Английский язык. Higher education
Шрифт:
A manager is a person who runs part of a business.
A director is someone in charge of a business. We can speak of the director of a language school because it’s a business.
E.g. Jack is very young to be a bank manager/a manager of a supermarket.
It has never been my ambition to be a company director.
III. programme — syllabus — curriculum — program.
A syllabus is set in one subject either by a school or by an examination board.
A curriculum is the general programme in all subjects.
E.g. There is a new syllabus for next year’s Certificate in Advanced English.
Art isn’t on our school curriculum.
A programme is a sequence of planned activities, or an information booklet.
E.g. What’s your programme for today?
This concert programme (BrE)/program (AmE) is very expensive.
A program is a computer program (BrE/AmE)
E.g. Have you seen Microsoft’s new program?
GETTING STARTED
What do you know about the system of education in the USA?
Do you know the difference between the US colleges and universities?
ACTIVITY A
VOCABULARY STUDY
PART I
DIRECTIONS:
Teacher and its alternatives.
Match the word on the left with their definitions on the right.
1. coach a. person who trains athletes or animals
2. educationalist b. person who teachers in a college or university
3. governess c. person who trains sportsmen and athletes or a student for an exam
4. guru d. female teacher who lives with a family and educates their children at home
5. instructor e. private teacher; directing the studies of undergraduates
6. lecturer f. an expert in educational methods
7. schoolmaster g. female teacher in a school
8. tutor h. one who gives information or knowledge or teaches particular skills
9. trainer i. trusted adviser
10. schoolmistress j. influential or revered teacher
11. mentor k. male teacher in a school
PART II
DIRECTIONS:
Fill in the blanks with the words from Vocabulary Extension.
Mr. Brown is a _________ of history at Oxford University.
That was a terrible meal; I’m going to complain to the ___________.
My husband is a physics ________ at the local school.
He is on board of ___________s.
I decided to include Mathematics into my college ___________.
PART III
DIRECTIONS:
Translate the sentences into Russian. Be ready to give their back translation.
1. Has Microeconomics been introduced into the institute curriculum?
2. I see that
3. Where is the first-year timetable?
4. According to the timetable we have no history class on Monday.
5. The teaching staff of the college is/are excellent.
6. The department of physics is in the Faculty of Science.
7. The History Department is/are using this room.
8. He has a BA/BSc. He has an MA in linguistics. He has an MSc in astrophysics.
ACTIVITY B
SCAN THE TEXT 1 HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE USA
DIRECTIONS:
Read the headline of the text. What do you want to find out when you read it? Write some questions.
Read the text quickly and answer the questions you have written.
ACTIVITY C
READING
DIRECTIONS:
Now read.
HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE USA
Out of more than three million students who graduate from high school each year, about one million go on for "higher education". It is not easy to enter a college at a leading university in the United States. Such a college may accept only one out of every ten who apply. At present there are over 3,300 different institutions of higher education in the USA with more than 12 million students.
Successful applicants at colleges of higher education are usually chosen on the basis of (a) their high school records which include their class rank, the list of all the courses taken and all the grades received in high school, test results; (b) recommendations from their high school teachers; (c) the impression they make during interviews at the university, which is in fact a serious examination; and (d) their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs). The SAT is a test in mathematics and English language which was introduced in 1947. The SAT is taken in the 11th grade 'of high school (over 1,5 million high school students take it yearly). If a student gets 1600 scores it is considered as a good result, if he or she gets 400 scores such a result is considered to be poor. A SAT can be taken two or three times, so that the student can improve the results if he or she wishes to do so.
The system of higher education includes 4 categories of institutions:
(1) the two-year, or community college, which is financed by the local authorities and which is intended to satisfy the needs of the local community in different professions. Tuition fees are low in these colleges, that is why about 40 percent of all American students of higher education study at these colleges. On graduation from such colleges American students can start to work or may transfer to four-year colleges or universities;
(2) the technical training institution, at which high school graduates may take courses ranging from six months to three — four years, and learn different technical skills, which may include design, business, computer programming, accounting, etc.,
(3) the four-year college which is not part of a university. The graduates receive the degree of bachelor of arts (BA) or bachelor of science (BS),
(4) the university, which may contain (a) several colleges for students who want to receive a bachelor's degree after four years of study; and (b) one or more graduate schools for those who want to continue their studies after college for about two years to receive a master's degree (Master of Arts (MA) or of Science (MS) or a doctoral degree (Ph. D.— Doctor of Philosophy, in some science). There are 156 universities in the USA.