- •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
Notetaking Preparation
1. Deciphering Notes
Sometimes you may for one reason or another miss a lecture and have to ask a classmate to share his or her notes. If your classmate has taken good notes, you may be able to reconstruct much of the message of a lecture.
Imagine that you missed a lecture in which your professor discussed some basic differences between U.S. colleges and universities and those in foreign countries. You can use these notes to answer your teacher's questions. Work with a partner.
Educ. System in Coll. or Univ.
1. Kinds of courses
a. required (sometimes choice among some req. courses = alternatives)
b. elec.-- students choose
c. prerequisites -- req. before another course can be taken
2. Schedule
-- very flexible
--late afternoon/ even. courses (working stud.)
3. Classes
-- diff. people class to class
-- great variety of kinds of peop. (difficult for some young freshmen from small homogeneous h. schools, big change)
2. Answer in complete sentences.
a. What are prerequisites?
b. What is the difference between an alternative class and an elective class?
c. Why are the same classes sometimes offered both during the day and in the late afternoon or evening?
d. Why do incoming freshmen from small high schools sometimes suffer from a kind of culture shock?
Listening
A. The lecture begins with an introduction about the diversity of the student body at a typical American university or college. Listen for the signals that help you recognise when the lecturer is about to change to another major subtopic. You'll listen to the lecture again.
B. Write down the main subtopics and as many of the relevant supporting details as possible.
C. Now it is a good time to check to see if you answered your Predictions questions about the lecture correctly.
Postlistening Activities
Accuracy Check
Listen to the following questions, and write short answers. Your will hear each question one time only.
Speaking
Exercise 1
Discuss these questions with a partner or in small groups and report to the class.
How is our student body different from the student body in the United States?
What is an "average" student in our country like?
What is an "average" class like?
Approximately how many students are there at these schools?
How is the examination system different?
How do professors in our country conduct their classes?
How is graduate school different from undergraduate school?
Exercise 2
Discuss the following questions about general education issues in small groups. Appoint one person to report your group's opinions to the class.
Is it better for students to be evaluated by examinations or by some other way? What other ways could be used to evaluate students?
Should students evaluate their teachers? Why or why not?
Do students learn better from a strict, authoritarian teacher or from a friendly, democratic one? Why?