Assignmets

1. Read the text “Higher Education in Ukraine” and answer the questions:

1. What political and educational realities gave way to the development of Ukrainian higher education in the 19^th and 20^th centuries?

2. What is the national educational system of Ukraine based on?

3. Contrast the Soviet higher school and the Ukrainian one. In which way do they differ?

4. How do statistics refer the structure of Ukrainian higher education? Give examples.

5. How is higher education in the Ukraine being fostered politically nowadays?

II. Here are the answers to some questions about the Ukrainian higher school. Write the questions:

1. Yes, it is.

2. In 1919.

3. State-supported, fee-charging and mixed types.

4. Vocational schools, colleges, institutions, etc.

5. Autonomy and classical academic liberties.

III. Fill in the other forms of the words in the chart:

Noun	Verb	Adjective
Literacy
	To resent
		Academic
	To trust
		Major
Value
		Comprehensive
Specialist
	To trust
		Urgent

IV. Find words and expressions which mean the following:

1. second university degree

2. a person who has taken a university degree

3. education without much help from school or a teacher

4. religious school

5. to give freedom to do smth.

6. clear and definite changes

7. the type of an educational institution on commercial basis

8. payment for education

9. education connected with industrial arts

10. done after taking an academic degree.

V. Complete the following sentences with an expression from below. Use appropriate forms of the words:

self-government, to spread literacy, private, accountancy, vocational, basic to suggest, to include, fee-charging, to comprise, ignorance, on contract basis, full, to give way to, state-supported, dramatically, priority, to assure, to open up.

1. The number of private educational institutions has increased… during the last 6 years.

2. In the Soviet period … was to technical and professional training education.

3. Many visiting professors work …

4. The majority of Ukrainians have either … higher education or … higher education.

5. Brotherhood and monastery schools … first Ukrainian public and … higher schools.

6. Though … institutions are still more popular with Ukrainians they understand that private (…) schools … more opportunities .

7. Higher educational institution … colleges, universities, academies and technical… schools.

8. Hew educational laws … more … and liberties and universities.

9. Do you … majoring in business? Bat this course … economics, mathematics, … and other complicated subjects.

10. The priority of every educational system is … and eliminate … .

VI. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary .

1. ЇЇ здоровий глузд підказав їй план, який вона здійснила без вагань.

2. Нам можна було покладатися тільки на випадок.

3. Увесь склад викладачів кафедри обурений поведінкою цього другокурсника.

4. Не докучай мені своїми проханнями про концерт.

5. Джон намагався глибше вникнути в причини такої надзвичайної ситуації.

6. Подорож була розрахована на два тижні.

7. Джейн віддала себе в руки компетентним лікарям, перукарям та модельєрам.

8. Цей студент вдруге складає екзамен, але він зовсім не знає предмет.

9. Я все находжусь пів враженням після останнього симфонічного концерту.

10. Низка спірних питань потребує термінового розгляду.