Read and Speak. Круглова М.В. - 46 стр.

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John: He, more or less, plans your work, suggests the books you should read and

sets work for you to do. Every student has a tutor and as soon as you come

to Oxford one of the first things you do is to go and see your tutor.

Olaf: Does the tutor also deliver lectures?

John: Yes, he may.

Olaf: But aren’t lectures delivered by professors?

John: Yes, though they don’t deliver many lectures. They are often appointed not

so much to do teaching work as to carry on research in their practical

subjects.

Olaf: Can you go to any lecture you like, no matter whether it is by a tutor or a

professor of your college or not?

John: Yes. Lectures are organized not by a college but by the university, for all

the students are members of a college and the university.

Olaf: You said the lectures were «organized by the university». Where is the

university?

John: It may seem rather strange to you but there isn’t really any university at

Oxford as there is, for example, at Manchester or Bristol or Edinburgh.

Oxford (like Cambridge) is a collection of colleges, each self-governing

and independent. «The University» is merely an administrative body that

organizes lectures, arranges examinations, gives degrees, etc. Each college

has its own character and individuality. But there are students of all kinds

in each college; I mean you don’t get all science students at one college,

and law students at another. Every college has its arts men and science

men, its medical students and its engineers. Every student, of course,

follows his own course of study, but he gains a lot from living among those

who represent all other branches.

Olaf: By the way, what are you studying? It’s medicine, isn’t it? Are you going to

be a doctor?

John: As a matter of fact, I’m not. That was the idea when I came here, but my

interest has always been in language learning and language teaching so I

changed from medicine to modern languages. I’m in my last year now.

Olaf: Well, I wish you luck.