Ємець О.В., Морська Л.М., Школяр Н.В., Шлапак О.О. Англійська мова
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10) lecturers j) a student in the second year of a course of
study at a college or university.
Task III. Replace the italicized verbs with different verbs that have
the same meaning in the context:
1. Who is giving the lecture today?
2. Did she receive a grant for her course?
3. Is it more difficult to obtain a place at university?
4. You have to pass the exams before you can enter university.
5. He’s studying physics, I think.
6. I think they’re carrying out some research into the cause of asthma.
7. I didn’t take any notes in the lecture yesterday.
8. The course goes on for three years.
Task IV. Read these sentences spoken by university students. What is
each person studying?
1. We have to know every bone in a person’s body.
2. We are going to concentrate on Freud and Jung this term.
3. The way we use fertilizers is much more precise than twenty years ago.
4. You must know this case – it’s one of the most famous in legal history.
5. Reforms, started in the national economy aimed at the establishment of
an open market type structure.
6. Do you know that today we are going to read about military leader
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky?
Task V. Translate into Ukrainian:
1. The monitor of our group lives in a dormitory. 2. In the first year
students study academic subjects. 3. They have only compulsory subjects. 4. She is
good at singing. 5. Do you get a grant? 6. What marks do you have in English?
7. She doesn’t miss lectures, she attends all lectures and practicals.
Task VI. Translate into English:
A. Гуртожиток; отримувати стипендію; здати вступні іспити; гумані-
тарні науки
; мати здібності до хімії; студент першого курсу; отримувати
гарні оцінки; обов’язковий; пропускати заняття.
B. 1. Чи Ви живете у гуртожитку? 2. Мій друг – першокурсник. 3. Ми вив-
чаємо обов’язкові предмети. 4. Студенти не відвідують заняття у вихідні дні.
5. Де живе староста вашої групи? 6. Які гуманітарні предмети Ви вивчаєте? 7. Хто
живе у цьому
гуртожитку? 8. Вона має здібності до математики. 9. Моя по-
друга дуже любить (отримує насолоду) танцювати.
Text. STUDENT’S LIFE
Lena studies at Khmelnytsky National University. In summer she passed
her entrance exams successfully and was admitted to the University. Now Lena is a
student of the Technological Faculty.
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In her group there are 25 students. The majority of students live with their
parents but some students who come from other cities or villages live in hostels
(dormitories). Lena’s group is very friendly. The students try to help each other in
studies. Also they often spend their leisure time together – go to the movies or to
the theatre, organize birthday parties. The monitor of the group is … . His task is to
keep the register and mark the attendance. The students must not miss lectures or
practical, attendance is compulsory.
Like most students Lena gets a grant. But the grant is rather small and it
would be very difficult for students to make both ends meet if their parents didn’t
help them.
Lena is a first-year student (a fresher). All first-years must study academic
subjects-Advanced (Higher) Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, as well as humanities –
History of Ukraine, English (or German or French). They also have Physical Education
and some engineering sciences. Lena is good at drawing and she likes Drawing
classes. Also she enjoys her English lessons where students speak a lot, listen to
the tape-recorder and discuss various problems.
Lena is a hard-working student and she gets good marks in all subjects.
She hopes she will make a good engineer.
Notes:
register журнал групи
to make (both) ends meet зводити кінці з кінцями
It would be difficult … if the
parents didn’t help …
(умовний стан) було б важко ..., якби
батьки не допомагали ...
hard-working працелюбний (-а)
Task VII. Answer the questions on the text:
1. When did Lena enter the University?
2. Does she get a grant?
3. Where do the students of her group live?
4. What subjects do first-years study?
5. Can students miss lectures or practicals?
6. What does the monitor do?
Task VIII. Answer the questions about your group and your studies:
1. When did you enter the University?
2. How many entrance exams did you pass?
3. What marks did you get?
4. What exam was the most difficult?
5. What faculty do you study at?
6. How many students are there in your group?
7. Is your group friendly?
8. Who is the monitor? Does he (she) study well?
9. Where do the students of your group live?
10. What subjects do you study?
11. Do you attend all lectures and practicals?
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12. Can students miss classes?
13. What are your favourite subjects?
14. What subjects are you good at?
15. What do you do at your English classes?
16. How do you study?
17. Do you get a grant? Do all students of your group get grant? Is it big
or small?
18. What do you like and what don’t you like in your student’s life?
Task IX. Fill the gaps in this life story of a British man. Choose the
suitable word or phrase: get, take/do, did, learn, passes, fails, give, is studying,
doing, passed, taking.
John did well at school. He always found it easy to … and he always …
his homework. He … all his school exams. Now he … geography at university. He
is also … a special geology course. He enjoys sitting in lectures, listening to the
lecturer and … notes. He will … his final exams next year. If he …, he will … a
degree in geography. If he … he will be very sad. He would like to become a
geography lecturer. He would like to … lectures.
Task X. Make up dialogues about:
a) entrance exams; b) subjects; c) hobbies; d) your group; e) your friend at
the university; f) your progress in studies and so on.
Text. LIFE AT COLLEGE
British universities
There are a lot of universities in Britain. Good ‘A’ Level results in at least
two subjects are necessary to get a place at one. However, good exam passes alone
are not enough. Universities choose their students after interviews, and competition
for places at university is fierce.
For all British citizens a place at university brings with it a grant from
their Local Education authority. The grants cover tuition fees and some of the
living expenses. The amount depends on the parents’ income. If the parents do not
earn much money, their children will receive a full grant which will cover all their
expenses.
Free at last!
Most 18 and 19 year-olds in Britain are fairly independent people, and
when the time comes to pick a college they usually choose one as far away from
home as possible!
Anyway, the three university terms are only ten weeks each, and during
vacation times families are reunited.
Freshers
When they first arrive at college, first year university students are called
“freshers”. A fresher’s life can be exciting but terrifying for the first week. Often
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freshers will live in a Hall of Residence on or near the college campus, although
they may move out into a rented room in their second or third year, or share a
house with friends. Many freshers will feel very homesick for the first week or so,
but living in hall soon helps them to make new friends.
During the first week, all the clubs and societies hold a “freshers” fair”
during which they try to persuade the new students to join their society.
One the day that lectures start, groups of freshers are often seen walking
around huge campuses, maps in hand and a worried look on their faces. They are
learning how difficult it is to change from a school community to one of many
thousands. They also learn a new way of studying. As well as lectures, there are
regular seminars, at which one of a small group of students (probably not more
than ten) reads a paper he or she has written. The paper is then discussed by the
tutor and the rest of the group. Once or twice a term, students will have a tutorial.
This means that they see a tutor alone to discuss their work and their progress.
After three or four years (depending on the type of course and the
university) these students will take their finals. Most of them (over 90 per cent)
will get a first, second or third class degree and be able to put BA (Bachelor of
Arts) or BSc (Bachelor of Science) after their name. It will have been well earned!
Notes:
however тим не менш
competition конкурс
fierce запеклий
income дохід
expenses витрати
fair ярмарок
tutorial заняття (індивідуальне або в малій групі)
optional необов’язковий
Task XI. Answer the questions on the text:
1. What is necessary to get a place at university?
2. For what do British students get a grant?
3. Where do British school leavers usually choose a college to study?
What do their parents think about their choice?
4. How are first year university students called?
5. Where do British students live?
6. What is a “Freshers’ fair”?
7. What way of studying do British students have?
8. When do British students take their finals?
Task XII. What do you call:
1. The building of a university or college and the land around them?
2. A pause for rest between lessons, usually about 15–20 minutes?
3. A university qualification?
4. The money that a person earns from work?
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5. The last exams taken by university students at the end of their final year.
6. A situation in which people compete with each other for smth?
Task XIIІ. Read the talking points and make up dialogues according
them:
1. Is it a good thing to leave home at the age of 18? What are the
advantages and disadvantages?
2. Many British people believe that if you do nothing more than study hard at
university, you waste a great opportunity. What do they mean and do you agree?
3. How do British universities differ from universities in your country?
What do you like and dislike about the British system?
Read and listen to the text about David Snow and his daughter:
Text. LEAVING HOME
Part I. Leaving home – David Snow talking about his daughter
My daughter Jackie is living in London now. We are very worried about
her really. London is such a dangerous place for a young girl. She’s only eighteen, and
London’s so for away. Her mother went down to see her there, but I don’t like London.
I don’t know why she went there. I think she has some friends there. She
says she wants to be a dancer, and she’s doing a sort of course, a ballet course or
something, but dancing isn’t a real job, and you don’t earn much money being a dancer.
She’s living in a flat in north London – with her boyfriend, I think, and we
don’t like that at all. We’ve never met the boyfriend … Tony, his name is. He
doesn’t have a job. I think she’s earning some extra money working as a dancer in
a theatre or club in the centre of London, but I’m not sure. I hope it’s a nice place. I
do worry about her. London is such a big place. I’m sure she wants to come home,
really. She phones home sometimes, but not very often, and when we phone her
she’s always out. We are her parents, and I know we’re important to her, but it still
makes me sad.
Part II. Leaving home – Jackie Snow talking about her life in London
I came to London two months ago because I want to be a professional
dancer, and the best schools of dance are here in London. I am doing a course at
the National Dance School which is very hard work, but I’m really enjoying it.
The course is expensive, but I work with a theatre group at the weekend.
We teach dance to group of children. I am living with another girl in a flat in north
London. It’s small but it’s comfortable. My boyfriend, Tony, lives in the same
street with his parents. They are very kind and often cook meals for me.
Part 3. TEXTS FOR ADDITIONAL READING
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I know my parents are worried about me living in London, but it isn’t
dangerous at all if you are careful. It’s so exciting here there’s so much to do and
see. It was difficult in the beginning, especially getting to know the Underground
and I didn’t know many people, but it’s fine now. I have a lot of good friends. I
love my Mum and Dad very much, but I don’t want to live at home for the rest of
my life. I phone home every Sunday, and when I go to a museum or art gallery I
always send them a postcard. Mum reads them but I don’t know if Dad does.
Task I. Read the text and answer the questions:
1. Why did Jackie come to London?
2. When did she come?
3. Where is she living?
4. Who is she living with?
5. What is she doing in London?
6. What does her boyfriend do?
7. What does she do at the weekend?
8. What does she think of living in London?
9. How often does she keep in touch?
10. What does she think of her parents?
Task II. Read the talking points and make up dialogues according them:
1. Is Jackie’s father right to be so worried about his daughter? Was Jackie
right to leave home at eighteen?
2. Use your dictionary to find out what generation gap means. Is there a
generation gap between you and your parents?
Text. FIRST YEAR AT UNIVERSITY
Task I. Divide into three groups and read your extract.
Group A. You are going to read about Jeremy Farrington’s opinion.
Group B. You are going to read about Ben Wilcox’s opinion.
Group C. You are going to read about Tim Bell’s opinion.
Jeremy Farrington
I can’t afford to live in the halls of residence so I commute from the other
side of London every day. It takes me about two hours in the morning and two in
the evening and costs me about 33 pounds a week. But it’s cheaper than living in a
hall of residence. Halls cost about 50 pounds a week at the cheapest.
You need to be very self-motivated in your first year. The tutors are very
good. They give you great ideas and they’re there for you if you need them. But at
the end of the day, they can’t force you to do the work.
Ben Wilcox
I’m living in a hall of residence. In the hall there are flats, with five people
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sharing a kitchen and a bathroom. The kitchen is probably the most social place.
We’re all busy people but we don’t mind cooking for each other.
There’s a lot of one-to-one teaching. We have two tutorials a week but if
you want to see your tutor for extra help you can arrange a tutorial any time. The
lectures haven’t been so important in our first year.
Money is a big problem for any university student. By the end of the first
year every student will have spent too much money.
Tim Bell
First-year students have to make a break from home, from a set of school
friends they’ve probably been with for the last eight years. So it’s always a bit
stressful coming to a strange university. But on the whole I think most of them
settle down and make friends.
The main problem is money. There’s no way that the grant can possibly
cover your expenses. It’s very difficult to persuade your parents to give you an
extra 25 pounds a week, so many students have jobs. I think it’s particularly
stressful combining work and study for architecture students because they have to
produce projects to deadline every two weeks.
Task II. Find a partner from each of the other two groups. Compare
and swap information.
Task III. Answer the questions on the text:
1. Where does Jeremy live?
2. How much time does it take him to get to the University?
3. Do the tutors help students with their studying?
4. What is the most social place in the hall of residence?
5. Why is it stressful to come to a strange university?
6. Why do many students have to work?
7. Is it easy to combine work and study?
Task IV. Make up some dialogues using such talking points:
1. What are the problems facing first-year students? Work pressure?
Money? Too much social life?
2. What is your opinion about it? Is there difference between problems of
Ukrainian and British freshmen?
Text. STUDENTS’ LIFE AND CUSTOMS
In the old times the students’ life was very strict. They were not allowed
to play games, to sing, to hunt, to fish or even to dance. They wore special dark
clothes which they continue to wear in our days.
An undergraduate at Oxford may have the time of his life. Two rooms, a
bedroom and a sitting-room. Comfortable and cosy, although in some colleges the
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bedrooms are stone-cold. A scout makes his bed, looks after him, cleans up, puts
things in order, a porter brings up his food, if is desired, his tea, cake, his drinks.
Naturally a student does some work occasionally, mostly in the morning,
he might even go to the library. Then in the afternoon he plays games. In the
evening he goes out: to a club meeting, to the Union, to parties, to dances.
But this is the life of the prospective snobs. Of course there is a rule, a
very strict rule: if he is out after midnight or if he does not behave properly in the
street, the “Bulldog” (the university policeman) is after him, the Proctor will take
down his name, and he may get into serious trouble. He may get drunk in his own
rooms, no one minds. A lot of time he spends in conversation, arguing, debating,
simply chatting with friends.
In May there are the Eight Weeks of various sporting events. And finally
there is the Boat Race against Cambridge.
Some of the students want to study part-time at the university. They join a
firm and do a degree on a part-time basis so that when they qualify, they also have
a few years’ practical experience behind them. Some can also be sponsored by a
company. They pay for the studies and you work for them afterwards. That way a
person is sure of a job.
Notes:
strict суворий
porter швейцар, носильник
proctor наглядач, інспектор
debate дискусія
to be sponsored by фінансуватися кимось
Task I. Answer the questions on the text:
1. What was the students’ life in the old times?
2. What kind of clothes did the students wear in the old times?
3. Are there any restrictions in the clothes at Oxford nowadays?
4. What kind of flat does an undergraduate at Oxford have?
5. What is the daily routine of a student at Oxford?
Task II. Have a talk with your friends about the life of the students in
Great Britain. What are the peculiarities of their life?
Text. A GOOD LESSON
Once a rich English woman called Mrs. Johnson decided to have a
birthday party. She invited a lot of guests and a singer. The singer was poor, but he
had a very good voice.
The singer got to Mrs. Johnson’s house at exactly six o’clock as he had
been asked to do, but when he went in, he saw through a door that the dining-room
was already full of guests, who were sitting round a big table in the middle of the
room. The guests were eating, joking, laughing, and talking loudly. Mrs. Johnson
came out to him, and he thought she was going to ask him to join them, when she
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said, “We’re glad, sir, that you have come. You will be singing after dinner. I’ll
call you as soon as we’re ready to listen to you. Now will you go into the kitchen
and have dinner, too, please?”
The singer was very angry, but said nothing. At first he wanted to leave
Mrs. Johnson’s house at once, but then he changed his mind and decided to stay
and teach her and her rich guests a good lesson. When the singer went into the
kitchen, the servants were having dinner, too. He joined them. After dinner, the
singer thanked everybody and said, “Well, now I’m going to sing to you, my good
friends.” And he sang them some beautiful songs.
Soon Mrs. Johnson called the singer.
“Well, sir, we’re ready.”
“Ready?” asked the singer. “What are you ready for?”
“To listen to you,” said Mrs. Johnson in an angry voice.
“Listen to me? But I have already sung, and I’m afraid I shan’t be able to
sing any more tonight.”
“Where did you sing?”
“In the kitchen. I always sing for those I have dinner with.”
Task I. Answer the questions on the text:
1. Who was invited to Mrs. Johnson’s party?
2. Why did Mrs. Johnson ask the singer to have dinner in the kitchen?
3. How did the singer teach Mrs. Johnson?
4. Whom did the singer sing for?
5. How can you explain Mrs. Johnson’s behaviour?
6. Did Mrs. Johnson understand her mistake?
Task II. Practice back translation. Translate the key sentences of the
text into the written form, and then translate them orally into English again.
Text. ENTERTAINMENTS
During the past hundred years, the radio, the cinema and now television have
made very great changes in the entertainments with which people fill their free time.
A hundred years ago people knew how to entertain themselves much
better than they do now. When a group of people gathered together, they talked,
played cards or other games, read aloud to each other, or went out shooting or
walking together. Most people could sing a little, or play a musical instrument, so
at a party the guests entertained each other.
Conversation was an art, amusing conversation could keep people happy
for hours.
As for games, such as football, tennis, people played them more often than
they do now. Most of them didn’t play very well, but they could amuse themselves
and their friends.
Nowadays we are entertained by professionals. Why listen to your friends
singing when you can hear the greatest singer of the world on the radio? Why play
football with players who are not very good at it, when you can go by train or car
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to see some of the best players in your country playing an important match; or, if
you’ve got a television set, just sit comfortably at home and watch the game
without going outside at all?
The art of conversation and writing letters is dying. People are becoming
more and more lookers and listeners and less and less doers and talkers though it’s
much better to do something not very well oneself than always to sit and watch
others doing it.
Task I. Answer the questions on the text:
1. How did people entertain themselves a hundred years ago?
2. How could conversation keep people happy for hours?
3. What kinds of games do you know? Can you play them?
4. How are we entertained nowadays?
5. What is the difference between old and new kinds of entertainments?
6. Why is the art of writing letters dying?
7. What is your most favourite kind of entertainments?
Task II. Retell the text in 10–15 sentences.
Text. EDUCATION IN UKRAINE
Education is rooted in very old traditions reaching back to the pagan times ... .
In the 16
th
–18
th
centuries, an increasing number of schools were set up by national
religious-educational communities – “Brotherhoods”, for instance, in Lviv (1585),
in Kyiv (1615), in Lutsk (1620). The Greek-Slavonic-Latin Collegium, Ukraine’s
first institution of higher learning, was founded in Ostroh in 1576.
At the turn of the 18
th
century the level of public literacy placed Ukraine
ahead of a number of Western and Eastern European countries.
The first universities appeared in Kharkiv (1805), Kyiv (1834) and Odessa
(1865). Later, “specialized institutes” were opened for training industrial, railroad
engineers, agronomists, physicians and specialists in other fields.
The present-day educational system includes over 23 000 so-called pre-
school educational establishments where some 2 000 000 children are taught their
mother tongue.
The basic link in the chain of public education in Ukraine is the “General
education (grade) school”, with 21,350 schools and a student body of 6,9 million.
Each has three stages: primary, basic and senior. Nowadays there is a new type of
schools in Ukraine: gymnasia/gymnasiums (121), and lycees (124). Over 50 pri-
vate schools have appeared recently. General secondary education in Ukraine is
free but compulsory.
There are 1,176 vocational training schools providing almost 800 quali-
fications. In most of them (69 %) the working students are also taught the complete
curriculum of secondary education.
Post-secondary education is provided by 754 institutions of what is known