- •Київський університет права
- •Англійська мова для юристів-міжнародників
- •Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- •Breaking New Ground
- •Reading 2: Read the text and get ready to define whether the following statements are true or false:
- •Stanford Law School
- •Вища освіта за кордоном
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Task 4. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English:
- •Structure of the United Nations
- •Language Focus
- •1. Advice / advise
- •2. Censure / censor
- •3. Council / counsel
- •Appendix 1
- •The Charter of the United Nations
- •Chapter I: purposes and principles
- •Article 1
- •The Purposes of the United Nations are:
- •Article 2
- •Appendix 2
- •Article 38
- •Active vocabulary
- •Human Rights
- •In every moment play your part!
- •If obstacles happen on the way,
- •Language Focus
- •Word-formation
- •Prepositions
- •Appendix 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (udhr)
- •Active Vocabulary
- •More about the European Union:
- •Task 5. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English:
- •Language Focus
- •Active vocabulary
- •Make-up of a business letter
- •Lesson 1
- •1. Letterhead
- •2. Sender's (return) address
- •3. Date
- •4. Inside address
- •5. Opening salutation
- •6. Closing salutation
- •7. Signature
- •Supplements in official and business letters
- •1. Attention line
- •2. Subject line
- •3. Reference initials
- •4. Enclosure notation
- •5. Copy notation
- •6. Envelope
- •Lesson 2 body of a letter
- •Exercises
- •Active Vocabolary
- •Language focus
- •— “A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.” — “When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.”
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2 Properly dressed woman in diplomacy and business
- •10 Golden rules
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I. Letters of credence and letters of recall
- •Assignments
- •II. Verbale notes, personal notes and circular notes
- •Verbal Notes
- •Assignments
- •II. Personal Notes
- •III. Circular notes.
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2
- •Appendix 3
- •III. Treaties
- •Assignments
- •Treaty on the European Union
- •Про громадянські і політичні права
- •Treaty Establishing the European Community
- •IV. Agrément
- •Assignments
- •Interoffice memoranda
- •Assignments
- •Interoffice memorandum
- •Final instruments of intergovernmental negotiations and visits: communiqués and (joint) statemets
- •Joint Communiqués
- •Assignments
- •Active Vocabolary
Breaking New Ground
Scottish universities broke new ground this year, as the Edinburgh-based Heriot-Watt University completed a 35 million pound (42 million euro) extension to its Dubai campus. Meanwhile, Heriot-Watt’s west coast rival, the Glasgow Caledonian University, opened a campus in London as well as a nursing college in Bangladesh. And the Edinburgh Napier University, which already has an office in India, recently started a biofuel-research centre in Hong Kong. The universities are following international trends to attract foreign students and, in the face of major cuts to public funding, to find new sources of income.
The Heriot-Watt Dubai campus is being extended to meet growing demand for British education in the region. It will include an auditorium for 800 people, engineering laboratories, ICT labs with videoconferencing facilities and state-of-the-art fashion and design studios. The head of international development, Ruth Moir, says that, while the move is part of a campaign to become more independent of public money, “providing high-quality education is our priority”.
The Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is the first Scottish university to open a campus in England. In September, the GCU London began delivering the university’s specialist postgraduate courses in finance, risk management and fashion – mainly to international students.
The head of communications, Alison Arnot, says the university felt it would be better able to attract international students if it could offer an option to study in London. Academics from the Glasgow campus will travel to London to teach. And the university is also using its English campus to attract academics who want to live in London, but who will also teach in Glasgow. Arnot says the university, which already operates the Caledonian College of Engineering in Oman, hopes income from the London campus will help it with its social mission. “We use our skills not just to help individuals, but to help the wider society”, says Arnot.
GCU, which has good connections to Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace-prize winner, is currently talking to the Scottish government about opening the first Grameen microfinance bank in the UK, in Sighthill, an Edinburgh suburb. The bank, based upon a model developed by Yunus in Bangladesh, provides mini-loans to the poorest in society, to help them start businesses.
Also working closely with the Grameen organisation, the GCU recently opened the Grameen Caledonian Nursing College in Bangladesh for daughters of Grameen Bank clients. Bangladesh currently trains more doctors than nurses.
Earlier this year, Edinburgh’s Napier University, which started Britain’s first biofuel-research centre to focus on developing sustainable biofuel, opened a similar centre in Hong Kong. Last year, the university opened an office in Hyderabad, India, to coordinate the recruiting of students for the Edinburgh campus. It is also exploring the possibility of setting up a campus in Hyderabad in partnership with local institutions.
Task 4. In the future you might want to continue your education abroad. In this case you will have to take a TOEFL test. Study the following TOEFL sample essay on the topic Why go to university? and write your own one:
A university degree often helps a person achieve his goal with more ease. However, do we attend university just in pursuit of a degree? Does a university only provide us nothing beneficial besides a paper-made diploma? As far as I am concerned, we enjoy university education in the following aspects.
Firstly, with the knowledge learned at the university, we will have a deep understanding of our society. It is true that genuine knowledge comes from practice, but it cannot be denied that genuine knowledge tells us how to practice. A systematic study at a college or a university, of course, enables us to realize how the society works and how to cope with certain problems arising from it in a more efficient, and skillful way.
Second, a university education usually makes it possible that we get hold of a decent job. As a result of the accomplishment of a four-year study, it is not difficult for us to find a good job in most cases. How can we imagine that a graduate majoring in astronomy has to be a vendor in the street! No doubt, he/she should sit in his/her laboratory, doing research on aircraft science before a computer. Obviously, a university education assures him/her a decent job.
Last, but not the least, we can help others much better if we put what we have learned at the university into practice. A university education fortifies our values, enhances our skills and broadens our horizons. With those, we are more capable of giving a hand to those who are in need of help than ever before.
Knowledge is power. When achieving a degree at the university, we can get a better understanding of the society, find a decent job in an easy way and help others better. All of those are due to the knowledge obtained at the university.