- •Unit 1 Getting into University
- •Learning a Foreign Language
- •In the following text, one or two, (but not more) of the linking words and phrases are correct and the others are incorrect. Underline the correct ones.
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Put each of the following words in the correct space in the passage below.
- •II. Put the correct word from the following list in each space below.
- •III. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct space in the passage below.
- •IV. Write the missing words in the sentences below. Choose from the following:
- •I am a Student Now
- •My University
- •Task 1.
- •Task 2.
- •Our Studies
- •Getting Down To Work
- •Asking for advice.
- •Advising someone to do something.
- •Advising someone not to do something.
- •Task 1. Role-play
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •II. Read the following article about holiday English language courses in Scotland. Write the correct word from the box in each blank.
- •Holiday Courses in Scotland
- •III. Put a circle round the letter of the correct word to use in each blank.
- •IV. Fill in prepositions.
- •V. Each of the following sentences contains errors. Find the errors and correct them.
- •VI. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Unit 3 Success and Failure Focus Vocabulary
- •Taking Exams
- •Succeeding
- •Failing
- •Difficulty
- •Your friend is having difficulties with getting ready for exams. Give him/her some advice on preparing for them.
- •After the Exams
- •A Student's Guide to Exam Stress.
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Fill in the missing words from the box.
- •II. Choose the word or phrase which best complete each sentence. Give one
- •III. Read the following school progress report. Put a circle round the letter of
- •IV. Explain the difference between:
- •V. Each of the following sentences contains errors. Find the errors and correct them.
- •VI. Translate from Russian into English.
- •No More All-Nighters
- •Being Late
- •Making Appointments
- •Role-play
- •School Reunion
- •Vocabulary
- •Seasons and Weather
- •Seasons and Weather
- •Weather - Climate
- •Ex. 18 Read the letter and write back.
- •Don't Gild the Lily!
- •В. Weather Forecast Focus Vocabulary
- •Information about the weather provided by radio, tv or newspapers
- •I. Put each of the following adjectives in the correct space in the passage below.
- •II. Finish each sentence on the left below with the correct verb on the right.
- •III. Complete each sentence by choosing the best alternative. Look up any words you are not sure about.
- •IV. Fill in the prepositions.
- •V. Give the opposite for the following.
- •Unit 2 All Work and No Game Make Jack a Dull Boy
- •About Leisure Habits in Britain Going to the cinema
- •Only One in Three Do It Themselves!
- •Invitations, suggestions, offers How to accept or decline them.
- •Possible responses
- •Bill Wise Gives Advice
- •Let's Have a Picnic
- •Gardening
- •Vocabulary
Unit 3 Success and Failure Focus Vocabulary
avoid smth/doing smth.
Crib
swot for an exam
read for an exam
revise for an exam
prepare for an exam
study for an exam
exams
do well in an exam
succeed in something/doing something
do badly in an exam
fail at the exam/flunk exams
fail Latin
feel great relief
attain/realise/fulfil/achieve an ambition
achieve goals/aims achieve/accomplish a great deal
attain/achieve/reach a target
go through ups and downs
Taking Exams
As for the first examination session, I can't really remember it. I think that we seem to be doing exams almost from time we leave home. I mean when we go to school, we seem to be doing a lot of tests and things. But my first examination session was my 0-levels, which is the first big public examination trial in the life of a British schoolchild. You take these when you are 16. I took about nine subjects. I passed them all. But of course you don't know whether you are going to pass them all at the time. And so there's this great nervousness about revising, spending, I suppose, a couple of months shut up in your room desperately trying to remember all these facts which really are very boring. Every one has his favourite subject. Mine have always been art subjects. I always found science and things like that a bind.
Trying to interest myself in subjects, which were not my thing was very difficult. I suppose it is for everyone. But, eventually, I managed to pass them. As regards my nervousness, I was nervous naturally, but not as nervous as you might expect really. I think that when I was actually doing them, I managed to put that sort of thing out of my mind, because, in a way, it wasn't dead serious, because we always had that opportunity to take the exams again, although we had to pay to retake the exams. But I suppose you have to be nervous anyway because it's obviously preferable to pass first time. And the results, as I said, were pretty good.
I can't remember all the grades too well. But I certainly didn't get very bad grades at all. I got a couple of Grades A, a cluster of Bs, and a couple of Cs as well. I didn't get anything below С which is quite good.
So after the exams are over, obviously, you feel great relief because we have our exams in summer. It's a really bad time to have to sit in a hall and have to think and concentrate and do an exam which is going to affect the rest of your life probably. After the exams are over, you've got the summer holidays ahead of you, which is a great bonus really... So it's almost a compensation for the suffering. That summer I just lazed about.
But everyone has to do exams. There's no way of avoiding them. They seem to be the things that are used in the modern world as a means of sorting our society into groups. Just everybody is finding their kind of level. So whether you like them or not, you can't avoid them.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
Oscar Wilde
Success, failure and difficulty