Learn the topical vocabulary.
Educational establishments – учебные заведения
primary (elementary) school – начальная школа
secondary (high, comprehensive) school – средняя школа
stay (study) at school - учиться в школе
private school – частная школа
lyceum – лицей
gymnasium – гимназия
vocational school – училище
dean’s office – деканат
chair – кафедра
canteen – столовая
lecture-hall – лекторий
assembly hall – актовый зал
hostel – общежитие
tutorial – консультация
head of the (English, German) Department – заведующий кафедрой
senior teacher – старший преподаватель
teacher (professor) – преподаватель, учитель
junior member of teaching – ассистент преподавателя
applicant – абитуриент
a student’s record card – зачетка
term (semester) – семестр
graduate from – окончить ч-л.
course of study – курс обучения
receive a grant (scholarship) – получать стипендию
leave school – окончить школу
enter a college (institute etc) – поступить в вуз
higher education – высшее образование
curriculum – учебный план
compulsory education – обязательное образование
thesis – диссертация
part-time students – заочники
full-time students – очники
take (have) an exam in … - сдавать экзамен по …
pass an exam in … (fail at an exam) – сдать экзамен
fail an exam in … (fail at an exam) – провалиться на экзамене
to do one’s best – прилагать все усилия
time-table – расписание
attend classes – посещать занятия
miss classes – пропускать занятия
do well in subject – успевать по предмету
option – предмет по выбору
extramural department – заочное отделение
Read the text and get ready to discuss it.
EDUCATION
Education is a continuous and creative process. Its aim is to develop the capacities latent in human nature and to coordinate their expression for the enrichment and progress of society.
Russians have always shown a great concern for education. Every citizen of our country has the right to get education. This right is guaranteed by the Constitution. It is not only a right but a duty, too. Education is ensured by compulsory secondary schools, vocational schools and higher educational establishments. It is also ensured by the development of extramural and evening courses and the system of state scholarships and grants.
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Education in Russia is compulsory to the 9lh form inclusive. The stages of compulsory schooling in Russia are: primary education, secondary education. Primary and secondary school together comprise 11 years of study. Every school has a “core curriculum” of academic subjects, such as Russian, Literature, Mathematics, History, Biology, Chemistry, Science, Informatics, a foreign language and others. Lyceums and gymnasia offer programmes giving a profound knowledge in some field of study.
After finishing the 11th form of a secondary school, a lyceum or a gymnasium one can go in higher education. All applicants must take competitive examinations. Higher educational institutions, that is, institutes or universities, offer a 5 or 4-year programme of academic subjects for undergraduates in a variety of fields, as well as a graduate course. If one finishes a graduate course and writes a thesis, he or she receives the candidate degree, corresponding to the master’s degree, or the doctorate.
All secondary schools, institutes and universities until recently have been funded by the state. Now there is quite a number of private fee-paying primary and secondary schools; some universities have fee-paying departments.
We study at the Teachers Training Institute named after the great Russian scientist D.I. Mendeleev. The Institute occupies some buildings. There are nine departments in this Institute. Two of them such as History and Biology and Chemistry faculties are situated in the old building of the Institute, which is in the lower part of Tobolsk. The main building of the Institute was built in 1979.
The main building of the Institute is a big comfortable building. There are a lot of tutorial rooms, lecture halls and laboratories here. On the third floor there is an assembly hall and a gymnasium. In the big library there are many different books on various subjects.
There is a hostel near the Institute Most of the students live there and it doesn’t take them much time to get to the Institute.
Approximately two thousand full-time students study at the various departments such as Philological, Mathematics and Physics, Foreign Languages, Physical Culture, Primary Education, Arts and Graphics. There are some Chairs at every department. The head of the Faculty or a department is a dean. The teaching staff consists of professors and senior teachers. They give lectures, seminars and classes.
We are supposed to acquire professional skills and competence to be realized in the future activity aimed at personal growth and society’s prosperity.
Language activity
I. Answer the following questions on the text.
1. What is the aim of education?
2. Have Russians always shown a great concern for education?
3. What is the right to get education guaranteed by?
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4. What is education ensured by?
5. What are the stages of compulsory schooling in Russia?
6. Do lyceums and gymnasia offer programmes giving a profound knowledge in any field of study?
7. Can anyone go on in higher education after finishing the 11th form of a secondary school?
8. How does anyone receive the candidate degree or doctorate?
9. All secondary schools, institutes and universities until recently have been funded by the state, haven’t they?
10. What Institute do you study at?
11. How many departments are there in the Institute?
12. The main building of the Institute is a big comfortable building, isn’t it?
13. How much time does it take you to get to the Institute?
14. What are you supposed to acquire to be realized in the future activity aimed at personal growth and society’s prosperity?