Part I theme 1. Speech etiquette. Getting acquainted with people

Речевой этикет. Представление. Знакомство.

Text 1.

Some of the most important years of your life will be spent pursuing a university degree. Your diploma is a passport to a better future, but it is only a symbol of what you will accomplish. The key elements of your university education are the process through which you learn, the array of experiences you accumulate and the store of knowledge you acquire. They will be with you for the rest of your life

I am a student

So, I am a student now. I'm a first-year student of the day-time department. I've entered the University after finishing a secondary school. Belgorod Consumer Cooperative University — that's the name of the University I study at the Finance and Credit Department. I am studying finances, economics, management techniques, marketing, etc. My major is Taxes and Taxation. That’s why I must know mathematics.

Naturally, my father taught me to understand and love mathematics. I realize now mathematics is a corner-stone of all sciences. My father works as a financier at the Economic Department of the plant.

My mother is a book-keeper at a book-keeping department of the factory. She likes her speciality very much. I have a sister. She is twenty. And she is also an economist. She works as a cashier at the post-office savings-bank. She combines her work with studies at the Institute. She is a second-year student of non-resident instruction ⁶ at our University.

As you see, I did not take parents' way. I worked hard to pass my entrance examinations well. And now I've become a happy member of the great, young, gay family of students. "Many new things and notions came to my life with it. At first, I didn't know what they meant. Now I became familiar with such words as «a freshmam», «a sophomore», «an undergraduate» and such terms as «a period», «a seminar», «lab-works».I know what it means «to make notes», «to pass thousands, etc.

I'm still to know more , and first of all how to save time to be able to not only study well, but to take an active part in the students' life — to join some students' scientific societies and to sing in our University choir, to become a member of our University famous football team and to visit interesting gay students' evening-parties , meetings of our discussion clubs and a lot more.

It is very interesting to learn such new subjects as Economic Theory, Higher Mathematics, Stock Market, Foreign Languages, Fundamentals of Marketing, Economics, Taxes and Taxation, Theory and History of Consumer Co-operatives, and some others. I'm fond of everything at my University. I think it is not like any other university in our city. I like its great beautiful buildings, sports complex, its lecture halls, laboratories and studies.

I'm a freshman, as they call the first-year students. It'll take time to know everything about our University and I shall tell you more about it later.

Task 1. Read the text. Translate it into Russian, and render it.

Task 2. Memorize the key terms, concepts, expressions and their meaning.

a student of the day-time department, a student of resident instruction; a full-time student	студент дневного отделения
the Economic Department	экономический отдел, факультет
a book-keeper; book-keeping department	бухгалтер , 6yxгaлтерия
a cashier кассир; syn. a teller; cash syn. money	деньги
the post-office savings-bank	сберкасса при почте
non-resident instruction.; syn. extra-mural education, education by correspondence	заочное обучение
to take somebody's way. (took, did not take)	пойти по чьим-либо стопам
at first , first ,first of all	первое время, в первую очередь, сначала, прежде всего
become familiar with	познакомиться
a freshman = a first-year student; a sophomore = a second-year student; undergraduates = students of senior courses	студент 1 курса; студент 2 курса; выпускник
I'm still to know more	мне предстоит узнать еще больше
to join the army	быть призванным в армию
to join a team	войти в состав команды (спортивной)
students' evening-parties	студенческие вечера
a lot more, a lot of, a lot of books, a lot of time; syn. many, much, a great deal of, plenty of	и многое другое, множество
to be fond of; syn. to like	любить, нравиться
like; to be like	подобно, как, быть похожим
it'll take time	понадобится время

Task 3. Answer the questions. Solve the problems. Do the tasks:

1. What University do you study?

2. Where is your University situated?

3. What are you majoring in?

4. Why is it important to study mathematics?

5. What are your parents?

6. Did you take your parents’ way?

7. What new things and notions came to your life with entering the young, gay family of students?

8. Do you take the initiative for making new friends and participants in new activities?

9. Do you have a different way of life from your family at home?

10. Do you change your habits to fit into the way of life of your University?

11. What does your academic plan (programme) include?

12. Will you tell about your commitment and responsibility while studying at the University (to be a good student, to treat your new family of students and teachers with respect and kindness, be patient, etc.)?

13. What do you think will help you adjust to a new way of life at your University (your understanding of yourself, desire to learn, curiosity, openness to new things, making new friends, a variety of activities, etc.)?

Task 4. Discuss your studies at the University.

Task 5. Do the test. Find the Russian equivalents in the right-hand column for the following.

national economy	дневное отделение
the economic department	народное хозяйство
the post-office savings-bank	поступать в институт
a sophomore	экономический отдел
a book-keeping department	бухгалтерия
to take one's parents' way	сберкасса при почте
a freshman	студент второго курса
to pass «thousands»	идти по стопам своих родителей
the day-time department	студент старшего курса
a lot more	сдавать «тысячи»
an undergraduate	студенческий научный кружок
to enter the institute	еще больше
it'll take time to know	я специализируюсь
students' scientific society	студент первого курса
I’m majoring	понадобится время, чтобы узнать

II. Choose the proper translation:

1. Здание университета находится в центре города.

1. There is an Institute building in the centre of the city.

2. The Institute building is in the centre of the city.

2. На этой улице есть студенческое общежитие.

1. There is a students' hostel in this street.

2. The students' hostel is in this street.

3. На первом этаже было размещено несколько лабораторий, библиотека и читальный зал.

1. Some laboratories, the library and the reading-hall were situated on the ground floor.

2. There were some laboratories, a library and a reading-hall on the ground floor.

4. Актовый зал будет находится на втором этаже.

1. The conference hall will be on the first floor.

2. There will be a conference hall on the first floor.

5. На втором этаже есть также кабинеты и аудитории.

1. Some studies and lecture rooms are situated on the first floor.

2. There are also some studies and lecture rooms on the first floor.