- •Англійська мова
- •I. Read the text and define the main idea of it. Foreign Educational Environment: Education in Great Britain
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •III. Put 10 questions to the text.
- •I. Read the text and define the main idea of it.
- •II. Think of the title to the text.
- •III. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •III. Put questions to the text.
- •IV. Be ready to speak on the topic.
- •V. Complete this table with the missing verb forms.
- •I. Read the text and determine the subtitles of it. Higher Education in the usa
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •III. Discuss the content of the text in the form of a dialogue.
- •I. Read this text and translate it into Ukrainian. Plan for Education
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •III. Make up a plan of the text in the form of questions.
- •IV. Discuss the content of the text in the form of a dialogue.
- •V. Complete this table with the missing verb forms.
- •I. Read this text and translate it into Ukrainian. Types of Universities part II
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •III. Make up a brief summary of the text.
- •I. Read this text and translate it into Ukrainian. Oxbridge
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.
- •II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.
- •III. Discuss the content of the text in the form of a dialogue.
- •IV. Translate the following words and word-combinations into Ukrainian and memorize them:
II. Make up a vocabulary of new words.
III. Define the main sentences in the text to make a brief summary.
IV. Give translations to the following words and word-combinations:
conventional academic subjects, A-level exams, entry to university, interview, exam grades, higher education, supervision, vocational studies, drop-out rate, full-time, grant, living expenses, accommodation, campus, to encourage, a part-time job.
TEXT 6
I. Read the text and determine the subtitles of it.
Vocabulary of American Youngsters
Editors of the American Heritage dictionaries are trying to pep up the vocabulary power of American youngsters and their parents.
They have compiled a list of 100 words which, they hope, every high school graduate should know. The list is not exhaustive, but the words are a benchmark against which high school graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a command of the language.
Undoubtedly, everybody needs to have at their disposal tens of thousands of words. On average, a two-year-old child actively uses about 500 words and a five-year-old child up to 3,000. At about the age of 13 there is often a jump to 20,000.
The average educated adult knows and can potentially use at least 50,000 words and some university graduates possibly can double this number. These are not used all the time but words such as ‘butterfly’, ‘crocodile’ and ‘igloo’, for example, could easily be retrieved if needed, even though they are unlikely to come into conversation every day.
However, words are not like beach shells to be collected or even flowers to be picked and pressed. They are always learnt in a context. Of course, just knowing words and how to put them into a sentence is only part of the whole process. A teenager would be unlikely to use the word ‘photosynthesis’ without some knowledge of plant biology. The words on these lists are inseparable from the general knowledge that surrounds them.
All this brings us back to the American word list. Is it a waste of time? Yes, if readers are simply asked to learn the words by rote, without any context. No, if they are presented with these words in a sentence or, better still, asked to look them up: good dictionaries include an example of the words they are listing in sentences.
Even if they are put into sentences, are they the right ones for a British readership? Well, yes and no. Some on the American list are fine – words such as ‘irony’, ‘nanotechnology’, ‘omnipotent’, ‘parameter’ and ‘respiration’. A few, such as ‘notarize’, have a distinct transatlantic flavour. Others, such as ‘yeoman’, seem to be of interest mainly to historians.
However, the American list is low in a number of areas that are of strong interest to many people in Britain. Hardly any words that have come into the English language from the immigrant population have been included.
Medical and scientific terms are also thin on the ground in the American list. Furthermore, the world of computers needs to be better represented with words such as ‘byte’ and ‘cyberspace’.
Once started, it's hard to stop. The English language now has easily more than half a million words and that's in Britain alone. If English from around the globe were added in, it might even double.