2. The Institute is rather new. It was founded only in 1993. There is one faculty in it: Socio-Economic one which covers a lot of specialities: a lawyer, a specialist in political sciences, a business-administrator, an economist and others. Today our Institute is a collective member and representative of the International Staff Academy in the Republic of Belarus. It is also a co-founder of the International Educational Consortium located in Prague. The motto of our Institute is DOCEMUS VIVERE - we teach to live. Our emblem is an elk – a symbol of wise power.
3. Every day our students listen to lectures given by professors, assistant professors and lecturers and have various classes, foreign languages including. Foreign languages lessons cover grammar, vocabulary, speaking and listening skills, reading and writing. Advanced students in every speciality work in close connection with the teaching staff and are engaged in research work.
4. The academic year begins on the first of September and ends in June. It has two terms: the autumn term and the spring term. Each term ends with examinations which take place in January and in June. During the academic year students work hard. Attendance at lectures is compulsory. Our students go to the Institute every day except Sunday.
5. About fifty per cent of our students prefer correspondent training because they live and work far from the Institute and they don’t want to leave their jobs at enterprises and firms and at various state and private institutions. Twice a year they come to the Institute to attend lectures or classes and to take their examinations.
6. I have also entered this Institute and I am a day-time student at the Socio-Economic faculty. We have everything necessary for our studying. The Institute enjoys good premises which comprise modern computer classes equipped with electronic means of communication; ling-guaphone classrooms with audio- and video-equipment which promote intensive foreign languages learning; classrooms, lecture halls, conference halls, a library, a publishing center, a gymnasium, and a cafй’. Our class-rooms and lecture-halls are large enough, well-lighted and clean. We are taught a lot of subjects and we do our best to cope with them. Only at the week-end we have some free time which each student arranges to suit him best. I have always dreamed of getting higher education. Now this dream is coming true.
ACTIVITY C
VOCABULARY STUDY
PART 1
DIRECTIONS:
Match the synonymous pairs.
found credit
wise personnel
loan concentrate
own member
staff set up
basic clever
focus main
representative personal
PART II
DIRECTIONS:
Find necessary words in the texts for the following.
a scientific field which involves political affairs
a specialist who deals with different legal affairs
a specialist who works in close connection with mass-media
a very popular and prestige speciality in an economic sphere
a kind of assistance to pupils of senior forms to get prepared for future centralized testing
new realities in the sphere of education in the XX1 –st century
ACTIVITY D
READING COMPREHENSION
PART 1
DIRECTIONS:
Mark the statements below as ‘ True ‘ (T) or ‘ False ‘ (F)
Institute of Parliamentarism and Entrepreneurship is situated in Timiryazeva Street.
Today the Institute has only about one thousand students.
The Institute uses multimedia means of teaching, it has got a broad network of training courses and profile classes.
The Institute hasn’t got a short form of studying
The emblem of the Institute is an ELK- a wise power.
T
F
PART II
DIRECTIONS:
Ask 5 questions of different types to different sentences.
ACTIVITY E
ORGANIZING YOUR THOUGHTS
PART I
DIRECTIONS:
Working with a partner make some decisions about the following situation:
You are planning to have a youth conference with your foreign friends. You need to decide what to prepare to meet the requirements of all your guests.
PART II
DIRECTIONS:
Working in groups discuss possible answers:
Do our students have all the necessary conditions to study properly at our Institute?
What is meant by private education? Do you think it is a positive or a negative tendency? Prepare arguments for and against.
ACTIVITY F
WRITE AND SPEAK
PART I
DIRECTIONS:
Give a summary of the text.
PART II
DIRECTIONS:
Express your opinion:
The role of private educational institutions in our life.
Possibilities for our graduates to find good jobs and be useful and wanted inside and outside the country.
ACTIVITY G
LISTENING COMPREHENSION:
PART I
DIRECTIONS:
Go over the vocabulary to avoid difficulties of understanding.
handwriting—почерк
jerk (Am. slang)—тупица
cheat — обманывать
accuse smb of smth — обвинять кого-либо в чем-либо
PART II
DIRECTIONS:
Listen to the dialogue and identify:
the subject matter of the conversation;
the status of the speakers;
their attitude to the situation and to each other.
At the Exam
Mr. Sorensen: Richard, what's that under your paper?
Richard: What's what?
Mr. S: Lift up your arm. What's this?
R; Oh, that. Uh, that's a grocery list. I've got to pick up some things on my way home.
Mr. S: Do you really expect me to believe that?
R: Well, that's what it is.
Mr. S: (reading) Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, 1800s, Hegel, Germany, Sartre, Paris, 1900s... An interesting «grocery» list, Mister Jackson!
R; Oh, gee, let me see that. Oh, my gosh, they must be my notes. How did they get here?
Mr. S: I'd like to see you in my office, please. (They leave the classroom and go to the office down the hall.) Now, Richard, would you care to explain how the answers to the test questions appeared on your desk?
R: I can't, sir. Someone must have left them on my desk.
Mr. S: Someone left them on your desk! Someone with hand-writing identical to yours left them on your desk? I'm afraid I can't accept that answer.
R; Are you accusing me of cheating?
Mr. S: Yes, I am.
R You can't do that without proof! I'm going to call my counselor!
Mr. S: By all means, do that. In the meantime, however, don't come to class again. I am extremely disappointed in your behavior.
R; (grumbling to himself as he leaves) What a pig-headed, narrow-minded jerk!
PART III
DIRECTIONS:
Express your own opinion:
• Do you approve or disapprove of Richard's behavior? Did you or your friends ever find yourselves in a similar situation?
ACTIVITY H
SELF-WORK:
Topical Vocabulary:
department (n)
advocating and notary
merchant law