Education in Great Britain. Бояринцева Е.И - 21 стр.

      raise questions – задавать вопросы                                   ing to our tutor. The tutor would be somebody, one of your teachers or
      to set essays to write in the classes – давать задания писать        possibly somebody that you select because you’re not happy with one
эссе в классе                                                              of your teachers being your tutor. So people had to go into class more
      in classes you were expected to turn up – на практических            or less every day from Monday to Friday. You might be lucky to have
занятиях Вам полагалось появляться / присутствовать                        a _______________ that gives you a day off. But in my case I found
      tutor system... in which people have a one-to-one relationship       that most days I had to go into the school for one reason or another, if
– система обучения... при которой студенты работают индивиду-              only to use the library. We had about 12 hours in the classroom includ-
ально с преподавателем                                                     ing time in lectures and the rest of the time was our own to prepare our
      someone that could liaise [li'eiz] with ... – кто мог бы под-        essays or to write ________ __________ answers to prepare our-
держивать связь с...                                                       selves for the exams.
      for one reason or another – по той или иной причине
                                                                                                         Part 8. Exams
Task to Part 7: Fill in the blanks. Compare the LSE method of study             pass papers – экзаменационный материал
                with ours. Which do you prefer and why?                         exams are three hours long – экзамены длятся три часа
       The method of study that students employed at my School goes             I had ... the dissertation to do in place of one exam – я дол-
something like this: we had for all of our courses leading to the degree   жен был писать дипломную работу вместо одного экзамена
a mixture of lectures and classes. At lectures we didn’t have the oppor-
tunity to ask questions – it was just a matter of ______        _______                                 Part 9. Library
_________ that the lecturers gave to us. In classes though, we had the            take books out – брать книги на дом
opportunity to _______ _____ _________ , the other students would                 a pretty good stock of books – достаточно хороший книжный
listen, then discuss it, ________ __________ that we wanted to ask         фонд
with the teacher concerned and we would also be _______ _______ to
write in the classes and we’d have to do about four essays for every       Task to Parts 8 and 9: Choose the most appropriate answer among
course that we were following. (Remember, there’s about eight alto-                               the given ones
gether). The classes would number about 6-8 or 10 people and the lec-
tures would be ____________ in a big ball for all of the groups to lis-           1. Students have to prepare material to answer examination ques-
ten at the same time. So it might be up to a hundred people listening in   tions because ...
the lecture hall. And you didn’t have to go to lectures because there             a) these differ from year to year;
was no way that they could check whether you were there or not. But               b) these can be asked in a slightly different form;
in classes you were expected to turn up because it might have been you            c) they don’t know what they’re going to be asked.
that had to _________ _________ for everybody else. I think the sys-
tem worked quite well. But we didn’t have the same kind of tutor sys-             2. What is wrong?
tem that they have at the University of Oxford and Cambridge in which                Exams are …
people have a _______________ relationship with their teacher. We                 a) three hours long;
did have a tutor, all of us, but this was simply a person that we could           b) written;
discuss problems with, someone that could liaise with the School Au-              c) taken in the final year.
thorities on your behalf. But in general we didn't spend much time talk-

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