Complete the text about the timetable of a typical secondary school in Britain

The school day is normally ………… into six or seven ………… , with ………… during the morning, at lunch and in the afternoon. Over the whole week, ………… usually do about ten different ………… . The school year normally has three ………… , with exams at the end of the year.

3. Write similar texts about the timetables of:

- a typical secondary school in the USA

- a typical secondary school in Russia

- the Faculty of Physics of MSU

4. Read the following profiles of the University of Greenwich alumni. Write a paragraph entitled “Why choose Moscow State University?”

Frank Ng, Hong Kong, China (MSc Finance – Business School)

“One of the reasons I chose to come to the University of Greenwich was because of the beautiful campus and the great diversity of people. I was offered a place to stay and there were programmes especially for international students that helped me to settle in. I feel that my programme has been helpful to me in finding jobs. I know have a great job in a bank.”

Mamit Agarwal, India (BEng Computer Networking – School of Engineering)

“I was doing my Engineering in IT programme in India and was lucky to get my course transferred to Greenwich. The University of Greenwich is among the few universities in the UK providing free personal development classes for their students.”

Addool Kadell, Mauritius (BSc Computing Science – School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences)

“I chose Greenwich because of its geographic location as London is the greatest cosmopolitan city in the world. I was very involved in extra activities and was part of the university’s football team where I got the opportunity to travel to other universities as well as to meet people from so many different nationalities. The university will always have a special place in my heart.”

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

Education system nursery school kindergarten elementary/ grade school primary school secondary school junior high school high school sixth form college technical college university state school/ private school faculty department division student/ pupil teacher/ professor undergraduate/ graduate/ post-graduate student BA/ BSc MA/ MSc PhD/ DSc

Subjects medicine engineering architecture agriculture law psychology politics philosophy sociology business studies economics languages physics IT history geography chemistry music maths biology Arts Sciences Humanities experimental/ theoretical physics solid state physics radiophysics electronics nuclear physics geophysics astronomy fundamental/ applied physics

Additional vocabulary carry out research deliver a lecture on … demonstrate experiments a field of science staff train specialists start/ finish/ complete education leave school enter a university graduate from a university/ high school do activities compulsory education be divided into … take/ pass/ fail exams/ a test GCSE A-levels at the age of … grade/ form attend school/ lectures semester/ term get marks/ grades earn points/ grades G.P.A. take/ pass a course do a subject/ course get a scholarship/ grant get a degree alumni

TOPIC 7. Sports

1. A lot of people do exercise in their free time. What do you do?

play basketball play football play tennis go running go swimming

go to the gym dance ride a bike ski skate do yoga do aerobics

Discuss the following questions in small groups.

a) What’s the most popular sport in our country (to watch and to play)?

b) How popular are the sports below?

gymnastics table tennis

archery hockey

badminton judo

cycling football

fencing sailing