- •Keys to college success
- •In the classroom
- •5. Themes and reports
- •6.Reading skills
- •7.Monney matters
- •Assignments
- •The scheme of a stylistic analysis of fiction
- •I. Plot and Plot Structure.
- •Internal Conflict:
- •The Writer’s Voice
- •II. Useful word-combinations for stylistic analysis
- •III. Assignment for a comprehensive stylistic analysis of the text from …
- •Conversational topic
- •Higher education in the usa, uk and ukraine
- •Glossary of terms
- •Who is who:
- •Administration
- •Academic calendar
- •Academic programs
- •Red Tape
- •Financing
- •Language focus assignments Exercise 1. Find out which words are correct and incorrect.
- •…Consists of professors and instructors.
- •Assignments
- •The system of higher education in the usa
- •Assignments
- •V. Complete the following sentences with an expression from below. Use appropriate forms of the words:
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Text 3 the life of youth in the usa
- •Assignments
- •Text 4 higher education in the uk Education beyond sixteen
- •For Your Information: The Sixth Form
- •Types of university
- •2) The Old Scottish universities.
- •3) The early nineteenth-century English universities.
- •4) The older civic (“redbrick”) universities.
- •5) The campus universities.
- •6) The newer civic universities.
- •7) The Open University
- •Exams and qualifications
- •Text 5 higher education in ukraine
- •Ukraine’s national higher education system
- •Application process
- •Structure of the level system of higher education in Ukraine
- •Institutions
- •College
- •Vocational school
- •Assignmets
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary .
- •Text 6 kharkiv university
- •Assignments
- •Text 7 the life of young people in ukraine
- •Assignments
Conversational topic
Higher education in the usa, uk and ukraine
Glossary of terms
Who is who:
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Applicant |
one who applies for study |
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Freshman |
a first-year university student |
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Sophomore |
– a student in his second year or with second-year standing at a college. |
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Junior |
someone who is in the third year at university or high school. |
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Senior |
a student in his last year before graduating from an educational institution. |
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Undergraduate |
university student who has not yet taken a degree. |
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Graduate |
– person who holds a university degree. |
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Part-time student |
a student studying less than the amount of time considered customary or standard |
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Night student |
a student who takes course offered (as by university or high school) for people in working life. |
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Teaching assistant |
a member usu. of the lowest rank of a college or university faculty whose duties may include grading papers, supervising laboratories or teaching classes. |
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Assistant professor |
a member of a college or university faculty who ranks immediately above an in instructor and immediately below an associate professor. |
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Associate professor |
a faculty member in a college or university who ranks immediately bellow a professor and above an assistant professor. |
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Counsellor |
a faculty member assigned to advise students on personal, academic and vocational matters |
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(Full) professor |
a university teacher of the highest rank |
Administration
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Chancellor / President |
– the head of the university, syn. chief, chairman, boss. |
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Dean |
the chief / chairman / boss / president of the department, syn. Department chairman. |
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Assistant dean |
the vice-president of the department. |
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Academic vice-president |
a person who is eager to become an academic. |
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Student government |
a definite group of students which decides all problems concerning students’ life. |
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Faculty |
the entire teaching staff at an educational institution |
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Tenure |
signifies that a faculty member has become a full and permanent member of the academic body of the university and provides the faculty member with the right of continued employment without discriminatory reduction in salary unless there be grave reasons for dismissal.
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Counselor |
a person on a university staff who provides counseling and consultation service to help in decisions regarding courses, majors, vocational plans, career opportunities and personal matters. |
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Full-time faculty |
consists of professors and instructors |
The rank of associate professors, assistant professors corresponds to the British rank of readers or senior lecturers.
Academic calendar
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Semester/term |
a half-year, especially one of the two terms of the year in the colleges of Germany, USA and other countries. Fall semester, spring semester |
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Quarter |
one of the four parts of the academic year Fall, winter, spring, summer quarter |
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Academic/school year |
a period of one year associated with the university activity |
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Exam period/days |
a period of time occupied by the exams |
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Reading days/period |
one or more days to read up for an examination |
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Break/recess |
a brief stopping of study in recess, spring recess, summer recess, winter recess Syn. Vacation, holidays |
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Deadline |
the last date for a retake |
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