III. Answer the questions:

1. How is curriculum called?

2. How can you describe the courses?

3. How are the courses paired?

4. What are the academic societies and tutorial groups?

IV. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:

Departs from standard curricular formats, at a time, essential scientific knowledge, guidening students in navigating the curriculum, is randomly assigned.

V. Pay attention to the importance of words and collocation.

Convince-Persuade

Look carefully at the following examples of the verbs ‘convince’ and ‘persuade’ (and words derived from the verbs such as ‘convincing’ and ‘persuasion’). What similarities and what differences can you find between the two verbs?

1. that universities urgently need to convince academics that popularizing research is

2. by Professor ran Fells ought to convince producers elsewhere that talking heads

3. produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer. Ivanov’s major

4. hbouring system will find it harder to convince their own establishment that they need new

5. gling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in

6. prising that New Scientist should have convinced itself that the nuclear weapons policy of.

1. manager for remote sensing will try to persuade different parts of the government to spend

2. in of sense. Incidentally, how did you persuade Michael Haseltine to write it for you?

3. early stage. Second, it is trying to persuade researchers that it is a good thing to wor

4. two years trying, unsuccessfully, to persuade the British government to make some cont

5. is planning a mission to India to persuade the country to invest in British satellite

6. that only a big fire disaster will persuade the government ti look harder at fire rese

A collocation is when two words (or sometimes more than two) are seen together frequently. In English, these are very common, and it is a sign of a good Englich speaker to be able to use collocations well. There are several exercises to do with collocations in this book.

a. Decide whether the collocations (in bold) in the sentences below are possible or not. Use a good English-English dictionary if you have one.

1. Don’t forget to slide the curtains before you go to bed.

2. The garden’s bone dry. I hope it rains soon.

3. Sue’s always immaculately clothed when she goes out.

4. It was a very deep cut and was bleeding greatly.

5. Keith usually goes for the soft option.

6. I decided for the yellow one in the end.

7. Patrick was full asleep by nine o’clock.

8. Mary could hear thunder banging in the distance.

9. They were all delighted at the news.

10. We had a long wait so we burnt time by playing cards.

b. There are many types of collocations in English. In the box below, there is a list of nine types.

1 adjective + noun 6 noun + adjective

2 verb + noun 7 adjective + adjective

3 noun + verb 8 adverb + adjective

4 verb + adverb 9 adjective + preposition

5 verb + preposition

Look at the following collocations, and put each of them into one of the nine categories in the box. There are two collocations for each category.

1 Interested in adjective + preposition

2 breathe deeply

3 make a mistake

4 quietly confident

5 a spare tyre

6 wide awake

7 dogs bark

8 apologise for

9 rock hard

10 a narrow escape

11 deadly serious

12 hideously ugly

13 regret something bitterly

14 good at (maths)

15 tell the truth

16 dog tired

17 spend (money) on

18 school breaks up

c. Use one of the above collocations in each of the following sentences. Sometimes you will need to change the form of the words in the collocation. The first one has been done for you as an example.

1. By the time we finished climbing the mountain, we were ……. .

2. If you get very angry, the best thing to do is to ……….. for ten seconds.

3. If you drive a car in Britain, it is obligatory to carry ……………with you.

4. On the night before his birthday, Jack was still ……………at midnight!

5. On what date do the …………… for the summer holidays?

6. A liar is a person who doesn’t always ……………. .