Study High World Technologies in Russia
St. Petersburg State University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics – A leader in the field of Computer Science and Optical technology with over a hundred years of experience.
St. Petersburg University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics is one of the leading universities in the country thanks to the selection of courses on offer and the training given to young gifted programmers. In 1996 a team from our university became the first in Russia to win an award for programming. In 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 we won the gold medal in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, ACM-ICPC organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, and sponsored by IBM. In 2004 a team from our university became the world champions in programming.
You probably decided some time ago that you’re worth the best education you can lay your hands on; in which case, you’re probably planning to go and study at the St. Petersburg State University ITMO. If so, you’ll need to know a little about our pre-university preparation courses, and the Unified State Exam system.
You should note though, that they aren’t just any old preparatory courses – they’re set up and run based on the license and registration charter issued to ITMO by the Ministry Of Education of the Russian Federation.
Conversational Formulas
Requests
Could you/ would you…? – Не могли бы Вы …?
Excuse me, may I speak to you? – Простите, можно к Вам обратиться?
Excuse me, could you tell me …? – Простите, не скажите ли Вы мне …?
I wonder if he/ she could/ would …? – Интересно, не мог (ла) бы он (она) …?
Possible replies
Yes?/ Well? – Да? Что?
Certainly/ Sure/ Yes, of course. – Конечно.
With pleasure. – С удовольствием.
All right. – Хорошо.
I’m afraid, I can’t. – Боюсь, что не могу.
I’m sorry, I can’t. – Сожалею, не могу.
18. Interview your partner and find out:
a) about his/ her school education;
b) about his/ her university experience.
19. Make a Role Play.
Role 1 – “You are a reporter. You are to write an article about the Faculty of Philology and Journalism. You have a meeting with the students and graduates of the faculty”.
Role 2 – “You are a first-year student. You want to tell the reporter about your studies at the faculty”.
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Role 3 - “You are a third-year student. You want to tell the reporter about your research work”.
Role 4 – “You are a University graduate. You work at school (or University). You want to tell the reporter about your work”.
20. Give a talk on the topic “Kemerovo State University. The Faculty of Philology and Journalism”.
Word Formation
The most common suffixes to form the verbs from nouns and adjectives are:
-ize – to cause to be (more) …; to become (a) …; to put into the stated place;
-ify (-fy) – to make or become …; to fill with …;
21. Make the derivatives from the following words. Translate them into Russian.
Class, just, intense, code, false, fort, real, simple, standard, modern, popular.
Grammar
Progressive Tenses
22. Define the tense form of the verbs and translate the following sentences into Russian.
1. Margaret is reading a newspaper now. 2. Her research work is being discussed at the moment. 3. He will be preparing for the seminar on folklore at 3 tomorrow. 4. A scientific article is being written by him at the moment. 5. She will be interviewed at 5 tomorrow. 6. Is he still being asked by the teacher? 7. What is he being asked about? 8. Was her research being discussed when you came? 9. I believe you were not being given a lecture at 8 yesterday. 10. They will be discussing methods of teaching from two to four tomorrow. 11. At 3 o’clock we’ll be writing a semester test. Don’t call me, please. 12. Will you be studying if I come at 6 p.m.?
23. Choose the proper tense form. Consult Grammar Support if necessary.
1. She speaks/is speaking five languages. 2. Look at that man. He wears/is wearing such a funny hat. 3. Don't take that book back to the library. I am reading/ read it. 4. They have/are having two daughters and two sons. 5. Do you understand/are you understanding Spanish? 6. We think/are thinking opera is boring. 7. Be quiet! I am watching/watch my favourite program. 8. We don't enjoy/aren't enjoying this party at all. The music is too loud. But we are enjoying/enjoy going to big parties. 9. Alec and Mary are Scottish. They come/are coming from Glasgow. They'll be here very soon. They come/are coming by car. 10. Lisa can't answer the phone. She has/is having a bath. 11. Every hour the Planet Earth travels/is travelling 66,620 miles around the Sun. 12. Where is Jane? She listens/is listening to a French song but she doesn't understand what it is meaning/means. 13. See you in the morning. I leave/I'm leaving now. 14. I can't stand horror films. I think/am thinking they are really silly. 15. Excuse me, does this bus stop/is this bus stopping near the Post Office?
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24. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.
1) talking/ phone/ not/ is/ he/ the/ on.
2) an /they/ watching/ English/ now/ are/ film.
3) taking/ lecture/ the/ of/ notes/ students/ are/ the/ now.
4) where/ your/ staying/ are/ friends?
5) not/ I/ to/ am/ you/ now/ listening.
6) text/ he/ the/ is/ now/ retelling?
25. Match the questions with the answers.
1) What is she writing?.............................. .
2) What are you doing?.............................. .
3) What are they discussing?...................... .
4) Who is he talking to?............................. .
5) Are you leaving now?............................ .
6) What is she looking at?.......................... .
a) At the clouds floating in the sky.
b) To the dean.
c) Yes, I am.
d) A course paper.
e) I’m translating the article.
f) The university life in Russia.
26. Answer the questions using the Past Progressive and the Future Progressive Tenses.
1. Were you doing your homework at six o’clock yesterday? 2. What were you doing then? 3. What will you be doing at three o’clock tomorrow? 4. Will you be hurrying home after classes? 5. What was your mother doing when you got home yesterday? 6. Will you be taking your English exam at 10 a.m. on Monday? 7. Will you be flying to Athens at this time tomorrow? 8. What will you be doing the whole weekend? 9. Were you having a party when I called you yesterday? 10. Were you talking to the Dean when I passed by the other day? 11. Will you be doing a report at 5 p.m. tomorrow? 12. Will you be studying if I come at 4 tomorrow? 13. Who was cooking in your kitchen when I came? 14. Who are you talking to at the moment?
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27. Complete the following sentences using the Future Progressive or Future Simple.
Model: Don’t leave (we, to have supper, in about 10 minutes). – Don’t leave, we’ll have supper in about 10 minutes.
1. Is there anything you’d like to tell her? (I, talk to her, at the party, today). 2. Don’t wait for me (I catch up with you, in a minute). 3. We must leave immediately (they expect us, out there before noon). 4. Don’t worry (I write shortly). 5. We needn’t trouble to send him the book (he, come, to see us, soon). 6. I can buy the medicine for you when (I pass, by the chemist’s). 7. I don’t think it’s wise to wait for him (he, get home late, this evening).
28. Match column A with column B
| 1. While I was driving home, 2. We were watching the children 3. He cut his finger 4. At eight o’clock yesterday morning 5. As she was crossing the street, 6. While they were talking, | a. as he was chopping wood. b. he was sleeping in his bed. c. while they were playing. d. she slipped and fell. e. I ran out of petrol. f. the doorbell rang. |
29. Join the sentences using as, when, or while, as in the example.
Tina was cooking. She burnt herself.
When Tina was cooking she burnt herself.
1) Laura was listening to the lecturer. She got a call.
2) Mrs. Jason was sitting in the garden. It started raining.
3) Peter was entering the university. He met his group mate.
4) She was making a report. One of the students went out.
30. Correct the mistakes.
1) We looking for a new article.
2) Aren’t he having his exam now?
3) What are you do?
4) Look! The bus is come!
5) You isn’t listening to the teacher.
6) She is do her home assignment now.
7) It are getting dark.
31. Make these sentences passive.
1) She is still cleaning the room.
2) Is anybody serving you, madam?
3) The father is giving a birthday present to his son at the moment.
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4) She is telling a funny story to the colleagues now.
5) The government is planning the city budget these days.
6) They are waiting for Mr. Miller at the moment.
7) His scientific supervisor is consulting him at the moment.
It’s Interesting to Know
Campus Fashion
Students are known for a lot of things, but fashion isn’t one of them. However, if you walk through any UK university campus you definitely notice that there is a sense of fashion on campus.
For most people university is the first time that you can wear what you want – there aren’t really any rules (although turning up in fancy dresses or in your pyjamas is not really advisable!). No more dull school uniforms and no more parents telling you that “midriff is showing” or saying “isn’t that a bit revealing?” It’s when you can finally wear what you want every day of the week.
The Scruffy Look
This generally means jeans, a t-shirt and a hoody. Or just whatever falls out of your wardrobe in the morning and smells clean. It’s the stereotypical student look. It’s for those who know that in a lecture no-one cares how you look – the task in hand is to stay awake!
The Business or Management Student
Somehow you can always tell business students a mile off – they are the guys who always look like they’re going to an interview. They’re in suits and their best shirts. They’re dressed up to the nines and look rather out-of-place in the student union holding a pint.
The Arts Student
Arts students have a certain look about them – they know their style and stick to it. It tends to be a bit off-the-wall but it works for them. They generally avoid the high street trends, trying to be individual. They go for one of five looks: the scruffy look, the punk look, the goth look, the skater look or the intellectual look.
The Goths and the Punks
There tend not to be very extreme punks or goths in universities. Goths seem to have somehow got a bad reputation as being rather reclusive, introvert and dark. They usually have dyed black hair (sometimes red) and are dressed in black. Some just look like all the other goths, but some make it into a sophisticated look. Punks’ hair is also often dyed (red, pink, blue or green), sometimes spiky, occasionally a mohican. They wear DocMartins or Converses and vintage or skinny jeans, often accompanied by a band T-shirt.
The Skater Look
This means baggy or sometimes flared trousers, hoodies, ska or punk band t-shirts and often dyed hair. Accompanied by lots of beaded bracelets and skater trainers such as Vans.
The Intellectual Look
They tend to be smart-casual and look extremely intelligent. It’s the corduroy waistcoats, the scarves, fitted jeans and often some sort of hat.
The “Too Cool for School” Look
In almost every lecture you see one guy who tries to look like they’ve just walked out of downtown New York into the lecture theatre. They have baseball caps on backwards, oversized headphones around their ears and a certain swagger about their walk.
The High-Street Fashion Gurus
There are some students who, despite the lack of cash, manage to always stick to the latest trends, no matter how short-lived they are. Admittedly, whatever the fashion is, it always seems to work on them, but you start to wonder how big their wardrobes and wallets are.
The “Can’t Live Without the Label” Look
These are the designer addicts. They are few and far betweenon a university campus but they do exist. Whatever they wear, it has to have a name on it somewhere, whether big or small. They’re the people who wouldn’t be seen dead in Topshop, let alone a charity shop.
The Sports Student
These people live in trackies. They tend to walk around with their name written on their back as one of the members of the university team and are never seen in anything else. Often seen with an extremely large bag. Imagine a younger version of your school PE teacher, but one who does sport.
The First Year Student
Ok so this isn’t really a fashion statement, but you can spot a fresher a mile off. They are the ones who take any of the above styles to the extreme. They haven’t yet realized just how little a student loan buys you and are still in brand new clobber. They have a lost look on their faces for at least two months while they try and figure everything out and a hint of anticipation as they wonder what they’ve let themselves in for. Ah, bless!
Independent Reading
32. Read the texts and answer the following questions:
a) When and where did the first universities appear?
b) How many faculties did a university have? What were they?
c) When were the first universities in Britain founded?
d) What was the attitude to the books at those times?
e) What subjects are taught and studied in Oxford nowadays?
f) Was Cambridge University open for women?
The First Universities
Before the 12th century most people were illiterate. Reading and writing skills were not considered important or necessary. Monasteries were centres of education and priests and monks were the most educated people.
But with the development of such sciences as medicine and law, organizations of general study called universities appeared in Italy and France. A university had four faculties: Theology (the study of religion), Canon Law (church laws), Medicine and Art, which included Latin grammar, rhetoric (the art of making speeches), logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.
In the middle of the 12th century a group of professors from France came to Britain and founded schools in the town of Oxford in 1168. It was the beginning of the first English university. A second university was formed in 1209 in Cambridge. Towards the end of the 13th century colleges appeared around the universities, where other subjects were studied.
Getting an education in those times was very difficult. Printing had not yet been invented, and all the books were hand-written. That’s why books were rare and very expensive. Only the richest people could afford buying books. If a man had twenty or thirty books, people said that he had a great library. Special rules existed for handling books. You were not to touch the books with dirty hands or put them on the table at meal times. In almost any monastery you could find one or two or more monks spending hours every day copying books.
Oxford
The first written record of the town of Oxford dates back to the year 912. Oxford University, the oldest and most famous university in Britain, was founded in the middle of the 12th century, and by 1300 there were already 1,500 students. At that time Oxford was a wealthy town, but by the middle of the 14th century it was poorer, because of the decline in trade and because of the terrible plague, which killed many people in England. The relations between the students and the townspeople were very unfriendly, and there was often fighting in the streets.
Nowadays there are about 12,000 students in Oxford and over 1000 teachers. Outstanding scientists work in numerous colleges of the University, teaching and doing research work in physics, chemistry, mathematics, cybernetics, literature, modern and ancient languages, art and music, philosophy, psychology.
Oxford University has a reputation of a privileged school. Many prominent political figures of the past and present times got their education at Oxford.
Cambridge
Cambridge is one of the best-known towns in the world, and the principal reason for its fame is its University, the second oldest university of Britain, which was founded in the 13th century. Today there are more than twenty colleges in Cambridge University.
The oldest college is Peterhouse, which was founded in 1284, and the most recent is Robinson College, which was opened in 1977. The most famous is probably King’s College, because of its magnificent chapel. Its choir of boys and undergraduates is also well known.
The university was only for men until 1871. In 1871 the first women’s college was opened. Another was opened two years later and a third in 1954. In the 1970s, most colleges opened their doors to both men and women. Nowadays almost all colleges are mixed.
33. Read the text carefully, identify key points. Express your opinion on the problem in English or in Russian when being tested on your progress in independent reading.
British Universities
British universities are not open to everyone. To get a place, you normally apply in your last year at school, before you have taken your A levels. The university makes you an offer; for example, it will give you a place if you get at least one grade A and two Bs in your A levels. The offer depends on market forces; for popular, high-prestige courses, the university will ask for very good A level results.
The number of students on a particular course (for example, Economics at Cardiff University) is strictly limited. The system does not allow students to follow full-time courses in a casual way, having a job or living in another town as they study. Students are quite closely monitored, and have to see their teachers regularly. Consequently, drop-out and failure rates are low.
The negative side of the system was that, compared with other countries, a rather small percentage of British school-leavers actually went on to university. But there has been a dramatic improvement; the numbers have doubled over the last 20 years. One explanation of this is that in the 1980s many polytechnics and higher education colleges were given university status. As a result, many cities now have two universities – an old one and a new one. For example, in Bristol there is Bristol University and the University of the West of England; in Oxford there is Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University.
Officially, all universities in the country are equal in status. But they differ greatly in reputation and public image. In general, the older a university is, the higher its status. So the most prestigious are the ancient ones – Oxford and Cambridge – followed by long-established ones such as London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Some of this is just based on tradition and snobbery. In fact, each university has strengths and weaknesses, and sensible students make their choices according to their own particular needs and priorities.
About half of British students go away to university, rather than attend the one closest to home. This is an expensive thing to do; the government used to give grants (money to live on during studies), whereas now students have to borrow money or get their parents to pay. But still many students find that combining study and family life is impossible.
British universities are very popular with overseas students. There are about 70,000 – mostly from Africa, the Arab world and Far Eastern countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. The Erasmus programme arranges exchanges (from three months to one year) for students and teachers between universities in 24 countries including all the members of the European Union. In fact, the UK is the most popular destination, receiving over 25 percent of all Erasmus students.
34. Read the text and answer the questions:
a) What kind of teachers does the author describe in the text?
b) How does the author describe the task of a school teacher?
c) How is the task of a university teacher described?
d) What qualities are necessary for either work?
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