INTRODUCING MYSELF
Find the meaning of the words in bold.
2. Fill in the necessary information to make up a topic About Myself.
First of all let me introduce myself. My name is _____. My surname is _____. I am ___ years old. I was born in Volgograd. I live in Sovetskiy district. This year I have finished school number ___. The first thing I would tell you is my family, because its a place where I was born and socialized, ______. My family is not very big, just a typical family: Dad, Mom, me and my elder sister. My fathers name is Vladimir Stepanovich. He is a teacher by education and a businessman by profession. My mothers name is _____. She is a housewife. My sister graduated from University, she is an engineer. I love my family very much.
The second thing I would tell you about is the career I have chosen. This year Ive entered Volgograd State Agrarian University, the faculty of _____. Ive chosen this University, because ________. Ive chosen the faculty of _____, because ______. I understand that its necessary to study a lot to become a good specialist.
Studying at our University gives a solid background in all spheres of knowledge and prepares for practical work. But now I dont worry about finding a job. The most important thing for me now is to study well and to graduate from the University.
My aim is _____, my dream is _____, because _____.
The third thing I would tell you about is my hobby and how I spend my free time. In my free time I like listening to music, meeting with my friends. Besides, I like to swim and play badminton. I am very interested in learning English because I always wanted to become a businesswoman. I also think, that the knowledge of foreign language helps in everyday life and career.
MY UNIVERSITY
Answer the questions.
1. When did you graduate from the school?
2. Did you like your school? Why? Why not?
3. What subjects did you like? Why?
4. Do you know when your school was founded?
5. Do you know anything about the University? What do you know about it?
2. Read the text: My University and put the sentences in the correct order to make the plan of the text:
1. The faculties at the University.
2. The traditions of the University.
3. The opening of the University.
4. The Pedagogical Staff.
5. The students at the University.
6. The History of the University.
7. VSAU nowadays.
MY UNIVERSITY
Within the years of its existence the University has turned out over 42 thousands of qualified specialists has trained hundreds of Candidates and Doctors of science, Readers and Professors. Our Higher Educational Institution is one of the biggest Agrarian Universities of the country at present.
In July, 1944, Soviet of People's Commissars took a decision to pen the Stalingrad Agricultural Institute in the town of Urupinsk. The contingent of students admitted to the first course was 400 people. The opening of the Institute took place on October, 14th, 1944.
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In spring, 1948, the first graduates were turned out, 178 specialists were sent to the farms of the region and the country. The same year the Institute was transferred to Stalingrad. In spite of all the difficulties and economic dislocation, the Government managed to find necessary means for the construction of a new complex of buildings for the Institute in Stalingrad.
In April 1994 the Institute was reorganized into the Volgograd State Agricultural Academy according to the decision of the Committee on Higher Schools of Russia. And in October 2011 the Academy was granted the status of the University.
Today there are 8 faculties in Volgograd State Agrarian University:
Agritechnological Faculty;
Faculty of Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine;
Faculty of Engineering and Technology;
Faculty of Ecology and Land-Improvement;
Faculty of Economics;
Faculty of Electrical Engineering;
Faculty of Service and Tourism;
10 thousand students, both full-time and correspondence-course students are studying at 8 faculties on 18 specialities. Besides, an educational-methodological centre is functioning successfully where hundreds of graduates from specialized secondary educational institutions are trained according to the accelerated training program.
The educational process is carried out at 49 Departments by 560 teachers and scientists, including 3 Academicians of Russian Academy of Agricultural science, 6 deserved men of Science RF, 17 deserved workers in various branches of peoples economy, 65 Professors and over 250 Readers.
At present almost 200 post graduates and over 100 competitors are studying at the post graduate courses.
Nowadays the Volgograd State Agrarian University includes 7 educational buildings, 6 students hostels, 4 residential houses for Teachers, a canteen, a fleet of motor vehicles, Gornaya Polyana economic base. There is also a scientific research complex, post-graduate courses, information and analytical center, centers of amateur art activities, center of pedagogical skills improvement, lecture rooms, laboratories, museums, a library, printing-works, and other subdivisions.
The University is rich in good traditions but the most wonderful one is to create all the necessary conditions for students so that they could develop their capabilities, expand their mental outlooks, improve their cultural level, physical state and political education.
3. Vocabulary:
to turn out
a science
a Reader
a Higher Educational Institution -
Soviet of Peoples Commissars
at present
a contingent
a graduate
to transfer
an economic dislocation
means
to reorganize
the Committee on Higher School
the Faculty of Engineering and Technology -
the Faculty of Ecology and Land-Improvement
the faculty of Technology of Production and Processing of Agricultural Products \
full-time student
correspondence- course student
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specialized secondary educational institution -
to train
an education - methodological centre
an accelerated training program
to carry out
a department
deserved
a post-graduate
a competitor
a post graduate course
a hostel
a residential house
a canteen
a fleet of motor vehicles
a center of amateur art activities
a centre of pedagogical skills
a printing-work
peoples economy
a capability ,
mental outlooks
to expand
4. Fill in the missing words:
Conditions, deserved, hostel, Higher Educational Institutions, science, Readers, accelerated training program, postgraduate courses.
a. There are a lot of Professors, Candidates and Doctors of and .
b. They are trained according to the .
c. Many postgraduates are studying at the .
d. He is a worker.
e. I live in a students .
f. There are a lot of in Volgograd.
g. They live in very good .
5. Answer the questions:
1. When and where was the opening of the VSAU?
2. When was the Institute reorganized into University?
3. How many faculties are there at the University?
4. When was the 8th faculty opened?
5. How many divisions does the University have?
6. What do you know about the pedagogical staff?
7. What does the University include nowadays?
8. What do you know about the traditions in the VSAU?
Translate the sentences into English.
1. 8 .
2. 5 .
3. .
4. .
5. - .
6. - , , , , .
7. What do we call:
The machine that records voice; the students that study by correspondence; the students of the day (evening) departments; all the professors, lectures and assistants of an institute; a course of study in a university; students who have just started studying at a university; the documents where the examiners register a students marks.
