Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов I курса всех факультетов. Часть 1. Сергееева Т.В - 45 стр.

                    TUTORIAL SYSTEM AT OXBRIDGE1

       In its original form tutorial is an informal weekly meeting or lesson of an
individual student with his “tutor” i.e. university teacher who guides the studies
of a number of students or a single one. The form which the tutorial takes varies
according to the subject and the institution, but it always involves informal
discussion. “One can translate the word “tutorial” as “консультация”, although
they are clearly far from being equivalents.
       Each student goes to his tutor’s room for an hour every week to discuss an
essay which the student has written. A student does not necessarily go only to
one tutor in his own college for all his tutorials. He may be assigned to another
don in his own college or in another one when he is studying some particular
topic which is outside the special interest of his tutor.
       The term “tutor” usually has one of the following meanings:
       1) a private teacher, especially one who instructs a single pupil and
sometimes one who lives with the family of his pupil;
       2) one of the teaching staff to whom students can go for advice and help
both with general problems related to his studies (f. ex. choice of courses,
difficulties in keeping up with their fellow-students) and also practical problems,
such as family matters, finding accommodation, and so on. Each tutor has
several students but they do not meet as a group.
1
 Oxbridge – invented name or the abbreviation for the oldest British Universities
              Oxford and Cambridge. Sometimes the term Camford is used.

Задание 11. Передайте на английском языке следующую информа-цию о
             тьюторской системе обучения в Кембридже:

      Тьюторская система обучения возникла ещё в средневековом1
английском университете. Под тьюторской системой подразумеваются
регулярные занятия одного-двух или нескольких студентов с
преподавателем-тьютором на протяжении всего курса обучения.
      Тьютор помогает студентам решать как общие проблемы, связанные
с учебой (выбор курсов, трудности в общении2 с однокурсниками3), так и
практические вопросы (поиск жилья4, решение семейных проблем5 и т.д.).
      У каждого тьютора несколько студентов, но они не встречаются
группой. Студенты приходят поодиночке к назначенному часу.




                                        45