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At school you have teachers and lessons, at university, you have lecturers and lectures. When a lecturer gives/ does a lecture, the students listen and take/make notes (= write down the important information), but do not usually say much, except to ask occasional questions.
Exercise 1. Read these sentences spoken by university students. What is each person studying?
1) We have to know every bone in a person's body.
2) I'm concentrating on the modernist style and the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.
3) The way we use fertilizers is much more precise than twenty years ago.
4) We're going to concentrate on Freud and Jung this term.
5) I've been reading some books on time management.
6) Expressionism was really a reaction to the work of Impressionists.
7) We've spent a lot of time on American foreign policy and how it has been affected by various domestic problems.
8) You must know this case – it's one of the most famous in legal history.
VOCABULARY ACTIVATOR
Exercise 2. What do you call:
9) the money some students receive if they get a place at university?
10) the qualification you get at the end of university?
11) the name we give students during this period at university?
12) teachers at university?
13) students when they have completed their first degree?
14) students studying for a second degree?
15) the study of one subject in great depth and detail, often to get new information?
16) the talks that students go to while they are at university?
VOCABULARY CHECK
Exercise 3. Replace the underlined verbs with different verbs that have the same meaning in the context.
17) Who is giving the lecture today?
18) Did she receive a grant for the course?
19) Is it more difficult to obtain a place at university?
20) You have to pass the exams before you can enter university.
21) He's studying physics, I think.
22) I think they are carrying out some research into the cause of asthma.
23) I didn't take any notes in the lecture yesterday.
24) The course goes on for three years.
POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
Exercise 4. How similar is university education in your own country? Answer these questions.
25) Do you need to pass examinations before you can go to university?
26) Do some students get a grant to study at university?
27) Is the tuition free if you go to university?
28) Do most students go to university at the age of 18 or 19?
29) Do more students go to university in your country than in Britain?
30) Do most degree courses last for three years?
31) What is your equivalent of the British BA or BSc?
32) Do you have similar postgraduate degrees in your country?
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