1. Answer the following questions. Make conjectures.

Poltava National Technical Yuri Kondratyuk University (PNTU) is an outstanding institution¹ of higher education that trains specialists for various fields of technical engineering. It has the fourth level of accreditation. At present the student bodyamounts² to 10 000 people, among them full-time, part-timeundergraduates and postgraduates. They gain fundamental and humanitarian knowledge with the help of the respectable³teaching staff.

The University is made up of⁴ eight faculties: the Faculty of Finance and Economics, the Faculty of Management and Business, the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Faculty of Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Management, the Faculty of Electric and Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Information and Telecommunication Technologies and Systems, the Faculty of Architecture and the newest Faculty of Humanities.

The University has glorious⁵ history and ancient traditions of training specialists. PNTU is the oldest educational institution of higher learning in our town. Established⁶ on August 18, 1930 as the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, in 1961 it was transformed into Civil Engineering Institute where specialists for 6 engineering specialties, including agriculture, were trained. In the early 90s the university’s scientific council made a decision to reform the single-discipline⁷ educational establishment into the multi-discipline technical university. On June 21, 1997 the University proudly gotthe name of the outstanding theorist⁸ in cosmonautics, Yuri Kondratyuk (Alexander Sharhey). The educational process at the University is carried out at the level of modern educational requirements. There are four specialized Academic Boards⁹ for defense of Ph.D. and doctoral theses.Situated in the picturesque¹⁰ district of Poltava, the University has nine academic buildings. Students are provided with a comfortable campus, a canteen, sportsgyms, libraries and internet clubs. The complete¹¹ university course lasts¹² 6 years. Students study higher mathematics, physics, descriptive geometry, Ukrainian and foreign languages, computer science and many other subjects. On March 27, 2002 the University was granted¹³ the status of “National”. In 2010 PNTU celebrated the 80^thanniversary¹⁴ of its educational traditions.

1 – інститут, навчальний заклад

2– складає, сягає

3 – поважний, шановний

4 – складається з

5 –славетний

6 – заснований

7 – монопрофільний

8­–теоретик

9 – вчена рада

10 – мальовничий

11 – повний (курс навчання)

12– триває

13– нагороджувати

14–ювілей