5.Use of English
Match phrases 1 – 7 with phrases a – g.
1) I study a) take exams
2) The training course b) deliver lectures
3) Qualified teachers c) at the Tyumen State University of
Architecture and Civil Engineering
4) There are f) lasts five years
5) At the end of each term we have to d) pass my exams
6) I hope to e) canteen and pizzeria in our
University
7) I don’t want to g) fail my exams
Match the definitions below with one of the words given:
Who is…
rector
dean
tutor
teacher
1) he/she is at the head of the University
2) he/she is at the head of the faculty
3) he/she delivers lectures and teaches the students
4) he/she is educator of student collective
Choose a verb to fill the gaps below. Put the verb in the correct form.
found study teach have a snack get like to be want get take exam take notes take part
Our University _____________ in May 1969.
Qualified teachers ____________ the students.
Victor _______________ at the lectures.
Artur _____________ well.
Every day during break Yegor _______ a snack.
Kate ________ scholarship.
Jenya ______________ in performance “First year student debut”.
She _________ a prize.
Lida ___________________ in January.
Marat ___________ to become qualified specialist
Ilya __________ to study at our University.
There ____ a psychologist in the University.
Complete the following sentences.
The University has ............................year’s history.
There are ................faculties at the University now.
At the head of the University there is ...................................................... .
At the head of each faculty there is ........................ .
The study of theory is accompanied by........................................... .
During breaks students can .......................................... .
Students of a day-time department, who study well can get ............................ .
The training course lasts .......................... .
At the end of the study all the students ................................................ .
6. Additional Materials Text №2 History of the University (some historical facts)
Reading
Read the text. Understand the main idea of it.
Which paragraph:
is about the staff group
introduces the topic
is about the Public Fund
quantity of specialities
The history of University begins on May the 30th 1969, when it was founded on the basis of the Building faculty of the Tyumen Industrial Institute . At the beginning of 1970 the rector group was created under the guidance of Michail Vasilyevitch Maltzev.
The first 1035 students entered the Institute in February 1971. The staff-group of more than hundred tutors were sent from Tyumen Industrial Institute. They arrived from large scientific centres such as Omsk, Novosibirsk, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk and Tomsk.
The University became one of the most important Technical Institute in Tyumen region due to the teaching staff during last 33 years.
In 1995 the Tyumen Civil Engineering Institute was renamed into Tyumen State Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
First the Institute had two faculties: Road Engineering Faculty and Civil Engineering Faculty.
Nowadays students are taught about 23 specialities at 5 faculties: the Road Engineering Faculty, the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, the Economics and Management Faculty, the Faculty of Engineering Systems and Structures, the Distance Education Faculty. There are 26 chairs in the University . After study students can take a postgraduate course and further get a Doctor’s degree.
T
he
University has branches in Tobolsk, Muravlenko, Nadym, Labytnangi,
Ishim, Pokachi, Urai, Lyantor, Turtas-village.
The University has already educated about 17 thousand specialists.
The guidance is carried out by Academic council, headed by the rector. In 1995 the Council of the Academy created the Tyumen Regional Public Fund of University at present time – Fund of the Development of the University.
One of the first results of Fund’s activity was new image of the University.
The main building, a piece of architecture and history of XIX century, was restored and also the construction of the new educational building was begun and the transition between buildings was built. Today the Fund provides the University with the modern lab equipment, textbooks and methodical literature and helps to publish the books and monographies. Nowadays the participants of Fund are chiefs of the large enterprises in field of building industry of Tyumen region.
9. In 2000 the first specialists graduated from the University. The employees of the University took an active part in economical planning of a regional building complex, in designing and erection of different important buildings all over the Siberia. They are refinery in Tobolsk, Gas-converting Factory in Surgut, gas deposits in Yamburg and blocks in Tyumen, Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Nadym and Tobolsk, sites of road construction and many others.