What do you like about college?

□ a)interesting lesson

□ b) vacation time

□ c) meeting with college mates

Imagine, you have got a lot of homework for tomorrow. What are you going to do?

□ a) do only the things which you will likely be asked

□ b) try to do everything

□ c) take it easy and throw the books away

Imagine you are late for college. What are you going to do?

□ a) apologize to the teacher and take a seat

□ b) not to worry about it and take your seat

□ c) go back home with the hope that next time you'll be in time

You are going to choose a foreign language to study at college. What are you going to do?

□ a) you think is the easiest.

□ b) which is with the nicest teacher.

□ c) you think is the most useful in your future.

What do you think about the importance of your study in college?

□ a)Study develops your mind and the knowledge you are getting will be useful in future

□ b) It s important to study quite a few things at school which will help in your future life

□ c) College study is not so important, because it's out of use in your real life as an adult after school

What place do you usually take in the classroom?

□ a) the place where you can see and listen to your teacher clearly

□ b) somewhere, where you'll have a possibility not to be seen by your teacher

□ c) Any place will do.

Your score:

1. a) 2; b 0; c) 1.

2. a) 1; b) 2; c) 0.

3. a) 2; b) 1; c) 0.

4. a) 0; b) 1; c) 2.

5. a) 2; b) 1; c) 0.

6. a) 2; b) 0; c) 1.

RESULTS:

Less than 3 SOS! You hate college! You have to change your attitude to college. Or you'll be at the back of your class. Ask for help and try to do your best.

More than 3 but less than 9 Your college success depends upon your efforts in study and other college activities. You're one of 'so-so' students.

More than 9. Wow! You are a real top class student. You've got a chance to go far in your future. Don't stop

 

IV. Pair work. You are a student of our college. What does it mean to be a student?

Write 5 sentences using “Being a student means…”.

Example: Being a student means going to my college every day.

Being a student means studying different subjects.

 

V. Think and answer “Is it good to be a student?”

Example: To my mind, it is good to be a student, because we meet our friends and teachers every day, gets good marks, learn many new and interesting things, often go on excursions, to the cinema, to the theatre etc.

 

VI. Match English words and translations

A first-year student староста

A second-year student студент-першокурсник

A graduate аспірант

A group monitor студент другого курсу

A post-graduate випускник

 

VII. Write a word,word combinations or sentence, which characterize the student, using words below.

 

S – SERIOUS WHEN DEALING WITH SERIOUS MATTERS.

T

U

D

E

N

T

Words: serious, tactful, tolerant, disciplined, emotional, noisy, understanding.

VIII. Read and learn words.

a laboratory -a lab. Experiments are carried out in laboratories.

a workshop – Which floor are your school workshops situate on?

an assembly hall – All schools celebrations and gatherings are held in the

assembly hall.

a term – Our academic session consists of two terms. This term we will study

two new subjects.

a canteen – a college canteen. How many people can go to your college canteen at a time?

a facility – athletic facilities; facilities for studies.

an equipment – modern equipment. The laboratory was well-equipped and ready for scientific work. Some subjects are taught in well-equipped rooms.

a hostel – Students from other towns and villages live in the hostel. They are hostelers.

a dean – There are four deans in our college.

a tutor – Every group has its own tutor, who helps students with their study and upbringing.

to leave school – We left school two years ago.

to take exams, to pass exams – If you want to enter university, you should take some exams.

level pass – Level pass to our college is 25.

to occupy – University occupies several buildings.

a double - period – Usually we have 4 double – periods a day.

a lunch break – During a lunch break students visit canteen and have dinner.

timetable – There is a timetable on the ground floor.

academic session – Usually the academic session consists of two terms.

to attend lectures – If you want to know everything you should attend lectures.

VI. Read and answer the questions.

Our college

My name is Oleg Ivanov. In June I left school and in August took my exams at Machine-building college. Level pass to our college was 16. My level pass was 15. Now I am a full time first-year student. I will be an economist.

Our college is situated in the center of my town. It takes me 15 minutes to get to the college by bus and 30 minutes on foot. Students from different cities, towns and villages live in our hostel. It is very convenient to live there, because they can easily get to the college.

Our college occupies three building: a main building, a laboratory and a hostel. There are five departments at our technical school. The headmaster and management work offices are on ground floor. On the ground floor we have also a timetable on the wall, an assembly hall, a conference room. On the first floor you will find computer classes, a library and college museum. There are many classrooms on the second and third floors, where we study Maths, Physics, Ukrainian, History, English, Literature and many others. Our labs with modern equipment, different classrooms and workshops are in the laboratory building.

Every day we attend lectures and seminars. Usually we have three or four double-periods a day. In the first year all the students study the same general educational subjects. They are Ukrainian, literature, a foreign language, sciences (physics, mathematics, and chemistry), social sciences. The students begin to study specialized subjects according to their specialty in the second year. They are either technical drawing or electronics, strength of materials or metal cutting, economy or furnaces, programming languages or chemical analyses. The academic session began on the first of September and will end in June. At the end of the term we will take exams and I shall try to pass them successfully and get grants. I do well because I want to become a good specialist.

 

1. Where do you study at?

2. Where is it situated?

3. How many times a week do you go to college?

4. How many lectures and seminars do you have a day?

5. Why did you decide to go to our college?

6. Which do you like better: your school life or your student¢s life?

7. How did your life change after you entered college?

8. Is your education free or do you have to pay for it?

9. What or who helped you to decide to apply to this college?

10. What kind of a man (woman) is your group-master (mistress)?

11. What subject doe she (he) teach?

12. What compulsory subjects do you study at your college?

13. Are you good at all of them?

14. What is your favourite subject? Why?

VI. Say which activities at the lessons and after school give you opportunities:

· To develop your independent thinking;

· To understand the value of help, advice and encouragement;

· To develop reading, writing and speaking skills;

· To develop good work habits;

· To acquire some scientific knowledge and explore new ideas.

 

You may use the following phrases: carrying out experiments; making careful observations; holding discussions; holding discussions; participating in all kinds of activities; solving problems; taking part in nature walks; go on excursions.

 

VII. Translate into English.

1. В минулому році я закінчив школу. 2. Я здав екзамени до коледжу. 3. Тепер я навчаюся в коледжі. 4. Я студент денного відділення. 5. Наш технікум займає велику і світлу будівлю. 6. Заняття починаються о 9 годині. 7. Звичайно у нас 4 пари щоденно. 8. О 12 годині у нас перерва. 9. В коледжі є гарна їдальня і ми звичайно на великій перерві ходимо в їдальню. 10. Я живу близько з коледжем і ходжу звичайно пішки. 11. На дорогу мені потрібно 20 хвилин. 12.Мені дуже подобаються наші лабораторії з сучасним обладнанням. 13. Я хочу бути гарним спеціалістом і багато вчусь.

 

VIII. Write a letter to your friend about your college life.

 

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

1. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

1) We (to go) to school every day.

2) Nick (to do) his homework by seven o’clock yesterday.

3) You (to help) your father tomorrow?

4) We (to bring) a lot of berries from the wood. Now we shall make jam.

5) Look! Jane (to swim) across the river.

6) What you (to do) at six o’clock yesterday?

7) You ever (to see) the Pyramids?

8) I (to go) to the Caucasus two years ago.

9) When Nick (to come) home yesterday, his mother (to return) and (to cook) dinner in the kitchen.

10) When I (to go) to school yesterday, I suddenly (to remember) that I (to forget) to take my English exercise-book.

11) Yesterday grandfather (to tell) us how he (to work) at the factory during the war.

 

2. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

1) I always (to come) to school at a quarter to nine.

2) Yesterday I (to come) to school at ten minutes to nine.

3) Tomorrow Nick (not to go) to the cinema this week because he 9to go) to the cinema yesterday. He already (to be) to the cinema this week. Look! He (to cry).

4) What your brother (to do) now?

5) My friend (to like) pies. He (to eat) pies every day. When I (to meet) him in the street yesterday, he (to eat) a pie. He (to tell) me that he (to buy) that pie at the corner of the street.Look at my friend now! He (to eat) a pie again.

3. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

1) When you (to come) to see us? – I (to come) tomorrow if I (not to be) busy.

2) I (not to like) apples.

3) He (to come) home at five o’clock yesterday.

4) I (to ring0 you up as soon as I (to come) home tomorrow.

5) I (to show) you my work if you (to like).

6) He (to come) home by six o’clock yesterday.

7) Pete certainly 9to help) you with your English if you 9to ask) him.

8) This little boy never (to see) a crocodile.

9) Send me a telegram as soon as you (to arrive).

10) Lets go for a walk. The rain 9to stop) and the sun (to shine).

11) I always (to get) up at eight o’clock, but tomorrow I (to get) up a little later.

12) What you (to read) now? – I (to read) Toms book. I (to be) in a hurry. Tom soon (to come), and I (to want) to finish reading the book before he (to come).

13) When I (to come) home yesterday, my brother (to sleep).

 

4. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

1) Hello! Where you (to go)? – Nowhere in particular. I just (to take) a walk.

2) Our students (to do) all kinds of exercises and now they (to be) sure that they (to know) this rule well. They (to hope) they to make) no mistakes in the test paper.

3) The expedition (to cover) hundreds of kilometers, but they still (to be) far from their destination.

4) You (to go to Great Britain next year?

5) Yesterday Nick (to say) that he (to read) much during his summer vacation.

6) At the age of twenty my father (to combine) work and study.

7) A great number of students (to study)in the reading room when I (to enter) it last night.

8) The storm (to rage) the whole night, and the sailors (to try) to do their best to save the ship.

9) Mikes friends could hardly recognize him as he (to change) greatly after his expedition to the Antarctic.

10) When I (to enter) the hall, the students (to listen) to a very interesting lecture in history.

 

5. Use Present, Past, Future Simple, Present, Past Continuous, Present, Past Perfect.

 

It was eight o’clock in the morning and time for me to go to work. I (to look) out of the window. It (to rain) hard. “You (to get) wet through if you (to go) out now,” said my mother. “No, I…,” I answered, “I (to take) an umbrella.” We (to have) five umbrellas in the house, but when I (to want) to take one, I (to find) that there (to be) not one that I could use: they all (to be) torn or broken. So I (to take) them all and (to carry) them to the umbrella maker, saying that I would call for the umbrellas on my way home in the evening. When I (to go) to have lunch in the afternoon, it still (to rain) very hard. I (to go) to the nearest café, and (to sit) down at the table. A few minutes later a young woman (to come) in and (to sit) down at the same table with me. When I (to finish) my lunch and (to be) ready to leave, I absentmindedly (to take) her umbrella and (to start) for the exit. She (to stop) me saying that I (to take) her umbrella. I (to return) the umbrella with many apologies. In the evening I (to go) to the umbrella maker, (to take) my five umbrellas and (to get) on the tram to go home. It so happened that the woman I (to meet) at the café (to the café (to ride) in the same tram. When she (to see) me with my five umbrellas, she (to say): “You (to have) a successful day today, (to have not) you?”

6. Translate into English.

1. Він був щасливий: він написав чудовий твір. 2. Я не прийду. Що робить твій брат? – Він працює в інституті. – А що він робить зараз? – Він читає газету. 3. було вже темно коли ми прийшли додому: дув сильний вітер. 4. Вони читали Діккенса англійською мовою і знають багато його творів. 5. Коли Том вийшов з дому, усі хлопці грали у футбол, а Білл і Джон лічили круглі камінці, які вони принесли з річки. 6. Мій брат тренувався на стадіоні з 5 до 8 вчора. 7. Моя сестра купила пару чудових светрів цього місяця. 8. Коли твоя сестра поїде до Лондону? 9. Подивись, Катерина миє посуд. 10. Чи був ти коли-небудь в Манчестері? 11. Він провів два тижні у Шотландії два роки тому. 12. Я люблю відвідувати театри та музеї. Він вивчив англійську мову до того як поїхав до США. 13. Я вже прочитала 5 англійських книжок. 14. Моя мама звичайно готує смачні обіди. 15. Подивись! Які гарні квіти він купує. 16. Я зрозумів, що вона не читала мого листа. 17. Ми подорожували вздовж узбережжя Криму минулого року. 18. Вона все ще друкує свою статтю. 19. Він говорить неправду. Він не зробив уроки. 20. Я завжди відвідую Карпати взимку.

Unit XI

JOBS AND PROFESSIONS

Exercises

І. Listen and repeat

bag silly come north

ham wish some south

pan bill done youth

glad pill won truth

 

ІІ. Read and remember the proverbs:

1. No pains no gains.

2. A good name is better than riches.

3. A good name is sooner lost than won.

4. Business before pleasure.

5. Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.