B) What do you know about financial aid in our country? How can a student pay for his/her education?
C) Before you listen to the student speaking about money for education match words and phrases in A with their explanations in B.
| A | B |
| a. challenging | 1. difficult but rewarding |
| b. having a career | 2. extra money paid on a loan or bank savings |
| c. interest | 3. fight |
| d. repayment | 4. getting a better job or salary within a company over time |
| e. salary | 5. money a student pays to a university |
| f. struggle | 6. money borrowed from a bank or finance company |
| g. student loan | 7. money paid back on a loan |
| h. summer job | 8. money paid for a week’s work |
| i. tuition fees | 9. regular monthly or annual pay packet |
| j. wage | 10. work between academic years |
b) 
Complete the sentences using vocabulary from the previous activity. Now listen to the student speaking about money for education to check your answer.
1. We will lend you £3,000, which you will need to repay with .................... of 3% after three years.
2. Paying my fees every year has been a constant .....................
3. With such a small loan, I don’t know if I’ll be able to pay the .....................
4. I’ve got a good job, but I just wish the work was more .....................
5. When term ends, I’ll have to get .................... just to make ends meet.
6. The .................... is £140 a week, but it’s cash-in-hand, so you don’t pay tax.
c) Listen again and decide if the following statements are true or false.
1. More than three quarters of all university students in England and Wales borrow money to study
2. Students tend to buy a house soon after graduating
3. Paying back a student loan is always voluntary
4. A degree gives people an advantage when applying for white collar jobs
5. Graduates often feel their first job doesn’t live up to their expectations
6. Numbers of British university students began to decline after the credit crunch
7. Students sometimes break the law to finance their studies
8. More international students are coming to Britain because the UK currency is weaker
UNIT 3. SIBERIAN TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY
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Start-up
I. Tongue twisters to be remembered:
a) Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
b) On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
II. a) Give appropriate translation to the proverbs and remember them:
B) Make up a small proverbs-based dialogue.
Lead-in
I. a) Work in pairs. Number these reasons why people enter universities in their order of importance from 1(most important reason) to 12 (least important reason). Explain your choice.
to acquire general knowledge
to prepare for job
to meet with young people
to train one’s memory
to learn something about subjects
to find out what one is really interested in
to give one’s parents some peace and quiet
to test one’s intelligence
to learn how to study and work with books
to have a good time
to be independent
to learn discipline and order