Kelly: Mum, Ive got good news. Weve bought that house in Hampstead.
Mother: Have you? Oh, good. Now tell me about it.
Jane: It is a two-storied country style house about thirty minutes drive from the city. High ceilings, fireplaces and all that.
Mother: How is it planned?
Jane: You come into the hall from the front door. When you are in the hall, there are three doors one on the left, one on the right and one at the far end. The room at the end can be turned into a study. The one on the right would make a good big lounge, because its windows overlook a pond.
Mother: What about the third door at the far end?
Jane: That one leads into a sun-porch running across the back of the house.
Mother: And where is the kitchen?
Jane: Its on the ground floor. You may get there two ways. If you go down the
hall into the sun-porch, there is a door on the left in the doorway leading off the lounge to the kitchen. Or you may walk into the lounge and when you are standing in the doorway, there is a door on the left leading off the lounge to the kitchen.
Mother: Thats good. The kitchen should be adjacent to the lounge. Is there a storeroom anywhere on the ground floor?
Jane: We may put a dividing wall at the part of the sun-porch and convert it into a storeroom.
Mother: What about the bedrooms?
Jane: When you turn to the left from the stairs, you are in a corridor with two bedrooms on both sides just above the study and the lounge.
Jane: Come on. Look at it. There is a wonderful view of the park from its window.
Mother: Thats great. Marvelous!
XII. Here are given the ads of people who need accommodation. Choose 3 ads and write the announcements that can interest them.
Accommodation Required
Family, recently returned from Australia desperate for house/flat to rent. Anything considered anywhere in Britain, Taylor, Cumberland.
Young research worker and working wife urgently require small flat October, car distance from Chalfront. Job dependent on having accommodation.
Two Asian students require two rooms and cooking facilities in London.
Married teacher requires furnished or unfurnished flat, September onwards, in Croydon area.
Teacher (male, single) requires self-contained furnished rooms, preferably East London, from early August!
Flatlet, bedsitter or other self-contained single accommodation required, in Central London, by young man.
XIII. Explain the meaning of the proverbs:
1. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
2. Do not burn your house to get rid of the mice.
3. Home is where the heart is
4. There is no place like home.
5. Men make houses, women make homes.
OUR UNIVERSITY
I. Read the following words and word combinations paying attention to their pronunciation:
| 1) a Mining Institute 2) an assistant professor 3) mining mineral deposits 4) to amount to 5) to head 6) master of technical sciences 7) to contribute to 8) to train 9) software 10) to achieve 11) to award 12) an Order of Labor Red Banner 13) to be appointed 14) to create 15) to turn into 16) a boarding-school 17) secondary vocational education 18) a post-graduate course 19) to be enrolled 20) full-time students 21) a corresponding member 22) reference 23) cultural values 24) creative abilities 25) to have a rest 26) amateur groups 27) a network 28) to be at the disposal of 29) to keep in close touch with 30) the CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States) 31) to meet the requirements 32) up-to-date 33) a quality management system | , , , - - ( ) , |
II. Read and translate the text:
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Our University
Karaganda State Technical University is one of the leading technical higher schools in Kazakhstan. It is quite large but not very old.
It was founded in 1953 as a Mining institute. Yunus Nurmukhamedov, an assistant professor of the Moscow Mining Institute, became its first rector. First there were only 2 specialties at the Institute: mining mineral deposits and mining electromechanical engineering. The students body amounted to 209 and the teaching staff was 26.
In 1955 the Institute was headed by Abylkas Saginov, a young scientist, a Master of technical sciences. The development of industry in Central Kazakhstan demanded more highly qualified specialists. A. Saginov greatly contributed to the development of the Mining Institute. There appeared 26 new specialties. And in 1958 the Mining Institute was reorganized into a Polytechnic one. Serious attention was paid to training the personnel and the most talented students were sent to central higher educational establishments of the USSR. As a result some scientific schools appeared at the Institute. In 1969 the Institute was the first in Kazakhstan to begin training specialists in creating software products.
For the success achieved in training specialists for our national economy the Institute was awarded an Order of Labour Red Banner in 1976. A.Saginov headed the Institute more than thirty years. He became an academician, a Hero of Socialist Labour.
In 1994 G.G.Piven, a professor, a Doctor of technical sciences, an academician, was appointed rector of the Institute. A program of developing the Institute was created, and soon the Institute turned into a center of education and science. There appeared a technical lyceum for schoolchildren with educational requirements of first seven years of schooling, a boarding-school Murager for talented children, a college of information technologies and business to train specialists having a secondary vocational education, a faculty of shortened period of study for college-leavers, a faculty of urgently required professions for getting a second higher education.
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Karaganda State Technical University
In 1996 the Polytechnic Institute got a new status and was renamed into Karaganda State Technical University.
Nowadays the University has 12 faculties. It trains specialists in more than 50 specialties. It has post-graduate courses in 14 specialties. More than 10,000 students, are currently enrolled, mostly full time students. There are about 700 teachers among which are 50 doctors of sciences, professors, 42 academicians and corresponding members.
It has the largest scientific technical library containing more than 1.6 mln. volumes of educational, scientific, reference, and fiction books by home and foreign authors. It has wide connections with information centers of the country.
KarSTU is a school for displaying creative abilities of young people. There are students scientific societies, debate sections, a club of merry and ingenious people (KVN), amateur groups, students building groups, etc.
The University has a powerful sports complex including 5 sports grounds, 7 specialized sports halls for going in for popular kinds of sport. Regional and republic matches in 15 kinds of sport are held here.
The University has a fine sports-health base Polytechnic in Karkaralinsk. Every year more than 1,000 students and teachers have a good rest there. The students have the practical work in geology and geodesy there as well.
Now there are about 1,400 computers in the University united in the local network. The University has its own channel in the Internet, its own site, a laboratory of sputnik digital television. It has a center of distance education. All these are at the disposal of both the teachers and the students of the University.
The University keeps in close touch with higher educational institutions, scientific centers and industrial enterprises of Kazakhstan, other republics of the CIS and foreign countries to improve the teaching process and to meet the up-to-date requirements of production. In 2004 the University was the first among the higher educational establishments of Kazakhstan to get an international certificate for developing a quality management system. In 2005 the University was awarded a gold medal For high quality in business practice (Switzerland).
The Faculties of the University:
| The Mining Faculty | |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Mining | 1) |
| 2) Geodesy and Mapping | 2) |
| The Faculty of Power Engineering, Communication and Automation | , |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Automation and control | 1) |
| 2) Heat power engineering | 2) |
| 3) Electric power engineering | 3) |
| 4) Radio engineering, electronics and telecommunications | 4) , |
| The Machine -Building Faculty | |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Metallurgy | 1) |
| 2) Materials studying and new materials technologies | 2) |
| 3) Machine-building | 3) |
| 4) Technology of machines and equipment | 4) o |
| 5) Standardization, metrology and certification | 5) , |
| The Road-Transport Faculty | - |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Transport, transportation engineering and technologies | 1) , |
| 2) Organization of transportation, traffic and transport usage | 2) , |
| The Civil Engineering Faculty | - |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Architecture | 1) |
| 2) Construction | 2) |
| 3) Production of building materials, articles and structures | 3) , |
| The Faculty of Economy and Management | |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Economics | 1) |
| 2) Management | 2) |
| 3) Accountingand audit | 3) |
| 4) Marketing | 4) |
| 5) Consumer services | 5) |
| The Faculty of Information Technologies | |
| Its specialties: | |
| 1) Information systems | 1) |
| 2) Computer science and software | 2) |
| 3) Instrument making | 3) |
| Correspondence-and-Distance Faculty | - |
| The Preparatory Faculty | |
| The Faculty of Shortened Term of Studying |
III. Find out the sentences which correspond to the text. Correct the wrong sentences in accordance with the text:
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1. The first name of the University was a Mining Institute.
2. In 1955 the Institute became a University.
3. The first rector of the Mining Institute was G.G.Piven.
4. The Polytechnic Institute turned into the center of science and education.
5. The most talented students of the Polytechnic Institute were sent to study abroad.
6. The University has the largest technical library.
7. There is no sports base at the University.
8. There is a fine sports health base in Karkaralinsk.
9. All the computers of the University are connected to the Internet.
10. The activity of the University has been marked by some rewards recently.
IV. Give English equivalents to the words in brackets:
1.The most () students were sent to central (
) of the USSR.
2. ( ) some scientific schools appeared at the Institute.
3. And soon the Institute turned into ( ).
4. ( ) was opened for ( ).
5. The library contains a great number of () of educational, scientific,
reference books.
6. A second higher education can be got at (
).
V. Find the corresponding translation of the words and word combinations:
| ) 1) at the disposal of 2) cultural values 3) distance education 4) sports-health base 5) reference books 6) students building groups B) 1) 2) - 3) 4) 5) 6) | a) b) c) - d) e) f) a) to be awarded b) to go in for sport c) creative abilities d) students scientific societies e) corresponding member f) to be appointed |
VI. Translate the sentences into English:
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3. - .
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