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Task 1.8. Answer the questions.

1. What kinds of shops do you know? Which ones do you prefer?
2. What do you think about shopping online? Does it have more advantages or disadvantages from the traditional shopping?
3. What is your opinion about shopaholics?
4. What is globalisation?
5. What is you attitude to advertisements?

Module 2. Education

Task 2.1. Read the text

Oxford - the University Town

This university town is very beautiful. The oldest university there is Oxford. The first of its colleges was founded in 1249. The university now has thirty-five colleges and about thirteen thousand students, many of them from other countries.

There were no women at Oxford until 1878. When the first women's college Lady Margaret Hall, opened. Now most colleges are open to men and women. It is not easy to get a place at Oxford University to study for a degree.

But outside the university there are many smaller private colleges which offer less difficult courses and where it is easy to enrol. Most students in these private school take business, secretarial or English language courses.

Oxford is, of course, famous for its first-class education as well as its beautiful buildings. Some of the most intelligent men and women in the country live and work here. Oxford gives them what they need: a quiet atmosphere, friendly colleagues and the four-hundred-year-old library, which has about five million books.

Oxford has same of the finest architecture in Britain. Some of their colleges, chapels and libraries are there, four and even five hundred years old, and are full off books and precious paintings. You can see there many lovely gardens, where the students can read and relax in the summer months.

Task 2.2. Answer the questions.

1. What is the oldest university in Oxford?
2. When did it open?
3. What is Oxford famous for?
4. How many colleges are there in university?
5. Where do students relax and read?

Task 2.3. Read the text

My University.

The Kazakh National Technical University after K.I.Satpaev is a smithy of engineering personnel and flagship of higher technical education of the country.
The training in the university is carried out according to the three level systems: bachelors- masters- doctoral candidacy PhD. An academic process in the bachelor’s degree on direction “Technical sciences and technology” is carried out by own experimental programs.

The University is received the certificate of accreditation on 11 educational programs in the International Accreditation Agencies ABET (USA), ASIIN (Germany), Accreditation Center of Russian Association for Engineering Education (Russia, Tomsk).

Our university took the first place in the rating of Kazakhstani educational institutions on academic indicators of specialists training among technical higher schools. According to the basic criteria the university is reckoned among the evaluated participants of the world universities’ rating of the rating agency “Times Higher QS World University Rankings” (England)/



Material and technical basis of the university is allowed to carry out the training of specialists in high level and includes buildings with a modern training lecture rooms and laboratory, student’s hostels, hotel, technopark and training grounds.

Students have an opportunity not only to study but also go in for sports, take part in different cultural mass events.

The university maintains close relations with more than 50 universities and scientific organizations in over 30 countries of Europe, Asia and America. The program of Double diploma education functions in KazNTU.

There are 13 institutes in the structure of university where carries out the training on 46 specialties of bachelors, 40 – masters degree and 20 – doctors programs. The college functions under KazNTU after K.I.Satpaev, which carries out the training with secondary vocational education. Kazakh-Korean Educational Information and Communication Technology Center, equipped by up-to-date equipment, including a supercomputer and Kazakhstan –French education center in the field of energy, electrical engineering and maintenance of automated systems– Schneider Electric has been functioning at the university

 


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