full-time student, part-time student, applicant, academic year,
semester, va-
cation, campus, hall of residence, tuition fee, dean, Rector,
undergraduate stu-
dent, (post)graduate student, extra-mural student, curriculum.
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III. Speech practice exercises
1. Agree or disagree with these statements. Give true information about yourself.
1.
I’m a second-year part-time student of Far Eastern State
Transportation
University,
2.
Our university is 100 years old.
3.
Our university is a large modern higher education institution.
4.
Our university trains specialists in medicine and pharmacology.
5.
I study at the Institute of Economics; I’m going to become a
specialist in
finance.
6.
I’ve passed my entrance exams successfully.
7.
I am not going to miss classes.
8.
I’m good at natural sciences.
9.
I don’t pay tuition fee; I study free of charge.
10. There are 10 hostels and three buildings for classes on the
campus.
11. There are a lot of well-equipped laboratories, workshops and
computer
centres in the university.
12. The university curriculum is very complicated.
13. I find it very easy to study at the university.
14. We have vacation at the end of each semester.
15. If you don’t pass your exams you may be expelled from the
university.
2. Read these micro-dialogues. Reproduce them. Make up your own ones.
1.
– What do you think of the exams?
–
I reckon they were deadly easy.
–
May be they were easy enough for you, but they were much too hard
for me.
–
Oh, come on. You’ve probably done better than you think.
2.
– How’s your son been doing at school lately, Mr.Sanders? I hear
that he
is
likely to win all the prizes in the exams this year.
–
Yes, so his teachers say. But he deserves to do so. He’s always
been
so
conscientious and hard-working and he’s been slaving at his books
every
evening for months on end recently. He wants to go to Oxford
University next
year. May be he’ll become a university lecturer himself
eventually.
3.
– Vicky, what language do you study?
–
English.
–
What’s the most difficult aspect of learning it?
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–
Well, I’m very embarrassed when we have to speak English in front
of the
class. Terrible pronunciation and things like that. Also I think
listening compre-
hension is very difficult, because it’s always difficult to keep
up.
–
Yes, studying languages is much harder than studying math or history
or
something. Especially, if you are not gifted.
4.
– How did you do in your informatics test?
–
Oh, don’t ask!
–
Oh, dear. What did you get?
–
Twenty percent. I came last. I thought I was going to do really well.
5.
– Can you help me with my math homework? We’re doing algebra.
–
Believe me, I would if I could, but I don’t know the first thing
about alge-
bra. Sorry.
3. Read and translate the text. A Student in Economics
(After George Milburn)
Charlie Wintage ran up the steps of the Administrative Building,
hurried
through the revolving doors and walked down the long hall to the
Dean of
Men’soffice. He was ten minutes late. Before he opened the
frosted-glass door
he
took out a pair of amber-coloured spectacles and put them on. Then he
went
in
and handed this summonsto the secretary.
“The Dean will see you in a moment”, she said. “Please take a
chair”.
Charlie sat down and gave a glance about the office. Three freshmen
were
waiting with him. He recognized none of them, so he picked up a
week-old copy
of
a newspaper and started reading it. But the room was warm and he
imme-
diately went to sleep. The newspaper slipped down on the floor. His
amber-
coloured spectacles hid his eyes and no one could see that they were
closed.
He
was awakened by a secretary shaking him.
“Wake up and pay for your bed, old man!” one of the freshmen
called and
everyone laughed heartily.
“I
sort of drowsed off. It’s so nice and warm here..” Charlie said
apologizing
to
the secretary.
The Dean of Men got up as he entered and said: “Ah, this is
Charlie Win-
tage, isn’t it? How do you like the university by now, Wintage?
Eyes troubling
you?”
“Pretty well, sir. Yes, sir, a little. I wear these spectacles.”
The secretary brought his folder and the Dean looked through it
briefly.
“Well, Wintage, I suppose you’re anxious to know why I sent for
you. The
unpleasant truth is, Wintage, you don’t seem to be doing well in
your studies.
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Now, to be quite frank, Wintage, you’re on the verge offlunking out. Less than
a
third of the semester remains, and you have an F gradein
English andD
gradesin Psychology and Military Training. On the other
hand, you have anA
average in Spanish and Bin Economics. Wintage, how do you
account for your
falling English when you are an A student in Spanish?”
“To tell you the truth, sir, I got behindin my written
works in English, and I’ve
never been able to catch up. And I don’t really have to
study Spanish. My father is
a
railway section foreman in my hometown and he’s always has a gang
of Mex-
icans working for him. I’ve been speaking Spanish ever since I was
a kid.”
“How about this B in Economics? That’s a fairly high grade.”
“Yes, sir. Our economics professor doesn’t give exams. Instead
he gives
everyone a B until he calls for our term papers. And the grade you
get on your
term paper is your semester grade. We have to do a lot of outside
reading for
the term paper. But I’m counting on keeping that B in Economics”.
“That’s fine, Wintage. But it appears to me that it’s high
time you were get-
ting busy on some of the other grades too. You made an unusually
high grade
in
your entrance exams. Graduated from high schoolwith
honours. What’s
the trouble, Wintage?”
“I
don’t know, sir, except I work at night at a café”.
“How many hours do you work?”
“Ten hours, sir. From nine till seven. The café stays open all
night.”
‘Very interesting, Wintage. But don’t you suppose that it would
be advisable
to
cut down a bit on this outside work and attend a little more closely
to your
studies?”
“I
couldn’t work fewer hours and stay in school, sir. I pay my room
rent and
I’ve been paying out on a suit of clothes.”
“Can you arrange for a little financial support from home?”
“No, sir. I’m afraid not. I have two brothers and two sisters at
home younger
than I am. It wouldn’t be right for me to ask my father to send
money out of what
he
makes.”
“I
see, but all this is beside the point. We’re here to discuss the
state of your
grades, Wintage. As you must know, any student who turns inless than half
his work isautomaticallysuspendedfrom the
university and must return to his
home. Now one more bad mark and out you’ll go, Wintage.”
“I’d hate to have to go back home like that. You know, there not
many jobs
nowadays, sir.”
“Well, unless you can alter your circumstances, I suggest that you
withdraw
from the university at once”.
“I
believe I’ll try to stick it through, sir. I’ll try to remove the
F and D grades
and maybe I can luck through on my finals”.
Notes:
1.
Dean of Men – преподаватель-воспитатель,
ведущий работу среди
студентов-мужчин.
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2.
summons – повестка
3
on the verge of flunking out – на грани отчисления
4.
F grade – самая низкая оценка в колледже,
университете.
A
grade – самая высокая оценка.
5.
get behind – отстать, не сделать что-то
вовремя
6.
catch up – догнать
7.
high school (амер.) – средняя школа
8.
with honours – с отличием
9.
turn in – сдавать
9.
be suspended – быть исключенным
10. I can luck through on my finals – я как-нибудь сдам
свои выпускные
экзамены
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family, widower, half-sister, relative, to resemble Task 2. Complete the sentences with the phrasal verbs (change them where necessary): get back together, put up with, let down, fall out, run into, stand by, break up, get on well with, look after. 1. Carol always ……… with her friend over everything. Sometimes they don’t speak for some days after that. 2. I can’t ……………… people’s bad behavior. 3. Do you think they’ll ………….. after their quarrel? 4. Yesterday I ………….. a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen for ages. 5. My mom usually tells me not to ……….. her ……… with my bad marks. 6. Don’t let a little quarrel ………… a great friendship. Task 3. Transform Active into Passive. 1. Many people begin new projects in January 2. You must wash that shirt for tonight’s party. 3. We will have to examine you again. 4. They had finished preparations by the time the guests arrived. 5. We have produced skis here since 1964. 6. She showed her relatives the new house. Task 4. Answer the questions (up to 10 sentences): What makes your family special?
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Descendants are those who lived after you. An extended family is a social group consisting of one married couple and their own children. Widower — a man whose wife has died. Half-sister — a half-sister who you think can bring on you some annoying guardianship and painful control. Relative — a person who has common ancestors with someone.
Real property
Personal property
Contract
Constitution
Complete the following sentences on the basis of the text.
1) Private law deals with….
2) Public law defines….
3) The law of tort deals with….
4) Property law determines….
5) Criminal law defines….
Say whether these statements are true or false.
1) Various branches of public and private law can overlap.
2) Private law can be divided into seven branches.
3) The law ensures a person’s right to own property.
4) Company law is usually classed together with International law.
5) Conflicts between a constitution and other laws are settled by constitutional law.
6) International law deals with trade, boundary disputes, and etc.
7) Most nations have an unwritten constitution.
Answer the following questions.
1) What is the difference between private law and public law?
2) Why are some branches of public and private law sometimes closely related?
3) Why is it sometimes considered that administrative law is one of the most complicated branches of law?
4) What matters does international law concern?
5) Do you know the difference between written and unwritten constitution?
6) Name six major branches of private law.
7) Name four major branches of public law.
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