4. 8.Do you have similar postgraduate degrees in your country?

Ex.4.Pair-work.

Situation 1. Convince your friend who doesn’t believe in University education that university is the best place to study law, history, journalism etc.

Situation 2. Interview your friend about his University experience.

6. Ex.5. Discussion.

1. Explain who, in your opinion, women constitute only one quarter of full-time students in Great Britain?

2. Discuss difference in systems of education provided by London University and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Ex.6.Learn the proverb and explain its meaning.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Humor

1. Jimmy: I've added these numbers ten times.

Teacher : Good boy.

Jimmy: And her are the ten answers.

2.Sue: I got the highest mark in my class in the test today.

Bob: What was the test on?

Sue: State capitals. I was the only one who knew the capital of North Carolina.

Bob: Really?

Sue: No, Raleigh.

3.Watson: What school did you to go, Holmes?

Sherlock: Elementary, my dear Watson!

4.It was the first day of school. As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms. He rushed in end spotted one boy, taller than the others, who seemed to be making the most noise. He seized the lad, dragged him into the hall, and told him to wait their until he was excused.

Returning to the classroom, the principal restored order and lectured the class for half an hour about the importance of good behavior.

" Now," he said, "Are there any questions?"

One girl stood up timidly." Please, Sir,", she asked, "May we have our teacher back?"

Ex.7. What other jokes about school or higher education do you know?

Ex.8. Make a report on: Oxford and Cambridge

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.

Unit 4.

EDUCATION IN BRITAIN

Text: Studying at university.

Grammar: The Present Perfect Continuous Tense.

Практические цели: ознакомление с лексическим материалом по теме « Higher Education in Britain», развитие умений и навыков разговорной речи по теме «Education», введение и тренировка грамматической темы The Present Perfect Continuous Tense, развитие навыков монологической речи по теме.

Studying at university.

1. If you to go to university, you must first pass examinations that most students take at the age of eighteen(called “A”levels). Most students take three “A” levels, three examinations in three different subjects. And they must do well in order to get a place at university because universities choose their students after interviews, and competition for places at university is fierce. If you get a place at university, the tuition is free, and some students also get a grant from their Local Education authority. The grants cover tuition fees and some of the living expenses. The amount depends on the parents income. If the parents do not earn much money, their children will receive a full grant which will cover all their expenses. Students at university are called undergraduates while they are studying for their first degree.

Most university courses last three years, some courses last four years. During this period students can say that they are doing history, or doing for a degree in history. When they finish the course and pass their examinations or finals, they receive a degree ( the qualification when you complete a university course successfully).

When you complete your first degree, you are a graduate. Some students then go on to do a second course or degree. These students are then postgraduates. There are usually three possible degrees:

MA (Master of arts) – usually one year

Mphil (Master of philosophy) – usually two years

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) – at least three years

Most 18-19 year- olds in Britain are fairly independent people, and when the time come to pick a college they usually choose one far away from home as possible. Many students in northern and Scottish universities come from the south of England. It is very unusual for university students to live at home. Although parents may be a little sad to see this happen, they usually approve of the move, and see it necessary part of becoming an adult.

When they first arrive at college, first year university students are called ”freshers”. A freshers’ life can be exciting for the first week. During the first week, all the clubs and societies hold a freshers’ “fair” during which they try to persuade the new students to join their society. The freshers are told that it is important for them to come into contact with many activities during their time at university, but the choice can be a bit overwhelming.

Often freshers will live in a hall of Residence on or near the college campus, although they may move out into a rented room in their second or third year, or share a house with friends. On the day that lectures start, groups of freshers are often seen walking around huge campuses, a worried look on their faces. They also learn a new way of studying. There are regular seminars, at which they read their papers. The paper then discussed by the tutor and the rest of group. Once or twice a term students will have a tutorial and they see a tutor alone to discuss their work.

Topical vocabulary

1. to enter university поступать

2. to pass examinations сдавать экзамены

3. to obtain получать, приобретать

4. fierce жесткий

1. tuition обучение

2. expenses расходы

3. income доход

4. to last длиться, продолжаться

5. to do subject изучать предмет

6. to carry out research проводить исследования

7. to give a lecture читать лекций

8. to take notes вести конспекты

9. fairly довольно

10. to approve одобрять

11. fresher первокурсник, новичок

12. exciting захватывающий

13. campus территория университета

14. to persuade убеждать

15. entirely всецело

Ex.1.Suggest the Russian for:

1.fierce

2.to pass examinations

3.to obtain

4. tuition

5.fee

6.expenses

7.undergraduates

8.postgraduates

9. to do research on

10.to do a lecture

11. entirely

12.campus

13.to approve

14.adult

15.fresher

16.to persuade

17.exciting

Ex.2.Match the words and phrases in column A with those in column B

A B

1.adult вести конспекты

2. to approve территория университета

3. campus взрослый

4.tuition убеждать

5. to persuade захватывающий

6.exciting одобрять

7. entirely обучение

8. to take notes доход

9. income всецело

Ex.3.Find the required synonyms to the following words and phrases.

A B

1. to enter university to get

2. to obtain to go to university

3. teaching to do a lecture

4. to last to do research on

5. to do subject tuition

6.to carry out research to go on for

7.to give a lecture to study subject

Ex.4.What do we call:

1.the money some students receive if they get a place at university?

2.the qualification you get at the end of university?

3.the name we give students during the first period at university?

4. teachers at university?

5. students when they have completed their first degree?

6.students studying for a second degree?

7.the study of one subject in great depth and detail, often to get new information?

8. the talks that students go to while they are at university?

Ex.5. Translate into English.

1.Не очень то просто поступить в университеты Англии. 2. В основном принимают туда хорошо подготовленных студентов. 3.Студенты первых курсов живут в студенческом общежитии. 4. Некоторые студенты получают грант от местных властей. 5. В большинстве случаев возраст поступающих 18 лет.6. По окончании первой степени вы являетесь выпускником.

Ex.6.Answer the questions on the text and summarize the text.

1. How can you enter university in England?

2. How long do university courses last?

3. When do students receive a degree?

4. How many degrees are there?

5. Why do 18 and 19 olds choose a college as far away from home as possible?

6.Where do often freshers live?

7.What do all the clubs and societies do to persuade the new students to join their society?

8. How often do they have seminars and tutorials?

9. What do students do at seminars?

Grammar: The Present Perfect Continuous Tense.

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I have been working He has been working She has been working It has been working We have been working You have been working They have been working	I have not been working He has not been working She has not been working It has not been working We have not been working You have not been working They have not been working	Have I been working? Has he been working? Has she been working? Has it been working? Have we been working? Have you been working? Have they been working?