Listening

2.6.1 Listen to the recording and answer the questions

1 Why did the football coach want the dean to let the student enter college without an examination?

2 What question did the dean ask the student?

3 What was the student's answer?

4 What did the dean do then?

2.6.2 Listen to the recording and choose the correct answers to these
questions

1 Did the students in this story know in advance when a new girlfriend was
going to visit one of their friends?

a. Yes, they did.

b. No, they didn't

2 What did they usually do then?

a. They changed all the student's furniture around.

b. They removed the student's furniture from the room.

3 What would the girlfriend find when she arrived?

a. She would find that the chairs were too uncomfortable to sit on.

b. She would find that there were no chairs.

4 What did Ted Jones decide to do when he heard about this?

a. He decided to lock his door.

b. He decided to take his door away.

5 What did his girlfriend find when she arrived?

a. That all the furniture had been taken away.

b. That the door of Ted's room was missing.

2.6.3 Listen to the recording. Draw lines from the words on the left to the correct words on the right. Then write out the five complete sentences

1 George and Carol 2 One of the medical lectures 3 Smoking 4 The professor 5 The skeleton

a) advised the skeleton to stop smoking and give up students. b) put a cigarette in the skeleton's mouth. c) was used for medical lectures. d) was disapproved of by the professors. e) was about bones.

Discussion

2.7.1 Think about these questions (with your partner). Present your ideas to the class

2.7.1.1 Here are the ten subjects which, according to the national
curriculum for England, must be taught in the first three years of
secondary education: English, Mathematics, Science, Technology,
History, Geography, a modern foreign language (French is the most
common), Art, Music and Physical Education (PE). Is there
anything here that surprises you? Do you think any other subjects
should be included? Are these the main subjects taught in your
country?

2.7.1.2 What would you say¹ are the successes and failures of the Russian
educational system? What thing, if any, does it appear to do well,
and what areas does it seem to neglect or do badly in?

2.7.2 Practice your communicative skills

You meet (receive) students from Britain (the USA) at your university. You describe the structure of the university, the system of higher education in Russia. You talk about the life of students.