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YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR STARTS HERE! 1.1

Module 1 UNIVERSITY

Grammar: Simple Tenses

Question forms

Word formation: suffixes - ation/ion; - ive; -al; - ship; - ly;

Essential vocabulary

accept v	brain n	ensure v	high a	means n	remember v
acquaintance	consider v	especially adv	higher a	memory n	remind v
affect v	education n	experience n	imagine v	prepare v	quality n
ability n	enable v	further a	improve v	provide v	thorough a
become v	engineer n	graduate v, n	mean v	receive v	usually adv

1 Read the greeting and use the motto of our university as a rule of behavior in your future life.

Congratulations and welcome to the Bauman Moscow State Technical University!

We are so excited to welcome you as a BMSTU student and as part of our scientific community!

Congratulations on being admitted to the oldest and finest technical universities in our country!

We are thrilled that after a very long and hard-working year you join our BMSTU family!

We look forward to having an interesting and fruitful collaboration that will produce extremely useful results. We are confident that you will appreciate our competent and friendly professors, well equipped laboratories, beautiful historical setting in the center of our capital.

BMSTU is both a jumpstart for your career as well as a time to build lifelong friendships.

We wish you great academic achievement and success in research work

Remember the motto of our university: ‘Courage, Will, Labour, Perseverance!’

Your University staff

2 Look at these university facilities and match them with the words below.

library swimming pool laboratory conference room

1___________________ 2___________________ 3__________________ 4__________________

3 Read the transcription and match the words with their meanings.

[ˈsɒfəmɔː] [ˈsiːniə(r)] [ˈfrɛʃmən]   [ˈdʒuːnɪə] 

sophomore a student in the fourth and final year of a program of study in a college,

university or high school

senior a student in the third year of a program of study in a college, university or

high school

freshman a student in the second year of a program of study in a college, university

or high school

junior a student in the first year of a program of study in a college, university or

high school

NB! In the US the term ‘college’ is used synonymously to ‘university’, whereas this is not the case in other English speaking countries. In the UK where many universities have more than one college outside the university the term is not interchangeable. Everywhere else in the English speaking world ‘university’ is more commonly used.

4 Complete the sentences so that they are true for you.

1 Are you a freshman or sophomore?

I am a … at …

2 Do you have any friends and acquaintances who are juniors or even seniors?

I have / don’t have…

3 Will you be a sophomore or junior next year?

I will be …

5 Use the correct word from the box to complete each question.

Am Is Do Does Did Were Are Was

1 _______ entrance exams difficult for you?

2 _______ you good at math? (short form of mathematics)

3 _______ you know your neighbour’s name?

4 _______ he present at the first meeting of our group last week?

5 _______ learn English at school?

6 _______ I late for the meeting?

7 _______ it difficult for you to get up early in the morning?

8 _______it take you long to get to the university?