1.7. Follow-up

Students’ Life (Funny Stories)

Read and translate the anecdote. Tell your group an anecdote or a funny story about students’ life:

A wise schoolteacher sends this note to all parents on the first day of school: "If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything they say happens at home!”

Unit 3. Our academy. Pharmaceutical education abroad

This unit includes:

5. Vocabulary: university subjects, mottos;

6. Grammar: Prepositions;

7. Speaking: talking about my working day, about my schedule;

8. Writing: the usage of capital letters.

PART I. SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY

I can talk about my University

Lead – in

Exercise 1: Can you recognize an educational establishment according to it emblem?

1

1 2 3

4 5 6

1. All these emblems have one trait in common; can you guess and explain it?

2. What do you know about these Educational institutions? Give a short report.

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with one of the words or phrases given:

Monasteries "Good luck"

provisor Pharmacopoeia

educational establishments practical skills

diagnosis surgeon

European establishments

Pharmacy was born in old times when human being started to search for remedies for treatment of the ailments. First pharmacies in Europe appeared in 1100 in ………………….. Monks prepared remedies and supplied them to all needy free of charge. At the same time first prescriptions were created and they were started with the words …………………. 100 years later first city pharmacies were opened in Venice. Specialists for those pharmacies were prepared in accordance to widely acceptable methods of those times: pupil - apprentice - master. This preparation chain took 10 - 15 years (depending on abilities of each person).

But Monk's schools (where "pharmacist" was therapist, ………….., pharmacist and professor) were unable to reach scientific opportunities proposed by popular universities in Oxford, Salamanca, Prague, Heidelberg and other ………………. cities. So, peak of prime of those Universities fell on 13 century.

In 15 century first appeared term "…………………" - from Latin - foreseeing, predicting, that explains importance of the role of the pharmacists in treatment process. Doctor establishes ………………………….. and pharmacist foresees tendency of the disease and with the aid of proper medicines corrects and predetermines its course and further development. First proper ……………………….. was launched and published in 1581 in Spain.

Many time went till pharmacy become a profession and creation of the special medical …………………….. were found necessary. Hundreds of private schools and "politechnicums" were opened throughout Europe that often were headed or owned by the pharmacists. First ……………. …………………… with proper course for the pharmacists were opened in Montpelier (France), Padua, Barcelona in the middle of 16 century.

Most complete formularies about creation of the pharmacies and "pharmaceutical management" were produced at the end of 17 - beginning 19 centuries.

Practices of giving education to the pharmacists within Universities were first introduced in France and England at the beginning of 19 century. First of all education was oriented on gaining knowledge and ………………………. in manufacture and use of the medicines. But later educational courses started to include more theoretical subjects.

E

dates to beer-drinking

translations Gaudeamus

universities manuscript

popular academic song

xercise 3: Complete the text using the words and phrases: