Would you like to study abroad? What country?

2. Read and translate the text:

STUDENT'S LIFE IN ENGLAND

British pupils, who want to go to the University, have a hard-working final year at school. They study for the A-level examination. It is the most important and serious exam. They give documents to 3 or 4 Universities and have interviews there. Universities select students on the basis of the A-level examination and personal interviews. Teachers also take note of the interests and hobbies of each candidate.

Very often, future students decide «to take a year out» before study at University. So, what do they do? They work and earn money to visit other countries. They visit the other countries with the purpose to learn about a different culture and way of life of other people. Students stay at home very rarely. They think that they are responsible for their own life and it is always better to experiment away from home.

British students prefer to go to Universities away from home. How do they solve the problem of living? They have 2 ways to solve this problem.

1. They live in a hostel. Rooms at the hostel normally for one person, but they are very small.

2. The students of the senior courses rent a room in a family house or group together with 4 or 5 other students to rent a whole house.

The problem of money is very important for English students. Students receive a grant from the State, but it is not enough to live on. So, students have to borrow money or to earn it.

Usually they borrow money from banks and leave University seriously in debt. Do parents help them? Sometimes they help. But more often they think that their children must be responsible for their finance.

VOCABULARY

to give documents to enter the university to pass entering (final) exams to graduate from university graduate to select on the basis of culture away from home to decide to be responsible for to receive grant to borrow money from purpose rarely debt

подавать документы поступать в университет сдавать вступительные (выпускные) экзамены заканчивать университет выпускник университета выбирать на основании чего-либо культура вдали от дома решать что-либо сделать быть ответственным за получать стипендию занимать деньги у намерение, цель редко долг

EXERCISES

3. Answer the questions:

a) 1. What do the English pupils do during the final year at school?

2. How do English students enter the University?

3. How do the Universities select students?

4. What do they do during the «year out»? Why?

5. Where do the students live when they study?

6. What problems do they have?

7. Do their parents help them and why?

b) Do you want to take a year-out after school?

4. Compare Russian and English student's life. Use the following phrases:

like in the same way to be similar

in contrast to in different ways

points to compare	English	Russian
• entering the University • the year after school • problems • the place of living • free time

5. Retell the text using the key-words:

A-level examination

to give documents

to select

a «year out»

the problem of living

the problem of money

parents

6. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:

1) Я подаю документы в Технический Университет.

2) Английские студенты обычно подают документы в 2-3 ВУЗа.

3) Учителя отбирают студентов на основе экзаменов.

4) Учителя отбирают студентов на основе специальных знаний.

5) Я отбираю литературу на основе моих интересов.

6) Мы интересуемся русской культурой.

7) Каждая страна имеет собственную культуру.

8) Я решаю поступать в университет.

9) Он решает найти хорошую работу.

10) Она решает заработать много денег.

11) Я ответственен за мою учебу.

12) Родители ответственны за своих детей.

13) Мы получаем стипендию.

14) Я получаю письма из Англии.

15) Английские студенты берут деньги в банке.

16) Я не люблю занимать деньги.

7. Make up a dialogue on one of the situations:

· You are a Russian student and an English student. Ask different questions and tell each other about your student's life.

· You are a professor and a student. The professor advertises the University. The student asks questions about studies and life at that University. He wants to enter the University but he has many questions.

· You are students of the Siberian Federal University and the Moscow State University. Talk about your student's life.

· You are the members of the students' union. Discuss the students' problems (hostel, grant, traffic, library, etc.) and make a list of requirements (требования) for the city government to present at the strike (предъявить на забастовке).

· You are a professor and a reporter. The professor has an idea of a new model of the University. It's very nice and interesting. Reporter asks questions about this University and the student's life there, the professor answers.

· You are the first-year student and the fifth-year student. The first-year student has many questions about student's life and the fifth-year student tells about it.

· You are a parent and a child, who is a student. One day you sit and talk about your student's life. Tell each other about it.

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