Vocabulary

to prepare for – готовиться для

to leave school – окончить школу

entrance exams – вступительные экзамены

department - отделение

postgraduate - аспирант

graduate - абитуриент

to enter the University – поступить в университет

a first-year student - первокурсник

a faculty - факультет

Exercise 1. Answer the questions.

1.Where does the narrator study?

2. He is a student at the Department of Informatics, is not he?

3.Which faculties are there at the University?

4.Does the University have a good material base?

5.After completing a course of five years our graduates can continue their studies and defend thesis (a dissertation), can not they?

Exercise 2. Are the statements true or false?

1. As fars as I am concerned I am a "would be" doctor.

2. The main building of our University which is situated on the Volga embankment.

3. There are faculties at our University which train teachers in many subjects.

4. After completing a course of five years our graduates can not continue their studies.

5. Many scientists teach at our University.

Exercise 3. Complete the sentences from the text.

1. When a person leaves school…..

2. Leaving school is……

3. It is a magnificent….

4. There are faculties at our University……

5. We have a lot of classrooms…..

Exercise 4. Tell your group mates about your future profession.

Exercise 5. Translate into English.

1. Курс обучения в университете длится 5 лет.

2. Учебный год начинается в сентябре и заканчивается в июне.

3. Он делится на 2 семестра.

4. В конце каждого семестра студенты сдают зачеты и экзамены.

5. Студенты, хорошо сдавшие экзамены, получают стипендию.

6. Наш университет носит имя Ильи Николаевича Ульянова.

7. Он много сделал для развития образования в нашей области.

Тема: Студенческая жизнь

Text a Student Life

There are over 21,000 students at Oxford, including 11,723 undergraduates and 9,327 postgraduates.

Oxford has one of the lowest drop-out rates in the UK: figures published in Spring 2010 by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) show that only 1.1 per cent of Oxford students dropped out, compared with the national average of 8.6 per cent.

In the National Student Survey 2010, Oxford had an overall satisfaction rating of 93 per cent – the second-highest in the UK and well above the national average of 81 per cent. Students’ satisfaction ratings in individual categories are also excellent compared to the national average.

53 per cent of undergraduates are studying for degrees in the humanities and social sciences, and 44 per cent in the medical, mathematical, physical and life sciences. The remaining 3 per cent are studying for undergraduate level diplomas and certificates offered by the Department for Continuing Education.

The tutorial is at the core of undergraduate teaching and learning at Oxford. It offers students a unique learning experience in which they meet regularly with their tutor, either on a one-to-one basis or with one or two other students.

Undergraduates attend, on average, one hour-long tutorial every week and undertake a considerable number of hours’ preparatory work for each tutorial, including background reading, essay-writing and problem-solving.

At graduate level, 39 per cent of students are studying for higher degrees in the medical, mathematical, physical and life sciences and 55 per cent in the humanities and social sciences. The remaining 6 per cent are studying for postgraduate certificates and diplomas offered by the Department for Continuing Education.

Six months after graduation 93 per cent of students who graduated in the year ending July 2009 were employed or engaged in further study.

Every year more than 15,000 people take part in courses offered by the Department for Continuing Education, making Oxford University one of the largest providers of continuing education in the UK.