Model: The Professor giveslectures in English.
Lectures are given in English.
1. According to the curriculum they study most of the specialist area subjects in the 9th term.
2. They give the undergraduates an opportunity to choose their specialist area.
3. Undergraduates take courses in drawing, strength of materials, computer aided design and other engineering subjects.
4. Scientific research involves experimental work, data analysis and statistics.
5. Graduates conduct research in well-equipped laboratories, workshops, wind tunnels and other state-of-the-art facilities.
6. Lectures in Chemistry require instructions and supplemental materials.
7. Teachers assess student performanceand their academic progress by regular tests.
Exercise 14. Make up a dialogue using vocabulary of the Module
Suggested Situation:
You are a BMSTU student. You would like to know about the curriculum at the university you are going to study in accordance to the academic exchange program.
Student A: I would like to take the ?....course in September. Could you inform me about this course?
1. How long
2.What subjects
3.What facilities
4.The price
5.The accommodation
6.The final requirements .
7.The types of assessment .
8.The lectures attendance
9.The term of study
10. The number of compulsory and optional subjects
Student B: (the department coordinator )
Useful language: Speaking of the course curriculum, to take subjects in, to take exams. to conduct research supervised by a professor, to be assessed every month, to get degree with honors, to attend regular lectures, state-of-the-art facilities.
Lesson 3
Text 1 B. The University of Cambridge
Exercise 15. Please attempt to give answers to the following questions.
1. Which English universities were founded first?
2. What does the reputation of a University depend on?
3. At a typical English university who is generally responsible for student academic progress?
4. What university do you study at?
5. What is your university most famous for?
Exercise 16. Consult the Internet Google Earth Maps (the University of Cambridge location). And make a trip along the Cambridge city streets.
Exercise 17. Watch the movie and listen to the speakers story attentively.
Make clear the underlined hazy points in the text. Put down correct version of the speakers story.
Answer the question:
1. How long did it take to build Kings College Chapel?
Reading and Speaking Activities
Vocabulary
| college(n) | ( ) (). |
| to attach | , |
| tutor (n) | , , , |
| supervision (tutorial) n | 1. ; 2. , . |
| course(n) | , ( ) |
| subject(n) | , |
| undergraduate | 1. ; 2. |
| graduate | , . |
| the lecture theatres | |
| in advance | |
| specialist area | , |
| to offer courses | |
| to arrange exams | |
| to award degree | |
| to enroll students | |
| to suggest books | |
| to conduct research | |
| to hold lectures | \ |
| to be academically challenging | , |
| in association with | |
| subject department | |
| to raise issues | |
| to attend supervision | \ |
| to be allocated to a supervisor | |
| academic progress | |
| to set assignments | |
| to make notes | |
| teaching staff | |
| to follow ones own particular course of study | |
| to be appointed a professor | |
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Text 1 B. The University of Cambridge 
Skim Text 1 B and find answers to the following questions and then listen to the recording:
1. How many colleges are there in Cambridge?
2. What is the university in charge of?
3. Why is a tutorial more academically challenging than a standard lecture?
4. Who holds the university teaching appointments?
5. What kinds of students are there at any college in Cambridge?
1. "Where is the University?" This is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask. As the university has no city campus it is not possible to give them definite directions. The lecture theatres, libraries, laboratories, museums and offices are located in separate colleges throughout the city. The university is made up of 31 self-governing colleges to which the students and academics are attached. The University in Cambridge is collegiate and not one single university like, for example, The University of Manchester or The University of Bristol.
2. The University of Cambridge is the central administration that awards degrees to students. The colleges, in association with the subject departments, organize the teaching of students. Each college enrolls students, who usually live and study within their colleges. The teaching within the colleges is based on an individual or small group system, at the University of Oxford these teaching session are called 'tutorials' and at Cambridge 'supervisions'. Each supervision requires students to prepare work in advance. The supervisions are generally more academically challenging than a lecture because students are expected to orally communicate, raise issues, defend, analyze and criticize the ideas of others as well as their own in discussion with their supervisor and the other students attending the supervision.
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3. The tutorial system is one of the ways in which Oxford and Cambridge differ from most other English universities. Each student is allocated to a supervisor (at Cambridge or a tutor at Oxford) who plans the students' work, discusses academic progress and sets assignments to be undertaken. For example, the writing of an essay. The supervisor also suggests the books the students should read and make notes from. Each week, or more frequently, students attend their supervisions at which the supervisor discusses and criticizes the work the students have completed. Lectures are also given to the students by the teaching staff of the department. People who are appointed as professors normally do not undertake much undergraduate teaching as they conduct research in their own specialist areas.
4. Students at each college study a whole range of different subjects. So in one college there will be students studying law, geography, medicine and engineering, as well as all the other subjects offered within the university. Each student follows their own particular course of study but the college system allows students studying different subjects to meet and mix with each other and to share ideas.
5. The University of Cambridge has over 12,000 undergraduate students (about 49 per cent of them women and approximately 15 per cent from overseas), over 6000 postgraduates and nearly 4,000 academic staff. As well as teaching, research is of major importance to the university. Since the beginning of the 20th century more than 90 university members have won Nobel prizes.
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