Use Past Simple.

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES

Text for Supplementary Reading.

Most big towns in Britain have both a university and a college of higher education. There are 91 universities in Britain and 47 colleges of higher education. Universities offer three- and four-year degrees courses; colleges of higher education offer both two-year HND (Higher National Diploma) courses, as well as degree courses.

A degree is a qualification you get from university when you take your final exams. You are then awarded a BA (Bachelor of Arts), BSc (Bachelor of Science) and BEd (Bachelor of Education).

Undergraduates – students who are studying for degrees - go to large, formal lectures, but most of the work takes place in tutorial: lessons in groups of ten or more when the students discuss their work with the lecturer.

Only 25 percent of the students go to higher education. Competition to get into one of Britain’s universities is fierce and not everyone who gets A levels can go. Students usually need three A levels to go to university and grades go from A level, the highest grade, down to E level.

Students apply to universities months before they take their A levels. The students are given a personal interview and the universities decide which students they want. The place which a student is offered depends on his or her A-level results. The more popular a university, the higher the grades it will ask for. If students do not get the grades that a university asks for, they have to try to get a place at another university or college before the new term starts in early October.

Vocabulary:

Science – природничі науки

Technology – технічні та прикладні науки

Arts – гуманітарні науки

degree – ( учений) ступінь

to award – присуджувати

tutorial – практичне заняття

competition – конкурс

fierce – суворий

grade – оцінка

A level– найвища оцінка

to apply – подавати заяву

to take exam – здавати іспити

to depend on – залежати від

XII. Be ready to speak about education in Ukraine and Britain.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES.

1. Use Present Simple:

1. I (to take) her to school every day. 2. He (to help) his father very often. 3. She (not to drink) coffee after lunch. 4. My father (not to work) at the office. 5. They (to eat) at school? 6. Your sister (to rest) after college? 7. How often she (to take) medicine? What language they usually (to speak)?

1. What your neighbours (to do) yesterday? 2. Her brothers (to shout)) at her. 2. She (to bake) a delicious apple pie. 3. Her husband (to smoke) a cigarette and (to talk) to his wife. 4. They (to wait) for the bus. 5. The bus (to arrive) at 9 o’clock. 6. Mr and Mrs Smith (to rest) very well last night. 7. They really (to have) a wonderful time at their friends.

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