Студенческая

2. Make some sentences using the given words or phrases. Follow the word-order of the English sentences.

a) ______1___ __________2______________ __________3________

подлежащее сказуемое (гл. в нужной форме) второстепен. члены предлож.

b)____1____ ______2________ _________3_____			________4_______
подлежащее сказуемое (вспом. гл.+not/ сказуемое (смыслов.			второстепен. члены
	модальный глагол+not)	глагол)	предложения
residence halls	first-year students	staff	accommodate
interact with	tutoring	habits	campus facilities
sparsely		locate
furnished

3. Answer the following questions:

a)Is housing in campus guaranteed for all students in the United States?

b)What facilities does a campus typically have?

c)What types of residence halls are there in the USA?

d)What did you learn about Residence Hall staff?

e)How does residential life at the university cultivate the social , physical and intellectual development of students?

4. Make a line in A with a line in B to make a sentence.

A

1.Residence halls offer

2.Residence halls are

3.First-year, transfer and upperclass students

4.Community atmosphere creates

5.There is Residence Hall staff in every hostel

6.Students‘ social life in dorms

B

a)live separately.

b)social, physical and mental development of students.

c)different facilities: an art gallery, libraries, computer labs, a satellite, etc.

d)of different styles: suites, apartments, ramps.

e)character, personality and good learning habits.

f)who have got special functions and

forms

duties in campus.

5.Divide the text into parts and give the main idea of each one.

6.Retell the text using the following expressions:

a)The introductory part of the text provides some information about … .

b)The main part discusses the problem about … .

c)The concluding part of the text tells the reader about … .

d)In my opinion this text is … because … .

7.Is it possible to draw a parallel between the American residence halls and Russian hostels? Do Russian hostels vary in style? Why? If you live in a hostel, describe it.

8.According to the author of the previous article, the best way to feel better in college is to get involved. What do you think? What is the best way to adapt to the college community? Make a list of your ideas/thoughts/suggestions.

9.Read the information provided by administrators at Newbury College located not far from Boston. What campus activities are offered? Check your predictions.

STUDENTS’ LIFE. CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

TEXT. Students’ Life. Campus Activities

The Office of Campus Activities promotes student development by involving students in social and educational programs, campus events, orientation, and other leadership opportunities. The Department oversees a wide range of clubs and organizations designed to bring together students with similar likes and talents, inspiring campus discourse and promoting campus unity, it also oversees major campus programming, such as the Distinguished Lecturer Series, Family Weekend, and the Spring Formal.

For Newbury students leadership opportunities abound. Students can further develop leadership skills by becoming Orientation Leaders, participating in the Student Government Association, leading a student

organization or participating in the Leadership Institute program that runs each spring.

The Office of Campus Activities also oversees the Campus Activities Center. This busy office center offers students in student organizations a meeting place, computer use, decorating supplies, a library of event planning information, and a place simply to "hang out" with classmates. Student organizations can take advantage of the Center's resources to further strengthen and develop their group's efforts.

All students are encouraged to get involved in campus life at Newbury College. Whether it is running for Student Government, joining the Innkeepers Club, or working on the Campus Activities Board, Newbury offers diverse opportunities for students to get involved in life outside the classroom and continue their learning in the world around them.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

1. Read the text. Guess the meaning of the words in bold.

University of Cambridge

Latin: Academia Cantabrigiensis

Motto

Motto in

English

Hinc lucem et pocula sacra

(Latin)

Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts

Non-literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge

Established

c. 1209

	Type	Public
	Endowment	£4.3 billion (2011, incl. colleges)
		(approx. $6.8bn)
	Chancellor	The Lord Sainsbury of Turville
	Vice-Chancellor	Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
	Academic staff	5,846 (incl. contract researchers)
	Admin. staff	1,539
	Students	18,396
	Undergraduates	12,018
	Postgraduates	6,378
	Location	Cambridge, England, UK
	Colours		Cambridge Blue
	Athletics	The Sporting Blue
		Russell Group
		Coimbra Group
	Affiliations	EUA
		G5
		LERU
		IARU
	Website	www.cam.ac.uk

TEXT. University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University or Cambridge) is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after the University of Oxford), and the seventh-oldest globally.

Clare College (left) and part of King's College, including King's College Chapel (centre), built between 1441 and 1515.

The university grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge that was formed in 1209, early records suggest, by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk. The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. In addition to cultural and practical associations as a historic part of British society, they have a long history of rivalry with each other.

Cambridge is a collegiate university, meaning that it is made up of self-governing and independent colleges, each with its own property and income. Most colleges bring together academics and students from a broad range of disciplines. In addition to the 31 colleges, the university is made up of over 150 departments, faculties, schools, syndicates and other institutions.

Members of these are usually also members of one of the colleges and responsibility for running the entire academic programme of the university is divided amongst them. The faculties are responsible for ensuring that lectures are given, arranging seminars, performing research and determining the syllabi for teaching, overseen by the General Board.

View over Trinity College, Gonville and Caius, Trinity Hall and Clare College towards King's College Chapel, seen from St John's College chapel. On the left, just in front of King's College chapel, is the University Senate House.

Together with the central administration headed by the Vice-Chancellor, they make up the entire Cambridge University. Facilities such as libraries are provided on all these levels: by the University, by the Faculties, and by the individual colleges.

The university has 114 libraries. The Cambridge University Library is the central research library, which holds over 8 million volumes and, in contrast with the Bodleian or the British Library, many of its books are available on open shelves, and most books are borrowable. It is a legal deposit library, therefore it is entitled to request a free copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland. It receives around 80,000 books every

year, not counting the books donated to the library. In addition to the University Library and its dependent libraries, every faculty has a specialized library, which, on average, holds from 30,000 to 150,000 books.

Cambridge University operates eight arts, cultural, and scientific museums, and a botanic garden.

The Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

The University's publishing arm, the Cambridge University Press, is the oldest printer and publisher in the world, and it is the second largest university press in the world.

The university set up its Local Examination Syndicate in 1858. Today, the syndicate, which is known as Cambridge Assessment, is Europe's largest assessment agency and it plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessments across the globe.

Light show on the Senate House, for the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the university.

Many of the most important scientific discoveries and revolutions were made by Cambridge alumni. These include:

Understanding the scientific method, by Francis Bacon

The laws of motion and the development of calculus, by Sir Isaac Newton

The development of thermodynamics, by Lord Kelvin

The discovery of the electron, by J. J. Thomson

The splitting of the atom, by Ernest Rutherford and of the nucleus by Sir John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton

The unification of electromagnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell

The discovery of hydrogen, by Henry Cavendish

Theory of Evolution by natural selection, by Charles Darwin

Mathematical synthesis of Darwinian selection with Mendelian genetics, by Ronald Fisher

The Turing machine, a basic model for computation, by Alan Turing

The structure of DNA, by Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins, the latter three awarded the Nobel Prize.(Rosalind Franklin didn't receive the Nobel Prize as it was not given posthumously)

Pioneering quantum mechanics, by Paul Dirac

Graduates of the University have won a total of 65 Nobel Prizes, the most of any university in the world.

2.Link the words in the left column with their dictionary definitions in the right column. Memorize new words.

1. alumnus	a) competition for the same objective or for
	superiority in the same field
2. rivalry	b) a graduate or former student
3. collegiate	c) the people living in a particular town or city
4. syllabus	d) someone who is the head of a British
	university, and responsible for the way it is
	organized
5. townsfolk	e) a division of a large organization such as a
	university, dealing with a specific subject or
	area of activity
6. department	f) a specialist in a particular branch of study
7. discovery	g) (of a university) composed of different colleges
8. scholar	h) a fact or thing that someone finds out about,
	when it was not known about before
9. vice-chancellor	i) an outline of the subjects in a course of study or
	teaching

3.Match the words from A with their Russian equivalents from B. Memorize new words.

A)to set up; English-speaking; to grow out (of); records; ancient; feature; self-governing; income; discipline; responsibility (for); running; to ensure; performing; to oversee; to arrange; to make up; entire; to provide; research; on average; available; to request; dependent; development.

B)возникать из (чего-либо); выполнение; старинный; предоставлять, обеспечивать; в среднем; характерная черта, особенность; англоязычный; доступный; автономный; развитие; доход; дисциплина (отрасль знания); учреждать; ответственность (за); исследование; работа, функционирование; наблюдать, следить; документы; организовывать; зависимый; составлять; целый, весь; просить; гарантировать.

4. Complete the sentences with the words from the text. See the box.

research	volume	university
feature	syndicate	graduate
self-governing	dispute	rivalry
Vice-Chancellor

a)The University of Cambridge is a public … university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

b)Cambridge has a long history of … with Oxford.

c)The university grew out of an association of scholars, leaving Oxford after a … with townsfolk.

d)Cambridge has many common … with Oxford.

e)The University of Cambridge is made up of over 150 departments, faculties, schools, … and other institutions.

f)The colleges are … institutions with their own endowments and property, founded as integral parts of the university.

g) All faculties, departments, research centres, and laboratories belong to the … .

h)… is the head of the central administration.

i)The Cambridge University Library holds over 8 million … and many of its books are available on open shelves, and most books are borrowable.

j)Cambridge … made a lot of important scientific discoveries and revolutions.

5. Are the sentences true or false according to the text? Correct the wrong ones.

a)Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world.

b)The faculties aren‘t responsible for ensuring that lectures are given.

c)Graduates of the University have won a total of 55 Nobel Prizes, the most of any university in the world.

d)Cambridge Assessment is Europe's largest assessment agency and it plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessments across the globe.

e)Rosalind Franklin received the Nobel Prize in 1962.

f)Cambridge University Press is the oldest printer and publisher in the world and it is the first largest university press in the world.

g)Cambridge is a collegiate university, meaning that it is made up of dependent colleges, each with its own property and income.

6. Complete the following sentences according to the text.

a)Cambridge is made up of …

b)Cambridge University Library is a legal deposit library, therefore …

c)The university grew out of an association of scholars in the city of

Cambridge that was formed in …

d)The central administration headed by …

e)Cambridge University operates eight arts …

f)Graduates of the University have won a total of …

g)The university set up its Local Examination Syndicate in …

7. Answer the following questions:

a)What is an informal name of the University of Cambridge?

b)Where is Cambridge University located?

c)When was Cambridge formed?

d)What colleges is Cambridge made up of?

e)What are faculties responsible for?

f)How many libraries does the university have?

g)What is the oldest printer and publisher in the world?

h)When did Cambridge set up its Local Examination Syndicate?

i)What scientific discoveries and revolutions were made by Cambridge alumni?

8. Which paragraphs match the following headlines? Put them in order (according to the content).

a)Schools, faculties and departments.

b)Cambridge is a collegiate university.

c)Contribution to the advancement of science.

d)The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world.

e)Cambridge University Library.

9.Give short retelling of the text into Russian. Its volume shouldn’t exceed 1/3 of the English text.

10.Pairwork. Make up a dialogue. Student A is a journalist, Student B is a graduate of Cambridge University. Ask and answer the questions about this university.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

1. Read the text. Guess the meaning of the words in bold.

University of Oxford

	University of Oxford seal
	Latin: Universitas Oxoniensis
Motto	Dominus Illuminatio Mea (Latin)
Motto in	The Lord is my Light