2. Read and translate the text and then tell the group about Canadian Universities. Canadian Universities

Canadian Universities are educational institutions attended after at least 12 years of school for studies leading to a degree or research.

Universities offer a wide variety of educational programs. Some are large, providing a full spectrum of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Others give specialized education in fields such as business, engineering or agriculture. Architecture, education, medicine, law, and dentistry are fields where the first professional degree is considered an undergraduate program.

Undergraduate programs leading to a bachelor’s degree generally require three or four years of full-time study, depending on the province. All 90 universities run three or four year bachelor degree programs; most offer one or two year Master’s degree and a number also offer doctoral PhD programs. Some universities are called colleges, and a few are called institutes, school or polytechnics.

Universities usually admit students for a school year that starts in September and ends in May. Those universities on a semester or trimesters system will also admit students for a school year starting in January and/or May. Many also offer select courses during the summer session in June, July and August.

Students have the opportunity to combine academic study with work experience by spending one term on campus followed by another term of full-time work at a job related to the field of study.

There is distance education. Courses and complete degrees, taught by correspondence, teleconference, audiotapes, cable television broadcast and computer conferencing are all part of distance education programs at Canadian universities.

2. Read and translate the sentences. Pay attention to prepositions of time: at, on, in. Learn and memorize their usage.

1. 1. He usually leaves work at five o’clock. 2. I don’t like going out at night. 3. I am busy at the moment. 4. Ann and I arrived at the same time. 5. Tom left school at the age of 16.

2. 1. We have our English lesson on Friday. 2. I usually go out on Monday evenings. 3. The first term begins on 1 September (the first of September).

3. 1. Shakespeare was born in 1564. 2. The train will be leaving in a few minutes. 3. He’ll be back in a week. 4. I’ll see you in the morning. (but “I’ll see you on Friday morning.”) 5. We like to ski in winter.

2. Put in the correct prepositions: at, on or in. Translate the sentences.

Example: The concert starts at 7.45 .

1. I learnt to drive … four weeks. 2. I went to bed … midnight and got up … 6.30 next morning. 3. Mozart was born in Salzburg … 1756. 4. I’ll phone you … Tuesday morning … about 10 o’clock. 5. I like walking round the town … night. 6. I’m just going out to do some shopping. I’ll be back … half an hour. 7. I might not be at home … the morning. Can you phone … the afternoon instead?

Unit 3

Texts: 1. Our Physics Laboratory. 2. Ship Model Tests. 3. Changing Weather. 4. Weather Extremes. 5. Climate and Weather. 6. What is Weather?

Grammar: The Passive: Present, Past and Future Simple. Degrees of Comparison. Substitutes one (ones), that (those).