Education in Great Britain. Бояринцева Е.И - 19 стр.

                        LISTENING                                        Task to Part 2: TRUE or FALSE?
                                                                               1.   London University is a campus University.                T/F
       David Randall is a graduate from the London School of Eco-              2.   Its colleges are located in one place.                   T/F
nomics, a college within London University. We asked him to share              3.   You can get all kinds of degrees at London University.   T/F
with you his recollections and impressions of being a student at one           4.   At that time Russian students at London University
of the most famous British Universities. The text can be roughly di-                were mostly involved in research.                        T/F
vided into several parts. Listen to each part separately and do the
tasks. Here is some vocabulary to help you grasp what you are going                  Part 3. London School of Economics Curricula
to listen to. Study it before listening: you are likely to come across
                                                                               specialising in the social and political sciences – специализи-
some of the words and collocations throughout the text.
                                                                         рую-щиеся в общественно-политических науках
                                                                               through to business administration – кончая деловым адми-
                        Part 1. Introduction
                                                                         нистрированием
      introduction to life in London University – знакомство с                 leading to a degree – ведущий к получению степени
жизнью Лондонского университета                                                the institutions of the European Community – государствен-
      the terms that we keep as students – наши учебные семестры         ные институты / организации Европейского Сообщества
      I'm speaking into a cassette-recorder – я начитываю текст на             comparative political analysis – сравнительный политиче-
кассету                                                                  ский анализ
                                                                               bearing in mind – имея в виду
                 Part 2. London University Profile                             leading up to the present day – по сегодняшний день
                                                                               out-of-date / up-to-date material – устаревший / «свежий»
      a campus University – университет, в котором все колледжи
                                                                         мате-риал
(факультеты) сосредоточены в одном месте – кампусе
                                                                               photocopied material – фотокопии материалов
      а college University – университет, колледжи которого могут
находиться в разных частях города
                                                                         Task to Part 3: Fill in the blanks. Then make up a list of disciplines
      rather than – ...а не
                                                                                         LSE students are supposed to be instructed in
      a pretty good mixture of people – довольно разнообразный
кон-тингент                                                                     So, our college, that is the London School of Economics, has a
      for quite a while – определенное время                             number of faculties, all _____________ in the social and political sci-
      are going on to Master's degrees and Doctorate theses – про-       ences; although the name suggests the people study mainly economics,
дол-жают учебу для получения степени магистра и защиты док-              in fact, they study everything from law, geography, history through to
торской диссертации                                                      ___________ ______________, industrial relations and psychology. I
      tend to be concentrated on programmes such as the Soros            myself studied a mixture of things leading to a degree called the
Programme – как правило, являются участниками программ об-               ___________ __ ___________ which is the first degree or a Bachelor
мена (спонсируемых филантропическими организациями, госу-                degree. I studied eight subjects: I studied Russian language, and I also
дарственными структурами или частными лицами), таких, как                studied Russian and Soviet history, international history,
программа фонда Сороса                                                   ____________ ____________ which included all the institutions of the
      research students – аспиранты                                      European Community. I studied ___________ ___________

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