- Do many students rent flats?
- Does the university provide students with any accommodation facilities?
- How many hostels has it?
- Are the hostels far from the university?
- Are they nice, clean and comfortable?
- Have they all modern conveniences (electricity, hot and cold running water, central heating etc.)
- Do students have separate rooms or do they share rooms with their fellow students? How many students live in each room?
- How do they organize their life?
- Is it challenging for students to live on their own independent on their parents?
- What are advantages and disadvantages of living at a hostel?
Слова:
accommodation facilities - жилье
rent flats – снимать квартиры
provide with accommodation facilities - обеспечивать жильем
hostel - общежитие
modern conveniences - современные удобства
central heating – центральное отопление
challenging - сложно
to live on their own - жить самостоятельно
independent on - независимо от
Students’ meals
- How much time do students spend at the university during a day?
- When do they have a lunch break? How long is it?
- Where can students go to have their lunch?
- Are there canteens, coffee shops and cafeterias in every university building?
- What’s on the menu there?
- Is it crowded there during the lunch break?
- Is it expensive to eat there?
- What is students’ favourite food?
- Are the canteens nice and light?
- Are there vending machines at the university? What do they sell?
Слова:
lunch break - большая перемена (перерыв на обед)
canteen - столовая
university building - корпус университета
it is crowded - много народа
it is expensive - дорого
vending machines - машины-автоматы по продаже чего-либо
Academic performance
- How often have students their examination sessions?
- When are they?
- How many exams do they usually take?
- What scale is used to evaluate students’ academic performance?
- What is an excellent (good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory) mark?
- What is the lowest mark to pass an exam?
- Where are the results of student’s academic performance recorded?
- Are exams written or oral?
- Are they difficult?
- How many reexaminations are students allowed to have if they fail an exam?
Слова:
academic performance - успеваемость
examination sessions - экзаменационная сессия
take exams - сдавать экзамены
scale - шкала (оценок)
to evaluate - оценивать
excellent mark – отличная оценка
satisfactory, unsatisfactory – удовлетворительная, неудовлетворительная
to pass an exam - сдать экзамен (успешно)
are recorded - записываются
written (oral) exams - письменные (устные) экзамены
reexaminations - переэкзаменовка
fail an exam - провалить экзамен
University campus
- Has the university a big and nice campus?
- What can you see in front of the administrative building?
- There is a monument there. To whom is it?
- What do you know about that person? (his childhood, studies, scientific work etc/)
University press and website, university museum
- Has the university its newspaper or magazine?
- What’s its name?
- What can you read in it?
- Who writes for it? Where is it published?
- Has the university its website?
- What information is it possible to find there?
- The university has a museum, hasn’t it?
- What is possible to learn there about?
- Does the museum organize any exhibitions?
- What can you say about them?
Science and research
- Does the university / faculty conduct any research?
- In what fields?
- Do they have any practical application?
- Do students carry out any scientific and research work?
- Where are the outcomes of the research reported (scientific conferences, scientific papers)?
- Do students participate actively in the students’ conferences?
- Who organizes them?
- When do the conferences usually take place?
- Do students make reports also in English?
- Do students go to international conferences and to conferences in other cities of Russia?
Слова:
science - наука
conduct research – проводить исследования
in what fields - в каких областях
practical application – практическое применение
carry out any scientific and research work – заниматься научной и
исследовательской работой
the outcomes of the research – результаты исследований
scientific papers - научные труды
participate - принимать участие
take place - иметь место, происходить
make reports - делать доклады
international conferences – международные конференции