Sample Dialogues

1. Teacher: Good morning! Let’s begin our classes. Who is the monitor?

Monitor: I am.

Teacher: Who is staying away?

Monitor: All students are present.

2. Student: I am sorry, I am late.

Teacher: Why are you late?

Student: I got stuck in a traffic jam.

Teacher: Go to your seat and don’t be late next time.

3. Teacher: I checked up your test-papers yesterday.

Students: What are our results?

Teacher: Two papers are excellent, five papers are good, three papers are satisfactory. One student got a bad mark: he made too many mistakes.

4. Student A: Who is the monitor in your group?

Student B: Dasha Petrova is.

Student A: Where is she now?

Student B: She is at the Dean’s Office.

Student A: What is she doing there?

Student B: She is talking to the Deputy Dean.

Student A: What are they speaking about?

Student B: I think they are speaking about the timetable.

Role play: “The teacher and students in a class”.

Use the phrases from the dialogues and the classroom expressions and make your own dialogues.

Lexical Exercises

Exercise 1. Answer the questions using the words in brackets.

1. Are you a student? (first-year, study, faculty)

2. How many faculties are there at the University? What are they? (train/trains teachers of, the course of studies)

3. Are there many laboratories? (is/are equipped, of advanced design, Internet facilities)

4. What does our University provide good conditions for? (research, laboratories, carry out, various fields of knowledge).

Exercise 2. Read the sentences translating the words in brackets into English.

1. Perm Technical University is one of the (высших образовательных учреждений)

3. Nowadays it is an important centre of training specialists (в различных областях) of technology and engineering.

4. The laboratories are equipped (приборами современной конструкции).

7. Professors, lecturers and instructors (вносят свой вклад) to science and technology.

9. Technical University provides good conditions for (научного исследования).

10. All students (выполняют исследовательскую работу) in various fields (под руководством опытных преподавателей).