- •Английский язык
- •«Наш институт»
- •Оглавление
- •Пояснительная записка
- •Our institute phonetic and lexical exercises
- •I. A) Read the following:
- •II. Build up your vocabulary:
- •III. Read the following words and word combinations. Give their Russian equivalents:
- •IV. Match the English words and word combinations given below with their Russian equivalents:
- •V. Express a similar idea by using the synonymic expression “to make up one’s mind”:
- •VI. Intensify the idea of liking by using “to be fond of”:
- •VII. Intensify the idea by using the construction “one can’t help doing smth”:
- •VIII. Intensify the idea by adding“It goes without saying” at the beginning of each of the given sentences:
- •IX. Give sentences with the construction “to take part” using the following words:
- •X. Give sentences with the construction “to go in for” and “to be good at” using the following words. Explain their meaning:
- •XI. Complete the following sentences:
- •XII. Think of situations using the following words and word combinations:
- •XIII. Make up sentences using the following word combinations:
- •Grammar exercises The Verb. Active Voice.
- •I. Use the Present Simple or the Present Continuous instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •II. Use the Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •III. Use the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect Continuous instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •IV. Use the Past Simple or the Present Perfect instead of the infinitives in brackets:
- •V. Use the required tense (Present and Past Simple, Present and Past Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous):
- •VI. Use the required tense:
- •VII. Translate the following into English:
- •VIII. Translate the following into English:
- •Reading practice text I.
- •I. Read and translate the text.
- •A Letter.
- •II. Answer the questions to Text I.
- •Text II.
- •I. Read and translate the text. Dialogue.
- •II. Practise the dialogue for test-reading.
- •III. Memorise and dramatize the dialogue. Text III.
- •I. Skim the text to understand what it is about. Time your reading. It is good if you can read it for 8 minutes.
- •Demidov Yaroslavl State University.
- •Text IV.
- •I. Skim the text to understand what it is about. Do the exercise given below. Extra-mural and Evening Education.
- •II. Read the statements and tell whether they are true or false.
- •Text V.
- •I. Read and translate the text. Our Institute.
- •II. Practise the text for test-reading.
- •III. Speak about your Institute.
- •Список используемой литературы:
II. Answer the questions to Text I.
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Why did Nastya keep silence so long?
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When did she leave school?
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Did she rest or prepare for her exams?
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Why did Nastya make up her mind to enter the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys?
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How many exams did she take?
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Did she pass her exams with excellent or good marks?
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Is the Institute large?
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When did the first students enter it?
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Is its main building old or modern?
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What is the main building made of?
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There are good gyms and a stadium for those who go in for sports, aren’t there?
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What engineers does the institute train?
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What subjects do the first-year students study?
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What club is there at the faculty?
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What opportunity does the English speaking club give to the students?
Text II.
I. Read and translate the text. Dialogue.
B: Oh, Alex, I haven’t seen you for ages. How are you?
A: Quite all right, thank you. I’m so happy, I’ve entered this Institute.
B: As far as I know you’ve passed all your entrance exams with excellent marks. So you’re a student, aren’t you?
A: Yes! But what about you?
B: I wasn’t very lucky at the exams. I only got good marks in the main subjects: Physics and Maths.
A: Don’t you find it difficult to study Maths?
B: Rather. I spend a lot of time doing my home tasks. But I’m not at all sorry. You’ve got to work hard to make good progress.
A: Do you have time to go in for sports?
B: Yes, of course, I joined the Institute sport society as I’m fond of skating, skiing and tennis.
A: As for me, I’m a member of our English speaking club. I’ve joined our drama society and the choir. They say I’m rather good at both singing and acting.
B: Hope to see you some day . Will you invite me to your party?
A: Sure. Excuse me but I must be off. Today our group is having a test, we must prepare for it.
B: So long then!
A: So long!
II. Practise the dialogue for test-reading.
III. Memorise and dramatize the dialogue. Text III.
I. Skim the text to understand what it is about. Time your reading. It is good if you can read it for 8 minutes.
Demidov Yaroslavl State University.
Yaroslavl University is a state-financed educational institution. It offers five-year programs of a full higher professional education with a qualification awarded. The university graduates get a standard state diploma of higher education and qualification.
Yaroslavl University also supports programs of the post-graduate professional education, additional professional education and further training of specialists.
Yaroslavl State University begins its history from 1803 when the local noble P.G. Demidov founded the College for Higher Sciences in this provincial town on the Volga, later Demidov Juridical Lyceum. Among the first rectors were M.M. Maykov, a well-known poet and fable-writer; N.M. Konshin, a Moscow poet-romantic; among its best teachers I.I. Sreznevsky, F.I. Shmidt, S.A. Vilensky, A.A. Zinovyev who had taught the great Russian poet M.Y. Lermontov at the boarding-school, distinguished Russian pedagogue K.D. Ushinsky and many others. One could find the Liceum’s graduates among publicists, writers, dramatists, for instance, A.F. Pisemsky, K.D. Balmont, M. Bogdanovich and others.
For the 30 years of its modern history (since 1970 when it was reopened for the second time) the University has become one of the leading centres of education, science and culture at the Upper Volga region.
Nowadays scientists of different generations work and create here; those who were present at its third birth and those who were its first graduates and now became eminent professors and lectures.
Reputable scientific schools of priority directions of fundamental science have been formed at the University that has the leading role in developing telecom networks and creating data bases providing access to home and world information structures.
About 4.000 boys and girls study at the Yaroslavl State University annually, 3.000 full-time students included. More than 10.000 highly-qualified specialists have graduated from the University since 1970.
Of 360 teachers 240 have academic degrees and titles, among them there are 47 doctors of science, professors, 17 are full members and member-correspondents of different academies of science, both home and foreign ones. Since 1993 Yaroslavl State University has been a full Member of Eurasian Association of Universities, since 1995 of the European Association of Universities (CRE), the International Association of University Presidents.
G.S. Mironov, rector of the University, is an Honored Man of Science and Engineering of the Russian Federation (RF), Member of the MAS and HS and Academy of Technological Sciences of the RF, Doctor of Chemistry, Professor.
In the anniversary year of 1995 according to the degree of the Governor of the Yaroslavl region, Yaroslavl State University was given the name of its founder P.G. Demidov.
The University is a non-campus establishment, its faculties or schools being scattered in different districts of the city, but most of the buildings are in the historical part of Yaroslavl which can be called the pearl of the Golden Ring of Russia.
The structure of the Yaroslavl University contains 9 faculties, 39 departments, scientific and research sector, computer centre, new information technologies centre, biological station, centre for the creation of the telecommunication network in Yaroslavl, health and sport camp.