ЮжноУральский государственный университет
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Grammar ExercisesExercise 1 Look at what Jenny and Mark hope will happen in the future. Make sentences using If I, …… I will….. Example: If I don’t go out so much, I will do more work. Jenny Mark If I do more work If I stop smoking – pass my exams – have more money – go to university – save some money every week – study how to run a business – rich when I am thirty – become a businesswoman – have my own business – earn a large sum of money – make a lot of money – travel all over the world – retire when I am forty Exercise 2 What will you do in the following situations? Complete the sentences
Exercise 3 One of you is going for a holiday to an exotic country. The other sees all the problems. Use the prompts to discuss the problems Example: A – What will you do if the weather is bad? B – I will read books and go to discos. A – you don’t like the food? – there is nowhere to go in the evening? – you lose your money? – you don’t understand the language? – you don’t know anyone? – you feel homesick? – you lose your passport? Exercise 4 Make up 2 Chain stories. Look at the situations, and then continue these people thoughts Situation 1 If I don’t finish this work in time, I will not get a promotion. Situation 2 If I don’t write my essay I will not get a credit in the major. Situation 3 If I enter Oxford University, I will be the most diligent student. Communication Task 1 Make up a dialogue. One of you reads the task on Card 1 and the other reads the task on Card 2. Use the common phrases to ask for the information Card 1 You are an English student. You are to write an article about a typical Russian University. By chance you happened to visit the South Ural State University. You are to gather as much information as possible. You have heard about this university before and you know that there are such places as School of Physics and Mathematics, Linguistic Center, “Applicant” center, Gifted Child Center, Open Institute, SUSU Teleradiocenter. Find out where these places are situated in the university and what types of activities they perform. Card 2 You are an active member of the Students’ Union and you are accustomed to making tours about the university. So it’s natural that you know the most interesting places of the university. Your task is to be very helpful and provide the English student with all the necessary information about the university. Asking for InformationThere is a number of formulas used when asking for information in English. Here are some of the most common Could you tell me...? Не могли бы вы мне сказать…? Do you know...? Не знаете ли вы…? Do you happen to know...? Может быть, вы знаете…? I’d like to know... Я бы хотел узнать…? Could you find out...? Не могли бы вы мне объяснить…? I’m interested in a post office near here. Нет ли тут по близости почты. I’m looking for.. Яищу …. Homework Task 1 Complete the facts about the South Ural State University using the following phrases: a linguistic center, e–subscriptions, postgraduate courses, information resources, Open Institute, to be founded in, to introduce, an assistant professor.
Task 2 Translate the sentences from Russian into English
Task 3 Finish the sentences
Task 4 Read the text and say if it is difficult to study at Oxford Student life at Oxford What is it like, being a student at Oxford? Like all British universities, Oxford is a state university, not a private one. Students are selected on the basis of their results in the national examinations or the special Oxford entrance examination. There are many applicants, and nobody can get a place by paying a fee. Successful candidates are admitted to a specified college of the university: that will be their home for the next three years (the normal period for an undergraduate degree), and for longer it they are admitted to study for a postgraduate degree. They will be mostly taught by tutors from their own college. Teaching is pleasantly informal and personal: a typical undergraduate will spend an hour a week with his or her 'tutor', perhaps in the company of one other student. Each of them will have written an essay for the tutor, which serves as the basis for discussion, argument, the exposition of ideas and academic methods. At the end of the hour the students go away with a new essay title and a list of books that might be helpful in preparing for the essay. Other kinds of teaching such as lectures and seminars are normally optional: popular lecturers can attract audiences from several faculties, while others may find themselves speaking to two or three loyal students, or maybe to no one at all. So, in theory, if you are good at reading, thinking and writing quickly, you can spend five days out of seven being idle: sleeping, taking part in sports, in student clubs, in acting and singing, in arguing, drinking, having parties. In practice, most students at Oxford are enthusiastic about the academic life, and many of the more conscientious ones work for days at each essay, sometimes sitting up through the night with a wet towel round their heads. At the end of three years, all students face a dreadful ordeal, “Finals”, the final examinations. The victims are obliged to dress up for the occasion in black and white, an old-fashioned ritual that may help to calm the nerves. They go into the huge examination building and sit for three hours writing what they hope is beautiful prose on half-remembered or strangely forgotten subjects. In the afternoon they assemble for another three hours of writing. After four or five days of this torture they emerge and stagger out for the biggest party of them all. Task 5 Find proofs in the text to the following:
Speaking How does your life at South Ural State University differ from that of a British student? Do they have anything in common? Describe the life of a Russian student. Do not forget to mention:
Lesson 7. My Future Specialty Task 1 Brainstorming activity Try to give all the possible answers to the following question Why do you think students choose this or that speciality? Active vocabulary Task 1 Read the Active Vocabulary of the lesson after the teacher
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Lead-in Task 1 Look at the job titles and say where each person works. Researcher Physicist Flight Attendant Executive Teacher Programmer Task 2 Which of the jobs: are
Which of the jobs do you personally find: rewarding, secure, creative, stressful? Task 3 Think of a job and talk about it without telling anyone what the job is. The class have to guess which job you have chosen. Talk about
Task 4 Paraphrase the quotations. Which do you agree with? Why? Why not? Discuss them in pairs I’d rather be a happy street cleaner than an unhappy millionaire. It doesn’t matter what job you do. It’s how you do it. Task 5 Which of the following people could help you most in choosing a career? Why? Parents, teachers, friends, relatives Model: To me, a person who could help me most in choosing a career would be my teacher because… Task 6 Which of the following is the most important to you when deciding on a career? Rank them (starting with the most important) and then compare your list to your partner’s.
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