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Words and Word Combinations
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A. education system scientific subjects
compulsory education an intending teacher
primary school optional
secondary school core component (core)
comprehensive school school (teaching) practice
public school School-based experience
further education Subject studies
polytechnic Education studies
college of higher education (Theory of) Education
to specialize in main subject
teacher training age-range
degree junior students
undergraduate senior students
graduate play production
post-graduate educational aids
full-time student audio-visual facilities
part-time student visual aids
reader to observe a lesson
lecturer supervisor (tutor)
practical classes to hold examinations
final examinations (finals)
B. tutorial changing room
residential college students' society
non-residential college Students' Council (Union)
hall of residence С. а B.A., B.Ed., B.Sc, B.S.E.,
to live in hall B.S.M. degree (Bachelor of
principal building (the Arts, Education, Science,
Senate) Engineering, Medicine etc.)
teaching staff M.A., M.Ed (Master of
Physical Education (P.E.) Arts, Education, etc.)
gymnasium (gym) PhD. (Doctor of Philosophy)
EXERCISES
I. Study Text A and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Transcribe them:
педагогическое образование (обучение учителей), политехнический институт, колледж высшего образования, степень, выпускник, аспирант, бакалавр, дальнейшее обучение, исследовательская работа, магистр, студент дневного отделения, студент вечернего отделения, лектор (2 words), практические занятия, будущий учитель, быть основанным на чём- n., обязательный, факультативный, практика в школе, изучение основного предмета, комплекс предметов педагогического цикла, педагогика, профилирующая дисциплина, возрастная группа, студенты младших курсов, постановка пьесы, студенты старших курсов, учебные пособия, аудио-визуальные средства, посещать уроки, руководитель по педпрактике (2 words), проводить экзамены, выпускные экзамены.
II. Write 15 questions on Text A, using new words and expressions in each question. Ask your comrades to reply them. Summarize what you have learned about the British system of higher education.
III. Study Texts В and С and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases:
система высшего образования, практические занятия, колледж с общежитием, колледж без общежития, общежитие (студенческое), территория колледжа (университета), жить в общежитии (о студентах), педагогический состав, лекционный зал, гимнастический зал, раздевалка, студенческое общество, студенческий совет, бакалавр гуманитарных наук, магистр гуманитарных наук, доктор философских наук.
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IV. Ask your fellow-students:
1. About the difference between a university, polytechnic and college of higher education. 2. Why it is preferable to study at university. 3. What subjects the Programme of a university is based upon. 4. What you know about tutorials. 5. About the difference between a residential and a non-residential college (university). 6. Who lives in hall. 7. What rooms can be found in a university building. 8. What sport facilities there are at a university. 9. What clubs and societies are popular in British colleges and universities. 10. Who runs those clubs and societies. 11. What a B. A. is. 12. How quickly one can get those letters before his name. 13. What a M. A. is. 14. Which degree is higher: M. A. or Ph. D.? 15. If it is easy for a Bachelor of Arts to find a job.
V. Retell Text В in indirect speech using new words and word combinations.
VI. Fill in prepositions. Ask the others to give their responses to the given sentences so as to make up micro-dialogues:
1.... Great Britain the course... study... intending teachers is based... compulsory and optional subjects. 2. The Programme usually consists... three core components. Do you remember what they are? 3. Are you going to specialize... Education? 4. It is important... a student to learn the use... different visual aids... his block-teaching practice. 5. My school practice began when I was... the first year. 6.... our department examinations are held... the end... each term;... each examination students are given several days which they spend... revising the material. 7. The English club organized... the students is concerned.., extra-curricular activities. 8. Do you enjoy your lectures... Theory... Education? Are they supplemented... seminars?
VII. a) Retell Text С in indirect speech; b) act it out.
VIII. Speak about the English Department at your University (usе Essential Vocabulary on the topic).
IX. Make up dialogues, using Essential Vocabulary on the topic Suggested situations:
A. A Russian student and an English student are exchanging information on systems of higher education in their countries.
B. Two students of the English department are discussing their college life. One of them is enthusiastic about everything, the other is a dissatisfied grumbler and finds fault with every little thing.
C. A student of the English department is speaking about the programme and the course of study with a friend of his (hers).
D. A strict father (mother) is demanding an explanation from a son (daughter) after a failure in a college exam. The son is giving all kinds of lame excuses speaking about "overcrowded syllabus", injustice of professors and bad luck in general.
X. a) Bead and translate into Russian:
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Oxford
So this is Oxford. As soon as we emerge into the clean, broad streets, there are signs enough that this is the ancient seat of English learning. Gowns and mortar boards.[52] Young undergraduates in loose black thigh-length gowns. A graduate's gown is generally of knee length and for ceremonial occasions at least, has a hood lined in silk of the colour prescribed by the wearer's faculty.
Oxford's main railway station is some half a mile to the west of the area in which are clustered most of the colleges: Queen's College and University College, Magdalen College and quite a number of others.
All these together make up the University of Oxford.
The central University, in general, arranges lectures for the whole body of students in a particular subject and holds examinations and grants degrees; an individual college provides for residence and tutorials. Great emphasis is laid at Oxford and Cambridge on what are called "tutorials", in which a Don[53] gives personal instruction in his study at least once a week to students numbering not more than four at a sitting.
For a lover of old architecture, Oxford has much to offer. Many of the colleges present a lovely picture of ancient pearl-grey walls, noble towers, picturesque gothic archways. All have grass lawns of velvet smoothness which must be seen to be believed, and many have, in summer, most magnificent displays of flowers.
(After "The British Scene" by George Bidwell)
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