Academy

I. Repeat after your teacher and memorize the following words and phrases:

1. to train – обучать, готовить

professional training – обучение профессии

to do practical training – проходить практику

2. department – отделение

a correspondence (extra-mural, day-time) department – заочное (дневное) отделение

3. to study (to be) in the first year – учиться на первом курсе

4. academic building – учебный корпус

academic year – учебный год

5. lecture-hall – лекционный зал

6. class-room – аудитория

reading-room – читальный зал

cloak-room – гардероб

7. laboratory – лаборатория

8. computing centre – вычислительный центр

9. to equip – оборудовать

10. scientific society – научное общество

11. to carry on – проводить

12. dean – декан

dean’s office – деканат

13. term (semester) – семестр

terminal (state) examinations – семестровые (государственные) экзамены

to take (pass, fall) exams in – сдавать(сдать, провалить) экзамены по

a test – зачет

14. to get a diploma – получить диплом

15. course of studies – курс обучения

16. to get state grants – получить стипендию

17. competitive – конкурсный

18.council on presenting candidate dissertations – совет по защите кандидатских диссертаций

19. publishing house – издательство

20. preventive clinic – профилакторий

21. gym-hall – спортзал

22. to make a considerable contribution to – внести значительный вклад в

23. to provide instruction for – обеспечивать подготовку

24. associate professor – аспирант

25. to receive high appraisal – получить широкое одобрение

26. scientific adviser – научный руководитель

27. to be enrolled – быть зачисленным

28. amateur activities – художественная самодеятельность

29. facilities – условия

30. requirements – требования

II. Exercises to the vocabulary:

1.Memorize the following word building patterns:

a) N + -ic = Adj

Eg. science – scientific; artist – artistic;

b) Adj + -ly = Adv

Eg. special – specially; usual – usually; real – really;

c) V + -tion(sion) = N

Eg. to educate – education; to admit – admission.

2. Using the given patterns, build up the words and translate them into Russian:

a) academy, aristocracy, poetry,

b) regular, high, wide, successful, unfortunate, personal, correct, different, large, close;

c) to organize, to graduate, to decide, to collect, to prepare, to adopt, to represent, to act, to evaluate.

2. Put the words and phrases into five columns:

to learn, semester, applicant, teacher, vacations, the Tower of London, education, to study, upbringing, to pass the exam, the leading political parties, gymnasium, library, to acquire a skill, vocational training, school-leaver, undergraduate, grants, polytechnics, Bachelor of Arts, private institution, central government, university student population, the best brains, learning through correspondence, interdisciplinary methods of teaching, tutor, to fail the exam, homework.

school	further education	higher education	belong to all the branches	don’t belong to any of the branches

3. Fill in the table with the words like in the given examples: