Exercises

I. Read the text

UNIVERSITY LIFE

I’d like to tell you about our university. I’m a first year student at the Saint-Petersburg State Railway Transport University. I have a students’ card and students’ credit book and I live in a hostel.

Our classes begin at nine o’clock. Each lesson lasts one hour and a half. After two lessons we have a forty-minutes break. During the break we go to the canteen to have lunch. Every day we have three or four lessons. We have classes on maths, physics, history, English, programming, P.T.(Physical Training) and many others. My favourite subject is maths and I am very good at computers.

At the end of the term we have to pass exams and to write tests. To study well and not to fail the exams we have to attend all the lectures and practical lessons. All students and postgraduates receive a grant if they study well.

We study six days a week and so we don’t have much free time but there are lots of ways to spend it well. Usually we don’t go home after classes. We have a lot of extra-activities. Students regularly go on excursions. There is a students’ theater, rock club, ball room dancing and the chorus “Cantus”. You may choose what you like.There are many sport sections at our University. Basketball, football, athletics, ping-pong, tennis, swimming, gymnastics and aerobics are among them. The University has a Swimming Pool and well-furnished Sports Halls. Every autumn first-year students take part in special sport competition and get special prizes. In future I would like to graduate from the university, to get speciality and to find a good job.

Exercises

1 .Make sure you know the meaning of the following words.

A) First year student, subject, education, grant, students’ card, credit book, graduate, postgraduate, hostel, canteen, break, competition, chorus.

B) Maths, Physics, Chemistry, History, Economics, Philosophy, English, P.T., Ecology, Descriptive Geometry.

2. Make up the sentences, using the following word combinations:

to be bad at; to be good at

For example: I am good at Maths, but I am bad at Philosophy.

What subjects are you good at? What about your friend?

3. Give the English equivalents:

жить в общежитии, получить стипендию, получить студенческий билет и зачетную книжку, посещать лекции и практические занятия, сдать экзамены, проводить свободное время, принимать участие, закончить университет, получить специальность.

4. Answer the questions. Work in pairs:

1. How many lessons do you have every day?

2. What is your favourite subject?

3. Are there any subjects you are bad at?

4. Do you live in a hostel, rent a room or live with your parents?

5. What subjects do you study?

6. Do you receive a grant?

7. What do you usually do after classes?

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