ЗАДАНИЕ 10. Соедините части предложений по смыслу.
Students read up for seminars … a) vacations
Students are divided into … b) spare time
Students work … c) at the library or at home
Twice a year students have … d) hard during the term
We attend lectures on … e) academic groups
Students have little … f) different subjects
ЗАДАНИЕ 11. Вставьте необходимые предлоги.
My sister was born … the 3rd of September.
We study … the University.
The dean is responsible … the faculty.
My parents are economists … education.
She is often busy … her work.
The academic year at the University is divided … two terms.
My classes begin … half past eight.
We have little spare time … weekdays.
ЗАДАНИЕ 12. Ответьте на вопросы о своей студенческой жизни.
What is your name?
How old are you?
Where are you from?
Where do you study?
What do your parents do?
Do you live with your parents or rent a flat?
Do you like to cook?
What is your favourite food?
How many students are there in your group?
When do students take exams?
What subjects do you study?
How many days a week do you study?
What do you do in your spare time?
Do you have much free time on weekdays?
ЗАДАНИЕ 13. Выберите слово или фразу, которое не подходит данному глаголу.
Образец: She studies … .
a) languages b) Chinese c) university d) in the library
A lot of students do … .
a) sports b) restaurant c) two subjects d) a three-year course
2. I have … .
a) a lot of lessons b) a part-time job c) a computer d) colleges
3. Do the students use … ?
a) dictionaries b) subjects c) the kitchen d) English
4. Do you live …?
a) in a rented flat b) in Voronezh c) with friends d) in exams
5. We go … .
a) to language classes b) by bus c) to June d) to university
6. He works … .
a) for a big company b) in a restaurant c) on a boat d) of a university
ЗАДАНИЕ 14. Вставьте глаголы необходимые по смыслу и ответьте на вопросы о своей студенческой жизни. Добавьте свои вопросы.
Study habits
1. Do you study English at the weekend? Yes (on Sunday, an hour)
2. Do you … a computer?
3. Do you … the library?
4. … ?
Work, travel and home life
5. Do you also … a job?
6. Do you … to university by train, bus or car?
7. Do you … alone, with family or with friends?
8. …?
Free time
9. Do you … much free time?
10. Do you … sports?
11. What other things do you … in your free time?
12. … ?
ЗАДАНИЕ 15. Подготовьте дома рассказ о вашей студенческой жизни.
ТЕМАТИКА ОБЩЕНИЯ: 1. Я и моя семья. Семейные традиции, уклад жизни.
2. Дом, жилищные условия.
3. Досуг и развлечения в семье. Семейные путешествия.
4. Еда. Покупки.
TRANSLATION
(Mark Twain)
I was born on the 30th of November 1835 in the village of Florida, Missouri. My father was John Marshall Clemens.
According to tradition some of my great-great parents were pirates and slave traders – a respectable trade in the 16th century. In my time I wished to be a pirate myself.
My parents who had lived in Virginia moved to the South in the early thirtieth. I do not remember just when, for I was not born then and did not take any interest in such things.
They had made a long and tiring journey before they settled in Florida. The village contained a hundred people and when I was born I increased the population by one per cent. It had two streets, each about three hundred yards long, and a lot of lanes. Both the streets and the lanes were paved with the same material – black mud in wet times, deep dust in dry. Most of the houses were of wood – there were none of brick and none of stone. Everywhere around were fields and woods.
Not long ago someone sent me a picture of the house in which I had been born. I have always thought that it was a place but I no longer think so and do not feel proud of it.
WRITING TASK
Write your Biography. What are you proud of?
TRANSLATION
Man of art. Man of ideas.
Man of inventions.
His life
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) lived in a small town in Italy with his grandparents. He studied at home and enjoyed music, singing and mathematics. At the age of 16, he wanted to study art, so he moved to the city of Florence for art classes. He finished his studies after four years. He then worked in Milan as an engineer and he started his life as an inventor.
In 1500 he returned to Florence and in 1516 he traveled to France, where he stayed for the rest of his life.
Leonardo Da Vinci lived and worked before people used electricity and petrol for power, but he had the first ideas for many machines that we use today: the robot, the car, the helicopter, the diving suit, the parachute and even high heels! These are just some of Leonardo’s hundreds of inventions.
WRITING TASK
Write a short biography of a famous person. What is he or she famous for?
TRANSLATION
Most international students on long courses in the UK can work during the holidays and up to a maximum of 20 hours per week during terms.
You need a National Insurance number (NI number) to work in the UK. You should apply for this before you start work.
Most universities advise that students should not work more than 15 hours a week in terms, so many students do part-time jobs, especially in restaurants or bars in the evenings or in shops at weekends.
In the holidays, full-time jobs are possible. A lot of students are looking for jobs at these times so you should start looking early.
Where and how should you look for jobs? The university careers office or job shop has information about jobs on and off the campus. You should also look at notices on other notice boards in your university. Look for signs in the windows of shops and restaurants, too. Recruitment agencies, local newspapers and websites are also good places to look. And don’t forget you can just ask local employers. You should talk to other students and ask their advice, too.
A. I like keeping fit, but I don’t go to a fitness club. Why pay a lot of money to use running machines, cycling machines and rowing machines and do yoga classes? I can do yoga at home and I can cycle around the city. With that money I can go rowing on a river. So why go rowing on a machine? That’s boring.
B. I like running, cycling and tennis, but I can’t do these activities outside in bad weather. I like swimming too, but I don’t live near the sea. So I go to a fitness club three times a week. It’s great! There are a lot of machines and equipment; I can use the swimming pool. I can relax and meet friends in the club’s cafй, too.
WRITING TASK
Write about activities you like. Do you go to a fitness club?
TRANSLATION
Eat the right food and you can be healthier. But what is the best food?
Berries, such as blueberries and strawberries, are the number one fruit. They are good for the heart and for memory. They also fight illnesses. For vitamin C, eat an orange every day.
Some vegetables are super food. Broccoli is a good example. It is high in vitamin C. Carrots are rich in vitamin A and this is good for the skin. Eat garlic often because it’s a natural medicine. It is important to eat a lot of nuts because they are good for the memory. Oily fish, such as salmon and sardines, is very good for the heart. Olive oil is also good for it.
Lastly, are there any super drinks? Green tea is certainly one. A nice cup of green tea after the meal is good for health and it can protect from illnesses. Finally, don’t forget to drink water. It doesn’t have any vitamins, it doesn’t give you any energy, but it’s very important.
Eat some super food and live longer.
WRITING TASK
Write what food you usually eat. Which super food do you like to eat?
TRANSLATION
Downtown Charleston is a lovely shopping area with many stores and cafés. There is also the City market, which sells many unusual things. In the north, there’s the popular Northwoods shopping mall, with a variety of stores and a huge parking lot. There are many small highway shopping areas outside the town, where you can do your shopping and fill your car with gas at the same time.
Pop-up Stores
Pop-up stores are coming to a street near you. The name “pop-up store” is only a few years old, but it is becoming more common because the number of pop-up stores is growing in cities all over the world.
Pop-up stores are a type of shop. They open for a short time – between a week and a year – and then close down or move to a new place.
An example is the US fashion company, Vacant. Their store sells clothes by famous designers and new designers. The store opens for just one month in a big city like New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm or Los Angeles, then it closes down and moves. What are the advantages? The shop is always new and interesting, so it gets a lot of customers. Another advantage is that the shore uses an empty building in a cheap part of the city, so it saves money and it can offer good prices.
The London Fashion Bus is another example. It is a big bus, which stops for a week in different places and brings exciting London fashions to other parts of the UK.
WRITING TASK
Write about your shopping habits. How often do you go shopping? Do you prefer supermarkets or smaller shops?
II. Учебно-познавательная сфера общения
(Я и мое образование)
Unit 2
2.1. OUR UNIVERSITY
Education is what remains when you have forgotten
Who are they and how they look? In the streets, in parks, cafes, on discos, everywhere you can see young people standing together and talking about something with great interest. What are they talking about? They talk about studying, music, clothes and about money, which will finish soon. But in spite of the problem they are never sad. At the same time students walk around the town, go to cafes, discos and concerts.
Students become friends very fast and forever. Perhaps later when they meet they'll talk about how they are glad to see each other how they were missing, and call each other friends, though they were studying in different groups and saw each other only during exams. But this will be in future.
And now there are some different types of students. One part does nothing but study. Others have time for studying and for things they love to do. Someone likes going in for sport, some are fond of playing computer games, others like singing or dancing and so on. And there are some students who want to graduate the university with good and excellent marks.
Students wear everything that is comfortable to them. They listen to different types of music. Pop, rock, rap these are only few types they listen to. And all students like sleeping. So they are very different.
WRITING TASK
Write what type of students you are? What are you talking about when you are together with your friends?
TRANSLATION
The climate of a country is one of the factors that influence the style of its architecture. It can be best illustrated by British residential buildings. The weather in England is often cloudy and there are few sunny days in the winter season, therefore, as a rule, the windows in an English house are of a large size to catch as much light and sunshine as possible. In the houses built in the past century the windows, besides being large, opened upwards, this is very convenient on windy days.
Since there is much rain in England, typical British houses have high, steep roofs where rain water and melting snow can easily flow down.
Most of the houses have a fireplace, which forms the most characteristic feature of an English home.
The plan of an English house differs from that of the houses where we live.
Each house generally has just a ground floor and a first floor and is surrounded by a small garden. Looking after the garden is one of the main British pastimes. English architects plan some apartments vertically instead of planning them horizontally, so that an English family having a separate apartment lives on two floors with rooms connected with a narrow staircase. They find it the most convenient style of apartment. There are usually three rooms in each house besides a kitchen and a bathroom: a living room, a bedroom and a dining room.
In suburbs there are not many blocks of flats. Everything looks neat and tidy.
WRITING TASK
Write about your flat or your room. Where would you like to live?
TRANSLATION