Named in honour of yuriy kondratyuk

Poltava National Technical University named in honour of Yuriy Kondratyuk is an acknowledged educational and scientific centre for carrying out research and training specialists in technical-engineering, building, economic, ecological, architectur-al and artistic spheres. Fifty educational institutions of different levels (secondary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, vocational schools, technical schools, colleges) are affiliated with the university.

Its primary aim is to train specialists of higher technical education for the enterprises, institutions, and organizations of different property forms. Our specialists are able to secure the effective engineering, financial, and economic activities of the enterprises, institutions, and organizations as well as their adaptation to the transient market conditions of the modern production process.

For 72 years, over 35,000 highly-qualified specialists have been trained by the scientific and pedagogical staff of this establishment. At present the student body amounts to 7,000 pеоplе, among them full-time and part-time undergraduates, postgraduates (or postgraduate students) and doctoral students. They are trained in 30 specialities and specializations. Moreover, annually 20 out of 35 chairs of the university train over 70 postgraduates in 18 specialities. The numerous teaching staff engaged in the academic, research, and educational activities comprises 346 members, including three State Prize Winners of Ukraine in the branch of knowledge and engineering, five Honoured Cultural and Educational Workers of Ukraine, three Honoured Artists of Ukraine, 15 academicians and Corresponding members of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. More than 80 % of teachers have scientific degrees and academic ranks.

The university is made up of seven faculties. They are: the faculty of economics, architecture, civil-engineering, electro-mechanics, sanitary-engineering, extra-mural, and the faculty of Pre-university and Post qualification education. The complete university course lasts 5 years.

This university is the oldest educational institution of higher learning in our town. It has a glorious history and traditions of training highly skilled specialists. The principal building of the university is an architectural monument of the early XIX century built in the Empire style for the Institute of Noble Maids in 1828 --1832. On 18 August, 1930, the only institute of agricultural engineering in the country was founded in this building, which was renamed the Poltava Civil Engineering Institute in 1961. In June, 1994, our educational institution was licensed at the fourth (the highest) level of accreditation with the status of the Technical University which was conferred on it. On the occasion of the centenary of Yuriy Kondratyuk's birth, on 21 June, 1997, his name was conferred on our university. In 1910 Yuriy Kondratyuk became a third-year student at this establishment and successfully graduated from it with a silver medal in 1916. He is considered to be one of the founders of the theory of astronautics, and his ideas and inventions are used for developing space research. Having taken into consideration the outstanding achievements in academic and educational activities, Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma granted the Technical University of Poltava with the status of "National" on 27 March, 2002.

The edifice of the Poltava National Technical University іs locatеd close to the town centre facing a picturesque park. From a distance the university іs іdentіfіеd by a 9-storeyed residence block which contrasts with the rest of the mainly low-lying buildings. The campus is set іn 80,000 sq.m (17 sq.m. per one student). At the heart of it іs the central administration building, called the Unіversіty House. PNTU is housed in nine buildings, including five dormitories for 2,200 undergraduates and postgraduates and a university canteen where as many as 500 people can sit. There is a dispensary health resort nearby.

Our students and teachers have all facilities at their disposal free of charge: 55 educational and 10 research laboratories, equipped with up-to-date devices, instruments, installations, and tools; 12 computer centres comprise more than 300 personal computers; 4 large reading halls with 280 reader places. The university library has a very rich depository (over 500,000 items). Great importance is attached to the development of physical culture. There are four gymnasiums and a stadium with some sports grounds, football pitches, volley-ball and basketball courts. There is also the sports camp "Vorskla" on the picturesque bank of the river in the pinery near Poltava. Every summer over 200 students can improve their health there.

After scanning the text, focusing on the content, in three groups write three quiz questions about the text that you are sure you can answer properly. Ask other groups to answer your questions on the board.

I n 3-minutes time group A writes one question for group B to answer. Group B answers this question and writes their own question for group C to answer, etc.

■ What is the full name of our university? (Group A)

Poltava National Technical University named in honour of

Yuriy Kondratyuk. (Group B)

Read the text once again to see who remembered the best, and whose first impressions were the most accurate (or strangest).

While reading the text you ran against many words that are supposed to be difficult in reading.

So your homework deals with the reading. In order to be able to read words in the text properly you are to do the following:

1. Read the following words taken from the text and check their transcription in a dictionary.

Write down the transcription into your copybooks.

1	academician	11	centenary	21	facing	31	residence
2	accept	12	chair	22	faculty	32	scientific
3	accreditation	13	charge	23	financial	33	secure
4	achievements	14	civil	24	licensed	34	specialist
5	acknowledged	15	course	25	lyceum	35	speciality
6	architectural	16	cultural	26	occasion	36	specialization
7	attach	17	device	27	pitch	37	succeed
8	branch	18	doctoral	28	principal	38	successfully
9	campus	19	edifice	29	process	39	teaching
10	canteen	20	facility	30	research	40	technical

2. Each word above contains letter c, which can be pronounced in different ways: [k], [s], [ks], [], [t]. Arrange the words into five groups according to their pronunciation and write them down into your copybooks. The first one is already done for you. The quantity of words having a certain sound is given in brackets under the example.

   [k]	[s]	[ks]	[]	[t]
   1.academician	1.centenary	1. accept	1. academician	1. achievements
   (14 words)	(12 words)	(3 words)	(5 words)	(8 words)

3. Complete the reading rule of the letter c and write it down into your copybooks.

Letter c is pronounced as [ ] – before the consonants and before the vowels a, o, u; [ ] – before the vowels e, i, y; [ ] – in digraph cc + the vowels e, i, y; [ ] – before the combination of the vowels ia, ie; [ ] – before the letter h (exceptions are the Greek borrowings which are pronounced as [ ] in the words: architectural, mechanical, technical, etc.).

4. Read the text, look up the new words in a dictionary and write them down into your vocabulary.

STEP 2

Hand your compositions in.

Now listen to the tape to check your homework. Correct your mistakes if there are some.

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That was first class work!

In turn give your own examples of the pronunciation of the letter c.

■ Century, comprise, economics, academy, change, block, etc.

T he class find the following words in the text (each word in turn). The frequency they occur is given in brackets. The first who finds a certain word reads the sentence with this word and translates it.

academic (3)	confer (2)	institution (5)	specialist (4)
architectural (3)	education(al) (10)	postgraduate (3)	staff (3)
comprise (2)	engineering (7)	research (4)	technical (7)
economic (2)	faculty (3)	scientific (3)	train (6)

Now you will hear twenty numbered words.

Match them with their lettered Ukrainian equivalents in the list given below.

Write down the answers in your copybooks in accordance with the example: ■ 1-a

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1. академік i.  їдальня

2. аспірант j.  кафедра

3. бібліотека k.  книгосховище

4. велична будівля l.  лабораторія

5. викладацький склад m. санаторій-профілакторій

6. гуртожиток n.  склад студентів

7. докторант o.  спеціальність

8. зручність p.  спортивний зал

q. стадіон s. студентське містечко

r. студент t. факультет

You are to be sure that you have done this exercise in a proper way. Check your answers.

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Speaking on a certain topic you should know words associated with the given lexical category.

L ook at the five categories in a diagram. They are dealing with our topic.

■ p rofessor

Get into groups of three.

Use the text to find 4-5 words for each category and write them down into your copybooks.

I n 3-minutes time each group presents their lists of words on the blackboard.

Bear in mind that each word with the wrong spelling is deleted from the list. The group having the most words with the correct spelling is the winner.

Keep up the good work!

In teams of four, work out five similar clues using words dealing with this topic and make five gapped sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

■ You can improve your health in the dispensary health _ _ s _ r _.

(resort)

M ake sure you check the spelling of these words in a dictionary. Then swap your gapped sentences and fill in the gaps. In 5-minutes time a representative of each team in turn, reports their answers. Everybody must listen carefully. The student who gapped this sentence must correct the answer. The team who has the most correct answers is the winner.

Here are the numbered words and their lettered meanings.

M atch them and write down into your copybooks in accordance with the example:■ 1-f.

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Now listen to the tape and check your answers. Correct your mistakes if there are some.

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Exactly right.

At home you are to complete the word puzzle.

Read the clues below. All the words refer to a university (the people who work there and the facilities they have). What is the university in the box?

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1. A large sports field with seats all around it, where people go to watch team sports.

2. University teacher of the highest grade holding chair of some branch of learning.

3. Someone who studies for the most advanced type of degree, on his own for several years, doing work and writing a long report explaining what he has discovered.

4. Someone who teaches, especially someone whose job is to teach children in a school.

5. A place in a school, factory, or company building where the students or workers can buy and eat meals.

6. A place that has a lot of books that you can borrow for a short time, usually without paying money.

7. Member of an Academy.

8. Someone who has already taken one degree and is studying for another, more advanced degree.

9. Room or building used for scientific experiments, research, testing, etc. especially in chemistry.

Nowadays, in the time of highly-developed information technology and computer engineering you can’t do without numbers. You can see and hear them everywhere: at the airports, railway stations, in the shops, hotels, on TV and radio. In our text we also have many numbers and dates. As you already know the way dates are written and spoken is different.

Written 17/9/2003 17 Sept. 2003 17 September 2003

Spoken the seventeenth of September two thousand and three September the seventeenth, two thousand and three

Listen to the tape and practise saying the following dates.

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18 August			21 June				27 March
13 January			9 November				11 May
31 October			15 February				12 July
25 December			23 April				4 September
1828		1832	1930		1948		1956		1961
1973		1985	1994		1997		2000		2002
28/1/58		17/3/69	25/4/76		6/6/80		15/02/92		1/12/01

the 12th century the 15th century the 17th century

the 19th century the 21st century

Find out which of them are taken from the text.

I n pairs write out all the dates the text contains in chronological order. Read your list of dates aloud, each student in turn, and check each answer with the help of the tape.

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