EXERCISES. 3. Answer the questions:

3. Answer the questions:

a) 1. What do the English pupils do during the final year at school?

2. How do English students enter the University?

3. How do the Universities select students?

4. What do they do during the «year out»? Why?

5. Where do the students live when they study?

6. What problems do they have?

7. Do their parents help them and why?

b) Do you want to take a year-out after school?

4. Compare Russian and English student's life. Use the following phrases:

like in the same way to be similar

in contrast to in different ways

points to compare	English	Russian
• entering the University • the year after school • problems • the place of living • free time

5. Retell the text using the key-words:

A-level examination

to give documents

to select

a «year out»

the problem of living

the problem of money

parents

6. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:

1) Я подаю документы в Технический Университет.

2) Английские студенты обычно подают документы в 2-3 ВУЗа.

3) Учителя отбирают студентов на основе экзаменов.

4) Учителя отбирают студентов на основе специальных знаний.

5) Я отбираю литературу на основе моих интересов.

6) Мы интересуемся русской культурой.

7) Каждая страна имеет собственную культуру.

8) Я решаю поступать в университет.

9) Он решает найти хорошую работу.

10) Она решает заработать много денег.

11) Я ответственен за мою учебу.

12) Родители ответственны за своих детей.

13) Мы получаем стипендию.

14) Я получаю письма из Англии.

15) Английские студенты берут деньги в банке.

16) Я не люблю занимать деньги.

7. Make up a dialogue on one of the situations:

· You are a Russian student and an English student. Ask different questions and tell each other about your student's life.

· You are a professor and a student. The professor advertises the University. The student asks questions about studies and life at that University. He wants to enter the University but he has many questions.

· You are students of the Siberian Federal University and the Moscow State University. Talk about your student's life.

· You are the members of the students' union. Discuss the students' problems (hostel, grant, traffic, library, etc.) and make a list of requirements (требования) for the city government to present at the strike (предъявить на забастовке).

· You are a professor and a reporter. The professor has an idea of a new model of the University. It's very nice and interesting. Reporter asks questions about this University and the student's life there, the professor answers.

· You are the first-year student and the fifth-year student. The first-year student has many questions about student's life and the fifth-year student tells about it.

· You are a parent and a child, who is a student. One day you sit and talk about your student's life. Tell each other about it.

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