II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.

III. Put 10 questions to the text.

IV. Find all irregular verbs in the text, give 3 forms and translate them.

TEXT 15

I. Read the text and define the main idea of it.

II. Think of the title to the text.

Education today is perhaps more important than at any previous time in our history. It helps young people to meet challenges of life and to see the world with greater understanding. Today we depend on science and technology, so everybody should know about it and its contribution to society, understand its potential and limitations. This course is for large number of students of natural sciences to whom English will be a vital part of their scientific life. English is the lan­guage of international scientific communication; it is the language of all scientific conferences, of major scientific journals and informal discussions in hallways of symposia and congresses of sci­entists all over the world.

So, the focus of education is on the learner and the goal is to help each student to get as much knowledge as possible, to become a creative thinker, to develop a good self-image when he takes his place in the working world. Studies should help students to discover that dealing with scientific issues is fun, interesting and important to their lives.

The objective of a study programme is to provide good knowledge in science and in a spe­cial field of student's interest. Students learn to carry out and interpret investigations, and acquire teaching and technical skills in sciences.

The faculty develops a curriculum that produces a well-rounded student with good training in a chosen area of research.

Computer scientists trained at faculties of cybernetics are wanted at scientific laboratories, schools and universities, industrial facilities, banks and commer­cial companies.

At higher schools basic material is presented in the form of lectures supplemented by class discussions, seminars and laboratory exercises. Students work in laboratories to learn various ex­perimental techniques and to become familiarised with instrumentation and other faculty facilities.

Besides studies and research work students can take part in numerous social activities offered by their department or university. They attend interesting meetings, lectures, films, exhibitions; join various sports and art clubs or societies.

The department actively helps its students to find their professional positions, placing them in jobs for which they are well prepared and in which they can prosper. Graduates of the depart­ments of natural sciences can take industrial posts or choose academic career both in teaching and research fields.

III. Write down new words into your vocabulary.

IV. Make up a brief summary of the text.

V. Make up word-combinations:

1. contribution a) knowledge

2. international b) challenges

3. to provide c) communication

4. study d) to society

5. to meet e) programme

TEXT 16

I. Read this text and translate it into Ukrainian.

Education in Scotland

Scotland has a tradition of educational excellence. Its schools and universities are broad-based and egalitarian, and are highly valued by the Scottish people. The quality of education in the country attracts an ever-growing number of students and researchers from many other parts of the world.

A major factor in the success of the country's industrial and cultural sectors has been Scotland's educational system. The national school system goes back to the sixteenth century, when elementary schools were established in every parish and grammar schools in every major town in Scotland.

Today the state school system is funded through the Scottish Executive and the lo­cal authorities in Scotland. Education is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16, and although the pre-school (nursery) stage for children aged between 2 and 5 is not compulsory, the Scottish Executive has set a target of creating a nursery place for every 3-year-old child in the country whose parents want it. By August 2011, some 85 per cent of 3-year-olds and 96 per cent of 4-year-olds were in nursery education.

Primary education is provided for all children between the ages of 5 and 11 or 12, and pupils then move on to secondary schools, which teach children up to the age of 18. The standard of teaching is particularly high and only graduates can become teachers.

Following their school careers, students with appropriate qualifications can move to further or higher education at one of Scotland's 13 universities, 6 specialist higher education institutions or 47 further education colleges. Numbers in further education have doubled in less than 10 years and almost half of young people in Scotland now choose to embark on a further education course.