WRITING: Semi-formal letter

7. You want to apply for a place at university as an international student. You have got some information from the Internet. Now you have more specific questions concerning degrees awarded by different university programs. Ask about the course duration, tuition fees, accommodation and living expenses. Write a letter of inquiry to one of the British or American universities.

 

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: Passive-I (Grammar Reference GR-2, 3 p.199)

Convert the following sentences into passive.

Example: All universities charge tuition and students pay extra money for room and board. Tuition is charged by all universities and extra money is paid for room and board.

1. Most universities are state-funded.

2. School-leavers receive offers of a place at particular universities through UCAS.

3. Graduates may add letters BA (Bachelor of Arts) or BSc (Bachelor of Science) after their names.

4. Nowadays the University comprises over twenty faculties that provide instruction in science, engineering and humanities.

5. The University trains electrical and mechanical engineers, theoretical and experimental scientists, IT specialists and programmers, managers and PR specialists.

6. The dean’s office coordinates the faculty’s activities, it issues matriculation books, arranges curriculum and syllabus, sets exam and credit schedule for every term.

7. School-leavers should achieve certain grades in their “A” levels.

8. Students choose their major at the end of their sophomore year

9.  Community college offers two-year courses leading to an associate’s degree.

 

Put in the suitable preposition.

For,    to (2),  to as, to for,  upon (2),      with

Example: The statement of the board of directors was not commented upon.

 

1. He objected …being called a great scholar.

2. The conference website is to be referred … further information.

3. During the experiment the substance was subjected … heating for 5 hours.

4. The subject will only be touched … during the report at the conference.

5. All the problems arising during the conference will be dealt … by the organizing committee.

6. This scientist is often referred… the founder of this field.

7. These phenomena can be accounted … by Newtonian laws.

 

VOCABULARY STUDY: Translator’s False Friends-I

Choose the suitable word.

                                 University and Education

1. In 1867 Mendeleyev was made a professor of general chemistry at St. Petersburg University – the institution/institute that had rejected him 17 years before.

2. At the age of 20, Copernicus went to the University of Krakow to study the liberal/human arts, including astrology and astronomy.

3 .  Plank returned to Munich and obtained his doctoral/candidate degree in 1879 at the age of 21 with the thesis on the second law of thermodynamics.

4.  Mm Curie’s membership issue caused a stir in the press and in high society, and the academy meeting was attended by 162 academics/academicians, about twice the usual number.

5. A wet plate in Becquerel’s hands was one of the proofs that nature did not behave at all in the way in which physicians/physicists had worked out in minute detail.

6. A common thread through Lavoisier’s life was his interest in public works, and when he was admitted to the academy /academia at the young age of 23, it was partly for a brilliant paper of the way to light the streets of Paris.

7. At the time J. Bell was a 24-year-old PhD/R&D student at Cambridge, doing a

routine monitoring job.

8. As a pure mathematician/mathematics Newton reached his climax in the invention of the calculus, an invention also made independently by Leibniz.

9. Bohr’s academic/academician promise was evident early in his life.

10. In 1905, a paper was published in a German scientific journal/magazine, describing the Special Theory of Relativity.

11. Distribute the nouns into the following categories:

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