Our University

Lesson 5.1.2. System of higher education

Ex 1. Listen to the text “Bill Gates” (Enterprise 2 p. 52, ex. 23), and then give the information about his education.

Ex 2. Read the text “Our University” and answer the questions after it:

(A Letter)

Dear Helen,

Don’t be angry with me for my long silence, but really I was too busy to write.

As you know, I left school in June and began to prepare for my entrance exams to the University. As both my mother and father are teachers I have made up my mind to be a teacher too. I think teaching is a noble profession.

I had to take four exams and passed all of them with excellent marks. So I’m glad to tell you that now I’m a first-year student at the Moscow State Teacher Training University.

I should like to show you the main building of our University. I can’t help admiring this fine old building with its beautiful columns. The first students entered it more than 120 years ago.

It goes without saying we, students, are very proud of this fact.

There are 18 faculties at our University which train teachers in many subjects: Russian, Literature, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Foreign Languages and others. Many well-known professors teach at our University.

We have good libraries and reading-rooms and for those who go in for sports there are good gymnasiums and a stadium.

At present we have quite a lot of work as we have English practice, Grammar and Phonetics, Linguistics, History of our native land and other subjects. There is an English speaking club at our faculty. It gives us a good opportunity to master the language, but I don’t take part in it yet. I’m working hard at my pronunciation. There is a good language laboratory at our faculty where we work with the cassette-recorders. It helps us to find out our mistakes and to get rid of them in the shortest possible time.

So that’s the latest news about myself. Please write to me about your life and studies.

My best regards to your parents.

Yours,

Ann.

(Аракин,6-е изд., доп. и исправл.- М.: Гуманит. изд. центр ВЛАДОС, 2002.-502 с.; стр. 198-199)

1. When did Ann begin to prepare for her entrance exams to the University? 2. How many exams did she have to take? 3. How did she pass her exams? 4. What’s the name of her University? 5. When did the first students enter the University? 6. How many faculties are there at the University? 7. What are the main facilities there? 8. What gives her a good opportunity to master the language? 9. Where does she work with a cassette-recorder? 10. What help her to find out mistakes and get rid of them? 11. Does Ann like her University? 12. 3. Discuss with your group-mates the importance of higher education. Does it influence our future life greatly or not?

Ex 3. Write a similar letter to your foreign friend (comment on the choice of your university).

Ex 4. Find information about a college or a university abroad. Make a report about it.

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