2. Answer the following questions:

1. Where do you study?

2. When was your Academy founded?

3. How many institutes has the Academy?

4. What faculties are there at your Academy?

5. Is your Academy headed by the Rector?

6. Who is in charge of the academic and scientific work?

7. How many students and chairs are there at the Academy?

8. How many terms has the academic year?

9. When do you take your tests and exams?

10) Where is the main building of the Academy? What does it include?

11) What does the main building include?

12) Where is the students’ campus situated?

13) What are there on the students’ campus?

14) Has your Academy an experimental training farm?

15) Where do the students carry out their research work?

3. Complete the following sentences:

1. I study at …

2. In early 1960’s there were …

3. Our Academy has …

4. The Academy trains …

5. Education at our Academy is …

6. The academic year has …

7. While studying the students have …

8. The students’ campus is located …

9. The students carry out …

10. The students study at the Academy …

4. Agree or disagree with the following statements using the expressions. Give the right answer.

For agreement For disagreement

That’s right I don’t agree with you

I agree with you I wouldn’t say so

Sure You are wrong

Quite right No, I don’t think that’s correct

1. In early 1960’s there were only three faculties.

2. The academic year lasts for ten months.

3. The students’ campus is located in the downtown.

4. There are over 6000 students and 40 chairs at the Academy.

5. The Academy is situated in six buildings.

5. Use these word-combinations in your own sentences:

1. to take tests and exams;

2. to contribute to;

3. to graduate from the Academy;

6. A delegation of students and teachers from Cambridge are on a visit at your Academy. You are asked to tell the guests about the Academy. Present information on:

1. the name of your Academy;

2. its location;

3. the faculties and departments at your Academy;

4. the academic year;

5. the number of students at the Academy;

6. the subjects you study;

7. the students’ hostels;

8. what you like and what you don’t like about your Academy.

The main building of the Academy

Unit 3 The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom

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	Official name		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
	Form of government		constitutional monarchy with two legislative houses (House of Lords [751(1)]; House of Commons [646])
	Chief of state		Sovereign
	Head of government		Prime Minister
	Capital		London
	Official language		English; both English and Welsh in Wales
	Official religion		( 2)
	Monetary unit		pound sterling (£)
	Population estimate		(2006) 60,501,000
	Total area (sq mi)		93,628
	Total area (sq km)		242,495
	(1)As of November 2006 including 92 hereditary peers, 633 life peers, and 26 archbishops and bishops.
	(2)Church of England “established” (protected by the state but not “official”); Church of Scotland “national” (exclusive jurisdiction in spiritual matters per Church of Scotland Act 1921); no established church in Northern Ireland or Wales.