Assignments

Exercise1. Answer the following questions:

1) What types of colleges do you know?

2) How are American colleges financed?

3) Does the tuition support a college?

4) Do students get any financial aid?

5) What kinds of scholarships are provided by schools?

6) What are entrance tests for American colleges?

7) What papers are required for the admission in American colleges?

8) What does the term "college" refer to?

9) What is associate degree?

10) What is the 4-year degree composed of?

11) What is General Study Courses?

12) What is Major Field of Study?

13) What are the deepest studies?

14) What is a University?

15) What is the structure of colleges?

16) What do admission standards mean?

17) What do you know about more advanced courses?

18) What kind of teachers are required with to teach at the college level at any school?

19) Are American students occupied with any job?

Exercise 2. True or false:

* colleges don't receive money;

* there are 2 types of colleges in the USA;

* Summer schools allow students to improve their grades, to study new courses;

* there are no entrance tests for American colleges;

* application pack of required papers consists of 3 points;

* students have to set the individual academic program;

* students can't choose subjects they wish to study;

* dean's office has liberties in setting exams;

* a college specializes at several subjects areas;

* students have 2 credit hour courses per week;

* 3 credit hour courses per week is an associate degree;

* Introductory courses require deep studies;

* American Schooling is very competitive;

*students have to work the whole year to pay their tuition fee;

Exercise 3.Comment on the following:

1. The term "college" refers to a school that specializes at only one subject area (mathematics, art...).

2. University is more than one college in the same campus and may include over 3000 students.

3. So the tuition (being very low) is not the very thing that supports it but only helps; thus private contributions and donations are to do it.

4.The tuition for schooling is greatly variegated according to the college or university.

5. Many schools have set admission standards.

6. 2/3 of American students is occupied with part-time jobs.

7.But some teachers with Master's Degree can teach at college level as well.

TEXT 2

Vocabulary Area: Higher, postsecondary education, to enter a college, university, baccalaureate degree, bachelor’s degree, graduate work, academic, doctoral degree, to complete a master’s degree, department, department chairman, dean, faculty, Lecturer, Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, freshmen, applicants, sophomore, junior, senior, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, academic year, semester, quarter, trimester, unit, to complete a degree work, to receive credit, drop, withdraw from a class, deadline, course, major, laboratory, study loads, grade, letter grade, ‘pass/fail’, failure, GPA (grade point average), methods of instruction, lecture, class discussion, seminar, laboratory, theory exam, assessment, midterms, finals, standardized test, skill, SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), ACT (American College Test), TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language).

READING:

Pre-reading

A. Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. major 2. sophomore 3. applicant 4. junior 5. faculty 6. post-graduate 7. course 8. freshman 9. dean 10. graduate 11. degree 12. undergraduate 13. grade 14. senior 15. department

a) A person who makes a request for entrance to a school or university. Director of a department, professional school or college of a university. The members of a teaching staff. A person in the first year at college or university. Administrative subdivision of a school, college or university in which instruction in a central field of study is given. The subject or area of studies in which students concentrate. A second-year student at a high school, college or university. A series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject. Diploma or title conferred by a college, university or professional school upon completion of a prescribed program of studies. The evaluation of a student’s academic work. A student of the third year in a four-year course at High School or university. A student who is doing a university course for a first degree. A student of the last year in a High School or university course. A person who has completed a university degree course. A person who studies at a university after one has received one’s first degree.

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