Read the conversation between Kelly and her mother and describe the house and the garden Kelly is speaking about
Kelly: Mum, I’ve got good news. We’ve bought that house in Hampstead.
Mother: Have you? Oh, good. Now tell me about it.
Jane: It is a two-storied country style house about thirty minutes drive from the city. High ceilings, fireplaces and all that.
Mother: How is it planned?
Jane: You come into the hall from the front door. When you are in the hall, there are three doors – one on the left, one on the right and one at the far end. The room at the end can be turned into a study. The one on the right would make a good big lounge, because its windows overlook a pond.
Mother: What about the third door at the far end?
Jane: That one leads into a sun-porch running across the back of the house.
Mother: And where is the kitchen?
Jane: It’s on the ground floor. You may get there two ways. If you go down the
hall into the sun-porch, there is a door on the left in the doorway leading off the lounge to the kitchen. Or you may walk into the lounge and when you are standing in the doorway, there is a door on the left leading off the lounge to the kitchen.
Mother: That’s good. The kitchen should be adjacent to the lounge. Is there a storeroom anywhere on the ground floor?
Jane: We may put a dividing wall at the part of the sun-porch and convert it into a storeroom.
Mother: What about the bedrooms?
Jane: When you turn to the left from the stairs, you are in a corridor with two bedrooms on both sides just above the study and the lounge.
Jane: Come on. Look at it. There is a wonderful view of the park from its window.
Mother: That’s great. Marvelous!
XII. Here are given the ads of people who need accommodation. Choose 3 ads and write the announcements that can interest them.
Accommodation Required
— Family, recently returned from Australia desperate for house/flat to rent. Anything considered — anywhere in Britain, Taylor, Cumberland.
— Young research worker and working wife urgently require small flat October, car distance from Chalfront. Job dependent on having accommodation.
— Two Asian students require two rooms and cooking facilities in London.
— Married teacher requires furnished or unfurnished flat, September onwards, in Croydon area.
— Teacher (male, single) requires self-contained furnished rooms, preferably East London, from early August!
— Flatlet, bedsitter or other self-contained single accommodation required, in Central London, by young man.
XIII. Explain the meaning of the proverbs:
1. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
2. Do not burn your house to get rid of the mice.
3. Home is where the heart is
4. There is no place like home.
5. Men make houses, women make homes.
OUR UNIVERSITY
I. Read the following words and word combinations paying attention to their pronunciation:
| 1) a Mining Institute 2) an assistant professor 3) mining mineral deposits 4) to amount to 5) to head 6) master of technical sciences 7) to contribute to 8) to train 9) software 10) to achieve 11) to award 12) an Order of Labor Red Banner 13) to be appointed 14) to create 15) to turn into 16) a boarding-school 17) secondary vocational education 18) a post-graduate course 19) to be enrolled 20) full-time students 21) a corresponding member 22) reference 23) cultural values 24) creative abilities 25) to have a rest 26) amateur groups 27) a network 28) to be at the disposal of 29) to keep in close touch with 30) the CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States) 31) to meet the requirements 32) up-to-date 33) a quality management system | горный институт доцент разработка месторождений полезных ископаемых насчитывать, составлять возглавлять кандидат технических наук делать вклад подготавливать, обучать программное обеспечение достигать награждать орден Трудового Красного Знамени быть назначенным создавать, творить превратиться в школа-интернат среднее профессиональное образование аспирантура быть зачисленным студенты дневного отделения член-корреспондент справочный культурные ценности творческие способности отдыхать группы художественной самодеятельности сеть быть в распоряжении поддерживать тесные связи с СНГ (Содружество Независимых Государств) отвечать, соответствовать требованиям современный система менеджмента качества |
II. Read and translate the text:
Our University
Karaganda State Technical University is one of the leading technical higher schools in Kazakhstan. It is quite large but not very old.
It was founded in 1953 as a Mining institute. Yunus Nurmukhamedov, an assistant professor of the Moscow Mining Institute, became its first rector. First there were only 2 specialties at the Institute: mining mineral deposits and mining electromechanical engineering. The students body amounted to 209 and the teaching staff was 26.
In 1955 the Institute was headed by Abylkas Saginov, a young scientist, a Master of technical sciences. The development of industry in Central Kazakhstan demanded more highly qualified specialists. A. Saginov greatly contributed to the development of the Mining Institute. There appeared 26 new specialties. And in 1958 the Mining Institute was reorganized into a Polytechnic one. Serious attention was paid to training the personnel and the most talented students were sent to central higher educational establishments of the USSR. As a result some scientific schools appeared at the Institute. In 1969 the Institute was the first in Kazakhstan to begin training specialists in creating software products.
For the success achieved in training specialists for our national economy the Institute was awarded an Order of Labour Red Banner in 1976. A.Saginov headed the Institute more than thirty years. He became an academician, a Hero of Socialist Labour.
In 1994 G.G.Piven, a professor, a Doctor of technical sciences, an academician, was appointed rector of the Institute. A program of developing the Institute was created, and soon the Institute turned into a center of education and science. There appeared a technical lyceum for schoolchildren with educational requirements of first seven years of schooling, a boarding-school “Murager” for talented children, a college of information technologies and business to train specialists having a secondary vocational education, a faculty of shortened period of study for college-leavers, a faculty of urgently required professions for getting a second higher education.
Karaganda State Technical University
In 1996 the Polytechnic Institute got a new status and was renamed into Karaganda State Technical University.
Nowadays the University has 12 faculties. It trains specialists in more than 50 specialties. It has post-graduate courses in 14 specialties. More than 10,000 students, are currently enrolled, mostly full time students. There are about 700 teachers among which are 50 doctors of sciences, professors, 42 academicians and corresponding members.
It has the largest scientific technical library containing more than 1.6 mln. volumes of educational, scientific, reference, and fiction books by home and foreign authors. It has wide connections with information centers of the country.
KarSTU is a school for displaying creative abilities of young people. There are students’ scientific societies, debate sections, a club of merry and ingenious people (KVN), amateur groups, students’ building groups, etc.
The University has a powerful sports complex including 5 sports grounds, 7 specialized sports halls for going in for popular kinds of sport. Regional and republic matches in 15 kinds of sport are held here.
The University has a fine sports-health base “Polytechnic” in Karkaralinsk. Every year more than 1,000 students and teachers have a good rest there. The students have the practical work in geology and geodesy there as well.
Now there are about 1,400 computers in the University united in the local network. The University has its own channel in the Internet, its own site, a laboratory of sputnik digital television. It has a center of distance education. All these are at the disposal of both the teachers and the students of the University.
The University keeps in close touch with higher educational institutions, scientific centers and industrial enterprises of Kazakhstan, other republics of the CIS and foreign countries to improve the teaching process and to meet the up-to-date requirements of production. In 2004 the University was the first among the higher educational establishments of Kazakhstan to get an international certificate for developing a quality management system. In 2005 the University was awarded a gold medal “For high quality in business practice” (Switzerland).
The Faculties of the University:
| The Mining Faculty | Горный факультет |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Mining | 1) Горное дело |
| 2) Geodesy and Mapping | 2) Геодезия и картография |
| The Faculty of Power Engineering, Communication and Automation | Факультет электроэнергетики, связи и автоматизации |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Automation and control | 1) Автоматизация и управление |
| 2) Heat power engineering | 2) Теплоэнергетика |
| 3) Electric power engineering | 3) Электроэнергетика |
| 4) Radio engineering, electronics and telecommunications | 4) Радиотехника, электроника и телекоммуникации |
| The Machine -Building Faculty | Машиностроительный факультет |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Metallurgy | 1) Металлургия |
| 2) Materials studying and new materials technologies | 2) Материаловедение и технология новых материалов |
| 3) Machine-building | 3) Машиностроение |
| 4) Technology of machines and equipment | 4) Технология машин и обoрудования |
| 5) Standardization, metrology and certification | 5) Стандартизация, метрология и сертификация |
| The Road-Transport Faculty | Транспортно-дорожный факультет |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Transport, transportation engineering and technologies | 1) Транспорт, транспортная техника и технология |
| 2) Organization of transportation, traffic and transport usage | 2) Организация перевозок, движения эксплуатации транспорта |
| The Civil Engineering Faculty | Инженерно-строительный факультет |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Architecture | 1) Архитектура |
| 2) Construction | 2) Строительство |
| 3) Production of building materials, articles and structures | 3) Производство строительных материалов, изделий и конструкций |
| The Faculty of Economy and Management | Факультет экономики и менеджмента |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Economics | 1) Экономика |
| 2) Management | 2) Менеджмент |
| 3) Accountingand audit | 3) Учет и аудит |
| 4) Marketing | 4) Маркетинг |
| 5) Consumer services | 5) Бытовые услуги и сервис |
| The Faculty of Information Technologies | Факультет информационных технологий |
| Its specialties: | Специальности |
| 1) Information systems | 1) Информационные системы |
| 2) Computer science and software | 2) Вычислительная техника и программное обеспечение |
| 3) Instrument – making | 3) Приборостроение |
| Correspondence-and-Distance Faculty | Факультет заочно-дистанционного обучения |
| The Preparatory Faculty | Факультет довузовской подготовки |
| The Faculty of Shortened Term of Studying | Факультет сокращенного срока обучения |
III. Find out the sentences which correspond to the text. Correct the wrong sentences in accordance with the text:
1. The first name of the University was a Mining Institute.
2. In 1955 the Institute became a University.
3. The first rector of the Mining Institute was G.G.Piven.
4. The Polytechnic Institute turned into the center of science and education.
5. The most talented students of the Polytechnic Institute were sent to study abroad.
6. The University has the largest technical library.
7. There is no sports base at the University.
8. There is a fine sports – health base in Karkaralinsk.
9. All the computers of the University are connected to the Internet.
10. The activity of the University has been marked by some rewards recently.
IV. Give English equivalents to the words in brackets:
1.The most (талантливый) students were sent to central (высшие учебные
заведения) of the USSR.
2. (В результате) some scientific schools appeared at the Institute.
3. And soon the Institute turned into (центр образования и науки).
4. (Факультет сокращенного срока обучения) was opened for (выпускников колледжей).
5. The library contains a great number of (томов) of educational, scientific,
reference books.
6. A second higher education can be got at (факультет актуального
образования).
V. Find the corresponding translation of the words and word combinations:
| А) 1) at the disposal of 2) cultural values 3) distance education 4) sports-health base 5) reference books 6) students’ building groups B) 1) студенческие научные общества 2) член-корреспондент 3) быть награжденным 4) быть назначенным 5) творческие способности 6) заниматься спортом | a) справочники b) студенческие строительные отряды c) спортивно-оздоровительная база d) в распоряжении e) дистанционное образование f) культурные ценности a) to be awarded b) to go in for sport c) creative abilities d) students’ scientific societies e) corresponding member f) to be appointed |
VI. Translate the sentences into English:
1. Университет первым получил международный сертификат за разработку системы менеджмента качества.
2. Колледж информационных технологий и бизнеса готовит специалистов со средним специальным образованием.
3. В институте появилась школа-интернат для одаренных детей.
4. В геологическом музее хранится уникальная коллекция минералов.
5. Университет поддерживает тесные связи с научными центрами Казахстана и других стран.