Task 2. Make your own sentences with the words from task 1. Let your groupmates translate them into Russian.

Task 3. Think of 5 false statements based on the text. Let your groupmates correct you.

Task 4. Pair or team work. Make a table showing the differences between British and Russian systems of higher education. Use the information from the text. Compare your ideas with those of your groupmates.

Listening

You’ll hear two students speaking about their studies. While listening, fill in the table below.

Questions to be answered	Rob Fellows	Maggie …
1. Where does s/he come from?
2. Where does s/he live now?
3. Where is s/he studying?
4. Does s/he live at home or in the hostel?
5. What subjects is s/he doing?
6. When did s/he begin his/her course of studies?
7. What are his/her plans for the future?

Writing.

Every year thousands of students come to Cambridge from overseas to study English. Here is a letter from Frieda, a German student, to an Italian friend. Write a reply to Frieda’s letter, telling her about your studies at university.

High Trees,

Hills Road

Cambridge

July 3^rd

Dear Anna,

I have been studying English in Cambridge for two months now, and I have had a wonderful time.

Perhaps the most exciting thing that has happened to me was going to a May Ball. Let me explain – every year in June (although they are called May Balls) the colleges organize big dances with lovely food and champagne served from marquees in the college grounds. The dance goes on all night, and then, at dawn, people take a boat and have breakfast on the river. For a May Ball the students wear dinner jackets and bow ties, and long evening dresses, although they usually wear jeans and tee-shirts!

Before the ball, I met the friends I was going with in a typical Cambridge students’ pub called ‘The Bath’. Apparently there’s an old student joke: ‘If my mother calls, tell her I am in ’The Bath’.

One Saturday I went down to the river to watch the ‘bumps’, which is a rowing competition between colleges. Each boat tries to overtake or ‘bump’ another boat. Lots of people got very wet!

I have found that you can learn a lot just by being in England! Yesterday, I learnt a new expression – Hobson’s choice. Apparently a man called Thomas Hobson lived in Cambridge about 200 years ago. He had about forty horses, and whenever a customer wanted to hire one, he always gave them the one that had rested longest. The only choice was ‘Hobson’s choice’, that is no choice at all, and that’s what it means today!

Please write soon and tell me what you’ve been doing recently.

Lots of love,

Frieda.

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