Curriculum; tuition fee; an applicant; a fresher; department; graduate from; employers; term; scholarship; a graduate.

a person who wants to be a student;

payments for teaching;

successfully complete an academic course;

one of the periods into which the academic year is divided;

a person who gives work, usually for payment;

a course of study in a school, college, etc.;

yearly grant given to a student to continue his study;

a person who has completed the course at an educational institution;

one of several divisions of a university.

a first-year student.

 

III. Answer the following questions and be ready to discuss the main ideas of the topic:

- Is education at Russian schools and universities free?

- Is there also a fee-paying-form of education at government universities?

- What is the difference between a gymnasium and an ordinary school?

- Why is the competition so tough at government universities as compared with private ones?

- Has the number of students in Russia been increasing lately?

- How do students who graduate from universities find jobs?

 

IV. Tell briefly about education in Russia.

 

Speaking

 

It is your first day at the university. You try to find out everything about the university, faculty, and curriculum. You meet new people and talk about college life. Use the new words and word combinations from the previous exercise and from the box below and make up dialogues about your study at the university:

to enter the university

to graduate from the university

total number of students

to attend lectures

to take exams

to fail exams

to live in a hostel

 

You may find the following expressions helpful:

By the way as for me I’d like to know I wonder

I see I’m afraid if I’m not mistaken and what about you

It seems to me that I don’t know exactly

 

Writing

Informal letters

Look at the organization of the following informal letter.

We begin all letters with Dear... Your address and the date, but not your name.

 

38 Clifton Gardens London NW6 27 September 1991 Dear Maria   I’m very pleased that we’re going to be penfriends. I’ll tell you a little about myself, and you can do the same when you write to me.   I live in an area of London called Maida Vale. It’s quite near the centre, but there are parks nearby where I take my dog, Mickey, for a walk. I live with my parents and my younger brother, Paul. My father works for the post office and my mother has a part-time job as a nurse.   I go to the local comprehensive school, where I have a lot of friends. I like most subjects, but not all of them! In the evenings I sometimes visit friends or stay at home and listen to music, and at the weekends I like going swimming or horse-riding.   At the moment I’m working very hard because I have exams soon, so I’m spending a lot of time in the library!   I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Write soon!     Best wishes.

 

Introduction

Where you live Who you live with What your family does

 

What you do What you like Your hobbies and interests

 

What you’re doing at the moment

 

Ending

You can end a letter to (a friend with Best wishes, or Regards, or Love, if you know them well.

 

 

John&Lis Soars, Headway, Oxford University Press

Homework

I. Write a letter to your penfriend about yourself and your study at the University following this scheme:

1) Your name, age; 2) the name of your university; 3) the date of its foundation; 4) its faculties; 5) the faculty you are in; 6) the subjects you study; 7) your success in studies; 8) exams; 9) whether you get a grant or not; 10) the place you live in....

II. Do the grammar test.

Lesson 2

Introduction

We discussed the education system in Russia in the previous lesson. In general the second and high education in Russia is free, but there are also non-government universities and private schools and a fee-paying form of education at government universities. Today we are talking about the education system in Great Britain.

Look at the photo:

This is the building of one of the oldest universities in Great Britain. It has got the name of the city it is situated in. The history of the university and the city started at the same time in the 12^th century as a result of the migration of students. What university is this? What do you know about it?

Find out more: http://www.ox.ac.uk

LEXICAL EXERCISES

Active vocabulary

 

Find suitable definitions to the following words and word combinations, which you learned in the previous lesson:

a person who wants to be a student; sciences that deal with the physical world, considered as a group or as individual subjects such as physics, chemistry, or biology; a school providing education that the children’s parents pay for directly; a school for pupils aged from 6-7 to 17-18; the education, which you get after secondary; general quantity; teaching cost; something, which doesn’t belong to the government; someone who has finished their studies at university or college, usually by getting a degree; a connection between two people, places or facts; obligatory; a company or a person that employs people; elective.

 

Secondary school, private school, higher education, natural sciences, total number, entrance exam, to pay for tuition, non-governmental, applicant, graduate, employer, link, optional, compulsory; an applicant.

 

 

New words

Give synonyms or close meanings of the following words and word combinations and try to pronounce them correctly:

Primary school, comprehensive school, craft, domestic science, woodwork, campus, nursery, tutor, Bachelor degree, preparatory, public schools.

 

SPEAKING PRACTICE

Read the following text to get the information about the education system in Great Britain:

THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GREAT BRITAIN

Education in Britain is provided by the Local Education Authority (LEA). Educational planning and organization are not controlled as much by central government as in many other countries.