Part II
1. Read the article and choose the best title: 1) Oxford University seeks to attract the best and brightest students. 2) Ten reasons to apply to Oxford. 3) Some of the reasons why you might like to apply 4) College information 5) Studying at Oxford
2. Remember the words and word-combinations: excellence - превосходство accessible - доступный engagement - обязательство to enhance - усиливать, улучшать facility -оборудование accommodation - жильё comprehensive - всеобъемлющий employer - работодатель employee - работающий по найму 3. Read the article again, and then complete it with the words or expressions from the box:
4. Mark the statements true (T) or false (F) according to the article: 1. Oxford gives students a high level of academic education. 2. Oxford University is accessible to all students from the UK. 3. The organization system of Oxford doesn’t differ from that of all other universities and colleges. 4. Teaching is carried out by tutorial system. 5. Your tutor gives individual support and encourages you to develop your full potential. 6. Most colleges offer student accommodation for five years. 7. Students haven’t access to resources across the University. 8. The Oxford system combines the best of one-to-one or small-group teaching in college with the wealth of resources in the University. 9. Not many children from the working-class families are able to receive the higher education at Oxford. 10. There aren’t many societies and clubs at Oxford. Text 5
Lying on the river Cam, the city of Cambridge takes its name from the river. The old university city where mostly teachers and students live is full of ancient buildings, chapels and libraries; college buildings are located there, too. In the old times student’s life was full of restrictions. Students of Cambridge were not allowed to play games, sing, hunt, and fish or even to dance; they had to wear special dark clothes and the “squares”, the academic caps they still wear in our days. During the course all students have to live in the college; there are at present over 9 000 students in residence. Cambridge has won international fame as the university were historical figures and personalities of literature and science received their education, Cromwell, Newton, Byron, Tennyson and Darwin among them. The great Russian scientist I.P. Pavlov came to Cambridge to receive the degree of the Honorary Doctor of Cambridge. Cambridge University has made the city of Cambridge internationally famous as a centre of science where Rutherford, Kapitza and other famous scientists have worked. 1. Remember the words and word-combinations: Cambridge ['keimbriʤ] restriction [ri'strikʃən] - ограничение to be in residence - проживать to receive a degree of the Honorary Doctor of Cambridge - получить ученую степень почетного доктора Кембриджа 2. Complete the following sentences: 1. Cambridge is … university in Britain. a) the oldest b) the second oldest c) the youngest 2. The University is a collection of … Colleges. a) 28 b) 30 c) 35 3. The first women’s college was founded in … a) 1284 b) 1869 c) 1918 4. The city of Cambridge is situated on the river … a) Thames b) Cam c) Severn 5. The students wear … in our days. a) dark clothes b) academic caps c) dark blue trousers 6. All students have … a) to live in inns b) to rent a house c) to live in the college
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Cambridge is the second oldest university in Britain. Cambridge University was opened in 1284 with the construction of the first college, Peterhouse. At present Cambridge University comprises twenty eight colleges of which one is only for men and two of them are women’s colleges (the first women’s college was opened in 1869); the remaining twenty five take both men and women.
