6. Make up a dialogue between a student of Siberian Federal University and a pupil who is going to enter this university and wants to get to know about this university as much as possible.

7. Make up an advertisement for school-graduates, choose one of these topics:

• your University

• your faculty

• your student's life

8. Read and translate the text:

BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY

The Belarusian State University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Belarus. It was founded in 1921 and 1,010 workers and peasants entered its 2 faculties that year.

At present the University has 12 faculties: Physics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Geography, Biology, Philology, Journalism, History, Economy, Law which train specialists in 17 professions and 50 specializations. It has day, evening and correspondence departments where thousands of students study. There are more than 16,000 students at the University. They attend lectures and seminars.

The University course lasts five years. An academic year is divided into two terms each ending in an examination session. Those who pass the exams successfully get a scholarship.

All the students study foreign languages. The students who have advanced knowledge in foreign languages work on a special curriculum and receive a special diploma which gives them the right to use a foreign language in their future work.

Students’ practical work is given much attention to. The students of the teachers’ training faculties give lessons at secondary schools and work as leaders in children’s summer camps.

The students of the University can do any sport they like. A lot of students carry out research work in various laboratories which are equipped with up-to-date devices.

The University is a member of the International University Association and actively co-operates with the Universities of Sofia, Lyublyana, Warsaw and Krakow, Yena, Berlin and others. These Universities constantly expand the exchange of students, post-graduates and scientists.

Every year hundreds of young specialists begin working in different branches of national economy, science, education, in mass media, prosecutor’s offices and courts.

Exercises

9. Match the words and their definitions:

to attend classes bachelor’s degree distance learning face-to-face classes a graduation ceremony higher education an intensive course to learn something by heart to meet a deadline private language school a single-sex school to sit an exam subject specialist to take a year out tuition fees

an event where a successful student receives his or her academic degree to finish a job or task in the time allowed or agreed a teacher who has a great deal of knowledge about the subject they teach. a school where only boys or girls attend (as opposed to a mixed-sex school) the money paid for a course of study to go to classes to spend a year working or travelling before starting university to memorize it to take an exam as opposed to distance learning the traditional way of studying in a classroom with colleagues and a teacher a course that offers lots of training in order to reach a goal in as short a time as possible an independent school run as a business concern a way of studying where tuition is carried out over the Internet or by post education, usually in a college or university, that is followed after high school or secondary school an undergraduate course which usually lasts 3-4 years