- •School years
- • Speaking
- •At School
- •Exercise 1
- • Listening
- •Part b
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- • Writing
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 5
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Part II Opinions on education Active vocabulary
- •The system in britain
- • Speaking
- • Speaking
- • Reading
- • Dialogue invention
- •Points of view
- • What do you think?
- • Speaking Choosing a university
- •Exercise 1
- • Predictions
- •Vocabulary and key concepts
- • Listening
- • Postlistening
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2 Translate into English
- • Reading Six rules for coping with exam stress.
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •It is interesting to know
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Part IV
- • Reading How Ruth made history at Oxford
- •Exercise 5 Fill in:
- •Exercise 6
- •Child's play Speaking
- • Listening
- • Listening
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- • Listening
- •Exercise 3
- •Learning to learn Active vocabulary
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 1
- • Reading
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- • Speaking
- •2. The author of the text says that students should get into the habit of studying in the library. What other habits do you think students should get into?
- •Part VI a freshman’s experience Active vocabulary
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Exercise 15
- •Exercise 16
- • Writing
- •Exercise 17
- •Exercise 18
- •University Life
- •Notetaking Preparation
- • Listening
- • Postlistening Activities
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- • Reading and speaking
- •Exercise 5
Exercise 14
Insert articles where necessary:
Now let me give you some idea of what you would see if you were to walk around Cambridge. Let us imagine that I am seeing ... sights for ... first time. It is ... quiet market town and ... shopping centre for quite ... large area, but I notice more bookshops than one normally sees in ... country towns, and more tailors' shops displaying in their windows ... black gowns that... students must wear, ... long gowns that hang down behind to ... feet for ... graduates and shorter ones for ... undergraduates. In ... centre of ... town is ...market place. Everywhere there are ... teashops, some modern and many in ...old buildings, reached by ... climbing narrow stairs. There is ... great deal of... bicycle traffic, mainly ... undergraduates who race along without thought of ... safety, with ... long scarves (in ... various colours to denote their college) wound round their necks. Crossing ... marketplace with its Town Hall and cinemas I come to ... tall grey church with ... fine tower standing up proudly. Continuing, I find my way to ... river which flows behind ... college buildings. ... colleges join one another along ... curve of ... river. ... colleges are built on ... plan common to all. There is ...chapel, ... library and ... large dining- hall. There are nineteen colleges, including two for ... women students which were built near ... end of... last century. (... women students do not have ... very active part in...university life at Cambridge, by ...way, but they work harder than ... men and one seldom sees them outside of ... classrooms.) It is difficult to walk around ... quiet courts of ... colleges without feeling ... sense of ... peace and scholarship.
Exercise 15
Translate into English:
Ви повинні наздогнати групу, як би багато не довелося вам працювати.
Він до смерті набрид мені розповідями про свої пригоди.
У нього принаймні п'ять помилок в кожній контрольній.
Як би багато нових слів не було в тексті, я всі слова дивлюся в словнику.
Ви робите помилки в кожному наступному слові.
Я не раз говорила Борису, студенту другого курсу, що, якщо він хоче здати іспит,
йому треба наздогнати групу.
Ви повинні читати більше, тоді ви значно збільшите свій запас слів.
Вчитель вказав на найбільш грубі помилки, просто і ясно пояснив правило, яким
треба користуватися.
Що привело ваш клас в таке збудження? Хвилююча для них новина: у них буде
новий вчитель по геометрії.
Я би сказав, що характеристика вашого друга, складена деканом факультету,
залишає сподіватися на краще.
Exercise 16
Form adjectives adding the suffix -able to the words given below. Check their meaning in your dictionary and compose a short dialogue called ‘A freshman’s bitter experience’.
Eat, read, imagine, excite, realise, teach.