Text 1 Preparation for Admission

How to Prepare: You need a well-rounded background to be admitted successfully to United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. There are three areas in which you must prepare to be competitive in the admissions process – academics, physical fitness, and leadership abilities.

Academic Preparation: To be a competitive West Point candidate, you must take a strong academic preparation. High school academic subjects must include:

– Four years of English.

– Four years of math.

– Two years of a foreign language.

– Two years of chemistry, biology or physics, etc.

– One year of U.S. history.

– Courses in geography and economics.

Physical Preparation: To prepare for the West Point military training, physical education, and athletic programs, you must improve your physical strength in the following ways:

– Participate in competitive team sports.

– Take part in individual sports.

– Perform distance running regularly (two miles are recommended).

Leadership Preparation: The following high school experiences will develop and demonstrate your leadership potential:

– Class, club, or student government position.

– Awards in academic societies.

– Participation and achievement in athletics.

Task I. Match the two columns.

1. admissions process 2. academic preparation 3. physical preparation 4. leadership preparation

a) develop and demonstrate leadership potential; b) prepare in three areas; c) prepare for rigorous military training and physical education; d) have a well-rounded background; e) participate in team and individual sports; f) take a strong preparatory academic program; g) prepare in math, history, physics, foreign language, etc.; h) have valuable leadership experiences and responsibilities; i) improve physical strength; j) participate in extracurricular activities; k) hold class, club position.

Task II. Compress the text by using phrases from Task I.

1. To compete for … all candidates must … .

2. To be competitive in … all applicants should … .

3. To be competitive candidate in … you need … .

Text 2

Task I. Arrange the paragraphs of the text according to the questions offered.

1. What Majors and Field of Study does West Point program include?

2. What is the difference between a major and a field of study?

3. What does the Academy dynamic curriculum do?

4. Why is the Academy curriculum the foundation of the academic program?

5. What does the USMA library have for various researches and recreational reading?

6. What is the student-faculty ratio?

7. How would you describe the faculty?

8. Do Cadets and Academy staff use computers in academics?

Academic Program

1. The United Sates Military Academy (USMA) situated at West Point provides the following program: Chemistry and Life Science Major or Field of Study, Civil Engineering Major or Field of Study, Computer Science Major or Field of Study, Electrical Engineering: Computer Engineering Major, Foreign Language: Major available in French, German, Russian, Spanish, etc., Foreign Language: Field of Study available in Arabic, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, etc.

2. The USMA Library serves cadets for both academic research and recreational reading. The library’s resources include over 600,000 volumes, 1,500 current subscriptions of academic journals and newspapers, government documents, audiovisual materials, official USMA archives, and valuable special collections of rare books.

3. West Point offers 21 majors and 24 fields of study. A major requires a cadet to write a thesis or complete a design project. A major is a more (complex) enhanced, enriched academic experience with greater depth in the area of concentration. A field of study is needed in order to graduate from the academy. Today, more than 75 percent of the cadets elect to major.

4. Cadets and faculty at West Point have a first class information technology environment. There is a personal computer at every desk. Everyone is connected both to academic computing services and to the Internet.

5. West Point develops the “whole person”. The Academy dynamic curriculum balances the physical sciences and engineering with the humanities and social sciences. Graduates must be able to respond effectively to a changing technological, social, political, and economic world.

6. About 75 percent of the West Point faculty are military personnel who have graduated the most respected universities in the nation. All faculty members have their master’s degrees and over 30 percent have doctoral qualifications.

7. The student-faculty ratio at West Point is approximately 8 to 1. They not only know their professor or instructor, but also have the opportunity to request additional instruction when needed. Classes are small, typically numbering 12 to 18 cadets.

8. The curriculum is the foundation of the academic program. It provides a solid base in mathematics, basic sciences, engineering sciences, humanities, and social sciences. It includes 31 courses that every cadet completes, along with physical education and military development programs.

Task 2. Read the text once again and be ready to answer before-questions.

Task 3. Complete the below sentences by the facts from the text.

1. West Point dynamic curriculum balances … .

2. West Point offers 21 … .

3. A major is a more …than … .

4. About 75 % of the cadets … .

5. The student-faculty ratio is … .

6. Classes approximately number … .

7. About 75 % of the Academy faculty … .

8. Cadets and faculty use library resources for … .

SELF-STUDYING

Ex. 1. Choose which word fits best.

1. To compete for … to the Academy you need deep knowledge.

a) admit; b) admissible; c) admission;

2. You must prepare in three areas to be … in the admissions.

a) compete; b) competitive; c) competition;

3. If you want to … to the Academy you must take a strong preparation.

a) application; b) apply; c) applicant;

4. Commanding Officers … cadets to be responsible in performing every day duties.

a) education; b) educator; c) educate;

5. General … for admission include three areas.

a) requirements; b) require; c) requiring;

6. All candidates are evaluated on the basis of … performance.

a) academy; b) academically; c) academic;

7. The Academy provides unique opportunity to develop … .

a) intellectuality; b) intellectually; c) intellectual;

8. After … highly qualified specialists have great career opportunities.

a) graduate; b) graduation; c) graduated.

Ex. 2. Insert "can, may, must, have to, be to".

1. My mother … cook Chinese food.

2. My parents … come over today.

3. I … help Mum clean the house.

4. … I have a look at your dictation?

5. Cadets … not smoke in the barracks.

6. We … meet at five p.m.

7. All cadets … attend the classes.

8. You … tell them the truth.

9. … you help me with my homework?

10. My brother … wear glasses.

11. The parade … finish at one p.m.

12. … I leave the room?

Ex. 3. Fill in the correct pronouns.

Dear Mum,

…(1) am having an interesting but difficult time hear, at the Academy. The Academy is very large and … (2) history is unique. … (3) has a long history. … (4) Academy consists of many buildings. … (5) group mates and … (6) have already undertaken … (7) Basic Cadet Training (BCT). …(8) was very complex. But … (9) have learned how to organize …(10) time, clean rooms, etc. As for daily routine, …(11) begins early. The curriculum includes a lot of subjects. …(12) are really difficult to study. …(13) always prepare for the lessons …(14). …(15) commander is really friendly with …(16). …(17) rank is a captain. …(18) always see …(19) before and after the lessons. That’s all the news.

Love,

Sasha

Ex. 4. Put the adjectives in the proper form if necessary.

1. The entrance exams were (difficult) than I expected.

2. I am getting tired. Can you go a bit (slowly)?

3. Yesterday was (hot) day of the week.

4. Are you (old) than me?

5. This film is really (boring). And that is (boring) film I’ve ever seen.

6. We have (little) time than I thought.

7. Who is (old) in your family?

8. Your translations are always (good).

9. What was (happy) day in your life?

10. To travel by train is (expensive) than by car.

Ex. 5. Put the phrases in the right order to make sentences.

1. have entered / this year / I / the police Academy;

2. quite well / two foreign languages / speaks / my elder sister;

3. a lot of / at the Academy / there are / competitive club teams;

4. of the study / cadets / at the beginning / learn / military standards;

5. you / your physical training exercises / do / every morning / do?

6. do / your English lessons / how often / you / a month / have?

7. are writing / now / the English credit test / we;

8. a new grammar material / I / for two days / have been learning / already.

Ex. 6. Choose the correct alternative.

1. Please, don’t make so much noise. I … to work.

a) try; b) am trying; c) have been trying; d) am not trying;

2. I usually … away at weekends.

a) am going; b) have been going; c) go; d) have gone;

3. Police … three men in connection with this murder recently.

a) are arresting; b) arrest; c) has arrested; d) have arrested;

4. How long … you … English?

a) do … learn; b) are … learning; c) have … been learning; d) have … learnt;

5. Let’s go out now. It … any more.

a) is raining; b) does not rain; c) has rained; d) isn’t raining;

6. The earth … round the sun.

a) goes; b) does not go; c) is going; d) has been going;

7. Would you want something to eat? – No, thanks, I …just dinner.

a) have had; b) have; c) am having; d) have been having;

8. My sister … a report since 10 a.m.

a) has been making; b) have been making; c) has made; d) is making.

Ex. 7. Define the functions of the Infinitives and choose the correct translation.

1. – подлежащее

2. – часть сказуемого

3. – дополнение

4. – обстоятельство цели

5. – определение

1. To be admitted to the Academy is my purpose.

a) чтобы поступить; b) для поступления; c) быть принятым;

2. Academy’s aim is to prepare well-educated, high quality specialists.

a) готовить / подготовка; b) для подготовки; c) которая готовит;

3. Academy graduates must serve in the Armed Forces for a minimum of five years.

a) должны служить; b) служба; c) служить;

4. Specific tasks to be performed are of great importance.

a) выполнять; b) которые нужно выполнить; c) чтобы выполнить;

5. Cadets work hard at all the subjects to develop their potential.

a) нужно развить; b) развить; c) чтобы развить / для развития;

6. My friend wants to study English himself.

a) учить; b) учеба; c) чтобы выучить.

Ex. 8. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box. Mind! Some words are odd ones.

1. develop 2. participate 3. obtain 4. curriculum

5. complete 6. essential 7. admission 8. require

9. skills 10. prepare 11. competitiveness 12. challenges

1. During BCT period cadets … the basic military skills … for their future career.

2. The Academy program develops professional and personal … necessary to meet the unique … of a future career.

3. As the Academy … the "whole person", its … balances the physical sciences and engineering with the humanities and social sciences.

4. To be competitive in the … process you must … in three areas – academics, physical fitness, and leadership abilities.

5. Cadets … in sports activities at the Academy and this promotes …, teamwork, leadership, strength, etc.

LESSON 2

Text A: My Father is a Lawyer

Text B: A. F. Koni

Text C: Chief Justice of the USA

Phonetics: Sounds: [ i ] [i:] [a:] [Λ] [d] [t] [id]

Grammar: Past Tenses

Functions of the Participles

Equivalents of the Modal Verbs

Reading Dates

Wordbuilding: Suffixes: -fy, -ify; -ate, -ute; -ize, -ise; -en

Conversion

PHONETICS

Ex. 1. Practise saying.

[i]	military, civil, assistant, skill, busy;
[i:]	serious, receive, degree, repeat, Supreme;
[Λ]	study, publish, judge, hurry, double, enough;
[a:]	hard, pass, last, fast, argue, clerk, arbiter;
[t]	liked, worked, passed, asked, reduced, finished, helped;
[d]	lived, stayed, advised, prepared, described, called;
[id]	studied, needed, ended, decided, defended, commanded.

Ex. 2. Listen to and repeat after the speaker.

1. his, different, district, criminal, village, children, brilliant;

2. region, even, me, teach, speaker, weekend, three;

3. us, much, husband, faculty, come, under, some, but, fun, one;

4. father, after, part, class, dark, cart, farm, command;

5. placed, parked, walked, watched, stopped, expressed, forced;

6. served, retired, entered, trained, received, specialized, moved;

7. started, wanted, visited, translated, directed, attended, investigated.

Ex. 3. Pronounce the following.

a) [i:] and [i]

lid – lead mill – meal pill – peel kill – keel sit – seat

beat – bin Pete – pit meet – milk we – with keep – Kitty

fit – feet kin – keen bit – beet mitt – mete tin – teen

b) [a:] and [Λ]

car – far – bar half – calf – bath part – park –fart cart – barter – shark spark – bath – mark hard – raft – plant

us – bus tub – mud must – sum humble – tumble sun – hunt trust – must

Ex. 4. Mind the stress and pronunciation of the following.

′prosecute – ′prosecutor – prose′cution in′vestigate – in′vestigator – investi′gation ′supervise – ′supervisor – super′vision ′advocate (v) [eit] – ′advocate (n) [it] – ′advocacy lo′cate – ′local – lo′cation i′dentify – identifi′cation – i′dentity

′able – a′bility ′active – ac′tivity ′operate – ope′ration ′educate – edu′cation ′civil – ci′vilian judge – ju′dicial

Ex. 5. Arrange the verbs with ending – "ed" into three columns.

[t]

[d]

[id]

answered, suppressed, existed, founded, formed, watched, lived, talked, studied, opened, closed, looked, helped, worked, listened, created, hoped, danced, gained, tried, experimented, marked, waited, happened, passed, violated, ruled, appointed, protected, approved.

WORD - BUILDING

Ex. 6. Mind the words derived according to the models and translate them into Russian.

a) N + i (fy) = V

code – to codify

Adj + i (fy) = V

simple – to simplify

to classify, to identify, to qualify, to falsify, to intensify, to magnify;

b) Adj + en = V

N + en = V

wide – to widen

threat – to threaten

to weaken, to whiten, to redden, to shorten, to strengthen, to lighten,

to deepen;

c) N/Adj + ize/ise = V

system – to systematize

organ – to organize

popular – to popularize

to characterize, to realize, to symbolize, to individualize, to recognize, to personalize, to criminalize, to specialize;

d) Adj/N + ate/ute = V

active – activate

to procecute, to dispute, to participate, to advocate, to investigate, to rehabilitate, to violate, to interrogate, to implicate, to indicate.

Ex. 7. Group the words according to their parts of speech: a) nouns, b) adjectives, c) adverbs, d) verbs. Read and translate them.

Supervisor, prosecute, identify, identification, prosecution, active, commander, sympathize, professional, supervise, operate, legally, investigate, especially, speaker, demonstrate, legislate, justify, simulate, listen, exercise, federal, monopolize, intensify, indicate, colonize.

Ex. 8. Find the odd word in each set. Mind the suffixes.

1. younger, elder, prosecuter, nearer;

2. dissertation, education, supervise, location;

3. universal, legally, professional, practical;

4. intensify, shorten, criminal, concentrate;

5. change, report, control, deepen;

6. properly, successfully, family, legally.

Ex. 9. Study the word formation and complete the sentences.

1. investigate – investigator – investigation

1. The task of the police is to ... crimes. 2. He has a photographic mind, he remembered all ... and their results. 3. After graduating from the Law University he got a job of ... .

2. advice – advise – adviser

1. As a lawyer he always … his clients on a question on legal matters. 2. He gave us some good ... . 3. My parents’ friend is the government’s special … in the Middle East.

3. advocate (n) – advocate (v) – advocacy

1. There are about nineteen thousand ... in more than one hundred colleges. 2. He is a real expert in … . 3. Mr. Brown always … a reduction in military spending.

4. special – specialize – specialized – specialist

1. Being a good ... in jurisprudence he lectured at the Law School for many years. 2. In the last senior grades my brother … in History and Social Sciences. 3. This is a … case. 4. My sister decided to … in contract law.

5. judge (n) – judge (v) - judgement

1. My father works as a ... at a people’s court. 2. These business affairs may affect their political ... . 3. Only professional lawyers ... the serious crimes.

6. legal – legalize - legally

1. Each branch of ... profession in Britain has its own characteristic functions. 2. Will the government … this form of action? 3. His decision was … right.