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tutor n - преподаватель (в университетах) tutorial system - система прикрепления студентов к преподавателям-консультантам READING 1. Read the text and sum up what the text says about Belarusian State Economic University. The Belarus State Economic University was formed in 1992 on the basis of the Belarussian State Institute of the National Economy which was founded in 1933. It is the biggest educational establishment in Belarus training specialists in the field of economics and management, finance and banking, accounting and statistics, commerce, international economic relations, economic policies, business communications techniques, marketing, logistics, economic law, economics and management of tourism, economics of labor and nature use, advertising activities, and price formations. The graduates of the university work in all the sectors of the national economy both in the country and abroad. The University management is done on the principles of democracy and collective leadership. Its structure includes a university administration, a university council, a scholarly-methodological council, an education-methodological council on part-time education, councils of schools, branches and institutes. The University is headed by the Rector. The university’s main activities are headed by the First Deputy Rector, the Deputy Rector in charge of research, the Deputies Rector in charge of curriculum and the Deputy Rector in charge of administrative work. The BSEU has a well developed infrastructure which provides training and research within twelve schools:
Economics and Management (specializations ”Tourism Economics and Management” and ”Hotel and Restaurant Catering Economics and Management”).
In addition, BSEU incorporates Bobruisk andPinsk branches, Consulting Center for Commerce, Institute for Updating Qualification and Retraining Personnel, and a Specialized School of Psychological and Teaching Updating. The university has a Research Centre, an International Relations Division, and a Publishing Centre. The university library is one of the best supplied and equipped in the country. The training of students is done on a multi-level basis. The degrees pursued are those of bachelors, specialists and masters. The graduates can also continue their education in a post-graduate school called aspirantura (full-time or part-time), where they pursue a Ph.D. degree, and in a post-doctorate school called doctorantura to pursue a post-doctorate degree (doctor habile). The Belarus State Economic University has 59 departments (of which 39 are graduating ones). This year 5571 students have been enrolled to our University, 39% of whom are internal students and 61% are external ones. The total number of students (both full-time and part-time) amounts to 27,000. Among them are international students from 23 countries. The students are trained in 20 majors and 48 specializations. There are over 1,300 faculty members. Almost half of them hold advanced degrees and scholarly titles, including 100 doctors habil (Dr. hab.) and full professors and 610 with a Ph.D. degree. Training specialists with higher scholarly qualification is done at the graduate school (12 majors of doctoral programs) and post-doctoral courses (6 majors), both full-time and part-time. Under the auspices of the BSEU there function 5 councils on defending dissertations, with 154 successful defenses in place over the recent five years. The priorities in the organization of teaching are thorough training, a creative approach to mastering knowledge, as well as making conditions for the realization of individual abilities. The focus is made on providing the systematic level of studies, making connections among the subjects taught, establishing interdisciplinary courses, developing independent work skills, implementing active forms of the teaching process, and effective methods of testing. The university is proud of its technical equipment. It has about 40 computer classrooms, training bookkeeping centres, as well as automated PC-based training offices for specialists in management, finance, banking, and commerce. Lecture halls have slide projectors and other required technical equipment. Classes are fully equipped for language study. Satellite TV, Internet and local computing network are widely used in the teaching process. Acquiring new techniques of teaching and exchanging experience in teaching combined with doing research on topical issues of economic development are made possible due to fruitful contacts with companies, agencies, and related universities, including those beyond Belarus. Annually about 3000 students graduate from the University with specialisation in economics, every third student graduates with distinction. The university continues to upgrade the quality of education and aims at high standards of contemporary university, able to meet the challenges of domestic and global economic development. The university occupies 9 buildings. The conditions for study are good. Numerous tutorial rooms, lecture halls, modern laboratories, computer and foreign language classes, audio- and video-facilities, a big library, several spacious reading halls and canteens are at the students' disposal. The tuition is free, but those who failed to get the necessary score during their entrance tests, have to pay for their study. Many students get hostel accommodation and most are given state grants. The academic year is divided into two terms: the winter term and the summer term. Each term ends with examinations. At the end of the full course of study which is five years, students pass their final state exams. Many of them also prepare their senior projects, usually a research work in their future specialities. During their final year of study students are sent to practical training in their future profession to different state and private companies, banks, factories, etc. Many of them usually combine work and study. The university provides a high standard of theoretical and practical knowledge. Many subjects are learned here, both those providing fundamental theoretical background for future practical application in professions chosen by students (finance, banking, accounting, statistics, commodity expertise, etc.) and those that develop their world outlook and make them educated and knowledgeable people (political science, history of Belarus, economic geography, world economy, foreign languages). Many of the university professors are noted scholars, and a great number of advanced students are engaged in research. The University’s international activities are aimed at developing relations with the leading universities of the CIS countries, France, Germany, Italy, and China. For over 10 years now, we have been closely cooperating with the University Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in France. At present, the BSEU has bilateral agreements with 64 universities and research institutions from 16 countries. The Belarus State Economic University put forward an initiative to conclude bilateral cooperation agreements with several Chinese institutes in the educational sphere. The matter concerned introduction of a new educational program “2+3”, which provides for training Chinese students at an institute in China for two years and then taking an exam to get the right to continue studies at the BSEU. Chinese students will also get an opportunity to get bachelor’s degrees and to take post-graduate courses in the Belarusian establishments of higher education. The BSEU authorities have been also holding talks with Dalian Informatics University on training Chinese students at the BSEU for degrees in “Economic Informatics” and “Economic Cybernetics”. Creative contacts with the national and overseas universities help enrich the process of teaching with practical information and provide a wide exchange of experience, as well as conduct research on relevant issues of the economic development and identify the most promising trends of training specialists based on the needs of the national economy and domestic labor market. Learning foreign languages is getting increasingly popular. Many students get so successful in learning one or two of them that they can easily understand lectures delivered by visiting professors from Western countries in a foreign language. Some of them go to other countries, such as the USA, Great Britain, Germany, where they easily cope with a foreign language academic environment. Their exposure to other cultures, languages, and especially to economic realities of advanced countries gives them a lot of new experience, which will be highly valued back home. A lot of activity is being done outside the curriculum as well. There are many societies, sports and art circles that students are engaged in. Going to the cinema, theatre, concert halls, clubs or dancing parties is also very popular. Time at the university passes very quickly, but memories about it stay for a long time. 2. Answer the following questions:
University program?
University?
3. Complete the following sentences: 1) The university provides a high standard of theoretical and practical knowledge. Many subjects are learned here, … 2) The University’s international activities are aimed at developing relations with the leading universities of … 3) The Belarus State Economic University put forward an initiative … 4) Creative contacts with the national and overseas universities help enrich … 5) Learning foreign languages … 6)Their exposure to other cultures, languages, and … DEVELOPING VOCABULARY 1. Match the following words with their definitions:
2. Match the synonyms:
3. Match English and Russian equivalents:
4. Use the words in capitals to form a word that fits in the space. EXAMINE SUCCESS QUALITY EDUCATE MIX KNOW FAIL LUCKY MAJOR IMPRESS INTELLIGENT TESTS All students throughout the world sit for … at some point in their lives. If students are …, they get a formal … that enables them to get a job or continue with further … .Most formal testing involves a … of techniques, but the most common form requires students to show that they have a detailed … of the subject area. Students who do not pass, are not considered as …, they simply need more time to study. Some of them are simply …. The … who pass, do so because they have made a good … on the examiner and have also succeeded in showing their …. 5. Insert the necessary words to the following sentences: rectors, higher education, national school, fields of study, education, standards, abilities, integration, take into account, state policy, principles, space 1) Every institution has several departments specializing in various… . 2) Higher educational establishments are headed by … . 3) The republic is reforming its system of … today with the aim of creating an independent, qualitatively new …, corresponding to International … . 4) The government guarantees each citizen the right to education according to his … . 5) It trains specialists at all levels of … over a wide range of fields of study. 6) Curricula and programs … both specific features of the national system of higher education and necessity of its … to the world’s educational space. 7) The national system of higher education is based on the … of … in the field of education. 6. Translate from Russian into English: Для абитуриента выбор факультета является поступком, первичнo задающим цель собственной жизни. Ошибки и просчеты, допущенные молодым человеком при выборе специальности, имеют довольно высокую цену. Для части абитуриентов неудача при поступлении на желанный факультет является стрессом и часто оценивается как жизненный кризис. «Счастливчики» - те молодые люди, которые продемонстрировали довольно высокий уровень знаний и умений в стрессовых ситуациях экзаменов, - зачисляются на первый курс. DISCOVERING LANGUAGE 1. Transform as in the models: Mоde1 1: to educate people — education of people to found the university, to regulate the studies, to examine students, to appoint the tutors; Mоde1 2: degree of a bachelor — bachelor's degree degree of a master, life of the students, parents of a student, the report of the scientist; Mоde1 3: Department of Education — Education Department centres of research, history of the University, School of Management. 2. Choose a or the or no article in the following sentences: 1) … first-year students of our University have … lot of things to do. 2) If you are not … university student at … age of 18, you have to go to … army to serve. 3) After I leave … school, I want to go to … University. 4) … women are often better teachers than … men. 5) … friend of yours is now having classes at … University. 6) … lecture was interesting on … whole. 7) I go to … University in … morning. 8) How many people go to … university in your country? 9) Nick left …. University without doing his exams. 10) You had … difficult text to translate and you did not take … trouble to consult … dictionary. 11) He is … student you wanted to speak to. 12) It is … translation from … English. 13) … two students entered … room. 3. Give adjectives corresponding to the following nouns: illiteracy, science, education, qualification, experience, progress, ignorance, diligence, ability, competition, industry 4. Insert articles to the following sentences: They have come to Minsk from many towns of Belarus to acquire knowledge. ...Department of Marketing is very popular with... students. It trains highly qualified specialists. ... curriculum is on … level of ... latest scientific achievements. ... educational plan also includes higher mathematics and philosophy and other subjects. At …the end of their studies ... students prepare their graduation theses. Lectures are given in large auditoriums, whereas practical studies are held in smaller groups. Scientific circles have been organized for ... students to do scientific work on ... chosen theme in ... subjects in which they specialize. In making their reports ... students as ... rule first select and discuss…theme with their tutor. They have all... opportunities to enlarge knowledge and these study circles will help them in their future occupations. 5. Give adjectives corresponding to the following nouns: illiteracy, science, education, qualification, experience, progress, ignorance, diligence, ability, competition, industry 6.Fill in the missing prepositions: 1. All the children in our country have the right ... education. 2. Thousands ... part-time students study ... correspondence. 3. Before the examination we had consultations ... grammar. 4. What are you working ... now? 5. I am preparing a report... the new achievements ... our science ... the field ... linguistics. 6. Nina was ill ... over a month, but she caught up ... the group and did not fail ... her exams. 7. When will you take your test ... literature? 8. My eldest sister studies ... the Pedagogical institute, ... the English department. She makes progress ... all her subjects and now she has afairly good command ... the English language. 9. He is a very capable student. He is especially good ... sums. 10. His son graduated ... the BSEU and became an economist. 11. Theaudience was listening ... the lecture ... microeconomics ... interest. 12. The right ... education is guaranteed ... the Constitution ... the Republic of Belarus. FOCUS ON FUNCTION ’Knowing and understanding’ 1. Study the idioms useful to say that you know or don’t know something or make conclusion. A. Knowing and not knowing
В. Coming to conclusions I didn't actually know where you were staying, but Mark said you were with a relative. So I put two and two together and guessed it was that aunt of yours, [concluded from the facts I knew] I'm sorry, I got (hold of) the wrong end of the stick. I thought you were complaining about something, [came to the wrong conclusion]   ‘I think he's got hold of the wrong end of the stick.' 2. Correct mistakes in these idioms. 1) I don't have even a faint idea where he is today; you'll have to ask somebody else. 2) The title of the CD has familiar rings to it, but I don't think I've ever heard it. 3) My cousin knows the tax laws outside and in, so if you want advice on your tax, he'll help you. 4) I can't for life think what it was I came into the kitchen for. 5) I saw Tom and Lily together in a restaurant looking adoringly into each other's eyes. I added up two and two, and decided they must be madly in love. 3. Use the corrected idioms from exercise 2 to rewrite the underlined parts of this paragraph. Use each idiom once only. I always thought I knew my computer in every detail, but the other day it started to crash every time I opened a certain program. I could not in any way understand why it was doing this, and I didn't have any idea at all about what to do to fix it. I rang the helpline which I had used in the past, and after about 20 minutes I spoke to someone who said his name was Patrick, and that he was there to help me. He gave me some advice which sounded quite familiar to me from previous calls I had made to the same helpline. I thought about all this, put the facts together, and concluded that they give the same advice to everybody, and that it's just a way of getting rid of you. The computer still crashes every time I open the program. 4. Write sentences that mean the opposite of these sentences. Use appropriate idioms and make any other necessary changes. 1) Yes, that name is very familiar to me. I think I've met her several times. 2) I'm really up to date with TV soap operas these days. I watch them every day. 3) She knows absolutely nothing when it comes to the history of this area. 4) I correctly interpreted what she was trying to tell me and it solved a big problem. 5) No, sorry, her name means nothing to me. I may have met her, I just can't remember. 5. Complete each sentence with a different idiom which refers to 'not knowing'. 1) I.............................how to use the photocopier. Do you think you could help me? (weakest of the three) 2) I ...........................where I left that letter I brought for you. I'm really sorry, (stronger than 1) 3) I ..............................what she's talking about. She's crazy! (even stronger than 2) SPEAKING 1. Imagine a friend is going away to University. Give him or her some advice by completing these sentences. The first one has been done as an example: 1) In the first week, go to all the meetings to … (get to know other students). 2) When you meet the staff, ask lots of questions to … 3) Go for a walk around the university campus, so … 4) Find out what your timetable is, so as not to … 5) Make lots of notes in every lecture, so that … 6) Do as much work as you can now in case … 7) Buy all the recommended books straight away in case … 2. a) Read the dialogue. Make up 10 questions and answer them. A college instructor from abroad is interested in the training and employment of Belarusian school leavers. College instructor. How do you cope with the army of young people who leave your secondary schools? Correspondent: Thousands of higher, special secondary and vocational schools, plants, construction sites, collective farms in all parts of the country are always eager to receive the young people. There is a suitable place for every school leaver. College instructor: Are there any changes in the admittance rules and the programme of entrance examinations in connection with the increased number of school leavers wishing to attend higher school? Correspondent: There are no particular changes. The only criterion for admittance to higher and special secondary schools is knowledge and ability. The majority of students receive a monthly state scholarship. If the student comes from another town or from a village, he is given a place in a hostel. There are many opportunities for every leaver to find work or continue to study. b) Dramatize the dialogue with a partner. Make up your own dialogue about your University. 3. Suggested topics for conversation: 1) Education in Belarus. BSEU. (A dialogue between a Russian and an English student) 2) Your first day at the University. 3) The examination you have failed at. 4) Your favourite lecturer. WRITING 1. You are members of the University Council. You’ve worked out new University Rules for students and for teachers. Suggest and write down a set of sensible rules. These modal expressions are sure to help you: Should (not)…, be (not) allowed to …, be (not) supposed to … Do & Don’t Do & Don’t for students for teachers 2. Read the text, single out the main facts from it and present your summary in English. Meждународные связи Международная деятельность является неотъемлемой составляющей жизни БГЭУ и строится по следующим основным направлениям:
Международная деятельность университета направлена на развитие международных связей, содействующих модернизации образования, становлению вузовской науки, освоению мирового опыта в сфере высшего образования, привлечению иностранных инвестиций и расширению экспорта образовательных услуг. Свыше 30 лет БГЭУ осуществляет подготовку специалистов из-за рубежа. В университете обучается около 500 иностранных граждан из 22 стран Азии, Африки, Ближнего Востока, Европы, Балтии и СНГ. В последние годы это число постоянно увеличивается на 80-100 человек. В свою очередь, наши студенты, аспиранты и преподаватели направляются на учебу и стажировку в Китай, Францию, Германию, Италию, США. Университетом подписаны двусторонние соглашения об академическом сотрудничестве в области образования более чем с 70 зарубежными вузами и научными организациями из 17 стран мира. Это направление деятельности БГЭУ постоянно укрепляется и расширяется. Сегодня Белорусский государственный экономический университет является членом ряда международных ассоциаций и объединений. SUPPLEMENTARY READING | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||