E) Tell briefly about education in Russia.

VIDEO

Ex. 5. Watch the videos and take notes of the new vocabulary.

The people you will meet at UNIVERSITY

University English: Expressions and Vocabulary

8 TEST & EXAM Expressions

Ex. 6. A) Watch the video and choose the correct answers.

Gateway to College Learning - University Structure

 

1. Kyle Harper (the speaker) is the…

a. Senior Vice President and the Provost of the University of Oklahoma (OU)

b. Dean of the University of Oklahoma (OU)

c. Full professor of the University of Oklahoma(OU)

2. David L. Boren is the…

a. Owner of OU

b. President of OU

c. Vice President of OU

3. Kyle Harper is responsible for…

a. finance

b. curriculum

c. faculty

4. Professor’s rank in the USA are…

a. Assossiate Professor

b. Full Professor

c. Assistant Professor

d. Administrative Professor

5. Faculty members include…

a. instructors

b. professors

c. lecturers

d. accountant

e. graduate students

 

B) Watch the video again. Are these statements true or false.

 

1. OU is the size of a medium-sized town.

2. OU is a research university

3. President David L. Boren has been a president of OU for 18 years.

4. Each of the OU’s Deans oversees one of the OU’s academic departments.

5. Kyle Harper is from the Department of Classics and Letters.

SPEAKING

Ex. 7. Work in pairs and discuss the questions below.

UNIVERSITY DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS

1. What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘university’?

2. What are the good and bad things about universities?

3. Are all of the universities in your country very good?

4. What would you like to study at university?

5. Is it important to go to university?

6. What would happen if all universities closed down?

7. Are universities the best system of educating people?

8. Is university life more about studying or having fun?

9. Is university only for very intelligent people?

10. Camus said: "The true university of these days is a collection of books." Do  

   you agree?

 

 

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS

1. Do you think everyone should go to university?

2. Should university education be free?

3. Do you think university today is different from one hundred years ago?

4. Do you think there are many places that call themselves a university but

aren’t good enough to be universities?

5. How are the universities in your country different from each other?

6. What’s the difference between college, school and university?

7. In what ways is life a university?

8. What university would you really like to study at and why?

9. Will all universities change over to distance learning one day?

10. Oscar Wilde said: "The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important

things that any university can teach." Do you agree?

READING

Ex. 8. A) Give synonyms or close meanings of the following words and word combinations.

Primary school, comprehensive school, craft, domestic science, woodwork, campus, nursery, tutor, Bachelor degree, preparatory, public schools

B) Find suitable definitions to the following words and word combinations, which you learned in the previous lesson.

 

Secondary school, private school, higher education, natural sciences, total number, entrance exam, to pay for tuition, non-governmental, applicant, graduate, employer, link, optional, compulsory; an applicant

1. a person who wants to be a student;

2. sciences that deal with the physical world, considered as a group or as

individual subjects such as physics, chemistry, or biology;

3. a school providing education that the children’s parents pay for directly;

4. a school for pupils aged from 6-7 to 17-18;

5. the education, which you get after secondary;

6. general quantity; teaching cost;

7. something, which doesn’t belong to the government;

8. someone who has finished their studies at university or college, usually by  

getting a degree;

9. a connection between two people, places or facts; obligatory;

10. a company or a person that employs people; elective.

 

C) Read the following text to get the information about the education system in Great Britain.

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