НАШ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ. OUR UNIVERSITY МУ

16.enter the university – поступить в университет

17.entrance exams – вступительные экзамены, entrance requirements – требования при поступлении

18.academic year – учебный год

19.semester = term – семестр

20.take (have) an exam – сдавать экзамен

21.pass an exam = get through, do well in – сдать экзамен

22.fail in an exam – не сдать экзамен

23.attend classes – посещать занятия miss classes – пропускать занятия

24.fall behind – отставать от (в учебе)

catch up with – догонять кого-либо в учебе

25.vacation- каникулы

26.subject – предмет, (учебная) дисциплина

general engineering subjects – общетехнические предметы

social subjects (sciences) – обществоведение (экономика, социоло-

гия, психология, политическая география) (the) humanities – гуманитарные науки natural sciences – естественные науки

27.gifted (talented, capable) student – талантливый (способный) студент

28.campus – территория университета

on the campus – на территории университета

29.hostel = hall of residence ( Br.E.) – общежитие dormitory = dorm ( Am.E.) – общежитие

30.tuition = teaching – обучение, плата за обучение tuition fee – плата за обучение

31.free (of charge) – бесплатно

32.first (second, third …)- year student – первокурсник (второкурсник,…)

33.graduate from university – заканчивать университет graduate – выпускник высшего учебного заведения

34.time-table = schedule – расписание

35.credit – зачет

36.methods of teaching – методы преподавания

37.classroom – аудитория

38.lecture hall – лекционный зал

39.well-equipped laboratory – хорошо оборудованная лаборатория

40.course of studies – курс обучения

41.department, chair – кафедра

42.head (chief) of a department – зав. кафедрой

43.dean – декан (факультета)

44.Rector – ректор (университета)

45.teaching staff – штат преподавателей

46.undergraduate student – студент 1 – 5 курсов

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47.(post)-graduate student – магистрант, аспирант

48.correspondence student = extra-mural student – студент-заочник

49.freshman (Am.E.) – первокурсник sophomore ( Am.E.) – второкурсник

junior (Am.E.) – студент предпоследнего курса senior (Am.E.) – студент последнего курса

50.curriculum – учебный план

Comprehension questions

1.What university do you study at?

2.When was it founded?

3.What are the oldest faculties of our university?

4.How many students study at the university?

5.Do only full-time students study here?

6.What institute or faculty do you study at?

7.How long does training last?

8.How many semesters are there in the academic year?

9.How often do students take exams?

10.Do they have any vacation?

11.What subjects do the first and second-year students study?

12.When do students begin to take specialized lectures and practical courses?

13.Where do students get practical training?

14.Can students take part in research activities?

15.What facilities are located on the campus?

16.Do all students pay for their education?

II.Vocabulary practice exercises

1.Find synonyms to the following words and word combinations. Use your active vocabulary.

found a university, sit for an exam, be enrolled in the university, take an exam, pass an exam, gifted student, hostel, tuition, time-table, extra-mural student, graduate student, higher educational institution, train a specialist, be expelled from the university

2.Find antonyms to the following words and word combinations. Use your active vocabulary.

full-time student, pass an exam, attend classes, fall behind, engineering subjects, undergraduate students, enter the university, a graduate, be enrolled in the university, study hard, final exams

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3. Insert prepositions where necessary.

1.Our university is well-known … high standards of education.

2.The university was set … nearly 70 years ago.

3.I’ve managed to get … entrance exams successfully.

4.I’ve been enrolled … the university this summer.

5.Unfortunately my friend failed … entrance exams.

6.The academic year consists … two semesters.

7.I’m interested … natural sciences.

8.The students have the longest vacation … summer.

9.The academic year begins … September and ends … June.

10.The students study general engineering subjects … the first and second

years.

11.Special attention is paid … practical training.

12.Both teachers and students are involved … research work.

13.There are sports facilities … the campus.

14.I’ll graduate … the university … five years.

15.Those who want to enter the university must apply … admission and pass entrance exams successfully.

4. Fill in the gaps using your active vocabulary.

1.Revising for the exam I have to learn some formulae and definitions … .

2.I can’t say he is a studious student, he studies … .

3.He missed a lot of classes in physics and fell behind other students. He must try to … .

4.Many students can’t go to university free of charge, they must pay …

5.Economics, sociology, psychology are … subjects.

6.Physics, higher mathematics, strength of materials, elements of machines are … subjects.

7.If you forget the number of your classroom you should look at … .

8.In American colleges and universities the students in the first year are called …, and then …, and … .

9.The … of Foreign Languages is one the oldest one at our university.

10.The graduates of the Institute of … deal with the design of buildings, bridges, tunnels and other structures.

11.… trains engineers who design and operate systems for generating, transmitting and distributing electric power.

12.If you want to be a computer engineer you should enter … .

5. Give definitions to the following words and word-combinations: full-time student, part-time student, applicant, academic year, semester, va-

cation, campus, hall of residence, tuition fee, dean, Rector, undergraduate student, (post)graduate student, extra-mural student, curriculum.

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III.Speech practice exercises

1.Agree or disagree with these statements. Give true information about yourself.

1.I’m a second-year part-time student of Far Eastern State Transportation University,

2.Our university is 100 years old.

3.Our university is a large modern higher education institution.

4.Our university trains specialists in medicine and pharmacology.

5.I study at the Institute of Economics; I’m going to become a specialist in finance.

6.I’ve passed my entrance exams successfully.

7.I am not going to miss classes.

8.I’m good at natural sciences.

9.I don’t pay tuition fee; I study free of charge.

10.There are 10 hostels and three buildings for classes on the campus.

11.There are a lot of well-equipped laboratories, workshops and computer centres in the university.

12.The university curriculum is very complicated.

13.I find it very easy to study at the university.

14.We have vacation at the end of each semester.

15.If you don’t pass your exams you may be expelled from the university.

2. Read these micro-dialogues. Reproduce them. Make up your own ones.

1.– What do you think of the exams?

–I reckon they were deadly easy.

–May be they were easy enough for you, but they were much too hard

for me.

–Oh, come on. You’ve probably done better than you think.

2.– How’s your son been doing at school lately, Mr.Sanders? I hear that he is likely to win all the prizes in the exams this year.

–Yes, so his teachers say. But he deserves to do so. He’s always been so conscientious and hard-working and he’s been slaving at his books every evening for months on end recently. He wants to go to Oxford University next year. May be he’ll become a university lecturer himself eventually.

3.– Vicky, what language do you study?

–English.

–What’s the most difficult aspect of learning it?

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–Well, I’m very embarrassed when we have to speak English in front of the class. Terrible pronunciation and things like that. Also I think listening comprehension is very difficult, because it’s always difficult to keep up.

–Yes, studying languages is much harder than studying math or history or something. Especially, if you are not gifted.

4.– How did you do in your informatics test?

– Oh, don’t ask!

– Oh, dear. What did you get?

– Twenty percent. I came last. I thought I was going to do really well.

5.– Can you help me with my math homework? We’re doing algebra.

– Believe me, I would if I could, but I don’t know the first thing about algebra. Sorry.

3. Read and translate the text.

A Student in Economics

(After George Milburn)

Charlie Wintage ran up the steps of the Administrative Building, hurried through the revolving doors and walked down the long hall to the Dean of Men’s office. He was ten minutes late. Before he opened the frosted-glass door he took out a pair of amber-coloured spectacles and put them on. Then he went in and handed this summons to the secretary.

“The Dean will see you in a moment”, she said. “Please take a chair”. Charlie sat down and gave a glance about the office. Three freshmen were

waiting with him. He recognized none of them, so he picked up a week-old copy of a newspaper and started reading it. But the room was warm and he immediately went to sleep. The newspaper slipped down on the floor. His ambercoloured spectacles hid his eyes and no one could see that they were closed. He was awakened by a secretary shaking him.

“Wake up and pay for your bed, old man!” one of the freshmen called and everyone laughed heartily.

“I sort of drowsed off. It’s so nice and warm here..” Charlie said apologizing to the secretary.

The Dean of Men got up as he entered and said: “Ah, this is Charlie Wintage, isn’t it? How do you like the university by now, Wintage? Eyes troubling you?”

“Pretty well, sir. Yes, sir, a little. I wear these spectacles.”

The secretary brought his folder and the Dean looked through it briefly. “Well, Wintage, I suppose you’re anxious to know why I sent for you. The

unpleasant truth is, Wintage, you don’t seem to be doing well in your studies.

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Now, to be quite frank, Wintage, you’re on the verge of flunking out. Less than a third of the semester remains, and you have an F grade in English and D grades in Psychology and Military Training. On the other hand, you have an A average in Spanish and B in Economics. Wintage, how do you account for your falling English when you are an A student in Spanish?”

“To tell you the truth, sir, I got behind in my written works in English, and I’ve never been able to catch up. And I don’t really have to study Spanish. My father is a railway section foreman in my hometown and he’s always has a gang of Mexicans working for him. I’ve been speaking Spanish ever since I was a kid.”

“How about this B in Economics? That’s a fairly high grade.”

“Yes, sir. Our economics professor doesn’t give exams. Instead he gives everyone a B until he calls for our term papers. And the grade you get on your term paper is your semester grade. We have to do a lot of outside reading for the term paper. But I’m counting on keeping that B in Economics”.

“That’s fine, Wintage. But it appears to me that it’s high time you were getting busy on some of the other grades too. You made an unusually high grade in your entrance exams. Graduated from high school with honours. What’s the trouble, Wintage?”

“I don’t know, sir, except I work at night at a café”. “How many hours do you work?”

“Ten hours, sir. From nine till seven. The café stays open all night.”

‘Very interesting, Wintage. But don’t you suppose that it would be advisable to cut down a bit on this outside work and attend a little more closely to your studies?”

“I couldn’t work fewer hours and stay in school, sir. I pay my room rent and I’ve been paying out on a suit of clothes.”

“Can you arrange for a little financial support from home?”

“No, sir. I’m afraid not. I have two brothers and two sisters at home younger than I am. It wouldn’t be right for me to ask my father to send money out of what he makes.”

“I see, but all this is beside the point. We’re here to discuss the state of your grades, Wintage. As you must know, any student who turns in less than half his work is automatically suspended from the university and must return to his home. Now one more bad mark and out you’ll go, Wintage.”

“I’d hate to have to go back home like that. You know, there not many jobs nowadays, sir.”

“Well, unless you can alter your circumstances, I suggest that you withdraw from the university at once”.

“I believe I’ll try to stick it through, sir. I’ll try to remove the F and D grades and maybe I can luck through on my finals”.

Notes:

1. Dean of Men – преподаватель-воспитатель, ведущий работу среди студентов-мужчин.

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2. summons – повестка

3 on the verge of flunking out – на грани отчисления

4.F grade – самая низкая оценка в колледже, университете. A grade – самая высокая оценка.

5.get behind – отстать, не сделать что-то вовремя

6.catch up – догнать

7.high school (амер.) – средняя школа

8.with honours – с отличием

9.turn in – сдавать

9.be suspended – быть исключенным

10.I can luck through on my finals – я как-нибудь сдам свои выпускные

экзамены

4.Say what you have learned from the text “A Student in Economics” about:

1.Charles Wintage; 2. the family he came from; 3. his life in college; 4. the Dean of Men; 5. the system of grades and the rules of American universities.

5. Read the following article and make its summary in English

Чего стоит знаменитый Гарвард

Гарвардский университет представляет особый интерес и как старей- шее высшее учебное заведение страны (основан в 1636 году), и как самое престижное.

Помимо факультета искусств и науки, здесь имеется девять так назы- ваемых школ – бизнеса, стоматологии, дизайна, богословия, педагогики и т.д. Эти школы во многом напоминают нашу аспирантуру. Чтобы поступить

вту или иную из них, надо предварительно закончить колледж, а затем ка- кой-нибудь факультет, дающий университетское образование. Выпускни- ки, как правило, защищают диссертации. В США их качество определяют сами колледжи и университеты. Так что в Америке сказать, что ты явля- ешься, к примеру, доктором философии, – вроде бы ничего не сказать, ес- ли не добавить, где ты защищал диссертацию. И все учебные заведения –

взависимости от того, какие ученые степени они могут присуждать, – раз- деляются на семь уровней. Гарвардский университет как раз принадлежит к высшему – седьмому, с правом присуждения всех трех степеней – бака- лавра, магистра и доктора философии.

При поступлении в Гарвард нужно выдержать солидный конкурс (ино- гда на каждое место претендует примерно десять абитуриентов). А за са- му учебу надо платить. Это обстоятельство, судя по всему, стимулирует добросовестность. Все выпускники наших вузов наверняка помнят интен- сивность своих занятий в периоды экзаменационных сессий. Так, на мой взгляд, в Америке занимаются на протяжении всего срока обучения. Есте-

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ственно, я поинтересовался, за сколько «неудов» студента вправе отчис- лить. Меня просто не поняли. Как можно подойти к сессии с плохими зна- ниями, если надо преодолеть «частокол» промежуточных зачетов и кон- трольных работ? Отчисляют как раз на этих предварительных этапах. А после отчисления можно вновь поступить на тот же курс, правда, это обойдется примерно в 15-20 тысяч долларов.

Надо сказать, что многие из студентов имеют возможность частично

покрывать свои расходы на учебу за счет самых разнообразных субсидий и системы грантов. Величина гранта для студентов колеблется обычно от ста до тысячи долларов. Эти деньги можно тратить только на нужды, свя- занные с научной работой – скажем, на оплату ксерокопий, приобретение химических реактивов и книг, пользование лабораторным оборудованием. Самые солидные гранты выделяют, естественно, крупные американские компании. Компьютерная компания IBM создала фонд в два миллиона долларов, учредив на проценты с этого капитала стипендии для тех не- многих студентов Гарварда, у которых выявились «интересы в области компьютерных наук и математики».

Гранты и стипендии достаются не всем, а только избранным, после тщательного изучения академической успеваемости претендентов, фи- нансового положения их родителей, научных интересов и склонностей. О

последнем чаще всего судят по публичным выступлениям на разного рода конференциях, симпозиумах. Поэтому американские студенты придают им чрезвычайно большое значение.

А. Клесов

Примечания:

1.защищать диссертацию – submit a thesis (a dissertation)

2.степень бакалавра – Bachelor’s degree

3.степень магистра – Master’s degree

4.степень доктора – Ph.D. degree (Doctor of Philosophy)

5.присуждать степень – grant degree

6.Prepare a 2-3 minutes' talk on one of the following topics:

1.The system of higher education in Russia.

2.The system of higher education in the USA or Great Britain.

3.My impressions of Far Eastern State Transportation University.

4.The history and the present day of our University.

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