1. elective 2. obtain 3. obligatory 4. do 5. high school 6. enter
If you want to go to the Academy, you must pass school-leaving examinations that you take in five different subjects. Ukrainian language and literature is a compulsory subject, the other four are optional. You can choose from the list of subjects being taught at your secondary school. You must do well in order to get a place at the Academy. To get admitted to the Academy you have to take entrance exams successfully.
Welcome to the Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport (UkrDAZT). It is the leading railway institution of higher learning not only in Ukraine but in the CIS countries as well. The Academy counts 5 departments and trains specialists in the following specialities:
Academy Structure (divisions)
- the Mechanical Department (founded 1930)
- rolling stock and specialized railway machinery ( )
- electric vehicles: electric locomotives and electric trains (: )
- industrial heat and power engineering ( )
- diesel and electric locomotives and their equipment (, )
- railway cars and their maintenance ( )
- the Railway Operation and Management Department (founded 1934)
- commercial railway operation and management on the railway transport ( )
- rail traffic control ( )
- customs control ( )
- international traffic operation ( )
- the Transport Economics Department (founded 1934)
- business economy ( )
- accounting and audit ( )
- finance ()
- marketing ()
- business management ( )
- management of the international activity ( )
- the Construction Department (founded 1945)
-raiway construction ( )
- construction and road machines (- )
- track and track facilities ( )
- industrial and civil engineering ( )
- the ATC Department (founded 1960)
- automation and automatization on the railway transport ( )
-the Institute of Retraining and Upgrading Qualification (1996)
Official website http://www.kart.edu.ua
Address: 61050, Kharkiv, Feyerbakh Square, 7.
Exercise 6. Complete the dialogue and act it out with your group-mate:
- Hi, havent seen you for ages. How are things?
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- Ive heard you entered an institution of higher learning. Did you pass the entrance exams successfully?
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- What institution of higher learning did you choose?
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- As you know Im a school leaver this year. Could you give me some information about your Academy? Do you know when it was established?
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- How many departments are there in it and what are they?
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- By the way, what department do you study at?
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- When was it founded?
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- What fields does your department train specialists in?
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- What is your speciality?
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- Thanks for your information. I hope it will help me to make up my mind where to study.
Vocabulary List:
1. the Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport
2. institution of higher learning
3. first-year student
4. full-time student
5. part-time student -
6. undergraduate (student)
7. graduate
8. postgraduate
9. to enter the Academy 쳿
10. to graduate from the Academy
11. to train specialists
12. to give every opportunity c
13. to be situated (to be located)
14. to be founded (to be established)
15. preparatory department
16. to get credits
17. to take terminal examinations
18. high grades ()
19. complete course of studies
20. to receive a state scholarship
21. Bachelor of Science (BSc)
22. Master of Science (MSc)
23. associate professor
24. to be engaged in research work
25. to deliver lectures
26. hostel
27. deans office
28. up-to-date instruments and installations
29. at the disposal
30. scientific research institute -
31. industrial enterprise
32. railway department
33. designing institute
34. scientific and technological advance -
35. all-round development
36. to upgrade ones qualification
Exercise 7. Find the definitions to the following words:
| 1. found | A. a discourse on a particular subject given or read to an audience |
| 2. Master of Science | B. to bring into being, set up, or establish (something, such as an institution, society, etc.) |
| 3. scholarship | C. a university teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor |
| 4. to upgrade | D. a postgraduate degree, usually in science, or the holder of this degree |
| 5. enterprise | E. to take, to get something |
| 6. to be engaged | F. financial aid provided for a scholar |
| 7. associate professor | G. modern, current, or fashionable |
| 8. receive | H. a business unit; a company or firm |
| 9. up-to-date | I. to take part; participate |
| 10. lecture | J. to assign or promote (a person or job) to a higher professional rank or position |
Exercise 8. Find synonyms in the two columns of the words and give their Ukrainian equivalents:
| to be founded | chance |
| to receive | to be established |
| student | modern |
| complete | establishment |
| up-to-date | scholar |
| opportunity | many-sided |
| to be situated | finished |
| all-round | marks |
| grades | to get |
| institution | to be located |
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