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Lead-in

Task 1

Look at the reasons of choosing the university to study at and select the five most important ones from your point of view

1.It must be highly competitive.

2.It must give a high quality of education.

3.It must be well-known abroad.

4.It must have well-equipped laboratories.

5.It must use effective teaching methods.

6.It must be not far from my home.

7.It must suggest the flexibility of curriculum.

8.It must provide students with textbooks and additional information resources.

Task 2

If you had the possibility to choose the university what university would you choose among the suggested ones? Give reasons for your choice

1.South Ural State University

2.Moscow State University

3.Novosibirsk State University

4.Stanford University (the USA)

5.Oxford University (Great Britain)

Task 3

Answer the questions using your background knowledge about the SUSU University

1.Why did you decide to enter the South Ural State University?

2.How many faculties does it have?

3.What do you know about the university you study at?

4.What youth organizations does it have?

5.How is the process of study organized?

6.What is it famous for?

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Reading

Task 1

Read the text and do the tasks after it

South Ural State University

SUSU is one of the largest universities of Russia. It was founded in 1943. SUSU has 33 faculties, 13 branches and 8 regional campuses. There is a linguistic center where you can get a second higher education in the field of linguistics, a gifted child center whose purpose is to develop creativity in children, School of Physics and Mathematics for the schoolchildren keen on math and physics, the “Applicant” center that prepares school graduates to enter our university, and specialized preparation courses on different subjects.

The postgraduate education offers courses in 70 specializations.

Over 50,000 students are enrolled at the University full-time. The teaching staff includes 1900 teachers: 265 Doctors of Sciences, Professors; 857 Candidates of Sciences, Assistant Professors, over 90 members of foreign and Russian academies. Our lecturers successfully use new teaching methods.

In 2004 on the basis of SUSU the Open Institute was established. It opens its doors for all the people wishing to get a higher education regardless of their age and place of living. This is a new way to deliver education called Distance study that incorporates different kinds of modern technologies and methods of teaching.

The SUSU scientific library is the largest one in Chelyabinsk. It has more than 2,5million volumes, journals, periodicals, e-subscriptions. One of these years the library plans to organize the reading hall similar to that in Western universities. It will be a reading hall with open access. Open access means that the students do not need to stand in a line for hours to take a book they need, but they will be able to go around the reading hall with lots of bookshelves, choose the book they like, read it sitting at a comfortable study and put it back into special baskets after they finish reading. Moreover the SUSU scientific library successfully exploits modern technologies and introduces the new electronic system that will allow students to order and prolong books electronically using their home computers.

SUSU is a basic educational institution of Russian Ministry of Education on developing new teaching methods, and introduction of new study equipment. The novelties, introduced in teaching process are multimedia information complexes for lecture theaters, digital control language laboratories, study-laboratory complexes and code gram sets on various disciplines.

South Ural State University is noted for its students and the teaching staff, democratic in their composition and views. To a large extent it is exactly that fact that accounts for the popularity among the undergraduates, the teachers and the tutors of progressive scientific and social ideas. The University has trained 115,000 specialists, 2,100 Candidates of Sciences and 440 Doctors of Sciences. Many graduates are members of governing body of Russia and Chelyabinsk region, among them V. Khristenko, Prime Minister of Russia; A. Pochinok, Minister on Labour and Social

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politics; P. Sumin, Chelyabinsk region Governer; V. Tarasov, Chelyabinsk mayor and others.

About 6,500 students live in the University hostel. There is a student theater

“Mannequin”, modern dance, ballroom dance, a jazz ensemble, 2 choirs, the University has a modern sports complex with a swimming pool. Since 1956 university newspaper

“Technopolis” has been published. In 2002 a new teleradiocentre was opened.

Did you know that SUSU is the highest building in Chelyabinsk?

Its height is 72 meters.

Task 2

Answer the questions to the text

1.How old is the university?

2.What special organizations does it have to help applicants to enter the University?

3.What facts prove that it is one of the largest universities in Russia?

4.What distinguishes the Open University from a traditional one?

5.What special services does the SUSU scientific library provide for the users?

6.What are the novelties introduced into teaching process?

7.Can you name some of the well-known SUSU graduates?

8.What social activities can students take part in?

Task 3

What facts do you know about the SUSU that were not mentioned in the text? Share them with the groupmates

Task 4

Make the plan for the text

Task 5

If you were asked to give the three most striking facts about the university what facts would you choose?

Task 6

Find additional information about the following organizations and places of the university

1.School of Physics and Mathematics

2.Linguistic Center

3.“Applicant” center

4.Gifted Child Center

5.SUSU Scientific library

6.Open Institute

7.Mechanical and Technological Faculty

8.University Newspaper “Technopolis”

9.SUSU International Department

10.SUSU Teleradiocenter

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Present the information you find to your groupmates using the following scheme:

1.Place (Where is it located in the university?)

2.Year of foundation (When was it founded?)

3.Purpose of creation (What for was it created?)

4.Activities (What services does it provide?)

5.Benefits (What benefits does it provide for those who participated (schoolchildren, students)?)

Speaking

Task 1

A delegation of students and teachers from Cambridge are on a visit to your university. You are asked to tell the guests about it. Present information on:

1.the name of your university;

2.the place it is situated;

3.the departments there are at your university (day-time, correspondence, distance, evening);

4.the time the complete course of study lasts;

5.the number of students who study at the university;

6.information resources

7.the equipment the university provided with;

8.the students life;

9.what you like and what you don’t like about your university.

Start your tour with the following phrase:

Dear guests, I would like to give you a tour about our university.

You may use the following algorithm:

1.Greeting Dear guests, I would like to give you a tour about our university.

2.Facts about the university

First I’d like to give you some general information about our university. Our university is called …….

It is situated in ……

There are ……. day–time faculties at our university.

The teaching staff accounts to ….. The complete course of study lasts …..

After a successful completion of a course of study a student gets a Specialist degree. There about ……. students studying at the university.

I am a student of the ………. faculty. I study such subjects as ………..

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3. Teaching aids

Now I’d like to say a few words about the teaching aids used to improve the educational process.

There are a number of well-equipped laboratories in the university.

The modern teaching aids used are …….

4. Information resources

As for the provision with information resources out university is among the leaders.

The SUSU scientific library is ….

It contains a great number of resources ….

5. Students life

Both students and the administration of the university understand that much work and no joy make students dull people.

That’s why there are quite a number of university organisations occupied with providing an active social life of students.

They are ………..

6. Personal opinion

What I like about the university is ……

On the other hand, there are some things to improve.

They are….

Nevertheless our university is one of the best higher institutions in Russia.

Vocabulary Practice

Task 1

Fill in the correct word from the list below: equipment, dreadful, personal, open, education, regional, linguistic, reading, complex, assistant

1.a _________ campus

2.a _________ center

3.postgraduate ________

4.an _________ professor

5._____ access

6.sports _______

7.________teaching

8.a ________ordeal

9.a _______ hall

10.study _______

Task 2

Insert the right verb phrases into the sentences using the appropriate Tense form: to be founded in, to prolong, to be noted for, to account for, to a large extent, to exploit, to be keen on, to emerge.

1.Technologically minded teachers of the university ________ computer technologies into academic practice.

2.Students that _______ Maths, Physics, Programming can take part in competitions and take some additional training.

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3.If you want ______ the book you need to come to the library.

4.Our university __________ its graduates who work in different spheres of industry and social life.

5.Moscow State University ______________ 1755 on the initiative of the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov.

6.As science is rapidly developed new technologies ________ every day.

7._________ the popularity of the university among the applicants depends on the high standard of education provided.

8.The fact that university is considered to be one of the best higher educational institutions in Russia ________ high competition among the applicants.

Task 3

Use the phrases from exercises 1 and 2 to make up 10 sentences of your own

Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1

Look at what Jenny and Mark hope will happen in the future. Make sentences using If I, …… I will…..

Example: If I don’t go out so much, I will do more work.

Exercise 2

What will you do in the following situations? Complete the sentences

1.If I study hard I will ……

2.If I get a well-paid job I will ….

3.If I miss the classes I will ….

4.If I have a holiday abroad I will ….

5.If I graduate from the university I will ….

6.If I fall ill I will ….

7.If I see my friend has problems I will ….

8.If I have some free time I will ….

9.If I see the book I like I will ….

10.If the weather is fine tomorrow I will ….

11.It I finish my homework early this evening I will ….

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Exercise 3

One of you is going for a holiday to an exotic country. The other sees all the problems. Use the prompts to discuss the problems

Example: A – What will you do if the weather is bad? B – I will read books and go to discos.

A – you don’t like the food?

–there is nowhere to go in the evening?

–you lose your money?

–you don’t understand the language?

–you don’t know anyone?

–you feel homesick?

–you lose your passport?

Exercise 4

Make up 2 Chain stories. Look at the situations, and then continue these people thoughts

Situation 1

If I don’t finish this work in time, I will not get a promotion.

Situation 2

If I don’t write my essay I will not get a credit in the major.

Situation 3

If I enter Oxford University, I will be the most diligent student.

Communication

Task 1

Make up a dialogue. One of you reads the task on Card 1 and the other reads the task on Card 2. Use the common phrases to ask for the information

Card 1

You are an English student. You are to write an article about a typical Russian University. By chance you happened to visit the South Ural State University. You are to gather as much information as possible. You have heard about this university before and you know that there are such places as School of Physics and Mathematics,

Linguistic Center, “Applicant” center, Gifted Child Center, Open Institute, SUSU Teleradiocenter. Find out where these places are situated in the university and what types of activities do they perform.

Card 2

You are an active member of the Students’ Union and you are accustomed to make tours about the university. So it’s natural that you know the most interesting places of the university. Your task is to be very helpful and provide the English student with all the necessary information about the university.

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Asking for Information

There are a number of formulas used when asking for information in English.

Homework

Task 1

Complete the facts about the South Ural State University using the following phrases: a linguistic center, e–subscriptions, postgraduate courses, information resources, Open Institute, to be founded in, to introduce, an assistant professor.

1.The South Ural State University ________ 1943 on the basis of two plants.

2.There is ___________ in our university where you can improve your knowledge of English and get additional qualification.

3.If you want to continue your education the university offers __________ in more than 70 specialties.

4.The purpose of the ___________founded on the basis of SUSU is to reach people in distant rural and mountainous areas.

5.________ allow students to search information using electronic versions of journals.

6.The administration of the South Ural State University __________ new technologies into the educational process.

7.A person can apply for a position of __________ if he performs some research and has publications.

8.Our scientific library is rich in _________ .

Task 2

Translate the sentences from Russian into English

1. Южно-Уральский Государственный Университет известен в стране благодаря своим выпускникам.

2.Наш университет был основан в 1943 году.

3.Если вы хотите подготовиться к поступлению в университет вам нужно посещать курсы в центре “Абитуриент”.

4.В образовательном процессе активно используются информационные технологии, такие как мультимедийные информационные комплексы.

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5.ЮУрГУ выпустил 115,000 специалистов. 2,100 из них стали кандидатами наук и 440 – докторами наук.

6.В университет функционирует телерадиоцентр, целью которого является освещение событий, происходящих в университете, создание телепередач

ожизни студентов.

7.При выборе университета, в котором вы хотите учиться, нужно обратить внимание на качество предоставляемых образовательных услуг.

8.Большое внимание уделяется внеурочной деятельности студентов.

Task 3

Finish the sentences

1.If I pass my exams successfully I will ….

2.If I graduate from the university I will …

3.If I find a well-paid job I will ….

4.If I earn a lot of money I will …

5.If I failed my exam I will…

6.If I don’t come in time for my classes I won’t ….

7.If I don’t do my homework I won’t …

8.If I don’t get a diploma I won’t ,,,

9.If I don’t have enough rest I won’t…

10.If I don’t go to the library to prepare for the practice I won’t …

Task 4

Read the text and say if it is difficult to study at Oxford

Student life at Oxford

What is it like, being a student at Oxford? Like all British universities, Oxford is a state university, not a private one. Students are selected on the basis of their results in the national examinations or the special Oxford entrance examination. There are many applicants, and nobody can get a place by paying a fee. Successful candidates are admitted to a specified college of the university: that will be their home for the next three years (the normal period for an undergraduate degree), and for longer it they are admitted to study for a postgraduate degree. They will be mostly taught by tutors from their own college.

Teaching is pleasantly informal and personal: a typical undergraduate will spend an hour a week with his or her 'tutor', perhaps in the company of one other student. Each of them will have written an essay for the tutor, which serves as the basis for discussion, argument, the exposition of ideas and academic methods. At the end of the hour the students go away with a new essay title and a list of books that might be helpful in preparing for the essay.

Other kinds of teaching such as lectures and seminars are normally optional: popular lecturers can attract audiences from several faculties, while others may find

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themselves speaking to two or three loyal students, or maybe to no one at all. So, in theory, if you are good at reading, thinking and writing quickly, you can spend five days out of seven being idle: sleeping, taking part in sports, in student clubs, in acting and singing, in arguing, drinking, having parties, in practice, most students at Oxford are enthusiastic about the academic life, and many of the more conscientious ones work for days at each essay, sometimes sitting up through the night with a wet towel round their heads.

At the end of three years, all students face a dreadful ordeal, “Finals”, the final examinations. The victims are obliged to dress up for the occasion in black and white, an old-fashioned ritual that may help to calm the nerves. They go into the huge examination building and sit for three hours writing what they hope is beautiful prose on half-remembered or strangely forgotten subjects. In the afternoon they assemble for another three hours of writing. After four or five days of this torture they emerge and stagger out for the biggest party of them all.

Task 5

Find proofs in the text to the following:

1.Teaching at Oxford is informal.

2.Teaching at Oxford is personal.

3.“Finals” is a dreadful ordeal.

4.You can’t buy a place to study at Oxford.

Speaking

How does your life at South Ural State University differ from that of a British student? Do they have anything in common? Describe the life of a Russian student. Do not forget to mention:

1.Procedure of entering the university.

2.Teaching (formal/informal, personal/impersonal).

3.Free time.

4.Exams.

Lesson 7. My Future Specialty

Task 1

Brainstorming activity

Try to give all the possible answers to the following question

Why do you think students choose this or that speciality?

Active vocabulary

Task 1

Read the Active Vocabulary of the lesson after the teacher