- •Астраханский государственный
- •Part 1. Знакомство
- •Let me introduce myself and my family
- •Vocabulary
- •About myself
- •Vocabulary.
- •Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin – the head of the rf government
- •Vocabulary
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов:
- •1. Accommodations and catering
- •2. Tourist attractions and entertainment
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов
- •Exercise 1
- •Freddie laker
- •Cesar manrique
- •Around the world in 222 days
- •Part 3. У врача. Медицинское обслуживание. Text 1
- •The laws of health
- •At the doctor`s
- •Text 1a
- •At the dentist`s
- •Medical assistance
- •The Doctor Arrival
- •In the Sick-Bay.
- •At the Hospital
- •The Doctor`s Advice
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов
- •Part 4. Моя страна. Мой город. Достопримечательности.
- •Vocabulary
- •Astrakhan
- •Vocabulary
- •Reading comprehension Text 1 Moscow
- •Text 2 The City of Astrakhan: history and present time
- •Text 3 The land of blooming lotus
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов:
- •Part 5. Страны изучаемого языка (Великобритания, сша, Австралия, Новая Зеландия):географические, политические и культурные аспекты. Canada
- •New Zealand
- •Australia
- •Great Britain
- •The usa
- •Washington, d.C.
- •Canberra
- •Wellington
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов
- •Part 6. Наш университет. Высшее образование в России.
- •Vocabulary
- •Moscow state lomonosov university
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов
- •Part 7. Высшее образование в стране изучаемого языка. Ведущие мировые университеты. Higher education in Great Britain
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов text I. Read the text to yourself and suggest a title.
- •Text IV. Stanford University
- •Part 8. Покупки. В магазине. Shopping
- •The Big Stores of London
- •Shopping phrases
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы
- •Part 9. Война и мир. Угроза терроризма. World at war
- •Terrorism
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов
- •21St Century Terrorism
- •The eu fights against the scourge of terrorism
- •Part 10. Страны третьего мира. Проблемы миграции.
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов Text 1
- •List of emerging and developing economies
- •Developing countries not listed by imf
- •Industrialization
- •Part 11. Информатизация общества
- •Informatization
- •Origin of the term
- •Social impact of informatization
- •Informatization in economic systems
- •Globalization and informatization
- •Globalization
- •Definitions
- •Information technology
- •Information Age
- •The Internet
- •Progression
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов The Internet
- •Information
- •Communication in our life
- •Social impact of the Internet
- •What is Science?
- •Technology
- •Science, engineering and technology
- •Word Bingo
- •Alfred nobel - a man of contrasts
- •Alexander graham bell
- •3. What brought Einstein more joy than anything else?
- •4. By what illustration did Einstein explain his Theory of Relativity?
- •5. What two rules of conduct did Einstein have?
- •Part 13 Современные достижения науки. Перспективы развития науки.
- •Text 2. What is Nanotechnology?
- •Text 3. Collider
- •Text 4. Silicon Valley
- •Text 5. Small is beautiful
- •5____________________________________________________________
- •Text 6. Big is the Best
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов History of nanotechnology
- •Nanomaterials
- •Molecular nanotechnology
- •Collider design
- •Where have I heard that name before?
- •Part 14. Выдающиеся учёные прошлого Albert Einstein
- •Vocabulary of the text
- •Isaac Newton
- •Vocabulary of the text
- •Nicolaus Copernicus
- •Vocabulary of the text
- •Incoherency – несвязность, бессвязность, непоследовательность
- •Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
- •Vocabulary of the text
- •Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleev
- •Vocabulary of the text
- •Influenza - грипп
- •Valence – валентность
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы
- •Destroying forests
- •1 Damages
- •Language work
- •Language work
- •How the greenhouse effect works
- •Global warming
- •Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов:
- •Atoms, molecules and compounds
- •Chemical reactions and chemical bonds.
- •Organic compounds and life
- •Carbohydrates
Тексты для самостоятельной работы студентов
Еферова А.Р., Кердяшева О.В. Сборник иностранных текстов по страноведению по английскому языку для студентов 1-2-х курсов всех специальностей. Астрахань, Издательство АГТУ, 2010, стр. 23-36, чтение, перевод, пересказ текстов, составление разных типов вопросов к текстам, составление вокабуляра к текстам.
Агабекян И.П., Коваленко П.И. Английский для технических вузов, Издательство «Феникс», Ростов-на-Дону, 2003, стр. 94-125, чтение, перевод текстов, выполнение всех упражнений, диктант по новому вокабуляру.
Part 6. Наш университет. Высшее образование в России.
Vocabulary
be situated - располагаться
fisheries – зд. рыбная промышленность и хозяйство
rename into - переименовать,
generation - поколение
campus = academic town - университетский городок
cover - охватывать
hostel - общежитие
medical aid centre - зд.медпункт
be held - проводить (собрание, конференцию)
assembly hall - актовый зал
up-to date = modern - современный
swimming pool - плавательный бассейн
be trained - обучаться
teaching staff - преподаватели
master – магистр, зд. кандидат наук
extra-mural = correspondence student - студент- заочник
time-table - расписание
undergraduate = student - студент
attendance - посещаемость
obligatory - обязательный
fail in exam(ination) - провалиться на экзамине
attempt - попытка
submit course paper - защищать курсовую работу
graduate - зд.студент последнего года обучения
defend diploma project - защищать дипломный проект
work out - разрабатывать
superviser - руководитель
postgraduate - аспирант
bachelor - бакалавр
Astrakhan State Technical University is situated in one of the most picturesque places of our town, not far from the great Russian river Volga.
Astrakhan Institute of Fisheries was founded in 1930. It was planned and built as a single and separate complex. In 1994 it was renamed into Astrakhan State Technical University. Several generations of students studied within the University, the graduates of the University have been working for a long time already.
A lovely academic town of the University is situated on a beautiful parkland. The University campus covers a large territory (over 13 ha). The University campus consists of 7 teaching buildings including administrative block, hostels, stadium, a medical aid centre and a club-house, etc.
Various conferences and meetings are held in the Assembly Hall situated in the main building. Here you can find Director’s, Deans’ and other offices. Teaching blocks have up-to date lecture halls, well-equipped laboratories, a computing centre and libraries rich in books.
The University possesses 8 halls for residence, on the territory of it you can see cafes, shops, sport centre (was built in 1983) with indoor swimming-pool, halls for tennis, basketball, etc.
There are 8 faculties and Institutes at our University. There is a Preparatory faculty and a department of correspondence as well. A lot of students, including foreign ones, are trained in different specialities at our University.
Director (or Rector as it is called in Russia) is at the head of the University, while the work of the faculties and Institutes is headed by Deans. The teaching staff of special and academic departments consists of very experienced lectures and assistants (820 members), capable of giving their knowledge and experience to students. Most of them are Masters and Doctors of science.
The full-time students of the University have a four- or five-year course of studies, while the extra-mural students study for 6 years.
The academic year is divided into two terms, each term (semester) ends with the winter and summer exams sessions. During the term students have to attend lectures, seminars and practicals according to the time-table. They also make reports, do laboratories and graphical works according to the basic programme. The first year students study such traditional disciplines as mathematics, chemistry, physics, history, foreign languages, etc. In the third year students begin to study in depth the subjects connected with their future speciality. The attendance of lectures and seminars is obligatory. At the end of each term undergraduates get prepared for the credit tests and examinations. Those who fail in an exam are allowed to take a second attempt.
The third-and-fourth-year students submit course papers in some special subjects. Graduates have to take final exams and defend their diploma projects worked out with the help of their supervisors. On graduating from the University students are awarded special certificates- diplomas; some of them who carry out research work become postgraduates of our University.
Young people mainly choose our University because it provides everything to train qualified specialists: lectures in accordance with the latest theoretical and practical data, psychological seminars and trainings; practical experience on boards the largest ships. Those graduates who receive a Bachelor’s degree are welcome to take a Master’s one.
Exercise 1. Match the left-hand column with the right-hand column and read them out:
special subject главный корпус
academic town учебный год
teaching block иностранный язык
academic department учебный городок
main building общеобразовательная кафедра
academic year курсовая работа
foreign language степень бакалавра
course paper учебный корпус
Bachelr’s degree предмет по специальности
Exercise 2. Give English equivalents of the following words and phrases:
располагаться, быть основанным, выпускник, охватывать (территорию), чудесный, медпункт, актовый зал, деканат, хорошо оборудованные лаборатории, плавательный бассейн, подготовительный факультет, ректор, преподаватель, лектор, студент заочного отделения, учебный год, практическое занятие, зачет, посещение лекций, обязательный, провалиться на экзамене, выпускные экзамены, диплом, подготовить специалистов, практика на борту судна, степень бакалавра.
Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:
1. What University do you study at?
2. When was it founded?
3. The University campus covers a large territory, doesn’t it?
4. Why did you enter this University?
5. Who has encouraged you? Your school teacher or your parents (friends)?
6. What can you say about teaching buildings and administrative block?
7. Do you live in Astrakhan? You live in a student’s hostel, don’t you?
8. What was the most difficult exam in your entrance university examinations?
9. Was the competition tough at your University?
10. How many faculties and Institutes are there at your University?
11. Who is at the head of the University?
12. Many experienced lecturers and assistants from many countries of the world are working in ASTU now, aren’t they?
13. What is your favourite subject?
14. Is the attendance of lectures and seminars obligatory at your University?
15. Have you got any difficulties with English? Why?
16. Do you pay for your tuition? Do you get state grant?
17. Does your University provide sport facilities for every level?
Exercise 4. Use the correct tense of the verb in the parentheses (round brackets). Mind the agreement between the subject and the predicate.
1. Astrakhan State Technical University (to be known) in our region.
2. At the end of each term undergraduates (to get prepared) for the credit tests and exams.
3. Students of all specialities (to have) foreign languages on the curriculum as an obligatory subject in Russia.
4. The real wealth of the University (to be) its teaching staff and students.
5. Students of many faculties must (to learn) English as part of the syllabus for two years.
6. The University course for students (to run) for 5 or 6 years.
7. Chemistry (to come) easy to my brother.
8. It (to be) hard to study at our faculty.
9. She (to have) many classes every day.
10. I (to work) regularly but my friend (to work) by fits and starts.
Exercise 5. Ask questions for which the following statements may serve as answers.
1 Our course of studies runs for 5 years.
2 I fell behind the group because of my illness.
3 My favourite subject is physics.
4 We’ll have a seminar on chemistry tomorrow.
5 I’ve made rather many mistakes in my test.
6 I’m very nervous about my exam in physics.
7 Denis can help you with mathematics. He is very good at maths.
We’ll have four exams in winter.
9 Our teacher always speaks English at the lessons.
10.It is difficult for me to retell the story in the third person.
Exercise 6. Translate into English:
1. В этом году я поступил в АГТУ и стал студентом-первокурсником.
2 Я сдал все экзамены с хорошими оценками.
3. Дважды в году я сдаю межсеместровые экзамены.
4. Многие студенты обучаются по различным специальностям.
5. В АГТУ обучаются студенты из многих стран Азии и Африки.
6. По окончании университета я получу диплом.
7. В нашем университете ежегодно открываются новые специальности.