- •I. Before you read:
- •1.5 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verb to be. You may continue the sentences:
- •1.6 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the plural forms of the nouns:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •4.2 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the task 4.1
- •1.4 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verbs in the Present Simple Active. Give the negative and question –forms.
- •II. Reading:
- •3.1. Make up sentences from these words:
- •3.2. Find
- •3.3 Put the verb into the Past Simple or Future Simple. Use the words: yesterday, ago, last/next week, month, year, tomorrow, in some years/months etc. Give the negative and question –forms.
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.1Complete the short dialogues using the phrases from the text:
- •4.2 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the task 4.1. These phrases and words may be helpful for you.
- •4.3Tell about your own family using all information you have got.
- •1.4 Make up sentences paying attention to Simple and Progressive Tenses. Translate the sentences.
- •1.5. Comment on the grammar.
- •II. Reading
- •1. 1True or false?
- •1.2 Make up sentences from these words:
- •1.3 Give the missing forms of adjectives. Make up sentences with these adjectives.
- •1.4 Put the verb to take part into the correct tense-form. Pay attention to the words given in the brackets.
- •1.5. Put the verb in the brackets into the necessary tense form.
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.1Complete the short dialogues using the information from the text:
- •4.2 Read and learn:
- •4.3 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the tasks 4.1 and 4.2
- •4.4 Summarize the text «My University».
- •I. Before you read:
- •1.1 Read the words properly:
- •1.2 State the part of speech:
- •1.7. Comment on the grammar. Make up negative and question forms if it is possible.
- •II. Reading
- •3.1 Make up the sentence of two parts:
- •3.2 Make up all possible questions to these sentences. Give the negative form:
- •3.3 Write the Passive Progressive of these sentences. Use words now, from … till, the whole month/morning etc:
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.2 Read the following quotes from different articles about the problems of higher education in Russia. Formulate the main idea of each statement. Do you agree with these opinions?
- •4.3 Discuss* these topics using all information you have got.
- •I. Before you read:
- •1.1 Read the words properly:
- •1.2 Find the Russian equivalents:
- •1.3 State the part of speech:
- •1.4 Analyse the use of modal verbs and their equivalents. Translate the following sentences:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •3.1 Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
- •3.2 .Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
- •3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
- •3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
- •3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or it equivalent:
- •IV. Speaking
- •1.4 Analyse the use of modal verbs and their equivalents. Translate the following sentences:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •3.1. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
- •3.2 Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
- •3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
- •3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
- •3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or its equivalent:
- •IV. Review:
- •4.1 Make up 5 general and 5 special questions to the text.
- •4.2 Give the negative and question form of the following sentences:
- •4.3 Point out the sentences with Passive.
- •V. Speaking
- •5.1 Answer the following questions:
- •5.2 Speak about Karl Benz using his profile:
- •5.3 Use the following phrases and word combinations to retell the text:
- •In 1830 Thon completed his most ambitious design to date, that of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour15 in Moscow (fig. 17).
- •15.4. After you have read:
- •Тема 1 - Урок 1 - Диалог 1
4.4 Summarize the text «My University».
UNIT 5. HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
I. Before you read:
1.1 Read the words properly:
Highly-qualified, specialist, citizen, development, progress, architect, lyceum, gymnasium, higher education, Unified National (State) Examination, score, typical, course, available, disabled, Bologna Process, government, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, equivalent, function, preparation, profound specialization, occur, research, completion, to receive, qualification, efficiency, forecasting, requirement, transition, scholarship, investigation, through, equipment, tuition fees, employer, society.
1.2 State the part of speech:
Higher, to play, play, important, every, 11th, each, opportunity, academic, combination, has approved, first, to occur, third, to continue, second, scholarship, doctoral, efficiency, their, some, widely, to complain, knowledge , fundamental science, to decentralize, any, freedom.
1.3 Give the verb for the following nouns:
Development, education, introduction, preparation, training, completing, requirement, participation, transition, concentration, equipment, investigation, decentralization.
1.4 What do the words have in common? Translate them.
a) citizen, school, education, bill, process, plant, objective, lecture, report;
b) different, wide, disabled, industrial, secondary, various , scientific, young;
c) choose, complain, go, involve, keep, consider, develop, use, get, receive.
1.5 State the difference:
Pay – to pay, play – to play, use – to use, work – to work, train – to train, function - to function, report – to report.
1.6 Match the equivalents:
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1. higher education |
1. обеспечивать |
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2. to go on in higher education |
2. высшее образование |
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3.citizen |
3. продолжать обучение в вузе |
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4.to provide |
4. получить среднее образование |
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5. to train highly-qualified specialists |
5. гражданин |
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6.to get secondary education |
6.учиться без отрыва от производства (работы) |
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7.to take Unified National (State) Examination |
7.готовить высококвалифицированных специалистов |
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8.to study without leaving their job |
8.сдавать ЕГЭ |
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9.to be conducted by independent examining boards |
9.получать высокие баллы |
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10.to get high scores |
10.очная форма обучения |
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11.part-time or evening study |
11.проводиться независимой комиссией |
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12. distance education system |
12.вечерняя форма обучения |
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13.full-time study |
13.система дистанционного обучения |
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14.various number of courses or subjects within a field of specialization |
15.поступать в аспирантуру |
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15.wide range of higher schools |
15.широкий спектр вузов |
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16.disabled people |
16.принять законопроект |
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17.within the Bologna Process |
17.переход на двухуровневую систему образования |
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18.to approve the bill |
18.в рамках Болонского процесса |
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19.transition to two-level higher education system |
19.защищать диссертацию |
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20.to go for the doctoral programs |
20.люди с ограниченными возможностями |
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21.to carry out independent research |
21.несколько курсов или предметов в области специализации |
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22.to defend a dissertation |
22.получить диплом |
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23.to keep training of specialists |
23.выпускники медицинских, военных и технических вузов |
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24.graduates of medical, military and technical higher schools |
24.проводить самостоятельное исследование |
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25.to receive the diploma |
26.продолжать обучение специалистов |
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26.to involve employers in forecasting of requirements for education |
26. недостаточно образованные люди («недоучки») |
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27.to raise efficiency of use of cash means |
27. вовлекать работодателей в прогнозирование требований к образованию |
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28.half-educated persons |
28. увеличивать их участие в финансировании профессионального образования |
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29.to expand their participation in professional training financing |
29. получать стипендию |
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30.get scholarship |
30. углубленные знания |
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31.to obtain knowledge in the fundamental sciences |
31. получать знания по базовым предметам |
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32.advanced knowledge |
32. переходный период |
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33.transitional period |
33. главные цели реформы |
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34.the main objectives of the reform |
34.децентрализовать систему высшего образования |
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35. to decentralize the higher education system |
35. считаются одними из лучших |
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36.are considered to be one of the best |
36. широко обсуждаются в российском обществе |
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37.there are many problems we are facing in our higher education |
37.жаловаться |
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38.to complain |
38.плата за обучение |
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39.tuition fees |
39.увеличить эффективность использования наличных средств |
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40. are widely discussed in Russian society. |
40. мы сталкиваемся со множеством проблем в системе высшего образования |