- •University
- •1.8. Read an extract from the vocabulary entry ‘School’. It is taken from Roget’s Thesaurus of English words and expression. Discuss why all these words appeared under the same headline.
- •1) The structure2 of Vilnius University
- •2) The structure of the Belarusian State University
- •3) The structure of the Faculty
- •Chart 1. The Structure of Vilnius University
- •Chart 2. The Structure of the Belarusian State University
- •Chart 3. Faculty Structure
- •3.3. Examine Chart 4 and comment on a possible career of a student, if one chooses the academic field. Use the following structure in your comments:
- •Chart 4. Academic Career
- •3.5. Each of sciences has a definite code of majors. Find a proof that specializations presented in Table 2 belong to philological sciences.
- •Informational texts
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- •1St term
- •2Nd year
- •3Rd term
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- •4.2. Which of informational texts from task 4.1. Do you need, if:
- •4.5. Recall the announcements you have read recently in your university (faculty, institute). Share the information you have received with your classmates in English.
- •4.6. Read the General Note about proper communication patterns accepted in university surroundings.
- •6.6. Fill in the Self-Assessment Checklist:
- •Self assesment checklist
1) The structure2 of Vilnius University
2) The structure of the Belarusian State University
3) The structure of the Faculty
Draw your own сhart on four level structure of the university as a higher educational establishment.
Chart 1. The Structure of Vilnius University
Chart 2. The Structure of the Belarusian State University
Chart 3. Faculty Structure
3.2. Using your chart as a Semantic Map (see Appendix C) and charts 1 – 3 as Vocabulary Map to retell who works and studies at the university. If you need to refresh your knowledge on how names of professions and jobs are formed, go to Supplementary Material, Grammar Focus. Noun forming Suffixes Section (p…..).
3.3. Examine Chart 4 and comment on a possible career of a student, if one chooses the academic field. Use the following structure in your comments:
If a student |
continues writes defends … |
} |
…, |
s/he’ll |
get become … |
} |
… |
Chart 4. Academic Career
3.4. Listen to and repeat after the speaker the names of sciences registered by academician structures (Table 1) and fill the right column of the table with the names of the faculties at which these sciences are studied at your university.
Table 1
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Codes – names of sciences
Names of faculties
01.00.00 – Physical and mathematical, sciences;
02.00.00 – Chemical sciences;
03.00.00 – Biological sciences;
05.00.00 – Technical sciences
06.00.00 – Agricultural sciences
07.00.00 – Historical sciences
08.00.00 – Economic sciences
09.00.00 – Philosophical sciences
10.00.00 – Philological sciences
12.00.00 – Juridical sciences
13.00.00 – Pedagogical sciences
14.00.00 – Medical sciences
15.00.00 – Pharmaceutical sciences
16.00.00 – Veterinary sciences
17.00.00 – Art criticism
18.00.00 – Architecture
19.00.00 – Psychological sciences
22.00.00 – Sociological sciences
23.00.00 – Political sciences
24.00.00 – Cultural studies
25.00.00 – Earth sciences
3.5. Each of sciences has a definite code of majors. Find a proof that specializations presented in Table 2 belong to philological sciences.
Table 2
Codes – names of philological specializations |
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10.01.01 – Belarusian literature; 10.01.02 – Russian literature; 10.01.03 – Foreign literature; 10.01.08 – Theory of literature; Textology; 10.01.09 – Folklore studies; 10.01.10 – Journalism;
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10.02.01 – Belarusian language 10.02.02 – Russian language 10.02.03 – Slavic languages 10.02.04 – Germanic languages 10.02.05 – Romanic languages 10.02.19 – Language theory 10.02.20 – Historical, Typological and Contrastive 10.02.21 – Applied and Mathematical Linguistics |
Searching for information and interacting in university space |
4.1. Look through four informational texts on the university world (pages 104– 107) and match them with the following headlines: Announcement, Office Hours of University Administration, (Induction) Timetable, Studies Programme. (Do it very quickly as you are given five 5 minutes at maximum).