III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. The clear date of foundation of Oxford is 1096.

2. The University never had a tradition of international scholarship.

3. A magister scolarum Oxonie was the first person on whom the title of Chancellor was conferred at the beginning of the XII century.

4. The establishment of primitive halls of residence was stimulated by close friendship between students and townspeople.

5. Oxford had achieved eminence above every other seat of learning in the XIV century.

6. The services by distinguished Oxford graduates were of great importance to the state.

7. Oxford became a centre for lively controversy, with scholars having their own points of view.

8. Henry VIII wanted to be with his wife Catherine of Aragon for the rest of his life.

9. The University stood for Royal family in the Civil War.

10. The 18th century was an era of scientific discovery and religious revival of Oxford.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. What is Oxford?

2. When did the teaching process begin at Oxford?

3. What event initiated the University's tradition of international scholarship?

4. Who was the first Chancellor of Oxford?

5. What event caused the establishment of primitive halls of residence of Oxford?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1	The 18th century	a	and historic institution.
2	Scholars were involved in	b	was an era of scientific discovery and religious revival.
3	Oxford had achieved eminence	c	religious and political disputes.
4	The first of Oxford's colleges	d	above every other seat of learning.
5	Oxford is a unique	e	began as medieval “halls of residence”.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 8. Public colleges and universities

Ι. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

To support - підтримувати, to appropriate - надавати, partially - частково, an endowment - пожертвування, a gift - подарунок, to own - мати, municipal - муніципальний.

II. Listen to the text: Public Colleges and Universities

A public institution is support­ed by public funds. It's owned and operated by the government, either state or municipal government. The government appropriates large sums of money for the institution's expenses. Yet these sums are nor­mally not sufficient to cover all ex­penses, and so the institution is partially dependent on student fees and on gifts.

The first state university was the University of Virginia, founded in 1819. Some state universities have large endowment funds which pro­vide a substantial portion of their support. Other sources of income are student fees, gifts and endowments.

Forty-one per cent of high school graduates go to college. Students pay tuition to study at public and private universities. Some of them have scholarships to help with the cost of tuition. Even with a scholarship, higher education is very expensive; many families take out loans to pay for their children's college education. The USA now has about 3,331 accredited colleges and universities. They offer such a great variety of requirements for admission and so many different types of programs that foreign visitors usually have some difficulty identifying American colleges and universities with those of their own countries.

Community colleges offer, first, studies leading to technical and semi-professional occupations, and second, studies which prepare students for four-year degree granting institutions. As a result, they enroll students with a wide range of abilities and interests.

Of the nation's nearly 1,900 in­stitutions of higher learning rough­ly one-third are state or city insti­tutions. About 1,200 are privately controlled. Approximately 700 of these are controlled by religious groups. Less than half of these in­stitutions are liberal art colleges and universities which stress the languages, history, science and philosophy. The rest, are profes­sional and technological schools and junior colleges.