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Exercises
79.1 Read these sentences spoken by university students. What is each person studying?
1 We have to know every bone in a person’s body.
2 I’m concentrating on the modernist style and the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd
Wright.
SIN I’ve been reading some books on time management.
WD The way we use fertilizers is much more precise than twenty years ago.
BR We’re going to concentrate on Freud and Jung this term.
HA
Expressionism was really a reaction to the work of the Impressionists.
We ‘ve spent a lot of time on American foreign policy and how it has been affected by
various domestic problems.
8 You must know this case — it’s one of the most famous in legal history.
Now mark the stress on each of your answers, check with the answer key, and practise saying
the words.
79.2. What do you call:
WNP the money some students receive if they get a place at university?
the qualification you get at the end of university?
the name we give students during this period at university?
AR teachers at university?
students when they have completed their first degree?
ArnIN students studying for a second degree?
the study of one subject in great depth and detail, often to get new information?
the talks that students go to while they are at university?
79.3 Replace the underlined verbs with different verbs that have the same meaning in the context.
Who is giving the lecture today?
eR Did she receive a grant for her course?
PWN Is it more difficult to obtain a place at university?
You have to pass the exams before you can enter university.
OnNNN He’s studying physics, I think.
I think they’re carrying out some research into the cause of asthma.
I didn’t take any notes in the lecture yesterday.
The course goes on for three years.
79.4 How similar is university education in your own country? Answer these questions. If
possible, compare your answers with someone else from your own country and/or someone
from a different country.
Do you need to pass examinations before you can go to university?
WN Is the tuition free if you go to university?
Do some students get a grant to study at university?
NR Do most students go to university at the age of 18 or 19?
Do more students go to university in your country than in Britain?
DYN Do most degree courses last three years?
What is your equivalent of the British BA or BSc?
Do you have similar postgraduate degrees in your country?
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