LISTENING - раздел Образование, Higher Education in Belarus 1. Work In Small Groups And Discuss The Following Questions.
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1. Work in small groups and discuss the following questions.
a) At what age do you think you should ...
- stop listening to parents and teachers and do what you feel is right?
- be financially independent?
- leave the family home?
b) Have you ever taken your parents' advice and regretted it?
c) Do you intend to follow in your parents' footsteps?
2. Listen to parents talking about their eighteen-year-old daughter. Decide which of the following sentences best summarises their feelings about daughter's plans for the future.
a) They want their daughter to go to university but they're worried about supporting her financially.
b) They think she should get a university degree before she tries to become a pop singer.
c) They think that it would be a waste of time for her to go to university because she really wants to be a pop singer.
3. Listen again to the conversation and complete these extracts, using the phrases in the box.
taste of freedom up to her out of her system behind her make it
a) Now she reckons she's going to … in the pop world.
b) That's true, but once she gets a …, she'll find it more difficult to go back to college.
c) At least if it doesn't work out she'll have a qualification … .
d) We're just hoping that she'll get it … and then come to her senses and go back to her studies.
e) ... we can't afford to pay for her to live in London, so it's … to make it work.
4. Work with a partner. Decide whether you agree or disagree with the following statements. Do you think your parents would have the same opinion?
a) If you want to go travelling, it's best to get it out of your system before you start a career. Afterwards it's too late.
b) Once young people have had a taste of freedom, it's difficult for them to go back and live with their parents.
c) The more qualifications you've got behind you, the better your chances are of getting a good job.
d) You don't need musical talent to make it in the pop world these days: just good looks and a good manager.
e) Whether or not you succeed in life is up to you. Nobody else can help.
Виршиц Н.И., Петрова И.В.
Высшее образование в Республике Беларусь. Белорусский государственный экономический университет. = Higher Education in Belarus. Belarus State Economic University: Электронное учебно-методическое по
GETTING STARTED
1. Read the following passage and comment on the following quotation: Knowledge is the highest privilege of the day.
Education is among the national prioritie
USEFUL VOCABULARY
Make sure that you know the following English words and word combinations.
public education—народное образование
universal education—всео
READING
1. Read the text “Higher education in Belarus” and sum up what the text says about
· education and knowledge
· system of higher education in Belarus
DEVELOPING VOCABULARY
1. Give words defined by the following:
1) a person with authority to maintain discipline, the head of a department of studies;
2) charge or payment for professional advic
DISCOVERING LANGUAGE
1. Divide the following nouns into countable and uncountable:
choice
decision
datum
formula
information
knowledge
law
network
path
rig
How to learn vocabulary
Students are under enormous …… to learn huge amounts of vocabulary but they are rarely given …… as to how to go about it. They have a …… to try and learn long lists b
SPEAKING
1. Discuss the following question:
1) What to teach and how to teach in modern universities?
2) What improvements should be made to our country’s educati
Agreement and Disagreement
1. Study the expressions useful to get someone’s opinions about the subject being discussed.
Agreeing with someone
Agreeing to someth
DEVELOPING VOCABULARY
1.Match the following words with their definitions:
a) diploma
b) study session
c) tutorials
d) register
e) degree
f) graduate
g) curriculum
h) semi
FOCUS ON FUNCTION
’Knowing and understanding’
1. Study the idioms useful to say that you know or don’t know something or make conclusion.
A. Knowing and not knowing
SPEAKING
1. Imagine a friend is going away to University. Give him or her some advice by completing these sentences. The first one has been done as an example:
1) In the firs
Meждународные связи
Международная деятельность является неотъемлемой составляющей жизни БГЭУ и строится по следующим основным направлениям:
o прием на учебу иностранных граждан на контрактной основе и в рамка
Text 1 University Degrees
A university or college awards a degree to a person who has completed a required course of study. The institution presents the degree in the form of a diploma, a document which certif
Text 2 Major Developments in Higher Education Today
The new century has brought changes practically in all spheres of global communication and global economy. This directly made an impact in education sector leading to several structural changes in
New methods of teaching/learning
The use of media (transparencies, posters, flipcharts) to visualise interrelations, and beamers including related software applications, electronic media for large-scale projections and videoconfe
Text 3 Qualification Raising and Staff Retraining
Education of adults. Deviation from the command-and-control system of management required to review the role and place of the postgraduate staff education system, bringing it in compl
Text 4 The History of University Education in Belarus
The universities of Europe appeared during the Middle Ages in connection with the growth of cities, in Italy, Spain, France and England first universities were founded between the e
Text 5 International Relations
International activity is an indispensable part of the University life. Its major directions are as follows:
• bilateral academic cooperation with overseas Universities and
Text 6 Research Work
The Belarus State Economic University is one of the leading centers of economic research in the country. Its departments carry out research in social and economic issues of forming market economy i
Text 7 Publishing Center
The changes that take place in the social and economic spheres inevitably put forward new requirements to the system of higher education as well as the quality of the information re
Text 8 Library
The BSEU library was founded together with the establishment of the Institute of National Economy back in 1933, and it has its own rich history to its credit. At present it has 1.5
Text 9 Student Activities
The attitude of a student to his Alma Mater depends in many respects on the organization of educational process, daily activities, and leisure. Our university has well equipped mate
Text 10 The Sanatorium-Dispensary of BSEU
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