- •Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи для студентов I и II курса технических специальностей
- •Part I me and my family
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, and translate the texts. About myself
- •My family
- •III. Supplementary vocabulary:
- •3. Relationships
- •IV. Using the supplementary vocabulary and the above stories, speak about yourself and your family.
- •V. A) Give the Russian equivalents for the following English proverbs and sayings (or translate them into Russian).
- •VI. Topics for oral compositions:
- •V. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Working day of a student
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read and translate the texts:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Higher education
- •I . Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II . Read, translate and retell the text:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Our university
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II .Read, translate and retell the text:
- •AltStu academic divisions
- •Institutes:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •In the city Barnaul
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text:
- •III. Complete the text with the words and phrases from the list below.
- •IV. Underline the correct word or phrase.
- •V. Underline the correct grammar form of the verb.
- •VI. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VII. Choose one of the prepositions.
- •VIII. Finish the sentences
- •Around the world
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Imagine some friends are coming to visit your town or city. They only have time to see three things. What three things should they see? Make a list.
- •III. Read the extract from a guide book for Cape Town.
- •IV. Put the sentences a-f back in the gaps 1-6 of the article.
- •V. Work in pairs. Imagine you have a free trip to Cape Town but you can only see three things. Which of the places would you like to visit most? Decide which three places are the best to go to.
- •VI. Match column a to column в to make sentences about things you can do in Cape Town.
- •VII. Anny and Nick are visiting Cape Town. Complete the sentences and put the adjectives in brackets into the superlative form. Where are they in each conversation?
- •VIII. Make questions with the phrases below about your native city. Use the superlative form of the adjectives. Make two more questions of your own.
- •Directions
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Fill in the gaps with up, into, through, round, onto, from...To, over or down.
- •III. Look at the pictures and speak about Robert`s driving lesson. Put a preposition from the box into each gap.
- •IV. Underline the correct word(s).
- •V. Follow the directions on the map and write down the name of the place. Try to guess where the woman wants to go.
- •Transport
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Put these types of transport in order from fast to slow.
- •III. Read the text. Can you guess which numbers go in the gaps?
- •IV. Look back at we text and choose the correct words to go together.
- •V. Which sentences are true for your country? Correct the false ones.
- •Shopping
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text: Shopping
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VI. Ask your friend:
- •VII. Act out the situations using the following words and word combinations:
- •Part II Travelling
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered
- •Going abroad
- •II. Read, translate and reproduce the text
- •III. Exercises
- •1. Give the English equivalents
- •2. Translate into English
- •3. Answer the questions
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text: Travelling
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •V. Ask your friend:
- •IV. Words and word combinations to be remembered
- •V. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues
- •Airplane reservation
- •Booking train tickets
- •Hotel reservations
- •At a hotel
- •Shopping
- •1. Lev Shkolnik - l. S., Salesman – s.
- •2. Saleswoman - s., Olga Rozova - o.R.
- •V. Act out the situations
- •VI. Ask your friend:
- •Spending free time
- •Vocabulary 1
- •Opinions
- •Vocabulary 2a
- •Vocabulary 2b
- •Vocabulary 3
- •Eating out/ meals
- •Vocabulary 4
- •Vocabulary 4a
- •2) Translate the sentences into English:
- •The Career Ladder
- •1. Read the texts and put down new vocabulary.
- •3. Read the article and check your answers to 2.
- •4. Imagine you could do two jobs. Which two jobs would you like to do? Discuss your ideas with a partner.
- •5. Work with a partner. The beginnings and ends of these sentences are mixed up. Rearrange them to make realistic sentences.
- •6. Work with a partner. Complete the interviews with can, can't, have to or don't have to.
- •Career moves
- •2. Decide…
- •3. Practise the dialogue. What does an interactive media designer do? Does it sound interesting to you? Why or why not? Find gerund phrases.
- •4. Make up sentences as in the example. Give your opinions about the jobs.
- •5. Find phrases in the list that are usually paired with each verb.
- •6. Practise the dialogue. Find comparisons.
- •7. Match the information to make sentences. Then rewrite each sentence in a different way.
- •8. Choose two summer jobs from the list. Then use the questions to compare them.
- •9. Read this letter of application for a job at Reynold's Department Store. Use the words and expressions above to improve the parts of the letter that are underlined.
- •10. Write your own letter of application for your dream job.
- •11. Read, translate and retell the text: planning a career
- •12. Ask your groupmates:
- •The main cities of america
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and reproduce the text: New York
- •III. Exercises
- •1. Give the English equivalents:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Circle t if the sentence is true. Circle f if the sentence is false.
- •5. Discuss the answers to these questions with your classmates.
- •Part II
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read and translate the text Glimpses of Geography
- •III Note the pronunciation of the geographical names:
- •IV. Look at the map and describe
- •« Город Огней»
- •VI. Grammar
- •VII. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VIII. Ask your friend:
- •IX. Answer the questions.
- •X. Act out the situations:
- •The contents
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IV. Ask your friend:
1. Доступно ли высшее образование в России и бесплатно ли оно.
2. Как рассматривает высшая школа высшее образование.
3. Какая новая система обучения введена в настоящее время.
4. Какие предметы изучаются студентами 1 и 2 курсов.
5. Когда студенты начинают изучать специальные предметы? Почему (высшее) образование играет важную роль.
6. Чем славятся (известны) университеты Оксфорда и Кембриджа.
7. Какую роль играет наставник в процессе обучения студента.
8. Как организовано обучение в этих двух университетах.
9. Чем отличается колледж от университета.
V. Act out the situations:
1. Вы студент АлтГТУ, вы хотите узнать у своего английского друга о системе образования в Великобритании.
2. Ваш друг из Англии расспрашивает вас о системе высшего образования в России.
3. Ваш друг собирается поступать в наш университет. Он хотел бы знать: как он может это сделать, и как организовано обучение в университете.
4. Один из вас студент АлтГТУ, другой – студент Кембриджа. Обменяйтесь мнениями о ваших университетах.
Our university
I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
to found – основать
to enroll – зачислять
full-time – дневной
part-time – вечерний
extra-mural – заочный
distant form of training – дистантная форма подготовки
an academic year – учебный год
a shift – смена
to take an exam (in) – сдавать экзамен
a term – семестр
a senior student – старшекурсник
a state exam – государственный экзамен
student hostel – общежитие для студентов
a publishing house – издательство
a preventive clinic – профилакторий
a skiing lodge – лыжная база
to fall behind (in) – отстать (по какому-либо предмету)
to be good at smth – хорошо разбираться в чем-либо
ahead of time – досрочно
a credit test – зачет
a crib – шпаргалка
internship – практика, стажировка vacations
vacations – каникулы
to write a diploma – писать дипломную работу
II .Read, translate and retell the text:
Altai State Technical University named after I. I. Polzunov (AltSTU) was founded in February 1942 on the basis of the Zаporozhye Engineering Institute. It consisted of 2 faculties: the faculty of mechanical engineering and the faculty of agricultural engineering with a student-body of 360 people. In 1959 it became the Altai Polytechnic Institute. In May 1965 the Institute was named after I.I. Polzunov. In 1992 the Polytechnic Institute was transformed into the University. Nowadays it is the leading educational, research and cultural centre of the Altai territory. The university strives for being among largest internationally recognized centers of training of specialists in the field of science and education in the Siberian region of the Russian Federation. AltSTU does not only train specialists in many areas of national and regional industry, economy, humanities, but also retrains experts, improves professional skills for their adaptation in the modern world of info communication technologies and market relations.
It consists of head higher educational institution, Biisk Technological Institute, Rubtsovsk Industrial Institute, branches and representations in many cities and settlements of the territory and beyond its borders. 26 thousand trainees including more than 22 thousand students study at 33 faculties and 107 departments of the university complex on 65 programmes and specialties under the supervision of 1500 teachers including 200 professors, doctors of sciences and about 700 associate professors, candidates of science. In AltSTU there are 5 scientific and research institutes, Altai Technopark and Technopolis, 14 centers of science, 2 applied-research laboratories.
There are four forms of training in the University: full-time, part-time, extra-mural and distant. After passing entrance exams successfully, students are enrolled into the University on the competitive basis. The course of studies lasts for five years. Part-time and extra-mural students study for six years. Classes begin in September, they are over in June. Students study in 2 shifts. Student’s work is given a mark on a five point or one hundred-point scale. The academic year is divided in 2 terms. Every term students take exams. When their session is over students have vacations – two weeks in winter and 2 months in summer. Senior students have their practical training (internship) in different enterprises of Altai Region. Students who study well get grants or stipends.
Student research work is a natural part of training. Leading scientists of the University act as students’ scientific advisers. In the final year students write diploma papers and take state exams. On graduation students receive degrees of Bachelor and diplomas of specialist.
Research activity of AltSTU is based on 12 scientific schools in various fields of knowledge, science and technology. Over 500 post-graduate students including 30 doctoral students make research at the university. There are 58 postgraduate and 10 doctoral programmes at the University. More than 50 student's creative teams are involved in creative activity.
AltSTU is the unique university in Altai with Preparatory Faculty for foreign citizens, having the state license of the Ministry of Education and Science for teaching Russian as a foreign language. Graduates of the Preparatory Faculty of AltSTU can enter other universities of Barnaul, the Altai Krai (medical, agrarian, classical ones) and other cities of Russia.