Part III

These words will help you understand the text:

accommodate (v) – предоставлять жилье

residence (n) – жилище, резиденция

lodging (n) – квартира

undergraduate (n) – студент последнего курса

with the exception of (n) – за исключением

laundry (n) – прачечная

pantry (n) – буфетная

arrange (v) – устраивать

Exercise 1.Read text D and answer the following questions:

1. Where do the students of Aberdeen University live?

2. What facilities has a member of traditional halls of residence?

3. What does a complex of student flats comprise?

4. What does each flat consist of?

5. What is lodging?

Text D

Students of Aberdeen University live either at home or in one of the University residences or in lodgings. Almost one half of the totals of undergraduates are offered places in University residences. A number of traditional halls of residence accommodating about 200 men and women was built over the last twenty years. These halls in which almost all students have single study-bed-rooms with wash-hand basins, provide all meals with the exception of weekday lunches. Each is centrally-heated and has many facilities including laundries, game rooms and other common rooms, shops and snack bars.

In addition to these halls a complex of student flats is located at Hillhead with accommodation for further 936 students. This comprises a series of houses, three storeys high and containing six flats, each of which consists of six single study-bedrooms with pantry, cooking, washing and other facilities. Residents in these flats may choose to do some light cooking for themselves or arrange to have all their meals in the Hillhead central dining hall.

There is a long tradition in the University to stay in lodgings. Lodging is “bed and breakfast” accommodation in a private house. There is a wide variation in the individual taste and requirement of students in the lodgings they wish to have.

Exercise 2. Suggest a suitable title for text D.

Exercise 3.Give the summary of text D according to the following key-points:

1. traditional halls of residence;

2. student flats;

3. a lodging;

Exercise 4. What are H. and P. talking about? Render their talk in Russian.