Цель занятия: закрепление навыков чтения, перевода, составления высказываний на английском языке. Задание 1. Read the text and do the activities below.
STUDENTS’ LIFE
In two weeks I shall finish my first year at Cambridge. Let me tell you something about students’ life and my impressions of it.
The students are mainly English, but there are many others, particularly so in the block of rooms in which I live, for my neighbours include a Chinese studying English, a Canadian studying history and a Frenchman studying science.
The rooms have a pleasant outlook over the college gardens. There is a very small gas-stove on which we make tea or coffee. It is a popular tradition here to invite friends in the afternoon for tea and hot buttered toast and jam. To each room there is a man-servant who with a woman-servant, known as a “bedder”, keep it clean.
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In the old days when Colleges were religious institutions the students were clergymen, and their life was much more strict and disciplined than now. Friendship with young ladies was not allowed and the only women inside the college were washerwomen. The legend is that these women had to be “old and ugly”.
The students eat their meals in the college dining-hall. At some colleges there is an interesting tradition. It is known as “sconcing”. If a student comes late to dinner or he is not correctly dressed, or he breaks one of the laws of behavior, then the senior student orders him to be sconced.
A large silver cup, known as “sconce” cup, filled with beer is brought and placed in front of him and he must drink it in one attempt without taking the cup from lips (it holds two and a half pints, or 1,5 litres). If he can do it, then the senior pays for it, if not, the cup is passed round and the student who has been “sconced” must pay for it. In general, the discipline is not strict.
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The students can stay out till twelve o’clock. Each evening a Proctor with two assistants, called “Bulldogs”, walks about the town keeping an eye on the students behavior. If he sees a student breaking a rule he will come up to him and say, “Are you a member of the University, sir?”, and if a student runs away, then the “Bulldogs” run after him, and if they catch him (they are chosen, it is said, because they are good runners), they fine the student.
Apart from fines a student may be dismissed for the university for one term.
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We attend our lectures in the morning and in the afternoon we are free. I usually work in my room or play some sport. The most popular sport is rowing.
There are over a hundred societies and clubs. There are religious societies a society for those who don’t believe; political, sporting and dramatic societies. There is even one for people with beards. Perhaps the most popular is the Debating Society at which students debate political and other questions with famous politicians and writers.
The walks into the country, the talks, the games and the work, the traditions and the customs – all are part of the students’ life which would be poorer if anyof them was lost.
Задание 2. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian words and words combinations.
· горничная в университетских общежитиях
· наложения штрафа на нарушение правил
· религиозный кружок
· иметь приятный вид на сад
· священник
· столовая колледжа
· посещать лекции
