Lutsk National Technical University

Module I

Computer Literacy for All

Unit 1

Text Study: Lutsk National Technical University

Additional Texts:

Text 1. My Future Speciality is Automation

Text 2. My Future Speciality is Computer Systems and Networks

Text 3. My Future Speciality is Professional Training

Grammar: The Present Simple Tense

Text Study

I. Pre-reading Exercises

1. Repeat the words in chorus:

Accreditation, establishment, correspondence, agreement, competition, comprehensive, qualified, reorganized, the curricula, to envisage, well-equipped, bilateral, representatives, facilities.

2. While reading the text you will come across a number of international words. Try to guess what Ukrainian words they remind you:

Technical, history, faculty, institute, polytechnical, industrial, interest, speciality, programme, specialist, result, candidate, economics, complex, laboratory, apparatus, international, conference, basis, method, contact, profession, music, club, concert, popular, sports, regional.

3. Pay attention to some grammatical points:

1) Lutsk National Technical University is one of the youngest higher educational establishments of Ukraine. 2) The University widely opens the way for young people who have the ability to work and reveal much interest to knowledge and mysteries of science. 3) There is a full time training and training by correspondence at the University, the latter being for those who want to combine their work and study. 4) The students are given the opportunity to choose the curricula and subject courses by themselves. 5) All educational and scientific work is organized and carried out by highly qualified teachers. 6) The University is a complex of modern lecture and study rooms and well-equipped laboratories. 7) It provides all the conditions and facilities necessary for the comprehensive education and training of future engineers, researchers and scientists.

II. Reading

Read the text and be ready to find in the text the answers to the following questions:

• What is the history of LNTU?
• Why should we study foreign languages?

Lutsk National Technical University

Lutsk National Technical University is one of the youngest higher educational establishments of Ukraine. It was founded as the General Engineering Faculty of Kyiv Motor-Car and Highway Engineering Institute in 1966. In 1975 it became the Branch of Lviv Polytechnical Institute and in 1991 it was reorganized into the independent Industrial Institute. In 1997 it has got the highest - the fourth grade of accreditation, the Status of University and in 2008 it has got the status of the National University and at present its name is Lutsk National Technical University.

The University widely opens the way for young people who have the ability to work and reveal much interest to knowledge and mysteries of science.

The University trains specialists for various fields of knowledge. There is a full time training and training by correspondence at the University, the latter being for those who want to combine their work and study. There is also the Preparatory department for those who want to enter the University.

The students are given the opportunity to choose the curricula and subject courses by themselves. The university programmes are: Bachelor and Master. There is also a Post-graduate programme which envisages thorough training in a chosen speciality. The final result of post-graduating training is the defence of a thesis for a Candidate degree in engineering or economics.

All educational and scientific work is organized and carried out by highly qualified teachers.

The students of the University are involved in research work right from their first year of study. The contest of students' works, competitions, exhibitions are held annually here. A lot of students are prize-winners of all Ukrainian students' competitions and participants of international students' conferences.

The University is a complex of modern lecture and study rooms and well-equipped laboratories. It provides all the conditions and facilities necessary for the comprehensive education and training of future engineers, researchers and scientists.

Foreign languages are taught at all faculties of the University. To read and translate original scientific and technical literature in English, German or French is the main aim of study here.

The University devotes much attention to the promotion of cooperation with institutions of higher education in foreign countries on the basis of bilateral agreements. International contacts are maintained with higher schools in Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Belgium.

The students of the University are not only mastering their future profession, but also have a good rest. The University has all necessary facilities for the development of young people's abilities and for their rest. They organize evening parties with interesting concert programmes prepared by representatives of all faculties. The Club of cheerful and ready-witted is popular not only in our town but also beyond it.

Students go in for different kinds of sports. They have all facilities for this: sports complex embracing 3 gyms, a swimming pool and various sports grounds. The University teams are winners of many town, regional, all-Ukrainian competitions. Sport has become an important part of students' life.

Vocabulary Notes

General Engineering Faculty — загальнотехнічний факультет

Motor-Car and Highway — автодорожній

Engineering Institute — технічний інститут

to reveal ['rIvJl]— виявляти

to carry out — виконувати

full time training — навчання на денному відділенні

training by correspondence — навчатися на заочному відділені

to give the opportunity — дати можливість

curriculum [kq'rIkjulqm]— курс навчання, навчальний план

Bachelor ['bxtS(q)lq] — бакалавр

Master ['mRstq]— магістр

a post graduate ['grxdjuqt]— аспірант

to envisage [In'vIzIG]— передбачати

defence of a thesis ['TJsIs]— захист наукової роботи

facilities [fq'sIlItI]— можливості

comprehensive ["kOmprI'hensIv]— всебічний

to involve — залучати, включати в себе

a contest [kqn'test] — дискусія, гостра полеміка

a competition ["kPmpI'tIS(q)n] — змагання

a prize-winner — призер

a participant [pR'tIsIpqnt] — учасник

to devote — присвячувати

promotion [prq'mqVS(q)n] — подяка, нагородження

bilateral [baI'lxtrql] agreement — двосторонній договір

to maintain contacts — підтримувати зв’язки

to master — оволодіювати, засвоювати

to be engaged — бути залученим

activity [xk'tIvItI]— діяльність

club of cheerful and ready-witted — клуб веселих і кмітливих

to go in for — займатися

embrace [Im'breis] — користуватися, приймати, охоплювати

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