- •I. Before you read:
- •1.5 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verb to be. You may continue the sentences:
- •1.6 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the plural forms of the nouns:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •4.2 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the task 4.1
- •1.4 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verbs in the Present Simple Active. Give the negative and question –forms.
- •II. Reading:
- •3.1. Make up sentences from these words:
- •3.2. Find
- •3.3 Put the verb into the Past Simple or Future Simple. Use the words: yesterday, ago, last/next week, month, year, tomorrow, in some years/months etc. Give the negative and question –forms.
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.1Complete the short dialogues using the phrases from the text:
- •4.2 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the task 4.1. These phrases and words may be helpful for you.
- •4.3Tell about your own family using all information you have got.
- •1.4 Make up sentences paying attention to Simple and Progressive Tenses. Translate the sentences.
- •1.5. Comment on the grammar.
- •II. Reading
- •1. 1True or false?
- •1.2 Make up sentences from these words:
- •1.3 Give the missing forms of adjectives. Make up sentences with these adjectives.
- •1.4 Put the verb to take part into the correct tense-form. Pay attention to the words given in the brackets.
- •1.5. Put the verb in the brackets into the necessary tense form.
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.1Complete the short dialogues using the information from the text:
- •4.2 Read and learn:
- •4.3 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the tasks 4.1 and 4.2
- •4.4 Summarize the text «My University».
- •I. Before you read:
- •1.1 Read the words properly:
- •1.2 State the part of speech:
- •1.7. Comment on the grammar. Make up negative and question forms if it is possible.
- •II. Reading
- •3.1 Make up the sentence of two parts:
- •3.2 Make up all possible questions to these sentences. Give the negative form:
- •3.3 Write the Passive Progressive of these sentences. Use words now, from … till, the whole month/morning etc:
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.2 Read the following quotes from different articles about the problems of higher education in Russia. Formulate the main idea of each statement. Do you agree with these opinions?
- •4.3 Discuss* these topics using all information you have got.
- •I. Before you read:
- •1.1 Read the words properly:
- •1.2 Find the Russian equivalents:
- •1.3 State the part of speech:
- •1.4 Analyse the use of modal verbs and their equivalents. Translate the following sentences:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •3.1 Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
- •3.2 .Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
- •3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
- •3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
- •3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or it equivalent:
- •IV. Speaking
- •1.4 Analyse the use of modal verbs and their equivalents. Translate the following sentences:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •3.1. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
- •3.2 Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
- •3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
- •3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
- •3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or its equivalent:
- •IV. Review:
- •4.1 Make up 5 general and 5 special questions to the text.
- •4.2 Give the negative and question form of the following sentences:
- •4.3 Point out the sentences with Passive.
- •V. Speaking
- •5.1 Answer the following questions:
- •5.2 Speak about Karl Benz using his profile:
- •5.3 Use the following phrases and word combinations to retell the text:
- •In 1830 Thon completed his most ambitious design to date, that of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour15 in Moscow (fig. 17).
- •15.4. After you have read:
- •Тема 1 - Урок 1 - Диалог 1
3.1 Make up the sentence of two parts:
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1. Every citizen of Russia has the right to education |
1. young people can go on in higher education. |
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2. After finishing the 11th form of secondary school, lyceum or gymnasium |
2. provided in the US or Western Europe. |
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3. If a student gets high scores, such a result is considered to be good |
3. which is guaranteed by the Constitution. |
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4. In 2007 within the Bologna Process the government of the Russian Federation has approved |
4. and he/she has an opportunity to enter higher school. |
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5. These degrees are equivalent to B.Sc and M.Sc degree |
5. training of specialists. |
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6. Some higher educational institutions keep |
6. the bill of transition to two-level higher education system. |
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7. The opinion exists |
7. first in specially equipped laboratories and workshops, then in various plants. |
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8. Transition to two-level system will make Russian education system |
8. through a transitional period. |
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9. The profound study of theory is accompanied by practical training, |
9. more dynamical and modern. |
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10.The system of secondary and higher education in Russia is going |
10. that bachelors are half-educated persons. |
3.2 Make up all possible questions to these sentences. Give the negative form:
1. At the end of each semester students take their exams.
2. The students are taking Unified National Exams in the classroom Nr. 27 now.
3. The new laboratory equipment will be installed in the building 2 next year.
3.3 Write the Passive Progressive of these sentences. Use words now, from … till, the whole month/morning etc:
1. All these problems are widely discussed in Russian society.
2. The new educational standards were developed by the experts last month.
3. Each exam is conducted by the independent examining boards.
4. A group of experts discussed a very serious matter yesterday.
5. We use these programs in our work.
6. The experts were discussing the transition to two- level system the whole academic year.
7. The teacher is correcting mistakes in our tests now.
8. This experiment was carried out by our professor last semester.
9. The dean is looking through the list of the applicant now.
10. Our group was examined in the room Nr. 224 yesterday.
IV. Brush up your talk:
4.1 Study the advantages and disadvantages of the higher education of the transitional period in Russia. Do you agree or disagree with them? Begin your answer with phrases: I agree/disagree with this statement, To my mind it is true, As for me I am for it, I'm not sure, in fact, I'm afraid I entirely disagree with , I don't think that's right, I'm exactly of the same opinion, That's one way of looking at it, but… I think it goes further than that.
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Advantages of higher education system of the transitional period |
Disadvantages of higher education system of the transitional period |
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Efficiency of using the state funded places |
Bachelors are half-educated persons |
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More academic freedoms to faculties and students |
Master’s program is not clear enough |
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Involving of employers in forecasting of requirements for education |
Talented young people cannot receive higher education |
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Expanding their participation in professional training financing |
The equipment which is used at universities is not modern enough |
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Opportunity for students to continue study without problems in any higher school of Europe |
Lack of educational materials in the university library |
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Easier to get a job abroad |
Reducing of the state funded places at the higher schools |
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Development of a new financial mechanism |
Not adequate teachers' salaries at the higher school |
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Scholarship is low |
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Bribery |
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Tuition fees are growing |
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Getting job on the specialty after graduating from the higher school |