VI. Answer the following questions:

1. What country is Victor from?

2. Where was he born?

3. Is his native town situated in a large industrial centre?

4. How many people are there in his family?

5. Where does Victor study?

6. What would he like to be in future?

7. In what field is he going to specialize?

8. What do his parents do?

9. What does Victor like doing in his spare time?

10. What sort of person is his father?

11. What sort of person is his mother?

12. What are his sister and her husband?

VII. Practice the dialogue:

- Hello Ann. How are you?

- Everything's all right, Nina. I hear you've become a

medical student?

- Yes, that's true. And, how are you getting on with your

studies at the Academy?

- I'm happy that I'm a student of the faculty of economics.

I was very good at mathematics at school, that's why it's

not difficult for me to study economics.

- Would you like to go to the concert?

- I'm sorry, I'm afraid I shan't be able to keep you a

company. I've been so ill lately. May be in a couple of

weeks.

- O.K. Agreed. Bye.

- Bye-bye.

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OUR ACADEMY

 Word list

to graduate from заканчивать учебное заведение

test зачет, контрольная работа

term (semester) семестр

training course курс обучения

to enter (the Institute,Academy) поступать (в институт,

учебное заведение)

experience навыки, опыт

in accordance with в соответствии с

entrance requirements требования на вступит.экзаменах

to take an exam (in) сдавать экзамен (по)

to pass an exam (in) сдать экзамен (по)

correspondence department заочное отделение

preliminary department подготовительное отделение

department отделение, кафедра

post-graduate course аспирантура

to do one's best делать все возможное

research worker научный сотрудник

to guide руководить, направлять

degree степень (зд.ученая)

activity деятельность

national economy народное хозяйство

youth молодежь

workshop мастерская

well-equipped хорошо оборудованный

grant, scholarship стипендия

vacation, holidays каникулы

final project дипломная работа

to borrow the books from the брать книги в библиотеке

library

curriculum учебная программа

оpportunity возможность

well-stocked хорошо укомплектованный

career профессия, занятие

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 Text

The doors of our higher educational establishments are open

to all who wish to continue their study after graduating from

secondary schools.

The Siberian State Academy of Geodesy was founded in 1932 in

Omsk but a year later it was moved to Novosibirsk. And now it is

one of the two geodetic institutes in our country which trains

highly qualified specialists.

The majority of our students enter the Academy after

graduating from secondary schools, but some of them have some

experience in the chosen career.

In accordance with the entrance requirements applicants

should take exams in Mathematics and Russian. If they pass them

successfully they become first-year students.

In our Academy there are evening, correspondence and

preliminary departments. The present day Academy includes four

Institutes: Cadastre and Geographic Information Systems, Optics

and Optical Technologies, Geodesy and Management and

Aerophotogeodesy. We have a post-graduate course as well. So the

best graduates may continue their studies and carry on research

work in well-equipped laboratories. Research workers of our

Academy guide students scientific societies. Many of our

scientists have candidate's and doctor's degrees.

Thus, our students have a wide choice of jobs opportunities,

they may work in different fields of national economy or research

institutes.

The training course at the Academy lasts 5 or 6 years. There

are two terms in each academic year and at the end of each term

the students take tests and exams.

The state grant is distributed among those students who have

good exam results. When the exams are over the students have

their vacation, winter and summer. At the end of the fourth year

students are sent for a few months to a plant or research

institute in order to get some practical experience in business.

The whole training course is followed by a final project. After

graduating from the Academy students become engineers in their

chosen field.

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In accordance with the curriculum students are to study

different general sciences such as History of Russia,

Mathematics, Physics, Foreign Languages, etc. In the third and

forth years of their program students are taught special subjects

which are necessary for the given profession.

At our Academy there are many study aids: a well-stocked

library where students can borrow any books they need, a large

reading room, well-equipped laboratories, a number of workshops

for practical training, lecture rooms, hostels, a large

refectory, sports ground and a gym. Sport plays a very important

role in the life of the youth and students of our Academy go in

for sports.

Our country needs highly-qualified and educated specialists

in Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Optics, GIS and Cadastre.

Exercises