29. In small groups or pairs discuss the following questions.

1. What principles do school graduates follow when they choose a course of studies?

2. What are the main advantages of the Institute of Physics and Technology?

3. Do the faculties of the KPI differ greatly? What is the difference?

4. What do you usually do if you can’t get down to concentrated work?

5. Do you think the impact of a lecture is greater than that of a book? Why?

6. Are you aware of the new methods for fast reading? If so, describe them.

7. What is the best technique of revision?

8. How can a student avoid a last-minute rush or late-night sitting before the exam? What do you think about “surge study”?

9. Judging from your experience as a learner, how important is the encouraging tone of the examiner?

10. What is your attitude to the common practice of “cramming” before the examination?

30. Read some information about Higher Education in Great Britain and America (see Further Reading, UNIT 1). Then in pairs ask and answer questions based on this text.

31. Work in pairs. What would you say in the following situations?

1. Your groupmate has failed in exams.

2. Your friend asks you some advice on what university to enter.

3. Someone asks you which place at the university to have a snack.

4. You are a teacher. A student isn’t ready with the task in time.

5. You have been enrolled at a language school or courses. You are required to pay the fees today, but you can’t.

6. Someone has eaten your dinner at the hostel.

32. Comment on the following jokes, and retell them. Don't use the direct speech.

Essential help

Teacher (looking over Students work). – “I don’t understand how it’s possible for a single person to make so many mistakes!”

Student (proudly) – “It isn’t a single person. My best friend helped me.”

HE THINKS WE ARE LISTENING

− “ Our economics prof talks to himself. Does yours?”

− “ Yes, but he doesn’t realize it. He thinks we are listening”.

THE LESS THE BETTER

The more we study, the more we know.

The more we know, the more we forget.

The more we forget, the less we know.

The less we know, the less we forget.

The less we forget, the more we know.

So, why study?

WHAT IS A SYNONYM?

Teacher – “Robert, what is a synonym?”

Student – “It’s a word you use in place of another when you cannot spell the other one.”

NOTHING TO BE DONE

Student – “But I don’t think I deserve an absolute zero.”

Professor – “Neither do I, but it is the lowest mark that I am allowed to give.”

33. You are a student of the KPI. Make up a story about exams using the suggested words and phrases from the Mini-Dictionary (UNIT 1).

34. Give the Ukrainian equivalents of the following proverbs and sayings (5 of the suggested) and comment on them.

A fool man can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. Don’t teach a fish to swim. Repetition is the mother of learning. No pains – no gains. Live and learn. It’s never too late to learn. Knowledge is power. Better untaught than ill-taught. All things are difficult before they are easy. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. To teach the dog to bark. Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

To know everything is to know nothing. Zeal without knowledge is a runway horse. Where there is a will there is a way. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. What we do willingly is easy. First think then speak. There is no rule without an exception. Soon learnt – soon forgotten. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Like teacher, like pupil. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.

LISTENING

35. You are going to listen to some information about studies and degrees in Great Britain. Listen and answer the questions.

1. How old are the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge?

2. How many students in percentage are taking scientific and technological studies?

3. What is the term of studying at Britain’s Universities?

4. What kind of work does academic staff devote time to?

36. Choose the correct variant.

1. The number of Britain’s Universities is:

a) about a hundred

b) forty

c) fifty

d) forty-five

2. Most of the universities in G.B. were founded:

a) in the twelfth century

b) in the fifteenth century

c) in the seventeenth century

d) in the nineteenth century

3. About half of all the students of full-time universities in Britain are taking courses:

a) in medicine

b) in arts and social studies

c) in agriculture forestry, architecture, veterinary.

d) science and technology

37. Listen again and complete the phrases.

1. Courses in sciences are offered ..............…

2. The Universities concentrate on technology although they .........…

3. Further study or research is required at the modern universities for ….................

4. University’s teaching combines …................

WRITING

38. You've decided to place anannouncement on the Internet. Write short announcements for the situations described below.

1. You need to rent the cheapest room for a year;

2. You want to get a part-time job;

3. You want to find two students to share a flat.

39. You've decided to write a letter (100 words):

1. to a good friend describing your first impression of the group;

2. to your parents asking to send you some money;

3. to the dean’s office explaining the reason why you missed your classes.

40. Read the text "From the History of the National Technical University of Ukraine “The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”" and make a mind map to it. Share your mind map with a partner. Explain how the circles are related to each other.

MIND MAPPING To make a mind map, use a whole sheet of paper, and write your topic in the middle, with a circle around it. Then put the next idea in a circle above or below your topic, and connect the circles with lines. The lines show that the two ideas are related.

PROBLEM-SOLVING

41. Test yourself (see Problem-Solving, UNIT 1).