My Academy

I. Гласные звуки [а: ], [л], дифтонги [еэ], [ei].

II. Text A: «My Academy»,

Text B: «Moscow State University». III.§1.Безличные и неопределенно-личные предложения. §2. Неопределенные местоимения some, any, отрица­тельное местоимение по и их производные.

Гласный звук [а: ]

При произнесении английского гласного [а: ] рот от­рыт почти как для русского звука, но язык отодвига­ется дальше назад и книзу и лежит плоско. Кончик языка оттянут от нижних зубов. Губы не растянуты и не выдвинуты вперед.

Гласный звук [л]

При произнесении краткого гласного [л] губы не­множко растянуты, язык отодвинут назад, несколько глубже, чем для русского звука [а]. Кончик языка на­ходится у нижних зубов, напоминает русский звук [а] в словах камыш, ^сады, валы.

Дифтонг [еэ]. Ядро звука — гласный похожий на русский звук в слове это. Скольжение происходит в на­правлении нейтрального гласного с оттенком звука.

Дифтонг [ei]. Дифтонг, ядром которого является гласный, а скольжение происходит в направлении

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гласного. Произнося дифтонг необходимо следить за тем, чтобы ядро не было таким широким, как русский гласный [э], а второй элемент не превращался в рус­ский звук [й].

Exercise A

car — far — bar half — calf — bath part — park — fart cart — barter — shark spark — bath — mark park — raft — plant

%< Exercise В

mare — air — pair care — dare — rare fare — fair — hair

Exercise С

tape — hate — bate mate — plate — Kate late — fate — rate brave — maple — main pain — name — day date — may — pay lay — hay — Ray

Exercise D

us — bus tub — mud must — sum humble — tumble sun — hunt trust — last

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Text A: «ANN'S ACADEMY»

Hello again! Now let me tell you about my Polyteeh-nical Academy. I am really glad that I study here. It is one of the finest country's higher educational institu­tions. Many famous people have graduated from my Academy, and not only engineers or scientists, but many outstanding writers, actors, showmen and politicians. Studying at our Academy gives a solid background in all spheres of knowledge and prepares for practical work.

Our Academy is quite large and old. It was founded in the 19^th century by the famous Russian inventor Vladimir Komarov. First, it was a small department of a large Uni­versity, but later it was rearranged into an independent institution. Nowadays it is a large school where more than 5, 000 students are currently enrolled. About 3, 000 are full-time students, like me, and the rest are part time-students. There are also about 150 graduate stu­dents. They conduct independent research work and have pedagogical practice.

The course of study at my academy lasts five years. There are many faculties in my academy. Here are some of them: the faculty of industrial automation and robot­ics, the faculty of plastics, the faculty of machine tools and the faculty of metalworking.

Our academy is large and we have several buildings. One of the buildings is for lectures and seminars only. There are many large halls there so that students of 3-4 groups together can fit in there. And that is more than 100 people. The acoustics [a'ku: stiks] in such large halls is very good but sometimes it is very noisy when students chat during the lecture.

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We have two laboratory buildings which are equipped with up-to-date equipment and there students can carry on lab works and conduct various experiments. Many students from my group do their own research work.

There are several cafes at the academy. My favourite one is situated in a separate one-storeyed building and people say that this is the oldest canteen or student's cafe. The food there is tasty and very affordable.

There are also several dormitories or hostel buildings where students from other cities live. But you know al­ready that I don't live in a dormitory — I rent an apart­ment.

Vocabulary:

currently — в настоящее время

to be enrolled — числиться в списках студентов

full-time students — студенты дневного отделения

part time-students — студенты вечернего отделения

to conduct — проводить

course of study — курс обучения

industrial automation — промышленная автоматика robotics — робототехника

plastics — пластмассы machine-tools — станки metalworking — металлообработка figure [f 1дэ] — фигура, цифра noisy — шумный to chat — беседовать, болтать to be equipped with — быть оборудованным up-to-date equipment — современное оборудование carry on — проводить

research [n'sa: tf] work — исследовательская работа one-storeyed — одноэтажное

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tasty f'teisti]— вкусный

affordable — доступная (to afford — позволять)

Add to your aci i ve vocabulary

a) classroom — класс, аудитория lecture hall — лекционный зал laboratory — лаборатория gym (gymnasium) — спортзал

b) semester (term) — семестр school year — учебный год course of studies — курс обучения academy — академия university — университет institute — институт

faculty, college, department — факультет (ex.