My future speciality

Completing my schooling like all my peers I was lost in thoughts where to continue my education.

The education market today is more diversified than it used to be and at the same time you have to choose the very program to meet your professional and personal goals. I wanted both: first –rate knowledge and emotionally secure atmosphere.

Having heard much about the Odessa National Academy of Law, I felt really happy when learnt about the Cherkasy branch of it.

My first visit to Chercasy Educational Centre of the Odessa National Academy of Law left a lasting impression on me. The 4-storey building turned out to be rather cosy and inviting inside. The people around were all- smiling, attentive to all my questions. So I applied, passed the entrance examinations and was very happy when I knew I was accepted.

Our classes are very interesting as the teaching staff here is highly- qualified. The teaching styles of different teachers are very different that makes the process of studying even more interesting. We feel free to express our vision of the problem. The teachers treat us with respect, don’t sound instructive, they are our advisors. Our sessions are taught in a comfortable, easy- going manner and we often lose the track of time. We must stay up late to catch up all the loose ends.

I know that to reach the pinnacle of the career, have access to fresh and hot information resources you are bound to know English. As we are expected to read, write and communicate English orally with high degree of proficiency the lion share of budget costs is allotted for English lessons.

Nowadays when our economy is transforming on the free market principles the profession I want to be in is very important. So I have to work really hard, but sometimes I feel frustrated and ready to give up. Then my teacher gives me a hand, I catch my breath, pull myself together and say “Go ahead”. Rome was not built in a day. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Ex.4 Match the words and word-combinations with the Ukrainian equivalents:

Example: highly- qualified staff - висококваліфікований викладацький склад

a)

highly- qualified staff досягти вершини

to reach the pinnacle відноситись з повагою

to treat with respect здатись, відмовитись від

to catch up all the loose ends висококваліфікований

викладацький склад

a lion share of budget левова частка коштів

to give up „підтягти хвости”

b)

to be lost in thoughts перевести подих

to turn out почуватись розчаровано

pull oneself together поринути в роздуми

to leave a lasting impression зібратись з силами

feel frustrated залишати тривале враження

to catch breath виявитись

Ex.5 Match the following words to make up word-combinations according to the text “My future speciality”

a) Complete goals

education market

personal impression

first-rate schooling

to leave exams

to pass knowledge

b) teaching free

to feel respect

to treat with late

easy-going staff

to stay up share

the lion manner

Ex. 6 Answer the questions:

Example: What was your first impression of the Academy? - My first visit left a lasting impression on me. The 4-storey building turned out to be rather cozy and inviting inside. The people around were all- smiling, attentive to all my questions. On the walls of the light halls I read a lot of interesting information about the University.

1. Were your parents happy with your choice of a career?

2. What were your plans for future while being at school?

3. What do you expect from your education at the Academy?

4. How do you feel at the classes?

5. Why do you study English?

Ex. 7 Continue the sentences according to the text above:

1. The education market today is…

2. Like all my peers I …

3. I felt really happy when …

4. The 4-storey building turned out …

5. The teaching staff here is …

6. Our sessions are …

7. The lion share of budget costs is …

8. The profession I want to be in is …

Ex.8 Translate into English:

1. Закінчуючи навчання в школі, як і всі мої ровесники, я поринув у роздуми, де продовжувати свою освіту.

2. Мені потрібні як якісні знання, так і емоційно-спокійна атмосфера.

3. Чотириповерхова будівля виявилась досить затишною всередині.

4. Я подав документи, склав вступні іспити і був неймовірно щасливий, коли дізнався, що мене зарахували.

5. Методика викладання різних викладачів дуже відрізняється, завдяки чому навчальний процес стає цікавішим.

6. Наші сесії проходять у комфортній, легкій атмосфері, та ми часто втрачаємо вагон часу.

7. Ми мусимо не лягати спати до пізньої ночі, щоб «підтягти усі свої хвости».

8. Зараз, коли наша економіка в процесі переходу до принципів вільного ринку, професія, яку я хочу здобути, дуже важлива.

Ex.9 Paraphrase the following word-combinations using Possessive case of nouns:

The questions of the professor the parents of Sergiy Petrenko

The poems of Pushkin the new office of lawyers

The life of this man the hobby of these gentlemen

The mark of our student the documents of the investigator

the uniform of the policemen The lawyers of the Appellate Court

Ex.10 Fill in the blanks with the possessive forms of the nouns:

1. …friend is at the counter (Al). 2. …problems are interesting to any writer (people). 3. The … skin is red (fox). 4. The …life is in danger (child). 5. The ….fur is grey (mice). 6. …decisions are very difficult from women’s (men). Alison’s University is a bit far from …(Mike).