Учеба и жизнь студента (стр. 5 )

Translate the following proverbs and sayings, advance your opinion

1.  Learning is light, and ignorance is darkness.

2.  Repetition is the mother of learning.

3.  Knowledge is power.

4.  Knowledge is the daughter of experience.

5.  Science is the captain, and practices its soldiers.

Find out the word with the suffixes - er/or; - ment; - ance/ence; - ing; - tion/sion from the text

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Text 2

Topical vocabulary:

Eager - нетерпеливый

To arrange - устраивать, организовывать

To admit – принимать

Application – заявление

Competitive – соревновательный

Curriculum - учебный план, программа

Findings - полученные данные

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A medical student

I am eager to tell you that I am a first-year student of a Medical Institute at present. In six years I'll graduate from this Institute and become a doctor. My duty will be to treat people and fight against different diseases.

In July I arranged everything to be admitted into the Institute. I handed in my certificates of education and health and the application for admission to this higher school. I followed my father's advice and began to work hard for my competitive entrance examinations just after I had finished my school. I passed my competitive entrance examinations and was admitted into the Institute. Let me tell you something about our group. There are 20 students in our group. All of us attend our classes regularly and never miss the lectures. We take notes of all the, lectures delivered by our professors. We all take an active part in the Institute social life. Our students who live at the Institute hostel as well as those who live with their parents can always have their dinner at our Institute canteen. We are happy that-education is free of charge our country. Most of us get stipends and have all the necessary text­books which we get from our library.

The first-year curriculum includes many subjects. Anato­my is the most important subject in the first year. Our time-table includes six periods of Anatomy weekly. I am greatly interested in Anatomy and Histology and pay great attention to these subjects.

During our practical classes in some other subjects we often carry on experiments in different laboratories. Some­times we receive very interesting findings.

Some of my fellow students belong to our scientific cir­cles. They carry on different experiments on animals, spend much time on research work, and cope with it well. Most of the members of these circles are senior students who have a good knowledge of medicine. Many of them are going to attend post-graduate courses.

As I am friendly with most of my fellow students I spend all my spare time together with them. We attend discussions, go to the theatre and cinema, and arrange evening parties.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the author eager to tell?

2. When will he graduate from the Institute?

3. When did he arrange all his affairs to be admitted into the Institute?

4. What did he hand in to be admitted into the Institute?

5. Whose advice did he follow?

6. Who of the students takes an active part in the Institute social life?

7. Where do the students live?

8. Where can the students have their dinner?

9. Is his education free of charge?

10. What subjects does the first-year curriculum include?

11. What subjects does he pay great attention to?

12. What do students do in the evening?

Compose the sentences:

1. Student, am, a, first-year, I, of, at, present, a, medical Institute.

2. Will, my, duty, be, treat, to, people.

3. Of, all, us, attend, regularly, lecture, miss, never, the, and, classes.

4. Professors, out, by, deliver, lectures, the, all, of, notes, take, we.

5. Stipends, get, us, of, most.

bject, many, includes, curriculum, first-year, the.

7. Year, first, the, in, subject, important, most, the, is, Anatomy.

8. Life, social, Institute, the, in, part, active, an, take, all, we.

9. Anatomy, in, I, am, interested, greatly.

10. Vocation, I, lot, to, expert, go, for, home, my, winter.

11. My, I, passed, entrance, competitive, examination.

12. Group, something, me, tell, you, about, let, my.

Find out the word with the suffixes - er/or; - ment; - ance/ence; - ing; - tion/sion from the text

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Text 3

Topical vocabulary:

Noble - благородный

Admire – восхищаться

To get rid of – избавляться

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Our University

I left school in June and began to prepare for my entrance exams to the University. As both my mother and father are teachers I have made up my mind to be a teacher too. I think teaching is a noble profession.

I had to take four exams and passed all of them with excel­lent marks. So I'm glad to tell you that now I'm a first-year stu­dent at the Moscow State Teacher Training University.

I should like to show you the main building of our University. I can't help admiring this fine old building with its beautiful columns. The first students entered it more than 120 years ago.

It goes without saying we, students, are very proud of this fact.

There are 18 faculties at our University which train teachers in many subjects: Russian, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Foreign languages and others. Many well-known professors teach at our University.

We have good libraries and reading-rooms and for those who go in for sports there are good gymnasiums and a stadium.

At present we have quite a lot of work as we have English practice, Grammar and Phonetics, Linguistics, History of our native land and other subjects. There is an English speaking club at our faculty. It gives us a good opportunity to master the language, but I don't take part in it yet. I'm working hard at my pronunciation. There is a good language laboratory at our, faculty where we work with cassette-recorders. It helps us to find out our mistakes and to get rid of them in the shortest possible time.

So that's the latest news about me. Please write to me about your life and studies.

Answer the following questions:

1. When did the fellow leave school?

2. Who are his father and mother?

3. How many exams did he pass?

4. Does he like profession of a teacher?

5. How many faculties are there in this University?

6. What subjects does he study in the university?

7. Does he study Russian?

8. Is there an English speaking club at the faculty?

9. Does Mike take part in it?

10. Are there any laboratories?

11. What does it help students?

12. Does the fellow proud of his University?

Make up your own sentences using the given words and word combinations:

- To study in the first year;

- To belong to a scientific circle;

- To be free of charge;

- To take notes of a lecture;

- To attend practical classes;

- To miss a lecture;

- To carry on an experiment;

- To pay great attention on smth.;

- To be interested in smth.;

- Knowledge of medicine;

- An Institute canteen;

- To go in for sport

Find out the word with the suffixes - er/or; - ance/ence; - ing; - tion/sion from the text

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Text 4

Topical vocabulary:

realize – понимать

appreciate – оценивать

privately – лично

decision – решение

genuinely – искренне

awareness – понимание

incredible – невероятный

wondrous – невиданный

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Choosing a career

School! Lessons, games, clubs, homework. A bell rings. You go to a classroom. A bell rings. You have lunch. A bell rings. You go home.

But one day you go to school for the last time. What to do after that? You realize that the time to choose one job out of the hundreds has come. It's going to be a hard choice and nobody can make it for you.

Before you can choose, you ask yourself quite a lot of questions. What do you know you are good at? What do you enjoy doing? Perhaps you enjoy working with your hands. Or you may prefer using your head — your brains. Are you interested in machines? Or do you like meeting people? It's difficult to know all the answers to these ques­tions until you have left school and actually begun work.

Many young people consider teaching as a career. It's not surprising: after your parents your teacher may be the most important person in your life. With all the teachers you meet, you think there isn't anything you don't know about the work. That's where you are wrong, since only those who are in it can appreciate it. Have you ever asked yourself why most teachers are so devoted to their work and privately think, though they may not like to admit it openly, that they serve humanity doing the most vital job of all? Those of us who spend our days in schools know how rewarding the job is. At the same time it is not easy and a real challenge to your character, abilities and talent, as teaching is a constant stream of decisions.

Children in your classroom aren't just boys and girls. Every one is a unique individual who has never been before and will never again exist. If you like people, you will love teaching. To be a good teacher you must be genuinely inter­ested in what you are doing.

The most important things in the world are awareness and learning — wanting to know every day of your life more and more and more. Because every time you learn some­thing new you become something new. An ignorant teacher teaches ignorance, a fearful teacher teaches fear, a bored teacher teaches boredom. But a good teacher catalyzes in his pupils the burning desire to know and love for the truth and beauty.