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3) Be ready to talk about Harvard’s students emphasizing the details you find most exciting and unusual.

Harvard’s students.

Visitors often ask: Who is the typical Harvard student? The answer is that there is no such person. Each student is a unique individual, and the student body is incredibly diverse. Harvard men and women represent an array of ethnic groups, religious traditions, and political persuasions. They come from every region of the United States and more than 100 countries. They include undergraduates and graduate continuing education, and Summer School students. The range from teenagers to octogenarians; in 1997, Mary Fasano became the oldest person ever to earn a Harvard degree when she graduated from the Extension School at the age of 89. Harvard College students have a remarkable range of backgrounds and academic and extracurricular interests. Two-thirds come from public schools, and about two-thirds receive some form of financial aid.

Despite their diversity, Harvard students as a group do seem to share a few characteristics.

1. Academic excellence.

2. Harvard students display their talents in a wide array of extracurricular activities – including music, dance, theater, sports, journalism, and public service.

3. Harvard students show a real knack for taking what they’ve learned – in school and in life – and applying it to solve problems.

Harvard graduates, especially graduates of business school are in high demand. All consulting firms and investing banks want them to work at their enterprises. But only one third of magistrates after graduating accept their proposals. Others try to continue their study as postgraduates and to earn a doctor’s degree, especially on philosophy. Doctor’s degree is a free access to high academic groups. Annual income of the specialist with a doctor’s degree as a rule covers all the expenses on education.

Ex.7.Think about:

2.What differences are there between you and Harvard’s student?

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.