Choose the adequate summary of the text

a) The school in Bath accepts about one hundred students from different countries who are classified into groups from complete beginners to very advanced.

b) The main methods of teaching at such schools are questioning, interviews and projects; they give students more oral practice.

c) The aim of the Bell group schools is to teach good English at different levels and according to the individual interests of the students.

d) It is very important to form the groups of students according to the results of entrance test.

UNIT TWO

OUR UNIVERSITY

Phonetic Exercises

1. Pronounce correctly and pay attention to forming Participle I:

do – doing go – going sing – singing enter – entering

pay – paying cry – crying study – studying play – playing

take – taking come – coming cut – cutting get – getting

Read and memorise the following.

1) I am sitting.

You are walking.

He is singing.

She is talking.

We are writing.

They are fighting.

2) Live and learn. Live and let live.

3) Don’t trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you.

4) Mister Brown, Mister Brown,

Are you going down town?

Could you stop and take me down?

Thank you kindly, Mister Brown!

5) No bees – no honey, no work – no money.

Vocabulary

Learn the following words:

apparatus of advanced design [xpq'reitqs... qd'va:nst di'zain] – приборы современной конструкции

to carry out ['kxri 'aut] – выполнять

to develop [di'velqp] – развивать

education ["edju'keiSn] – образование

to be engaged in – заниматься чем-л.

establishment [es'txbliSmənt] – учреждение

to equip [i'kwip] – оборудовать

equipment [ik'wipmənt] – оборудование

experienced – опытный

field of knowledge [..'nOliG] – область знаний

free – 1) свободный, 2) бесплатный

higher educational institution [haiə...] – высшее учебное заведение

to include [in'klud] – включать

Internet facilities [fq'silitiz] – выход в интернет

to make a contribution [...kqntri'bjuSn] – вносить вклад

outstanding [aut'stxndiN] – выдающийся

to provide [prə'vaid] – обеспечивать, предоставлять

research [ri'sWC] – исследование

science [saiqns] – наука

staff [sta:f] – штат

to train [trein] – обучать, подготавливать

various ['vFqriqs] – разнообразный

Practice the pronunciation of the following words.

Pedagogical ["pedq'gOGIkl], technical ['teknIkl], pharmaceutical ["fRmq'sjHtikl], agricultural ["xgrI'kAlCqrql], faculty ['fxkqltI], mathematics ["mxTq'mxtiks], philology [fi'lOlqGI], culture ['kAlCq], pedagogy ["pedq'gOGI], primary ['praimqrI], pre-school ['prJ'skHl], psychological ["saikq'lOGIkl], music ['mjHzIk], lecture ['lekCq], lecturer ['lekCqrq], science [saiqns], scientific [saiqn'tIfIk], experienced [Iks'pIqrIqnst], integral individuality [In'tegrql "IndI"vIdju'xlItI], hydrodynamics ['haidroudai'nxmIks], ornithology ["LnI'TOlqGI].

Match the topics and the paragraphs of the text.

a) The role of our University

b) The Faculties

c) Higher education in Perm

d) Opportunities for the students

e) The Structure

f) The Staff

Read and translate the following text.

Our University

There are different types of higher educational institutions in Russia. In Perm several establishments train specialists in various fields, and among them Perm State University, Technical University, Medical Academy, Pharmaceutical Academy, Agricultural Academy, Higher School of Economics and others. My friends and I study at Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University.

Our University provides higher education for future teachers. Every year a great number of students enter its 13 faculties: the Faculty of Mathematics, the Faculty of Philology, the Faculty of Physical Culture, the Faculty of Primary Schooling, of Psychology and Pedagogy of Childhood, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the Faculty of Physics, of History, of Music, of Psychology, the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and the Faculty of Information Technologies and Economics.

The University provides good conditions for scientific research. Our laboratories are equipped with apparatus of advanced design; there are computer classrooms with Internet facilities, study-rooms and workshops in five buildings. All the students are engaged in scientific work under the supervision of experienced teachers. Students of the Faculty of Biology work at the experimental biological station in Kvazhva. We take part in scientific expeditions and carry out research work in various fields of knowledge.

Our University has more than 45 chairs (departments). The staff of professors, lecturers and instructors is big and includes many outstanding scientists who make a contribution to various fields of knowledge. Several scientific schools have been formed at our University: the psychological school of integral individuality, the scientific school of hydrodynamics, of history of the Perm region, of ornithology and others.

The administration is housed in the main building. The head of the University is the Rector. Every faculty has a Dean. He or she occupies the Dean’s office. The Dean is responsible for the faculty. Every student group has a monitor. The monitor is the leader of the group and is in charge of it.

Our graduates work as school teachers in the Perm region. Perm Pedagogical University plays an important part in developing public education in the Urals.