University

1. Read the texts. Note all unfamiliar words. If the context does not help, look up the words in a dictionary. Write out the initial forms Qf the words. Transcribe the words.

2. Study the morphological structure of the words.

3. Remember the spelling of the words.

4. Practice writing from dictation the following texts.

Dictation 1 from focus on britain

by M. Kitchin

Some Aspects of British University Life

A University in Great Britain is a place of higher education to which young men and women may go after finishing the course at a high school, that is, when they are about eighteen years old.

Most students go to a university to study some special subject or group of subjects, a knowl­edge of which will make it possible for them to earn their living as doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers... A university must train its students in such a way that they themselves will always be eager to search for new knowledge and new ideas.

Of the full-time students now attending English universities three quarters are men and one quarter women. Nearly half of them are studying arts subjects such as history, languages, economics or law, others are studying medicine, agriculture.

The University of London, for example, includes internal and external students. External students come to London only to sit for their examinations. The colleges in the University of London provide instruction by means of lectures, which are attended mainly by day students. The colleges of Oxford and Cambridge mainly use a tutorial method. There’s one member of the teaching staff for every eight students in these universities.

The three terms into which the British University year is divided are eight to ten weeks. The students have vacations between the terms. A university usually has longer holidays than a school, id in England, in addition to the long summer holiday, which lasts three or four months, there are few weeks at Christmas and Easter, during which the students can go home. Many of them travel July, August and September, partly for pleasure and partly for study. The students of some universities, who have to earn the money to pay for their education, spend the summer in doing differ- t kinds of work.

If a person has a London degree that means he has graduated from the University of London, person studying for a degree at a British University is called an undergraduate; one who has taken agree is called a graduate.

Life at a university is not all hard work. Students of Oxford and Cambridge meet at almost every kind of sport. .And sometimes there are sports meetings between American and British uni­versities.

Dictation 2

Choosing one’s career is an important step in everybody’s life. Most children have only vague ideas of what they »want to be. Boys usually dream of becoming pilots...

Some children admire their parents and want to follow in their footsteps, or at least they take their parents’ advice, others prefer to go their own way. Only very few have a definite idea of their future careers and strive to make their dreams come true.

Young people are encouraged to choose their own careers according to their personal abilities and interests. They are given all sorts of facilities.

Usually personal qualities show up at school and teachers should guide and encourage the young people to take up the careers for which they are best suited. Apart from the academic careers in science, medicine, law and the arts, a lot of boys and girls go in for special training in the trades and the professions and take up a career seriously.

Young people should be encouraged to see the value of all trades, crafts and professions and to look upon the career they have chosen with interest and pride. Career opportunities are open to all young people who have the ability and the will to study. In Great Britain careers officers give their students the necessary information on different professions in part in the option booklets, in part by displays and in part through the teacher/pupil conversation in class-time.