2018-01-08
1334
VII. Find synonyms to the words:
according to, to mean, successful, to intend, for instance, variety, mixed, voluntary, expensive, independent
VIII. Mind the following words:
to enrol – бути зарахованим
a chapel – каплиця
IX. Listen to the text “Oxford – the university town” and try to understand it.
X. Answer the following questions:
1. What is Oxford famous for?
2. How many colleges are there in the university?
XI. True/ False statements:
1. Oxford is comparatively new university.
2. The first college was founded 1249.
3. It is quite easy to enter Oxford University.
XII. Read and translate the following text:
Cambridge
The story of the University begins in 1209, when several hundred students and scholars arrived in the little town of Cambridge, after having walked 60 miles from Oxford.
These students were all churchmen and had been studying in Oxford at that city’s well-known schools. It was a hard life at Oxford, for there was constant trouble, even fighting, between the townsfolk and the students. The Mayor arrested three other students, who were innocent, and by the order of King John (who was quarrelling with the church and knew that the death of three students moved elsewhere, some coming to Cambridge) the new University began.
Of course, there were no colleges in those early days and student’s life was very different from what it is now. Students were of all ages and came from anywhere. Those from the same part of the country tended to group themselves together and these groups, called “Nations”, often fought one another.
The students were armed, some even banded together to rob the people of the countryside. Gradually the idea of the College developed and in 1284 Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge, was founded.
Life in the College was strict: students were forbidden to play games, to sing (except sacred music), to hunt or fish, or even to dance. Books were very scarce and all the lessons were in the Latin language, which students were supposed to speak even among themselves.
In 1440 King Henry VI founded King’s College and other colleges followed. Erasmus, the great Dutch scholar, was at one of these, Queens’ College, from 1511 to 1513. Though he writes that the College beer was “weak and badly made”, he also mentions a pleasant custom that unfortunately seems to have ceased.
Many other great men studied at Cambridge. Amongst them Bacon, Milton, Cromwell, Newton, Wordsworth, Byron and Tennyson.
XIII. Speak on the history of Cambridge.
XIV. Work in pairs. Imagine that one of you is a historian, another – a newspaper reporter, which is going to take an interview concerning the life of Cambridge students in early days.
Unit 14
