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1. Read the text more carefully and answer the questions.
a) How many departments are involved in training students in the Combined Science course?
b) Who may find this course most attractive?
c) Does the combined course provide any particular career opportunities? What are they?
d) How many natural sciences can a student take?
e) Who can help students to make the right choice of the subjects?
Focus on Language
| Managing your learning We remember new words much more easily if we think about them in relation to our own experience and if they have some personal meaning for us. |
1. Match each item on the left with an
item on the right to make a commonly used phrase in English. Insert prepositions where necessary. Look through the text, it can be of help.
| specialized current wide personal barriers wide range programme provide academic forward mature | of between | study requirements subjects excellence choice education student thinking interest a means of areas |
2. Read the sentences below and study the models in the box.
§ About one-third of the first year is based on course work.
§ A number of our graduates have taken up PhD studies.
Subject and verb agreement
1) Singular expression +plural noun/pronoun+ plural verb
2)  + plural noun + singular verb
3) Some of + singular noun+ singular verb
4) Some of + plural noun+ plural verb
5) Plural expressions:  + singular verb
6) a number of + plural noun + plural verb
7) the number of + plural noun + singular verb
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Practice
1. Match the sentences below with the right model in the box. Translate the sentences into Russian.
a) A number of applicants have already been interviewed.
b) The number of students in the class is twelve.
c) Some of the book is good.
d) Some of the books are good.
e) One of my friends has got a grant for his research project.
f) Thirty minutes isn’t enough time to finish this test.
g) A lot of social problems are caused by unemployment.
h) Economics is George’s favorite subject.
i) More than one person is going to take up a course in programming.
j) Two thirds of money is mine.
k) The USA is smaller than Russia.
2. Choose the correct form of the verb.
a) Surveys show that the majority of school leavers (consider/considers) a
university degree a good starting point for their future career.
b) Look! Half of the map (is/are) missing. We need another map!
c) Each of the students (has/have) a notebook.
d) A number of students in the class (speaks/speak) English very well.
e) Why (was/were) some of the students absent from classes?
f) What percentage of the people in the world (is/are) illiterate?
g) My teenage brother thinks there (is/are) a number of good reasons for staying up late and having a good time.
h) Statistics (is/are) a branch of mathematics.
i) A lot of students clubs (is/are) opening these days.
j) More than one computer in this lab (has/have) broken down.
| Speaking |
Work in groups. Look through the scheme of the degree course in Combined Science offered in Lancaster University. Design a modular degree course that suits your particular needs and interests.
| Writing |
Write a paragraph about the modular course in Combined Science you would like to do. Give reasons for your choice of Themes from each group.
| In the Realm of Science |
1. Read the expressions for fractions, decimals and percentages:
| It is interesting to know The figure “0” has several different names. “o” is used to talk bank accounts, telephone number, etc. Nought used in British English to talk about a number, age, etc. Nil is used to talk about the score in a team game or to mean “nothing at all” Zero is used in precise scientific, economic, etc. contexts and to talk about temperature. In American English “zero” is used in all contexts. |
one half, a half
one third
four seventh
3 
three and a quarter
0.2 nought point two
(zero) point two
0,75 nought point seven five
point seven five
25,34 twenty-five point three four
two five point three four
1% one percent
78% seventy eight percent
90% ninety percent
2. Work in pairs, A and B. Take turns to read and write down decimals,
percentages and fractions you hear.
Student A: 7.5 85.3% ¾ 70% 2½ 18.03
Student B: 3.68 34.9% ⅔ 90% 14 ⅛ 13.75
Unit 2. Progress Monitoring
In this Unit you have worked on the vocabulary related to the topic “Higher education”:
Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise. |
Unit 3 Revise & Practise
1. Complete the following sentences with your own words. Use only present tenses.
a) One of my teachers …
b) A great number of first-year students …
c) A lot of news …
d) Each of the students …
e) The number of books on this subject …
f) The United Arabic Emirates …
g) Some of the information …
h) Mathematics …
2. Explain the similarity and difference between these pairs:
compulsory subject - optional subject
undergraduate - graduate
sciences - humanities
exams - finals
3. Write down a short vocabulary list (10 items) on the topic “Higher education”. With a partner compare your lists. Cross out the items you both have on your lists. Explain the meaning of the rest of the words and phrases.
4. Read the following sayings. Write a paragraph commenting on one of the sayings you like most.
Ø “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Benjamin Franklin
Ø “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
Ø “Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.” Will Durant, U.S. author and historian.
Ø “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
5. Game “Why physics or math, etc.?”
Work in teams. Hold a competition. Brainstorm as many plus sides of your specialization as possible. Compare your results.
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