I. Before you read. 1.1. Pronounce the words properly:

1.1. Pronounce the words properly:

 

Categories, technical training institutions, requirements, applicants, subjects, maximum, consideration, recommendations, amount, tuition,
major, adviser, community, transfer, degree.

1.2. Give all possible derivates, compounds and word combinations with the following words:

Teacher, book, examination, test, mistake.

1.3. Write down forms of the following words, which are necessary to find in the vocabulary:

Applicants, divided, lowest, requirements, getting, specializes,
assigned, offering, overall.

1.4. Choose the right translation of the following words:

recommendation – рекомендовано, рекомендация,

рекомендательный

adviser – советовать, советник, совет

compulsory – обязательно, обязательный

technical – техника, технически, технический

private – частно, частный, часто

1.5. Study this information and remember it:

a) The periods into which the year is divided at schools, universities:

• term – one of the three periods that the year is divided into at British schools and most British universities: the autumn/spring/summer term;

• semester – one of the two periods that the year is divided into
at American schools and most American universities: the first/second
semester;

e.g. I took four classes in the first semester and five in the second;

• quarter – one of the four main periods that the year is divided into at some American schools and universities;

• school year/academic year – the period of the year when there are school or university classes;

e.g. In Russia the school year starts on September 1.

 

b) The periods in which students are taught a particular subject:

• class – a period of time usually about thirty minutes to one hour, in which a teacher teaches a group of students;

e.g. Hurry up – we have our first class in five minutes!

• lesson – a period in which someone teaches one person or a small number of people, used especially about particular skills such as music, swimming, or driving;

e.g. She gives English lessons to business people in the evening;

• lecture on, to give a lecture on;

e.g. a lecture on the causes of World War II, to give a series of lectures on Russian painting;

• seminar on;

e.g. to have a seminar on modern political theory.

 

c) Someone who teaches:

school teacher, a university teacher/a professor (АmЕ);

subject teacher, a maths/chemistry, etc. teacher, a teacher of English/ an English teacher;

principle (АmЕ)/headteacher, headmaster/headmistress (BrE);

• a vice-principal (АmЕ)/deputy headteacher/senior master/senior
mistress (BrE);

• assistant teacher/instructor, a senior teacher/instructor;

• good, poor, bad, excellent, experienced, mediocre, born, superior, great teacher;

• tutor – someone who gives lessons to just one student or a small group of students;

e.g. They hired a private tutor to help Mary with her French;

• The basis of tuition in Oxford is the tutorial for which students are required to meet with their tutor once or twice a week, individually or perhaps, with one or two other students.

• A tutor in Cambridge is called an adviser;

• lecturer (BrE) – someone who teaches at university or college;

e.g. a lecturer in World Politics;

• professor – a university teacher of the highest rank in Britain, any university teacher in the USA who has a higher degree such as a Ph. D.:
a linguistics professor;

e.g. He's a professor of biology at Cambridge;

• faculty (АmЕ)/teaching/academic staff (BrE)- all the teachers
working at a certain school/ university.

 

d) Tests and examinations:

• a test – a set of spoken or written questions or practical activities, which are intended to find out how much someone knows about a subject or skill;

• a spelling/vocabulary/grammar/biology, etc. test;

• an oral/written test, an end-of-term test, a test in Literature, a test on the use of articles;

• to give smb a test/to test smb on smth, to retest smb on smth;

• to take a test on the term's work/in History;

• to have a test on smth;

• to revise for a test;

• to pass a test, to fail a test;

• test-paper, to mark test-papers;

• student's record book, to sign smb's record book;

• examination (formal) exam – an important test that you do at the end of a course of study or at the end of the school year;

e.g. How did you do in your exams? Students are not allowed to talk
during the examination;

• French/biology/history, etc. exam, an exam in Psychology;

• entrance exam, an oral/written exam, school-leaving exams;

• graduate/final exam;

• final (singular) – an important exam that is taken at the end of a set of classes in the US;

e.g. I have a final in biology tomorrow;

• finals (plural) – the last exams that you take at the end of a university course in the UK;

e.g. During my finals, I was revising till 3 o’clock in the morning most days;

• to take/sit for an examination – to do a test or exam;

• to pass an examination – to achieve a good enough standard to be successful;

e.g. Only 30% of students who took the exam passed it. «Did you pass?» – «Yes, I got an A»;

• to scrape through an exam;

e.g. He scraped through his history paper;

• to fail/flunk (AmE coll.) an exam;

e.g. I failed my French exam two times. He thought he was going to flunk History but he got a C;

• to study (AmE)/revise (BrE) for an exam;

• to be examined in, to be re-examined in;

• examiner, an examinee;

• examining board;

• transcript – an official list of all courses taken by a student in the USA at a school or college showing the final grade received for each course, with definitions of the various grades given at the institution.

 

e) Admission to colleges and universities:

• to admit – to allow entry; to give entrance or access;

• to be admitted to a university, to be accepted by a university;

• admission – the act or process of admitting; the state or privilege of being admitted;

• to apply for admission;

e.g. She applied for admission to Moscow University;

• admission application, to submit an admission application;

• applicant/a candidate;

• university admission board, an admission office;

e.g. Before she took her entrance exams, she had submitted her
admission application and her school leaving certificate to the Moscow
University admission board;

• to enroll in (AmE), to enter (BrE) (a) school/university;

• reference – a statement (letter) regarding a person's character,
abilities, etc.;

• referee – someone who writes a letter about someone else, describing
their work or personal qualities.

1.6. Match the columns:

1. факультативный	1. a private college
2. высшие учебные заведения	2. to transfer to universities
3. рекомендации	3. state education institutions
4. обязательный	4. advanced programs
5. назначать советника (куратора)	5. optional
6. план обучения	6. to complete the requirements for a bachelor’s degree
7. частный колледж	7. subject
8. общепринятый вступительный экзамен	8. technical training
9. государственный университет	9. higher education institutions
10. степень	10. points
11. переводиться в университет	11. private education institutions
12. школьный экзамен на проверку способностей	12. points, score
13. завершить обучение для получения степени бакалавра	13. a plan of study
14. техническое обучение	14. recommendations
15. предмет	15. a state university
16. государственные учебные заведения	16. compulsory
17. продвинутые программы	17. the Scholastic Aptitude Test
18. приёмная комиссия университета	18. degree
19. баллы	19. a standard entrance exam
20. частные учебные заведения	20. to assigned an «academic adviser»