Ex.1. Have a talk based on the text with your group mate, making use of the following questions.
1.What can you say about Harvard University?
2.When was celebrated its 350th anniversary?
3.How many people do there work?
4.How many faculties are there?
5.How many presidents of the USA were graduates of Harvard?
1. How many Nobel laureats did graduate from Harvard?
2. When was established Harvard college?
3. Who was the first benefactor of it?
4. How do you think? Why it was named for John Harvard?
Ex.2. Make a list of all presidents of Harvard University. Speak about their contributions for development of Harvard University?
Ex.3.Divide the text into four parts and make an outline of them.
Ex.4.Retell the text.
Ex.5. Enact a panel discussion:
A panel discussion programme appears on TV. Four members of the public are invited to give their opinions. The questions for discussion are sent in by the viewers. The chairperson reads out the questions and directs the panel.
a) Open the group discussion by describing the members of the panel and the chairperson.
b) Split into groups of four students. Pretend you are the TV panel. Elect a chairperson and decide which of the four roles each of you will take: Mrs/Mr Terrie/John Hill, the academic vice president: Mrs/Mr Lilian/Joseph Ubite, a professor in the department of education; Mrs/Mr Denis/Gary Bell, a grad student in education: Florence/Donald Burrel, an undergraduate.
c) Consider the questions under discussion and enact the panel:
1.How should higher education be organized, governed, directed? How much, if any, freedom and autonomy should there be for universities and institutes? 2. Students should share the responsibilities in a university and enjoy equal rights with the faculty. The vital question is to what extent and in what ways? 3. Pros and cons of written and oral examinations.
Ex.5.Do library research and write an essay on one of the given topics:
1.Education for national minorities. The problem of bilinguism in the Kazakhstan and Russia.
2. The principal tasks of higher education.
3. Teacher training in the USA.
4.Problems in higher education in the USA and in Russia.
Ex.6. Working on the text.
Read and translate the text.
Make a list of unknown words.
Be ready to talk about Harvard’s students emphasizing the details you find most exciting and unusual.
Harvard’s students.
Visitors often ask: Who is the typical Harvard student? The answer is that there is no such person. Each student is a unique individual, and the student body is incredibly diverse. Harvard men and women represent an array of ethnic groups, religious traditions, and political persuasions. They come from every region of the United States and more than 100 countries. They include undergraduates and graduate continuing education, and Summer School students. The range from teenagers to octogenarians; in 1997, Mary Fasano became the oldest person ever to earn a Harvard degree when she graduated from the Extension School at the age of 89. Harvard College students have a remarkable range of backgrounds and academic and extracurricular interests. Two-thirds come from public schools, and about two-thirds receive some form of financial aid.
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Despite their diversity, Harvard students as a group do seem to share a few characteristics.
1. Academic excellence.
2. Harvard students display their talents in a wide array of extracurricular activities – including music, dance, theater, sports, journalism, and public service.
3. Harvard students show a real knack for taking what they’ve learned – in school and in life – and applying it to solve problems.
Harvard graduates, especially graduates of business school are in high demand. All consulting firms and investing banks want them to work at their enterprises. But only one third of magistrates after graduating accept their proposals. Others try to continue their study as postgraduates and to earn a doctor’s degree, especially on philosophy. Doctor’s degree is a free access to high academic groups. Annual income of the specialist with a doctor’s degree as a rule covers all the expenses on education.
Ex.7.Think about:
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