• Electric…
• Farm …
• Photograph …
• Garden …
• Manage …
• Art …
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-er
-ian
-ist
Task 2 We can make the name of jobs like this:
He teaches.
They repaired cars.
I will teach children
He is a teacher.
They were technicians.
I will be a teacher.
Say what these people are.
He played football.
She will paint.
She manages. He is a ….
I sang. She will be a …
He looks after a garden. I was a…
They built houses.
He works on a farm.
Task 3 Name these professions
Task 4 Match the words and the sentences
1. a doctor
2. a policeman
3. a clown
4. a postman
5. a dancer
6. a fireman
7. a baker
8. a dentist
9. a pupil
10. a teacher
a) He bakes bread.
b) He works in a circus.
c) He takes care of our teeth.
d) He fights fires.
e) She studies at school.
f) He delivers letters.
g) She gives pupils homework.
h) He helps sick people.
i) He protects people.
j) She works in a theatre.
Task 5 Professions can be:
prestigious, not prestigious, up-to-date, out-of-date, well-paid, low-paid, rare and widespread.
Make sentences expressing your point of view. Begin with…
To my mind…
I think…
ex: To my mind the profession of a manager is very prestigious
photographer, school master, physician (doctor), conductor,
bus driver, bricklayer (каменщик), tailor (портной), weaver (ткач), judge,
shop-assistant, physicist, manager, accountant, programmer,
fashion designer, architect.
Task 6 You know that there are some professional fields: Sciences, Law, Architecture and Urban Planning, Environmental Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Journalism, Library and Information Science, Computer Science and so on. Each profession requires definite character features.
Match the fields on the left with the features on the right.
1. technical
2. art
3. humanities
4. working-class
5. Service
a) imaginative, artistic, loving, big hearted
b) practical, active, energetic, organized.
c) logical, rational, fast-thinking, cool-headed
d) expressive, observant professions (наблюдательный)
e) helpful, communicative, reliable.
Task 7 Which characteristics are necessary for people of these professions: pilot, teacher, doctor (physician), physicist, sportsman, bricklayer, programmer, accountant.
Make up the sentences.
ex: A teacher should be patient, intellectual, loving children.
strength (сила)
responsibility (ответственность)
reliability (надежность)
creativity (творчество)
observation (внимание к деталям)
patience (терпение)
common sense (здравый смысл)
logical mind
kindnes
Task 8 Use the clue below to help you hues these job related words
Task 9 Make a story about your paremts professions using the information fron the Unit
UNIT 13
MY UNIVERSITY
1. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на произношение звуков [p] (глухой, произносится с придыханием), [b] (звонкий, в конце слов не оглушается).
| [p] | [b] | [p] или | [b] |
| pet | Born | occupation | deep |
| potato | About | parents | biography |
| plate | Black | brother | spend |
| pass | Busy | ambition | hobby |
| pupil | Book | keep | better |
| sport | But | botany | important |
2. Прочитайте следующие пары слов. Обратите внимание на смыс- лоразличительную функцию звуков [p], [b] в словах.
[p] [b] [p] [b]
park - парк bark - лаять pud - детская ручка bud - почка
par - равенство bar - бар pug - мятая глина bug - жук
pie - пирог buy - покупать pull - тянуть bull - бык
path - путь bath - ванна cap - кепка cab – экипаж
3. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на долготу и краткость гласных звуков [a:],[A].
[a:] [A] [a:] или [A]
large cut come brother
dark number calm aunt
class summer mother uncle
ask luck husband father
plant son country cousin
after love part rather
4. Изучите материал по словообразованию и выполните следующие упражнения:
А) Суффиксы -er, -or образуют существительные от глаголов и обозначают действующее лицо или механизм, выполняющий действие.
to teach (обучать) – teacher (учитель)
to direct (руководить) – director (руководитель)
- Образуйте от данных глаголов существительные с помощью суффикса -er и переведите их на русский язык.
To work, to farm, to plant, to grow, to lead, to write, to read, to speak,
to sleep, to drive, to fi ght, to mine, to report, to sing, to skate, to swim,
to teach, to travel, to found, to compose.
- Образуйте от данных глаголов существительные с помощью суффикса -or и переведите их на русский язык.
To act, to visit, to direct, to invent, to generate, to indicate, to translate,
to refrigerate, to collect, to select, to instruct, to dictate, to conduct.
- Ответьте на следующие вопросы.
1. Are you a smoker?
2. Are you a good dancer?
3. Are you a heavy sleeper?
4. Who is an early riser in your family?
5. Is your friend a great talker?
Б) Приставка pre- имеет значение «перед, ранее, до», приставка post- - «после», приставка under- - «недостаточно». war (война, военный) - pre-war (довоенный) war (война, военный) - post-war (послевоенный) to pay (платить) - to underpay (недоплатить)
- Определите значение следующих слов с приставками. pre- - prehistoric, pre-revolutionary, predetermine, pre-capitalist; post- - post-graduate, postscript, post-glacial, postposition; under- - underproduction, undervalue, underdeveloped, underdo. underfeed.
5. Прочитайте и выучите слова:
Accommodation
Advanced students
Agriculture
Agromechanical faculty
Agro-power faculty
Associate professor
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences
Crop cultivation
Dormitory
Qualified specialist
Engineer for electrification
Агромеханический факультет
Агроэнергетический факультет
доцент
Член-корреспондент Академии наук
Растениеводство
спальня
квалифицированный специалист
Инженер по электрификации
жилье
Продвинутые студенты
сельское хозяйство
Engineer-ecologist
Entrepreneur
Extramural
Farm machinery maintenance mechanic
Farm machinery service faculty
Higher educational establishment
Industrial enterprise
Industrial practice
Joint venture
Livestock breeding
Mechanic engineer
Teaching staff
Thorough study
To carry out the research work
To found
To provide
To train specialists
Under the guidance of supervisors
Well-equipped
Well-planed campus
Workshop
Инженер-эколог
предприниматель
заочный
механик по обслуживания
сельхозмашин
факультет Техническое обслуживание сельхозмашин
Высшее учебное заведение
промышленное предприятие
Производственная практика
Совместное предприятие
Животноводство
инженер-механик
Педагогические работники учебных заведений
тщательное изучение
Для проведения научно-исследовательской работы
Для найдены
Для обеспечения
Для подготовки специалистов
Под руководством кураторов
Хорошо оборудованные
Хорошо планируется кампуса
семинар
6. Guess the meaning of the following international words and word combinations:
specialist, academy, professor, agromechanical faculty, mechanic engineer, engineer forelectrification, engineer-ecologist, industrial practice, combination, academician, technical, operation.
7.Odd word or word combination out: the one which doesn’t fit into the group of synonyms.
Advanced - best, superior, skilful, intelligent, backward, beneficial;
to train - to prepare, to teach, to accustom, to join, to supervise, to instruct;
to carry out - to do, to fulfill, to perform, to compensate, to act, to solve;
to found - to establish, to base, to originate, to compress, to built, to lay base of;
to achieve - to accomplish, to perform, to ignore, to attain, to acquire, to reach;
to comprise - to include, to distribute, to consist of, to have, to contain, to hold;
thorough - complete, superficial, well-grounded, solid, substantial, stout.
8.Find the word on the right which should logically follow the word on the left:
teaching specialists
to train students
associate practice
well-planned the University
industrial staff
to curry out the research work
experienced professor
excellent employment
to enter teachers
9. What are these words derived from? Notice the different suffixes, indicating different parts of speech.
Educational, establishment, agricultural, provider, combination, farming, getting, practical, employment, training, production, development, academician, manager, technical, considerable, equipment, operation, maintenance, importance, guidance, accommodation.
10. Before you read the text “My University” say why you decided to enter the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Ryazan State Agrotechnological University Named After P.A. Kostychev»
What do you know about this University? Read the statements given below and agree or disagree with them.
1. The Ryazan State Agrotechnological University t is a very old higher educational establishment.
2. The RSAU trains qualified specialists for agro-industrial complex.
3. The overall number of students is more than two thousand.
4. There are three faculties at the University.
5. All the faculties provide the students with capital knowledge of technical and agricultural sciences during 4 years of studying at the University.
6. Industrial practice activities of the students are organized at the University training farm
11. Прочитайте и выучите полное название университета и отделений.
the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Ryazan State Agrotechnological University Named After P.A. Kostychev», Ryazan State Agricultural Academy, advanced vocational training institute., Road Transport Department. Engineering Department, Vet Medicine and Biotechnology Department, Technological Department, Department of Economics and Management. Pre-University Department
12. Read the text and say if you are right or wrong.
MY UNIVERSITY
The history of the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Ryazan State Agrotechnological University Named After P.A. Kostychev» lasts more than sixty years. On May, 18th 1949 the Council of Ministers of the USSR accepted the solution to found the Agricultural Institute in Ryazan. On May, 30th 1949 Ryazan Agricultural the Institute was named after Pavel Andreevich Kostychev by the resolution of the Ministry of Higher Education.
In 1949 Ryazan Agricultural Institute Named after Professor P.A. Kostychev set about studying the first students on specialties «Agronomy» and «Zootechnics».
In 1995 the institute got the status of Ryazan State Agricultural Academy Named after Professor P.A. Kostychev for the merits in personnel training and faculty’s great contribution to science and industry. In 2007 the academy got the status of the university. Let them say that 60 years is not an age for the institution, but not everyone can promote from the institute to the university for such a period of time!
Having passed a great way of formation and developing the University has turned to be one of the biggest agrarian universities of the Russian Federation. Today FSBEI HPE «Ryazan State Agrotechnological University Named after P.A. Kostychev» is a multi-field institution that has got a license and a state accreditation. It is a big educational and scientific center.
Nowadays FSBEI HPE «Ryazan State Agrotechnological University Named after P.A. Kostychev» is a scientific training and production complex having 6 departments, 38 faculties, branches of the faculties on the factory floor, engineering-economic institute, advanced vocational training institute, resource center, profile classes in secondary schools, research institutions of different profiles.
Today the University uses computers and different information technologies in training process. It presupposes the practical study and integration of educational process and science. The institution has been among the first in Russia to start the target specialists training under contract with the Ministry of comfortable dorms, a library having more than 735 thousand volumes; the library branches are situated in 4 educational buildings; there is open access to Internet resources, including electronic-library systems; an aid post; 4 canteens and a café; health camp «Laskovo»; a sports center, including a stadium and 5 gyms.
The University prepares the personnel for enterprises of the agro-industrial complex of Ryazan oblast and other branches of industry (Tula, Tambov, Moscow, Lipetsk and others) as well as for the city enterprises connected with production, processing and realization of food, building, road transport, planning and accountability, social work.
Due to a wide range of specialties all the graduators of the University get a good job and do not regret about choosing their professions.
There are 350 teachers working at the University. There are 61 Doctors of Science and 192 Candidates of Science among them. All the departments possess training areas in detached buildings. They include laboratories, libraries and computer classes.
Our University has rich and wonderful traditions that many generations of students treasure and increase. During its activity the University has prepared more than 40 thousand specialists including engineers (mechanic engineer, electrical engineer, automotive engineer, machinists and others), accountants, economists, merchandisers, ecologists, agronomists, technologists, zoo-engineers, veterinarians and others.
Every year more and more people want to enter our University. Those who will do will realize proudly that they are the best of the best! The knowledge you get at the University is your only capital that is not afraid of inflation! Training at our University targets the students at the perspective, multiply their potential for future development. Due to this many graduators of ours now hold leading positions at state and commercial organizations of the oblast and other regions of Russia. We prepare real professionals who are always necessary everywhere regardless the economic situation in the country!
13. Look through the text again to find the facts which were quite new to you and the facts which were already known to you.
14. In what paragraphs can you find the following information:
a) the teaching staff paragraph -
b) the foundation of the University paragraph -
c) sport at the University paragraph -
d) the faculties at the University paragraph -
e) the number of students at the University paragraph -
f) the Student’s Scientific society paragraph -
g) industrial practice activities paragraph -
15. Identify the main ideas of each paragraph and look for sentences that carry the main thrust of the arguments.
16. A delegation of students and teachers from Cambridge are on a visit at your University. You are asked questions about it. Give information about the items listed below:
1) the name of your University;
2) its location;
3) the faculties at the University;
4) how long the complete course lasts;
5) the number of the students at the University;
6) the subjects you study;
7) the equipment the University is provided with;
8) the student’s hostels;
9) what you like and what you don’t like about the University.
17. What words/ideas would you associate with A GOOD LEVEL OF EDUCATION? A beginning has already been made for you. Fill in the word web.
HIGHER EDUCATION
18. DISCUSSION
Your friend who is 20 years old works as a car mechanic. He wants to continue his education in order to become an engineer. He doesn’t know which faculty to choose. Help him to solve his problem. Give your reasons. Work in pairs.
19.Comment on the following aphorisms: