7. Read Text 1b and answer the following questions.

1. What do you do after you get up in the morning?

2. How do you get to the University?

3. How long does it take you to get to the University?

4. When do your classes begin and are over?

5. What do you do during a ten-minute break?

6. When and where do you have lunch?

7. Do you often have to stay at the University after your classes?

8. Do your fellow students come to see you at home?

9. What do you do in the evening?

10. When do you usually go to bed?

8. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions and reproduce the context in which they are used.

To do morning exercises, to get breakfast ready for somebody, to leave home for, in order to, to get to the University, to have a class, to see a time-table, to stay at the University, to listen to the tape-recorder, to have a short rest, to come to see somebody, to be on.

9. Say whether you agree or disagree with these statements. Give your reasoning. The following phrases may be helpful:

Quite so. Exactly. It’s (partly) true. Just the opposite. I don’t think so. I can’t agree with you.

1. I don’t do morning exercises in the morning.

2. It takes me about twenty minutes to have breakfast.

3. I leave home for the University in the morning.

4. The bell usually rings at 9.00 a.m.

5. We have four classes a day.

6. I never stay at the University after my classes.

7. When I come home, I immediately begin doing my homework.

8. I don’t like watching TV in the evening.

10. Put the following headings in a logical order according to the Text.

1. Coming home after my classes.

2. My first class according to the time-table.

3. The things I do in the evening.

4. My friend Mike’s coming to my place.

5. The things I do in the morning.

6. Going to bed.

7. The things I do during breaks.

8. Getting to the University.

9. Staying at the University after my classes.

10. Doing my homework.

11. Read Text 1b again. Give a brief outline of the information each paragraph contains.

TEXT 1C

Studying away from home

1. My name is Helen. I came to Belgorod two months ago because I want to be a professional civil engineer, and the best higher educational institution in this field is here in Belgorod. I’m doing a civil engineering course at the Belgorod State Technological University, which is very hard work, but I’m really enjoying it. The course is very interesting. I’m living with another girl in a flat in Popov street. We rent this flat from my parents’ friends. It’s small, but it’s comfortable. My boyfriend, Nick, lives in the same street with his parents. They are very kind, and often cook meals for me.

2. I know my parents are worried about me living in Belgorod, but it is very safe here. It’s so exciting in Belgorod, there is so much to do and see. It was difficult in the beginning, especially getting to know this city, and I didn’t know many people, but it’s fine now. I have a lot of good friends. I love my Mum and Dad very much, but I don’t want to live at home for the rest of my life. I phone home every Sunday, and I regularly send them letters. Mum reads them, but I don’t know if Dad does.