You should remember the following words and phrases!

1. What factors did you consider while choosing a University? Put them in the order of importance. Explain your choice. Expand the list.

#	Factors
	geographical position
	military department
	wide range of specializations
	family tradition
	high level of education
	sports facilities
	scientific facilities

1. Match the faculties with their names. Make sure you know the Russian equivalents.

Faculty № 1	Faculty of Air Transport Engineers
Faculty № 2	Faculty of Radio Engineering
Faculty № 3	Faculty of Aircraft Engine Design
Faculty № 4	Faculty of Information Technologies
Faculty № 5	Faculty of Aircraft Construction
Faculty № 6	Faculty of Economics and Management
Faculty № 7	Faculty of Industrial Engineering

2. Match the phrases with their Russian equivalents.

1. post-graduate courses	a) научные исследования
2. engineering	b) общественное питание
3. distance learning	c) дневная форма обучения
4. scientific research	d) аспирантура
5. full-time tuition	e) проектирование и строительство
6. student hostel	f) тренировочный аэродром
7. catering facility	g) заочная форма обучения
8. aircraft fleet	h) военная кафедра
9. training airfield	i) студенческое общежитие
10. military department	j) самолетный парк

3. Practise reading the following words.

higher	haı Ə
construction	kƏ n’strΛ kʃ n
industry	‘ı ndƏ strı
design	dı ’zaı n
science	saı Ə ns
tuition	tju’ı ʃ n
unique	ju: ’ni: k
yacht	jɔ: t
cosmonautics	. kɒ zmƏ ’nɔ: tı ks
occupy	‘ɒ kjƏ paı
specialization	. speʃ Ə laı ’zeı ʃ n
premises	‘premı sƏ z

4. Read the text about Samara State Aerospace University and give the heading to each paragraph. Choose from the list. There is an extra one you don’t need to use.

Samara State Aerospace University

(SSAU)

A) Samara State Aerospace University is a leading higher education institution in Russia. It trains engineers for aviation, space-rocket construction, radio electronics and other branches of engineering. The university was first established as the Kuibyshev Institute of Aviation. It was in 1942, those extremely hard war times when our country needed qualified specialists in the field of aircraft construction and engine designing. It had only two departments at that time. The University developed dynamically using educational technologies, which are based on the fundamental and applied scientific research.

B) In 1966 the Kuibyshev Institute of Aviation was named after Sergey Korolyov, the outstanding scientist and designer of space rocket systems, the founder of cosmonautics. In 1992 the Institute became Samara State Aerospace University.

C) The University has both full-time tuition and evening classes. People who work can attend distance learning courses. Graduates who have a BSc (Bachelor of Science) may want to continue education and go to post-graduate courses to get a degree of MSc (Master of Science) or a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy).

D) At present teaching and research in SSAU is organized by 7 Faculties. I am a student of….. About 11 thousand students are trained at the University. Its teaching staff includes more than 8 hundred people. The University consists of 5 educational institutes, 51 departments, a media-centre, 27 laboratories, 5 research institutes, a library stocked with over 1 million books and electronic resources, a training airfield with a unique aircraft fleet, 2 sports complexes with a swimming pool, a yacht club, a public museum of aviation and cosmonautics, a center of aircraft engine history, a health and fitness center, a catering facility, a print facility, 7 student hostels and the hotel on the campus. The University premises occupy 144, 4 thousands square meters..

E) The University is a large scientific center of theoretical research and development. Now the students are trained in 36 specializations. The University’s strong scientific traditions and excellent facilities make it a leading organization for both state and regional scientific programs.

F) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation considered the military department of the SSAU one of the best.

G) In 1990 the University began to develop cooperation with a number of universities in Great Britain, Germany, France, the USA, Italy and others.

5. Match the words with their definitions. State their part of speech.

1. a department noun	a) a person who starts an organization
2. to establish ___	b) a part of an organization
3. a founder ___	c) to make, to organize
4. unique ___	d) having a practical purpose or use
5. research ___	e) a group of people working for some company
6. staff ___	f) land and building of an organization
7. a facility ___	g) only one, exclusive
8. dynamically ___	h) a detailed study of a subject
9. premises ___	i) a person who finished a university
10. cooperation ___	j) building, equipment, services
11. applied ___	k) working together
12. a graduate ___	l) fast

6. In the text, find 9 pairs of synonyms among the words in bold.

1. Leading = one of the best________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

7. a) In the test, find the derivatives (having the same root) of the following words. Define the part of speech.

a) science (n) à scientist (n) à …

b) design

c) special

d) develop

e) educate

f) found

g) region

b) Fill in the gaps with the words given in the exercise above.

Research at the University of Oxford

Students and teachers of the University cooperate with professionals, and make significant contributions to science – (1) _______________ (region), nationally and internationally – through the fruits of their research.

Research and (2) _____________ (develop) activity at Oxford consists of four (3) ____________________ (educate) institutes, more than 70 departments and colleges; the academic staff (teaching and research) consists of 1632 (4) ________________ (special).

In the year of 2008 Oxford had the largest number of (5) _________________ (science) research works in a total of 48 fields.

Oxford’s research grants and contracts for 2007/8 was £ 285. 3 million, which was spent on (6)______________ (design) cars, constructing air and space craft, (7)____________________ (develop) new electronic devices.

(edited from http: //www. ox. ac. uk)

c) Translate the following text into Russian.

You should remember the following words and phrases!
a higher education institution	высшее учебное заведение
a campus	студ. городок
engineering	проектирование и строительство
designing	проектирование
a military department	военная кафедра
scientific research	научные исследования
full-time tuition	дневная форма обучения
distance learning	заочное обучение
a graduate	выпускник университета
post-graduate courses	аспирантура
to get a degree	получить научную степень
Bachelor	бакалавр
Master	магистр
PhD	кандидат наук
teaching staff	преподавательский состав
a training airfield	тренировочный аэродром
an aircraft fleet	авиапарк
a hostel	общежитие
excellent facilities	превосходные условия
to develop cooperation	развивать сотрудничество

Word order is very important in English, it is fixed.

In a declarative sentence, the subject comes in front of the predicate. The object and the adverbial (when there is one) come after it:

SSAUtrainsengineers nowadays.

1. In the text (p. 3-4), underline subjects and predicates.

2. Put the words in the right order to make full sentences.

a) part/students/in/take/scientific/active/research.

b) began/in/SSAU/with/cooperating/the USA/in 1990/universities.

c) branches/a degree/of/graduates/many/in/get/engineering.

d) practice/the/airfield/can/students/the/have/training/at.

e) learning/a/education/popular/is/distance/form/of

Question types:

General (Yes/No) Question

Auxiliary verbSubjectPredicate …?

Do you study at SSAU?

Alternative Question

Auxiliary verbSubjectPredicate … OR …?

Do you study at SSAU or at Oxford?

Special Question

Question Word (Phrase) Auxiliary verbSubjectPredicate …?

Where do you study?

BUT a special question to the subject

Who

What predicate (3^rd person singular) …?

Which of…

Who studies at SSAU?

Tag Question

SubjectPredicate (positive) …, auxiliary verb (negative)+ subject (pronoun)?

SubjectPredicate (negative) …, auxiliary verb (positive)+ subject (pronoun)?

You study at SSAU, don’t you?

You don’t study at Oxford, do you?

3. Put all possible questions to the following sentences.

a) Students live in hostels with excellent facilities.

b) A team of designers created a new engine.

c) Graduates carry out scientific research to get a PhD.

d) The department of foreign languages will cooperate with the military department in the future.

e) The university has bought a new helicopter for its aircraft fleet.

f) There are many sport facilities on the campus.

g) Catering facility is important for students of full-time tuition.

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