2.6 Listening

2.6.1 Listen to the recording and answer the questions

1 Why did the football coach want the dean to let the student enter college without an examination?

2 What question did the dean ask the student?

3 What was the student's answer?

4 What did the dean do then?

2.6.2 Listen to the recording and choose the correct answers to these questions

1 Did the students in this story know in advance when a new girlfriend was going to visit one of their friends?

a. Yes, they did.

b. No, they didn't

2 What did they usually do then?

a. They changed all the student's furniture around.

b. They removed the student's furniture from the room.

3 What would the girlfriend find when she arrived?

a. She would find that the chairs were too uncomfortable to sit on.

b. She would find that there were no chairs.

4 What did Ted Jones decide to do when he heard about this?

a. He decided to lock his door.

b. He decided to take his door away.

5 What did his girlfriend find when she arrived?

a. That all the furniture had been taken away.

b. That the door of Ted's room was missing.

2.6.3 Listen to the recording. Draw lines from the words on the left to the correct words on the right. Then write out the five complete sentences

1 George and Carol 2 One of the medical lectures 3 Smoking 4 The professor 5 The skeleton

a) advised the skeleton to stop smoking and give up students. b) put a cigarette in the skeleton's mouth. c) was used for medical lectures. d) was disapproved of by the professors. e) was about bones.

2.7 Discussion

2.7.1 Think about these questions (with your partner). Present your ideas to the class

2.7.1.1 Here are the ten subjects which, according to the national curriculum for England, must be taught in the first three years of secondary education: English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, History, Geography, a modern foreign language (French is the most common), Art, Music and Physical Education (PE). Is there anything here that surprises you? Do you think any other subjects should be included? Are these the main subjects taught in your country?

2.7.1.2 What would you say¹ are the successes and failures of the Russian educational system? What thing, if any, does it appear to do well, and what areas does it seem to neglect or do badly in?

2.7.2 Practice your communicative skills

You meet (receive) students from Britain (the USA) at your university. You describe the structure of the university, the system of higher education in Russia. You talk about the life of students.

2.8 Dialogues

2.8.1 Read the dialogues. Act them out making necessary changes and additions

A - I see your university is a rather new one.

- Yes, it was founded twenty years ago becoming the twelfth higher educational establishment in the city.

• How many faculties are there in your university and what is the total number of students involved in all forms of studies?

• About eight thousand students study in eight faculties.

• Do students in Russia pay tuition?

• Some forms of education are free of charge. Students of higher and secondary specialized educational establishments get grants. Though nowadays there are a lot of new educational forms, for instance, business schools, where tuition is paid by the students.

В - What subjects do students take at the university?

• It depends on the faculty and the year they are in.

• Well, let's say the first year at the faculty of language and literature.

• Among the subjects studied in the first year are: linguistics, languages(Russian, Latin and foreign), literature, ethnography, political sciences, physical training.

С - Your institute has a large campus.

• Yes, rather. Here is the administrative building. Father and behind it there are four teaching blocks. The library and the students' hostel are on your left.

• Yes, the institute was planned and built as a single separate complex on the outskirts of the city.

D - How do university students spend their summer holidays?

-In different ways. Some return home, some stay at the students' camp for a few weeks, some join together in building teams and go to the countryside and some work at restaurants.

• What about sports, hobbies, music and dance?

• Well, I think those things always come first.

• Thank you for your reception. You've shown and explained to us a lot of things. You must be tired, let's call it a day (закончим на этом). We’ll meet this evening at the club, shan’t we?

E - Did you pass all your session exams?

- Yes. I could hardly manage them. I was sure I would fail at least two of them.

- The trouble is you can’t work all day and play all night.

- But I don’t. I sat up late and worked at night for the last two weeks.

• Studying all night isn't good either. You need your rest, too.

• I took a short sleep every few hours.

• Well, well. You should be serious about your studies at the university. It isn't a playground, you know.

F - I enjoyed yesterday's lecture very much. The speaker really knew his subject, didn't he?

• Yes, he covered it from A to Z, giving the audience convincing arguments and examples.

• We're lucky we can listen to such lectures- people who aren't afraid to come out with new ideas.