1. Memorize the following words and expressions:

1) to be founded = to be established – быть основанным (быть созданным)

2) highly qualified – высококвалифицированный

3) anatomy of animals – анатомия животных

4) genetics – генетика

5) biochemistry – биохимия

6) microbiology – микробиология

7) histology – гистология

8) physiology of animals – физиология животных

9) history of veterinary science – история ветеринарии

10) to contribute – делать вклад

11) society – общество

12) chair – кафедра

13) conformation – строение

14) circulatory system – система кровообращения

15) nervous system – нервная система

16) preventive and curative measures – меры профилактики

17) to prevent diseases – предотвращать болезнь

18) to make inoculations – делать прививки

19) to examine the farm animals – обследовать животных

20) to establish a diagnosis – поставить диагноз

21) to treat animals – лечить животных

22) healthy livestock – здоровый домашний скот

23) veterinary clinic – ветеринарная клиника

2. Answer the following questions:

1) Where do you study?

2) When was your higher educational establishment founded?

3) What institutes has our Academy?

4) What year-student are you?

5) What is your future speciality?

5) When was your Institute founded?

6) What is the youngest Institute at our Academy?

7) How many faculties are there at the Institute of Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine now?

8) When was Veterinary faculty established?

9) What subjects do you study to become qualified specialists?

10) What do you study at the Anatomy chair?

11) What are the main tasks of a veterinary doctor?

12) Where do the students of your faculty have their practical work?

13) What chance has a veterinary doctor after graduating from the Academy?

14) What degree will you receive after graduating from the Academy?

15) How do you find your future speciality?

16) Do you like your future speciality? Why?

3. Say if statements are True (t) or False (f). Correct False statements.

1) At the Anatomy chair, we study the conformation of farm animals, the skeletal system, the circulatory system, the nervous system and others.

2) Veterinary faculty was established in 2002.

3) A veterinary doctor must be a good organizer of different preventive and curative measures carried out in animal husbandry.

4) His tasks are to prevent diseases, to make necessary inoculations, to examine the farm animals so as to establish a diagnosis and to treat animals to have healthy livestock population.

5) I am a final-year student of Veterinary faculty of the Institute of Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine.

6) Nowadays there are five faculties at the Institute of Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine.

7) While studying the students of our faculty have their practical work on the experimental training farm and at different veterinary clinics of our region.

4. Give Russian equivalents to the phrases:

1) to make necessary inoculations

2) a chance to use his deep knowledge

3) healthy livestock population

4) an educated person contributes more to the society

5) a good organizer of different preventive and curative measures

6) a better career in future

7) to become qualified specialists