Unit 3

Read the text and do the exercises. Based on that discuss the topic:

Tavria State Agrotechnological University

I study at Tavria State Agrotechnological University. It is one of the largest institutes in the South of Ukraine. The institute was founded in 1932. On the basis of Tavria State Agritechnical Academy Tavria State Agrotechnological University was founded in June 2007.

In 1932 it occupied one building but now the students study in nine buildings.

The available building space corresponds to the requirements and includes over 250 computer-equipped rooms.

There are six faculties at our university:

-Faculty of mechanical engineering and technology

-Faculty of economics and business

-Faculty of engineering and computer technologies

-Faculty of agricultural technology and ecology

-Faculty of power engineering

-Correspondence faculty.

The university trains future mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, economists, financiers, computer engineers, accountants, agronomists and ecologists for Ukrainian agriculture. We study 5 years at the day-time faculties and correspondence students study 6 years.

The students study many subjects: history of Ukraine, political economy, economics, mathematics, physics, tractors and automobiles, electrical machines and other. There is a large library with 400 thousands books, text-books, magazines, two 360-seat reading halls, computer-aided search facilities and catalogues.

The students spend their free time at a beautiful students club, a sport club. The regional university center is attended by about 14,000 students. At the university they take part in student's scientific society.

The University is equipped with own radio and TV stations.

University students acquire higher education according to educational-professional levels of bachelor, specialist and master.

TSATU has a highly qualified staff of Professors and Instructors among them over 20 Doctors of Science, Professors, about 150 Candidates of Science, associate professors.

Many students are involved in scientific research. Annually students' scientific conferences are held at the University.

The University offers adult training and qualification upgrading opportunities (including second higher education) on the basic specialities.

Many students live in hostels. Our students have their internship in such countries of the world as: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and France.

Exercise 1. What 4 other faculties of TSATU do you think should go in the other parts of the diagram?

F aculty of power engineering Correspondence faculty

T avria State Agrotechnological University

Exercise 2. What 3 words do you think should go in the middle of the diagram?

t o be well-educated to develop their talents to be a good specialist

to make a successful career to learn theoretical and practical skills

to become mature and self-reliant

Exercise 3. Match line А to line B. Write your answers in the boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0).

A	B
0. occupy	a. specialists
1. study at	b. students’ scientific society
2. train	c. building
3. spend	d. hostels
4. take part in	e. the university
5. live in	f. free time

0	1	2	3	4	5
c

Exercise 4. What English words are these? Write them.

1. [′Okjupai]
2. [fxkqlti]
3. [′O:dit]
4. [q′kauntIN]
5. [′laibrqri]
6. [saiqn′tifik]
7. [sq′saiqti]
8. [′hOstql]
9. [′O:tq'meiSn]
10.['prq'sesIN]

Exercise 5. Which word is the odd one in each of these groups?

1. a) learn	b) study	c) teach	d) master
2. a) economy	b) logistics	c) mathematics	d) physics
3. a) text books	b) magazines	c) note books	d) fiction books
4. a) promoters	b) teachers	c) instructors	d) tutors
5. a) faculty of mechanical engineering and technology	b) faculty for bioengineering	c) correspondence faculty	d)faculty of agricultural technology and ecology

1	2	3	4	5

Exercise 6. Match English words and word combinations with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1. be founded	a) читальний зал
2. occupy	b) факультет денного навчання
3. correspondence faculty	c) предмет/ дисципліна
4. scientific society	d) займати
5. day-time faculty	e) наукове суспільство
6. library	f) бути заснованим
7. subject	g) факультет заочного навчання
8. magazine	h) журнал
9. reading room	i) бібліотека
10. train	j) готувати

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Exercise 7. Complete the following table. Give the main forms of the verbs.

build	built	built	building
1. be
2. spend
3. take part
4. say
5. know

Exercise 8. Put the words in the box into the correct column in the chart below (four for each).

mathematics, accountant, physics, Doctor of Science, instructor, tractors and automobiles, electrical engineer, laboratory assistant, foreign language, financier, associate professor, mechanical engineer

SUBJECTS	SPECIALITIES	TEACHING STAFF
	mechanical engineer