Case 1:

Talking on the phone, you explain your parents your teacher’s decision not to pass your paper

Case 2:

Your friend ask you to explain some rules in Latin

Exercise 6: Play the dialogue and make similar one:

• It’s well-known that there are some differences between pharmacy education in Great Britain and that in Russia. What do you say to this?

• I feel compelled to say you’re right. First of all there are no entrance exams to institutions providing education in Pharmacy in Great Britain. Universities choose their students after interviews and competition for places at University is fierce.

• Oh, that’s interesting. But in our country school leavers have to take competitive entrance exams in the three or four subjects except those, who finished school with a gold or silver medal. Let’s have a discussion on the matter.

• You know, pharmacy students in Great Britain take a four-year course of study.

• I see, and Russian pharmacy students take a five-year course of training.

• Besides, a course of practice is different. The students of the first and the second year can obtain practical pharmaceutical experience during long vacations, but obligatory practical work starts only in the fourth year.

• I see the difference. Pharmacy students in our country have compulsory practical training from the first year of study. Thanks a lot for your information.

PART III. READING

I can read and translate specialized terms. I can discuss actual topics.

Exercise 7: Before reading the text answer some questions:

4. What specialists does the Academy train?

5. What subjects do the students study?

6. Where do students from distant towns live?

7. In the dictionary find the definition of the terms: syllabus, Committee.

Our academy active vocabulary of the text

to establish	[ɪs'tæblɪʃ]	основать
to train	[treɪn]	обучать, готовить
qualified	['kwɔlɪfaɪd]	квалифицированный
correspondence department	[ˌkɔrɪ'spɔndən(t)s]	дневное отделение
prepharmaceutical		общеобразовательный
technology of making medicines	[tek'nɔləʤɪ]	технология приготовления лекарств
chair		кафедра
to staff		укомплектовывать штат
to carry on		выполнять
academic work		учебная работа
extensive	[ɪk'sten(t)sɪv]	обширный, большой

Exercise 8: Read the text:

Our academy

P yatigorsk State Pharmaceutical Academy is situated in the Stavropol region of Russia, in one of the most famous and beautiful places. Pyatigorsk State Pharmaceutical Academy is one of the oldest higher schools in our town. It was established in 1943 on the basis of the Dnepropetrovsk and Leningrad pharmaceutical institutes evacuated to Pyatigorsk during the war. In 1993 Academy obtained a certificate of the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The Academy trains highly qualified pharmaceutists (chemists) who work in different parts of our country and abroad after graduating from the Academy.

About 2000 students study here, including 300 foreign students. The Academy trains specialists for 57 different countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. There are two departments in the Academy: day department and correspondence department.

The Academy has at its disposal four hostels for students from distant towns and villages. Almost all the students get grants except those trained on the commercial basis. The course of training at the Academy lasts five years. During the first two years pharmacy students study pre-pharmaceutical subjects (inorganic chemistry, botany, mathematics, physics, biology, etc). Senior students study special pharmaceutical subjects (technology of making medicines, pharmacognozy, economy of pharmacy, etc). Experimental base of the Academy is supplied with special botanical gardens and an educational production chemist’s shop where students have practice.

At present the process of training at the Academy is undergoing certain changes. According to the needs of the national market economy some new subjects are included into the syllabus of the Academy. Nowadays the Academy trains highly qualified specialists in the field of medicine production, management, marketing.

As for exams they are held twice a year: in January and in June. After each examination session students have their vacation: in February and in July and August. Usually the students spend this time on their own but for those who prefer a rest full of new bright impressions there is a special camp. The students camp “Daut” is situated in Caucasus and its visitors can enjoy all the beauty of mountains.

Besides there are sport halls, sport grounds and swimming pool. Many sport sections function at the Academy, where students go in for sports. So, the students have all the chances to be strong and healthy, beautiful and lucky.

There are 22 chairs at the Academy. Their staff is composed of highly qualified professionals, some of them have a higher degree. The academic and research work is carried on in special laboratories supplied with modern equipment. Students of our Academy have at their disposal computer classes. The scientists together with the students carry on extensive research work using original scientific articles in foreign languages. Many scientific circles function practically at each chair. Annually the scientific conferences are held where the results of research work are reported.

Students have at their disposal big library and 2 reading halls. Books are given without charge in the library, and the students may keep them as long as they need them. So, students have all the opportunities to acquire deep knowledge of pharmacy and to become highly qualified specialists.

Summary: Students of our academy have all the opportunities to get necessary knowledge and to become highly qualified specialists.

Exercise 9: Answer the following questions:

1. When was the Pyatigorsk State Pharmaceutical Academy established?

2. When did the Academy obtain a certificate of the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation?

3. What specialists does the Academy train?

4. Where do students from distant towns live?

5. How long does the course of training last?

6. What subjects do the students study?

7. Where do students have practice?

8. How often are exams held at the Academy?

9. When do students have vacation?

10. How many chairs carry on academic and research work at the Academy?

11. Are there any scientific circles at the chairs?

Exercise 10: Make your own short report about your educational establishment.

Exercise 11: You know that many English words are polysemantic. Can you find equivalents to the following words:

A.

sport	риск
chance	отделение
department	область (на теле) , часть тела
region	человек (с точки зрения моральных качеств)

B.

personnel department	молодчина
casualty department	отдел продаж
pain in the region of stomach	азартные игры
fire department	разведывательная служба, разведка
sales department	боль в области желудка
police department	управление пожарной охраны
a good sport	полицейское управление
intelligence department	отдел; управление; служба; цех
games of chance	отделение скорой помощи (для пострадавших от несчастных случаев)

PART IV. LISTENING

I can hear and understand the text. I can discuss it.

Exercise 12: Read some information about the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, then watch video ads about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5S-v_0_G0&feature=relmfu and make your own report about the opportunities of its students, using the following words and word combinations:

Small groups, don’t have to attend lectures, manage the time, new Bachelor education, educate students in research, international study, international program, to see final product, practical work in the lab, in the Centre of the Netherland.