Listening comprehension

I. True or False?

1. Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, is one of the largest schools in the Midwest.

1. The new school year begins this autumn and will cost 52 thousand dollars for undergraduates.
2. Graduate tuition doesn’t differ by the program.
3. The University doesn’t offer any financial assistance for international students because its resources are limited.
4. International students may only take out private loans.

II. Answer the questions.

1. What types of schools are there at the university?

2. What is the difference between graduate tuition?

3. What kind of assistance does the university offer to the international students?

III. You are one of the international students, who want to study at this University and needs some information about it. Your partner is the representative of the university staff. Make an interview, using newly learnt words and useful expressions from the previous lessons.

On-line/off-line activity

Find from the Internet additional materials about education in the USA and compare with education in Russia and Great Britain: Divide into two groups and discuss differences and similar features in groups, then express your opinion in class.

Recommended resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States

Homework

Write an informal letter to your penfriend in the USA about your study at the university, your interests, etc. Ask him/her 5-6 questions about his/her study. Don’t forget about organisation of the letter.

Do grammar and revision test.

Lesson 4

LEXICAL EXERCISES

I. Match the words and their definitions given below:

Grade, high school, diploma, vocational, score, higher school, standards, selective subjects, term, admission, middle class, boarding school, mandatory subjects, loan, campus.

Educational certificate of proficiency;

a school where pupils study and live;

being accepted to a school, a club;

the mark given to a student for his work;

subjects that every student must study;

institution for giving secondary education;

subjects that a student may choose;

academic requirements;

professional;

record points;

universities;

class of society between the poor and the rich;

one of the periods into which the academic year is divided;

place where students live;

sum of money given to a person who should return it;

II. Fill the gaps in these sentences with words from below:

1. In the UK most children start .................... at the age of five and move to ..................... when they are eleven. They .................. school at sixteen, but most students stay on in the .................... till they are eighteen.
2. Our teacher was very .................. and we were always ................ if we misbehaved. Sometimes, if we were really ................... we were put in ..................... and had to stay after school.
3. The ............... is in charge of the ....................... and .................... of a school.
4. Mary got such good .................. in her exams, that she got a ................. at a Cambridge ..................... and a ............... to pay for her studies. She did so well that she ................ with the first class ....................

Detention graduated head honours leave

marks/scores/grades naughty place primary school

punished pupils/students scholarship secondary school sixth form

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