4. Повторите предлагаемые синтагмы за диктором:

1. The only higher school in our town…

2. Not far from the Hydro Power Plant…

3. With a block of flats for teachers, hostels, workshops, educational buildings, refectory…

4. As many as thousand students…

5. The same to other Institutes of our country…

6. The students specialize in their main areas of interest…

7. During the second semester of the fifth year…

8. Either at the University or in industry…

9. The beginning of a research career…

10. It should be emphasized that…

11. Our University possesses good training facilities…

5. Прослушайте текст еще раз. Во время прослушивания старайтесь читать вместе с диктором, имитируя при этом его интонацию.

6. Повторите за диктором следующие вопросительные предложения. Обратите внимание на интонацию данных предложений. Ответьте на поставленные вопросы.

1. Where is your University situated?

2. Is the University administrated by the deans?

3. Are there eight faculties at the University?

4. What are they?

5. Each faculty is divided into departments, isn’t it?

6. What subjects do students study?

7. Are process control and computer programming included in the curriculum?

8. When do the fifth year students write a diploma thesis?

9. Can the diploma work lead to employment in industry?

10. After graduating from the University you’ll get the “Diploma in Higher Education”, won’t you?

11. Do you live at the hostel?

7. Прочитайте и переведите числительные.

9000 students

more than 10,000 students

16 faculties

8 deputy rectors

10-25 staff

a third - year student

250 rubles

500 roubles

8. Переведите следующие словосочетания на русский язык:

A school of higher learning

A block of flats

Educational building, deputy rector

Day-time courses

Extra-mural courses

The main area of interest

Environmental problem

Individual research

Written report

Research career

Training facilities

9. Поставьте вопросы к выделенным словам:

1. Bratsk is situated on the left bank of the Angara.

2. The work can be performed at the University.

3. The origin of the Bratsk University dates back to the foundation of Irkutsk Polytechnic.

4. Our University possesses good training facilities.

10. Расскажите о своем вузе.

BRATSK

1. Прочитайте и выучите слова.

go back	[o bæk]	возвращаться
inhabitants	[nhæbta:nt]	жители
fortress	[f:trs]	крепость, форт
hence	[hens]	с тех пор
place of interest	[ples vntrst]	достопримечательность
entire	[nta]	весь, полностью, целый
anniversary	[ænv:sr ]	годовщина
achievement	[:vmnt]	достижение
boarding house	[b:dŋ haus]	санаторий
among	[m ŋ]	среди

2. Прочитайте, переведите текст на русский язык.

I’d like to tell you about Bratsk. Bratsk is a Siberian town on the river Angara. The history of the developing of the Angara goes back to the 17^th century, when in 1631 the Cossacks with Maxim Perfilyev at the head built a small fortress on the right bank of the Angara. The Russian Cossacks called the local Buryat inhabitants “brotherly people” and hence the fortress became known as Bratsk.

Bratsk’s new life began in the middle of 1950s. In December 1954 first builders came here to build a new town and Hydro-Power Plant. In 1961 the first generating units of the Plant were put on line and in 1967 the entire Station went into regular commercial service.

Now Bratsk is a modern town. More than 280000 people live here. The pride of inhabitants is the 50^th Anniversary of October Hydro-Power Plant. It is the principal place of interest in Bratsk.

Bratsk is one of the industrial centres in Siberia. There are a lot of industrial enterprises here. The largest of them are Bratsk Aluminium Plant and Timber Industry Complex. The output of these enterprises is well known in the world.

Bratsk is also a cultural centre. There are two theatres in Bratsk: professional puppet theatre and drama theatre. There are a lot of cinemas and three big Palaces of Culture. If you are interested in history of Siberia and Bratsk you can visit museums. There is the Bratsk Museum of Regional Studies, Angara Village and the Museum of Labour Achievements.

Inhabitants of Bratsk have all opportunities to have a good rest. There is a great number of libraries, stadiums, swimming pools here. The Angara is also a favorite resting place. There are rest-homes, camps and boarding houses on its shores. Excellent bob-sleigh track in Bratsk is well up to the international standards.

The only trouble of Bratsk people is that Bratsk is among 10 the most polluted towns of Russia. Bratsk people hope that struggle for clean environment is the most important thing in our time.

So it is the short information about Siberian town Bratsk.

3. Научитесь правильно произносить следующие интернациональные слова.

hydro	[hadrou]
industrial	[ndstrl]
aluminium	[æljumnm]
industry	[ndstr]
cultural	[klrl]
stadium	[stædum]

4. Прочитайте текст еще раз и найдите эквиваленты a) слов и словосочетаний, b) предложений.

а) Местный, гордость, продукция, главная достопримечательность, лесопромышленный, кукольный театр, огромное количество, любимое место отдыха, промышленная эксплуатация.

b) Первый агрегат станции был запущен в 1961 году.

Здесь есть три Дворца Культуры. Казаки во главе с Максимом Перфильевым построили крепость на правом берегу Ангары.

5. Восстановите по памяти (на русском языке), в каком контексте упоминаются следующие словосочетания:

entire station

puppet theatre

to have a good rest

the only trouble

6. Прослушайте дикторскую запись указанных ниже предложений. Постарайтесь понять, какие слова и словосочетания в них отсутствуют. Повторите полные предложения.

1. There are ____________ industrial enterprises here.

2. The history of _____________ of the Angara goes back to ________.

3. Bratsk’s new life began in _________ _________.

4. _________ bob-sleigh track in Bratsk is __________ to the ________ _________ .

5. Bratsk is among 10 ___________ towns of Russia.

7. Научитесь читать следующие вопросительные предложения, имитируя интонацию диктора. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. Where is Bratsk situated?

2. What century does the history of Bratsk go back?

3. Who were the first settlers on the banks of the Angara?

4. When were the first generating units of the station put on line?

5. What are the largest industrial enterprises in Bratsk?

6. What places of interest in Bratsk do you know?

7. What is your favourite town in Russia?

8. Разделите текст на логические части и озаглавьте их.

9. Послушайте текст и ответьте на вопросы.

1. Who was Avvakum?

2. Why was he exiled?

3. Where can you see the towers of Fort now?

There is a historical legend associated with the tower in Bratsk Fort. Bratsk Fort, like many other remote parts of Siberia, was a place of banishment. Rumour has it that it was in this tower that one of the most vident schismatics of the 17th century was imprisoned for a while – the indomitable archpriest Avvakum, unfrocked, anathematised, whipped but still a militant fighter for the old belief. The second of the two towers surviving those times was taken to the Kolomenskoye Estate - museum in Moskow.

1. How many rivers flow into Baikal?

2. What did old Baikal do to stop his daughter?

I’d like to tell you a legend about the Angara. According to a legend, old Baikal was brought gifts of water by his 336 sons – large, small and tiny mountain rivers (554 according to new calculations). To counterbalance her brothers Angara, Baikal’s the only daughter, carried out into the world between her broad banks Baikal’s precious water, which had settled in the Siberian lake for 4 centuries. The Angara is a restive river. The legend of old man Baikal and his wilful daughter Angara tells how Baikal threw the Shaman Stone after his daughter as she was running to her hero Yenisei, but he failed to stop her.