- •1. Read and translate the text. Succeeding in college
- •2. Read the text and express in your own words its main idea. Higher education in russia
- •3. What has changed in your character since you entered the university? Have you become more serious, more responsible, more independent or vice versa?
- •4.Discussion: Choosing a university to study
- •Study abroad
- •7. Choose one of the inventions and present the story of its development for your classmates. Use the following plan:
- •8. Make up a crossword using the basic terms of higher education.
- •9. Read and translate the text. Enumerate its main ideas.
- •Value of higher education
- •10. Speaking
- •11. Practice the following dialog.
10. Speaking
Choose one of the expressions below and write an Argumentative Essay where you are to express your agreement or disagreement with the chosen statement about the purpose of education.
1. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it”. Marian Wright
2. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”. Will Durant
3. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men”. Bill Beattie
11. Practice the following dialog.
Kim: It's hot in here, isn't it?
Jill: Yes, it certainly is. I wish they'd open a window or two.
Kim: That would be nice. By the way, my name is Kim.
Jill: Hi, I'm Jill.
Kim: Do you like classes here?
Jill: Yes. I'm in English 10. What class are you in?
Kim: English 20.
Jill: Is it an interesting class?
Kim: It's OK. The teacher is great!
Jill: Is it easy to get home from where you live?
Kim: Yes, it takes me 40 minutes by bus. How long does it take you to get to school?
Jill: About the same. Oh, I have to rush. I'm going to be late for class. Nicemeeting
you.
Kim:Byenow.