- •Учебное пособие
- •Learning foreign languages
- •Answer the questions.
- •Read the dialogue and express the opinion “why do you learn foreign language?” Why Do You Learn Foreign Language?
- •Translate these sentences into English.
- •Make up you own dialogue about learning foreign languages.
- •Now you begin an institute course of English. It is very important to know what you think about it. Is it necessary for a future economist (engineer) to study a foreign language?
- •To express your opinion
- •To agree with somebody
- •To disagree with somebody
- •The history of the english language
- •Exercises
- •Answer the questions.
- •Complete the sentences.
- •Make up a plan for retelling the text, pointing out the main historical events.
- •Retell what you’ve learnt about the history of the English Language. History of education
- •Egypt [`iʤipt] – Egyptian [I`ʤip∫n]
- •China [`t∫ain]– Chinese [`t∫ai`ni:z] Greece [gri:s]– Greek
- •Education in russia
- •Read the translation of the first two paragraphs given below. Compare it with the original and say if everything is right.
- •Answer the questions:
- •Higher education in russia.
- •Exercises
- •Answer the questions:
- •Our university.
- •Exercises
- •Pay special attention to the pronunciation of the following words:
- •Find in the text sentences with Passive Voice.
- •Make up general and tail questions to the sentences:
- •Retell the text using the plan:
- •My study at the university Exercises
- •Answer the questions:
- •Higher education in great britain
- •Exercises
- •Remember the words and word-combinations.
- •Pay attention to the reading of the following words:
- •Translate into English
- •Answer the questions:
- •Make up a story about the system of Higher education in the u.K.
- •Use the situations in the conversation:
- •Words and Expressions
- •Try to arrange the Universities in chronological order.
- •Read the text and test yourself, write out the dates of foundation.
- •Read the text and find English equivalents of the next Russian word-combinations.
- •Complete the following sentences:
- •Oxford and cambridge
- •References
- •Exercises
- •Find the equivalents to the English expressions in the right-hand column.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Fill in the gaps.
- •Fill in the table.
- •What tradition is popular to the students at Сambridge?
- •What are students "sconced" (штрафоваться) for?
- •What do the so-called "Bulldogs" do if a student whom they come up to runs away?
- •What students' societies are there at Cambridge and which is the most popular one?
- •The oxford and cambridge boat race
- •Exercises
- •Find in the text English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:
- •1. Skim through the text and say which of its paragraphs gives the information about:
- •2. Find sentences with the following words and phrases in the text and translate them into Russian:
- •Find answers to the following questions in the text:
- •American Universities and Colleges.
- •Exercises
- •Answer the questions:
- •Read the text again and decide if the following statements are true or fаlse:
- •Translate into English.
- •Чего стоит знаменитый Гарвард
- •Приложение the united states of america
- •Who can be elected
- •Great britain
- •Great britain
- •What was for you new in this text? Explain why
- •Australia
- •New zealand
Answer the questions.
What does Oxbridge mean?
Which of them is older?
What makes these universities quite different from any other?
How long is the course of study?
What is the function of the University?
Fill in the gaps.
Only ... people send their children to Oxbridge.
Each college is ... and ... .
The university is an administrative body, which ... .
Chancellor is elected for ... .
Proctor's job is to ... .
The largest colleges have ... students.
Oxford as a city had existed for at least... years.
The first regular quadrangle had … College.
The most popular sports is ... .
All the students have to wear... .
Fill in the table.
University |
The time of foundation |
Number of colleges |
The oldest college |
The most famous college |
The main characteristic feature |
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Make up a dialogue about your study at the University. One of you will be a student of Oxford, the other – of Cambridge.
Ask questions to the text and use them as a plan for retelling. Retell the text.
STUDENT’S LIFE AT OXBRIDGE
What tradition is popular to the students at Сambridge?
In two weeks I shall finish my first year at Cambridge. Let me tell you something about students' life and my impressions of it.
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The students are mainly English, but there are many others, particularly so in the block of rooms in which I live, for my neighbours include a Chinese studying law, an Indian studying English, a Canadian studying history and a Frenchman studying science.
The rooms have a pleasant outlook over the College gardens. There is a very small gas-stove on which we make coffee or tea. It is a popular tradition here to invite friends in the afternoon for tea and hot buttered toast' and jam. To each room there is a man-servant who with a woman-servant, known as a "bedder",2 keep it clean.
What are students "sconced" (штрафоваться) for?
In the old days when Colleges were religious institutions the students were clergymen (священник), and their life was much more strict and disciplined than now. Friendship with young ladies was not allowed and the only women inside the college were washerwomen. The legend is that these had to be "old and ugly" (уродливые).
The students eat their meals in the College dining-hall. At some Colleges there is an interesting tradition. It is known as "sconcing".3 If a student comes late to dinner or he is not correctly dressed, or if he breaks one of the laws (закон) of behaviour, then the senior student orders him to be "sconced".
A large silver cup, known as "sconce cup", filled with beer is brought and placed in front of him and he must drink it in one attempt without taking the cup from his lips (it holds two and a half pints, or 1.5 litres). If he can do it, then the senior student pays for it, if not, the cup is passed round and the student who has been "sconced" must pay for it. In general the discipline is not strict.