- •Unit five
- •I speech patterns
- •Exercises
- •I. Paraphrase the following using Patterns 1-3:
- •II. Make the following sentences emphatic using Pattern 4 as in the example:
- •III. Translate these sentences into English:
- •IV. Answer the questions: use would or used to.
- •V. Make up short situations (no more than two or three sentences) or dialogues to illustrate Patterns 1-4 text. A freshman's experience From "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean Webster
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Read the text and do the following
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Explain (in English) what is meant by and give Russian equivalents of:
- •IV. Paraphrase the following sentences:
- •V. A) Write 20 questions about the second part of the text of Unit Five using the following words and phrases:
- •B) Ask your fellow-students to give their responses.
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •IX. Revise Essential Vocabulary (I) and translate the following:
- •X. Compose 20 sentences about the text, using modal verbs must, can, may, ought, might with the perfect infinitive:
- •XI. Translate the text into Russian:
- •Topic: education
- •Text a. Higher education and teacher training in great britain
- •Text b. Dialogue
- •Text с. How to get a degree
- •Essential vocabulary (II) Words and Word Combinations
- •Exercises
- •I. Study Text a and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Transcribe them:
- •II. Write 15 questions on Text a, using new words and expressions in each question. Ask your classmates to reply them. Summarize what you have learned about the British system of higher education.
- •III. Study Texts в and с and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases:
- •IV. Ask your fellow-students:
- •V. Retell Text в in indirect speech using new words and word combinations.
- •VI. Fill in prepositions. Ask the others to give their responses to the given sentences so as to make up micro-dialogues:
- •VII. Make up dialogues, using Essential Vocabulary on the topic Suggested situations:
- •VIII. A) Read and translate into Russian: Oxford
- •B) Argue the pros and cons of: 1. Tutorial system. 2. Students' uniform. 3. Residential colleges.
- •IX. Read the text. Comment on its content: Students in Tents
- •Unit nine
- •I. Speech patterns
- •Exercises
- •I. Change the sentences, using the patterns:
- •II. Think of a situation. Suggest a beginning matching up the end. Use the proper pattern:
- •III. Translate the following into English. Use the patterns:
- •IV. Respond to the following statements and questions, using the patterns:
- •V. Write 12 questions suggesting answers with these patterns. (The questions in Ex. IV may serve as a model.) text. Rose at the music-hall From "They Walk in the City" by j. B. Priestley
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Essential vocabulary (I) Words
- •Word Combinations
- •Exercises
- •VII. Translate these sentences into English, using the word way.
- •VIII. Insert prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
- •Iх. Make up a story, using the words and phrases from Essential Vocabulary I.
- •X. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •XI. Test on synonymy.
- •1. Prove that the following words are (or are not) synonyms:
- •2. Synonyms within the following pairs differ by style. Point out which of them are bookish, colloquial or neutral.
- •XII. Go over the text again and try to discuss the following:
- •XIII. A) Translate the text into Russian:
- •B) Comment on the following aspects of the fragment:
- •Text b. At the box-office
- •Text с. Pantomimes
- •I. Answer the following questions:
- •II. Learn Text в by heart. Act out this dialogue.
- •III. Retell Text с in your own words.
- •IV. Translate the following into English:
- •V. Read the following and either agree or disagree with the statements.
- •VI. A) Describe your impressions of a play (opera, ballet) you have seen. Follow the plan below:
- •B) Make up dialogues discussing the points above.
- •VII. A) Supply articles where necessary:
- •VIII. Give a free translation of the following passage. Make use of the English phrases given at the end:
- •IX. A) Read Sir Laurence Olivier's answers given by him in a newspaper interview:
- •X. Translate the following fragments into Russian (in writing)!
- •Хi. Speak individually or arrange a discussion on the following:
- •Studies of written english
Text b. Dialogue
A n n : Hullo, Steve. Have you got a minute?
S t e v e : Sure, yes. What can I do for you?
A.: I've read a number of books on the British system of higher education but I can't make head or tail of it.
S.: Mm... no wonder. What's the problem?
A.: Quite a lot of problems. What I want to discuss is the difference between a university and a college.
S.: It's like this, you see... The programme is different. At a university it is much wider. Great attention is paid to scientific subjects.
A: It sounds as though most people prefer a university.
S.: Well... that rather depends.
A.: Speaking about universities I'm not quite clear about tutorials there. What is a tutorial exactly?
S.: Oh, it's when students discuss topics with a tutor in very small groups — usually there are not more than three or four students and sometimes only one.
A.: I see... And coming back to colleges... I'm still not terribly sure what a residential college is.
S.: Erm... It's a college with a hall of residence11 on the same grounds as the principal building. In fact all the students live in hall.
A: Really? and what about the teaching staff?
S.: Actually the majority of the teaching staff live there too. But there are also quite a lot of non-residential colleges.
A: And you studied at university?
S.: Yes...
A.: I'd like to find myself in that university. What was it like?
S.: Well... a big grey building surrounded by trees.
A: Beautiful?
S.: Nothing very remarkable. Of course there were lecture halls, classrooms and a number of laboratories.
A: Any facilities for sport and P.E.12
S.: Let me see... Yes... A gymnasium with changing rooms and showers, a tennis court... What else... A playing field for netball and football...
A.: I believe students spend a lot of time together, don't they?
S.: Definitely. We had students' societies and clubs.
A.: Am I right to believe that they are for those interested in drama and music?
S.: Quite... and also politics, modern languages, literature, science and athletics.
A: Ah... that's worth knowing.
S.: And what I'd like to add is that students themselves organize all those clubs and societies. There is usually a Students' Council or Union.
A.: Well Steve. Thanks very much. You've been most helpful.
Text с. How to get a degree
J.: Well, Arnold, I remember you said once you were a B. A. Perhaps you could tell me how quickly you got those letters after your name?
A.: At university I studied history. It was a 3-year course. And after that I got a B. A degree.
J.: B.A. stands for Bachelor of Arts degree, doesn't it?
A.: Yes, which reminds me of my neighbour whose son had just got his B. A. A friend asked very seriously: "I suppose your son will try to get an M. A. or Ph. D."13 next to which my neighbour answered: "Not at all, now he is trying to get a J-O-B."
A: Ah... he meant a job! That's a good joke! (See: English 903, Book 6. Lnd., 1978)
Essential vocabulary (II) Words and Word Combinations
A. education system scientific subjects
compulsory education an intending teacher
primary school optional
secondary school core component (core)
comprehensive school school (teaching) practice
public school School-based experience
further education Subject studies
polytechnic Education studies
college of higher education (Theory of) Education
to specialize in main subject
teacher training age-range
degree junior students
undergraduate senior students
graduate play production
post-graduate educational aids
full-time student audio-visual facilities
part-time student visual aids
reader to observe a lesson
lecturer supervisor (tutor)
practical classes to hold examinations
final examinations (finals)
B. tutorial changing room
residential college students' society
non-residential college Students' Council (Union)
hall of residence С. а B.A., B.Ed., B.Sc, B.S.E.,
to live in hall B.S.M. degree (Bachelor of
principal building (the Arts, Education, Science,
Senate) Engineering, Medicine etc.)
teaching staff M.A., M.Ed (Master of
Physical Education (P.E.) Arts, Education, etc.)
gymnasium (gym) PhD. (Doctor of Philosophy)