1. Using this materials make up the story about your Faculty.

5. Grammar exercises

5.1 Make these sentences in Past Indefinite and Future Indefinite using the words last/next week; last/next year; tomorrow; yesterday etc.

1. We are students of Orenburg State University.

2. You are late for a lecture.

3. Students have five exams in January.

4. We have some English magazines.

5. There is a large reading-room in our University.

6. There are twenty students in our group.

7. We study six days a week.

8. I go to the University every day.

9. My friend lives in s hostel.

10. We have four lectures every day.

Give the correct form of the verbs to be, to have.

1. There … many Universities in Russia.

2. Orenburg State University … one of the biggest classical universities in Russia.

3. OSU … founded in 1971.

4. The University … a full – time, part –time and correspondence department.

5. In 1965 students … offered day-time courses.

6. The university campus … about 291 000 square meters.

7. There … laboratories, workshops, new library, the palace of culture and sport in our University.

8. There … 16 faculties at the Orenburg State University.

9. Most of laboratories … equipped with modern devices.

10. The library … a great number of books and magazines in all brunches of science and technology.

Work in pairs. Make up questions and let your friend answer them

Example: study English/ study French (your friend)

Does your friend study English or French?

She studies French.

1. borrow books from the University library/ the local library (you)

2. write dictation every week/ once a month (students)

3. to live in a hostel/ to rent a room (your friend)

4. like pop music/ jazz (you)

5. like skiing/ skating better (you)

6. live in the center of the city/ in a new district (you friend)

Insert do or does.

1. She (not) study Japanese.

2. …you often go to the library?

3. … you promise to help me?

4. They (not) visit their friends every weekend.

5. He (not) pass his exam in English.

6. I (not) know his new address.

7. … he enter the University this year?

8. … they like their new flat?

9. … students get grants?

10. Student (not) ask the lecture many questions.

Put the sentences in the correct order to make the conversation.

a_ I spoke English. But it was not easy.

b_ Yes, I have.

c_ When did it happen?

d_ Have you ever spoken at a large meeting?

e_ Last year at school. It was a meeting with our exchange partners from the

UK.

f_ Did you speak Russian or English?

Read dialogs and reproduce them in pairs.

1. What were the main types of secondary schools in England until recently?

2. Well, there were three main types of secondary schools: grammar schools, technical schools and modern schools.

1. Do these three types still exist?

2. Yes, they do, but their number is decreasing.

1. Is it? Why?

2. You see, they are being replaced by a new type secondary schools, called Comprehensive schools.

1. Does it mean that comprehensive schools are better?

2. Yes, as a matter of fact, they are.

1. And what is it that makes them better?

2. Well, to begin with, they are large schools, and so they give a much wider range of subjects than smaller schools.

1. I see. So they give a better choice to teenagers, don’t they?

2. Yes, in comprehensive schools teenagers can choose a course of studies according to their individual abilities.