5. Retell the text "My University".

PART 2

1. Reproduce the following dialogue.

Alex is about to ring up a friend of his. He picks up the receiver, and dials the number. The first time the line is engaged but then he gets through

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'chanical engineering departments. These faculties trained specialists pn hot and cold working of metals and foundry, locomotive building, ma­chine-tool manufacture, mechanical handling installations.

Within recently BSTU has become a technical University well known in the whole country. Over thirty thousand engineers and scientific workers for machine-building, transport, power-engineering and other branches of industry have been trained within its walls.

Now BSTU is a multiprofile technical higher school with a devel­oped academic and laboratory basis, equipped with up-to-date deyices._N It has got four buildings, a computer and laboratory centre, a Sports House, two students' hostels. More than fewthousand students study at four full- time, evening and correspondence departments.¹^ trains bachelors and en­gineers in more than 30 specialities in the directions of economics and I management metal-treatment, power engineering

and energetics, ground vehicles, electrical engineering and industrial elec­tronics, automation, safety of vital activity, computers and computerised

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Annually Qver^OfLapplicants are enrolled into the Univereity^ore than^OOhighly qualified scientific and pedagogical workers take part in training future specialistsj^he teachinju&y^

75%of4heJ^chers have^cademicdegrees and stafrij£Tbere have been defended 11 theses for the degree of Ph.D. and 40 theses for the degree of Candidate of Science only during the recent years. Among the teachers there're 6 honoured scientists of the Russian Federation, 16 honoured workers of Higher School and branches of science, 15 Full Members and Corresponding Members of the Academies of different branches of indus­try, 17 Doctors of Philosophy, professors, more than 200 Candidates of Science, assistant-professors.

^ schools being developed by BSTU is

well known in the country anA^abrgad^During the last decades the scien­tists and the teachers of the University have published many monographs, textbooks and educational supplies and have received more than 100 pat­ents and authors' certificates for the inventionsjThe innovative activity is de^^ to desig^ and producing essentially new kinds of vehicle^ For this reason the University has founded a number of scientific and produc­tion enterprises.

Over 150 postgraduate students and competitors on 15 scientific spe­cialities study hereR^ theses for