- •Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации
- •University tutor
- •Insert the right form of the verb «to be»
- •Insert the right form of the verb «to have»
- •Succeeding in College
- •I think that… я думаю, что …..
- •Introducing yourself
- •Introducing someone
- •Introduce your partner to the groupmates and tell them about him/her.
- •Rules of Success: a Message for Students
- •Smile with us
- •Task 1 Read the text and express in your own words the main idea of the text Higher Education in Russia
- •Task 2 Use the information in the text to find answers to the following questions
- •It lacks? Give your own variant of the summary. Summary
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Five advantages of Russian educational system
- •Smile with us
- •Exercise 2
- •Insert by or with into the gaps
- •Higher education in Great Britain
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Insert the right prepositions. Consult the text
- •Introduction
- •Communication
- •Smile with us
- •Grammar exercises Exercise 1 Fill in the gaps with the Modal verbs: can, can’t, could, couldn't
- •Insert into the gaps may, might, to be allowed to/ not to be allowed to
- •Close the door behind you
- •Exercise 6
- •Higher Education in the usa
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Reading
- •Unit system
- •Introduction
- •In pairs, take it in turns to make requests and refuse politely in the following situations
- •3. Would you like to study in a foreign country? Why (not)?
- •Smile with us
- •Value of Higher education
- •Important ones from your point of view
- •If you had the possibility to choose the university what university would you choose among the suggested ones? Give reasons for your choice
- •South Ural State University
- •If you were asked to give the three most striking facts about the university what facts would you choose?
- •Present the information you find to your groupmates using the following scheme:
- •Speaking
- •2. Facts about the university
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Asking for Information
- •Student life at Oxford
- •My Specialty is Computer Science
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Exercise 1
- •Homework
- •Insert the required form of the verb into the gaps
- •Computer Support Specialists
- •Grammar Tables Степени сравнения имен прилагательных (The Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives)
- •Образование настоящего неопределенного времени
- •Образование Past Simple (Indefinite)
- •Образование Future Simple (Indefinite) Tense Утвердительная форма
- •Вопросительная форма
- •Образование Past Progressive (Continuous)
- •Образование Past Perfect Tense
- •Модальные глаголы can, may, must и их эквиваленты
- •Условные предложения
Important ones from your point of view
It must be highly competitive.
It must give a high quality of education.
It must be well-known abroad.
It must have well-equipped laboratories.
It must use effective teaching methods.
It must be not far from my home.
It must suggest the flexibility of curriculum.
It must provide students with textbooks and additional information resources.
Task 2
If you had the possibility to choose the university what university would you choose among the suggested ones? Give reasons for your choice
South Ural State University
Moscow State University
Novosibirsk State University
Stanford University (the USA)
Oxford University (Great Britain)
Task 3
Answer the questions using your background knowledge about the SUSU
University
Why did you decide to enter the South Ural State University?
How many faculties does it have?
What do you know about the university you study at?
What youth organizations does it have?
How is the process of study organized?
What is it famous for?
Reading
Task 1
Read the text and do the tasks after it
South Ural State University
SUSU is one of the largest universities of Russia. It was founded in 1943. SUSU has 33 faculties, 13 branches and 8 regional campuses. There is a linguistic center where you can get a second higher education in the field of linguistics, a gifted child center whose purpose is to develop creativity in children, School of Physics and Mathematics for the schoolchildren keen on math and physics, the “Applicant” center that prepares school graduates to enter our university, and specialized preparation courses on different subjects.
The postgraduate education offers courses in 70 specializations.
Over 50,000 students are enrolled at the University full-time. The teaching staff includes 1900 teachers: 265 Doctors of Sciences, Professors; 857 Candidates of Sciences, Assistant Professors, over 90 members of foreign and Russian academies. Our lecturers successfully use new teaching methods.
In 2004 on the basis of SUSU the Open Institute was established. It opens its doors for all the people wishing to get a higher education regardless of their age and place of living. This is a new way to deliver education called Distance study that incorporates different kinds of modern technologies and methods of teaching.
The SUSU scientific library is the largest one in Chelyabinsk. It has more than 2,5 million volumes, journals, periodicals, e-subscriptions. One of these years the library plans to organize the reading hall similar to that in Western universities. It will be a reading hall with open access. Open access means that the students do not need to stand in a line for hours to take a book they need, but they will be able to go around the reading hall with lots of bookshelves, choose the book they like, read it sitting at a comfortable study and put it back into special baskets after they finish reading. Moreover the SUSU scientific library successfully exploits modern technologies and introduces the new electronic system that will allow students to order and prolong books electronically using their home computers.
SUSU is a basic educational institution of Russian Ministry of Education on developing new teaching methods and introducing new study equipment. The novelties, introduced in teaching process are multimedia information complexes for lecture theaters, digital control language laboratories, study-laboratory complexes and code gram sets on various disciplines.
South Ural State University is noted for its students and the teaching staff, democratic in their composition and views. To a large extent it is exactly that fact that accounts for the popularity among the undergraduates, the teachers and the tutors of progressive scientific and social ideas. The University has trained 115,000 specialists, 2,100 Candidates of Sciences and 440 Doctors of Sciences. Many graduates are members of governing body of Russia and Chelyabinsk region, among them V. Khristenko, Prime Minister of Russia; A. Pochinok, Minister on Labour and Social politics; M. Yurevich, Chelyabinsk region Governer; S. Davidov, Chelyabinsk mayor and others.
About 6,500 students live in the University hostels. There is a student theater “Mannequin”, modern dance, ballroom dance, a jazz ensemble, 2 choirs. The University has a modern sports complex with a swimming pool. Since 1956 university newspaper “Technopolis” has been published. In 2002 a new teleradiocentre was opened.
Did you know that SUSU is the highest building in Chelyabinsk?
Its height is 72 meters.
Task 2
Answer the questions to the text
How old is the university?
What special organizations does it have to help applicants to enter the University?
What facts prove that it is one of the largest universities in Russia?
What distinguishes the Open University from a traditional one?
What special services does the SUSU scientific library provide for the users?
What are the novelties introduced into teaching process?
Can you name some of the well-known SUSU graduates?
What social activities can students take part in?
Task 3
What facts do you know about the SUSU that were not mentioned in the text? Share them with the groupmates
Task 4
Make the plan for the text
Task 5