test above mark out your strong and weak points in your studies and assess them on the scale from 1 (the poorest) to 5 (the strongest) scale.
- •22. Read the text and develop brief recommendations for improving student capabilities. Which of the recommendations given here do you consider useful for yourself? general study tips
- •23. The key person you have to contact with while at university is a teacher. Read the text and translate it into Russian. What teachers make
- •24. Answer the following questions:
- •Questions for discussion
- •Grammar practice grammar page 1
- •Exercises
- •1. Read and answer that this is right for another person or object:
- •2. Give a characteristic to a person or a subject and substitute pronouns for the nouns in the initial sentence.
- •3. Read and express your surprise using really.
- •Grammar page 2 adjectives. Degrees of comparison
- •Exercises
- •Answer the questions using words heavy, difficult or easy.
- •Answer the questions according to the model.
- •Express you agreement according to the model.
- •Answer the questions according the model.
- •Translate from Russian into English:
- •Grammar page 3 there is present
- •In the past
- •In future
- •Exercises
- •Answer the following questions according to the Model.
- •Express your surprise using “really”.
- •Ask questions according to the Model:
- •Translate from Russian into English
- •Grammar page 4
- •Indefinite tenses present
- •Exercises
- •Read and answer that this is right for another person using “also”:
- •Read and ask a question about another person.
- •Ask special questions according to the Model.
- •Past indefinite. Regular verbs
- •Read and answer the question according to the Model.
- •Express your doubt using “really”.
- •Past inedefinite. Irregular verbs
- •Ask if the sentence is true for another person or subject. Use “also”.
- •Read and answer according to the Model.
- •Future indefinite
- •8. Answer the following questions according to the Model:
- •Grammar page 5 continuous tenses present
- •Exercises
- •Read and answer the questions using the model.
- •Read and answers using the words in the brackets.
- •Express your surprise according to the model:
- •Supplementary reading 1
- •Supplementary reading 2
- •How many applicants were chosen to be admitted at Harvard in 1954?
- •Give a brief sociological review of the Harvard freshmen 1954.
- •Retell the passage in brief.
- •Give a brief characteristic of the Reading Period?
- •Do all students get through this period successfully?
- •Retell the fragment in brief. Appendix english-english dictionary
- •Библиографический список
- •Английский язык для первокурсников english for freshmen
- •Часть 1
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- •Часть 1
9. Translate from Russian into English:
Переведите текст с русского на английский. 2. Откройте книги на странице 19. 3. Перепишите предложения и заполните пропуски. 4. Составьте список новых слов. 5. Объясните использование правила. 6. Переведите на русский язык. 7. Перескажите текст подробно. 8. Выучите стихотворение наизусть. 8. Составьте диалог по аналогии. 9. Ответьте на вопросы после текста. 10. Выполните упражнение № 4. 11. Задайте вопросы по тексту. 12. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту. 13. Прочитайте диалог. 14. Перепишите предложения и заполните пропуски. 15. Посмотрите видео эпизод и заполните таблицу. 16. Выучите диалог наизусть. 17. Прослушайте запись и ответьте на вопросы. 18. Заполните пропуски в предложениях.
10. Answer the questions Ask your these questions your groupmates:
What faculty/institute do you study at?
What subjects do you study?
What year student are you?
How many lectures a week do you have?
What is your weekly schedule?
Do you attend classes regularly?
What is your favorite subject?
What subjects are you especially good at?
Are you always in time for your classes?
How many exams will you have in winter? In what subjects?
Have you ever failed at an exam? In what subject did you fail?
Do you work regularly or by fits and starts?
Do you always attend all your classes?
Have you ever played truant (missed classes)?
Have you begun to read up for your exams?
11. Translate from Russian into English:
Вчера первокурсники получили студенческие билеты.
Первокурсники неплохо сдали зимнюю сессию.
Второкурсники до осени покинули общежитие.
Лекции, семинары, практические занятия это ежедневная серьёзная работа каждого студента.
Студенты приняли активное участие в практическом занятии, чем очень порадовали преподавателя.
Учебный план высшего учебного заведения включает учебные дисциплины, необходимые для теоретической подготовки специалистов.
Студенты выпускного курса работают над дипломными проектами.
Староста группы отчитывается в деканате о пропусках занятий учащимися группы.
Студент справляется с программой, вовремя сдаёт зачёты и экзамены.
Студент не справился с учебной нагрузкой и отстал от группы.
Декан присутствовал на встрече с первокурсниками и ответил на их вопросы.
Мой сосед по общежитию не любит конспектировать лекции, он их переписывает у друзей.
Я привык готовиться к экзаменам ночью, но говорят, что это не лучший способ.
Преподаватель поручил старосте раздать задания.
Я боюсь провалиться на экзамене по этому предмету.
12. Read the text and make a list of new words. Universities of the world. Historical notes
A university is an institution of higher (tertiary) education and research which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects and provides both undergraduate and postgraduate education. The word “university” is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means “community of teachers and scholars. ”
Colloquially, the term university may be used to describe a phase in one's life: “When I was at university...” (in the United States and Ireland, college is often used instead: “When I was in college...”). In Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the German-speaking countries university is often contracted to “uni ”. In New Zealand and in South Africa it is sometimes called “varsity” (although this has become uncommon in New Zealand in recent years), which was also common usage in the UK in the 19th century.
A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. Usage of the word college varies in English-speaking nations. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, an institution within a university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school. In the United States and Ireland, “college” and “university” are loosely interchangeable, whereas in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and other Commonwealth nations, “college” may refer to a secondary or high school, a college of further education, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, or a constituent part of a university.
The first universities in Europe with a form of corporate structure were the University of Bologna (1088), the University of Paris (c. 1150, later associated with the Sorbonne), the University of Oxford (1167), the University of Palencia (1208), the University of Cambridge (1209), etc.
The university culture developed differently in northern Europe than it did in the south, although the northern (primarily Germany, France and Great Britain) and southern universities (primarily Italy) did have many elements in common. Latin was the language of the university, used for all texts, lectures, disputations and examinations. Professors lectured on the books of Aristotle for logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics; while Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna were used for medicine. Outside of these commonalities, great differences separated north and south, primarily in subject matter. Italian universities focused on law and medicine, while the northern universities focused on the arts and theology.
Early Modern universities initially continued the curriculum and research of the Middle Ages: natural philosophy, logic, medicine, theology, mathematics, astronomy (and astrology), law, grammar and rhetoric.
Until the 19th century, religion played a significant role in university curriculum; however, the role of religion in research universities decreased in the 19th century. Universities concentrated on science in the 19th and 20th centuries and became increasingly accessible to the masses. In Britain, the move from Industrial Revolution to modernity saw the arrival of new civic universities with an emphasis on science and engineering. The British, due to its vast colonial domain, also established universities worldwide, and higher education became available to the masses not only in Europe.
Although each institution is organized differently, nearly all universities have a board of trustees; a president, chancellor, or rector; at least one vice president, vice-chancellor, or vice-rector; and deans of various divisions. Universities are generally divided into a number of academic departments, schools or faculties. Public university systems are ruled over by government-run higher education boards. They also approve new programs of instruction and cancel or make changes in existing programs. In addition, they plan for the further coordinated growth and development of the various institutions of higher education in the state or country. However, many public universities in the world have a considerable degree of financial, research and pedagogical autonomy. Private universities are privately funded and generally have a broader independence from state policies. However, they may have less independence from business corporations depending on the source of their finances.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University