Практичне заняття № 3 Тема: Друзі та спільні інтереси. Захоплення та хобі. Навчання вуніверситеті. Студмістечко

План роботи

1. Робота над текстом. Розповідь про захоплення та хобі (свої та друзів). Навчання в університеті. Студмістечко.

My Hobby

Though biological subjects are my favourite subjects, I take great interest in English, because it helps greatly to master basic biological subjects. There is a great deal of literature in English which deals with the very field of biology. Moreover, those biology students, who have a good command of English, are recommended to take special courses in the USA, Great Britain or Canada.

Mastering English has been my hobby since the childhood. Every year, being on holidays I used to read English books (adapted, later in the original). Thanks to my parents I had a rich collection of video cassettes and audio cassettes at my disposal; they helped me a good deal to improve my pronunciation, to enrich my vocabulary and to be good at English grammar. To tell the truth, I am not extremely pleased with my level of English. I understand perfectly well that learning English at the University, especially legal English is a good chance (opportunity) for me to improve my language skills, first of all those of spoken English which are in constant need of brushing up.

Kherson State University

Kherson State University is the biggest institution of higher education in Kherson, of the IVth accreditation level. Our educational establishment is the oldest in the Southern Ukraine. This year the University is going to celebrate its 90-th anniversary.

It prepares qualified specialists in 36 specialties, professionals in their work. These are teachers of all subjects which are taught at school, teachers for preschool child, engineer teachers, biologists, speech therapists, chemists, historians, lawyers, economists, environmentalists, psychologists, social workers, journalists, translators and others. Such task is accomplished by our tight-knit teaching stuff comprising 56 professors, doctors of sciences; 228 associate professors, candidates of sciences; 105 senior teachers, assistants.

Forty five chairs provide training of students and supervise their scientific activities. Altogether there are about 8 thousand of full-time, part-time and external students studying at the University, almost 1400 of them annually graduate as diploma professionals with bachelor’s, specialist’s or master’s degree.

Besides the 5 educational buildings the University has a sporting health-improving camp “Burevestnik” on the Black Sea coast, training center on the river Dnieper, botanic garden – agrobiological station in the city of Kherson.

1500 students from other cities and towns live in University dormitories. University library with 5 reading-rooms, containing 400000 units of book storage, works all days of week.

One of the principal directions in the University work is preparation and realization of international projects in the field of science and education. Today higher education in the whole world is characterized by mutual integration and internationalization of educational process. Integration objectives are brought to the forefront in Bologna Declaration. For this reason the development of international relations belongs to primary aims of Kherson State University. Cooperation with the foreign partners is realized on substantive directions by means of different organizational forms – from students and stuff exchanges, to participation in international conferences, seminars, “round tables” for realization of joint complex educational projects.

2. Виконання після текстових вправ.

Ex.1. Consult a dictionary, transcribe and translate the following words; practice their pronunciation:

the biggest institution of higher education; participation; educational establishment; “round tables”; anniversary; substantive directions; specialty; environmentalists, psychologists and social workers; full-time, part-time and external students; a sporting health-improving camp; dormitory; contain; mutual integration and internationalization; belongs to primary aims.

3. Робота над граматичним матеріалом: Іменник. Множина іменника. Присвійний відмінок.