Research at the University of Oxford
Students and teachers of the University cooperate with professionals, and make significant contributions to science – (1)_______________ (region), nationally and internationally – through the fruits of their research.
Research and (2)_____________ (develop) activity at Oxford consists of four (3)____________________ (educate) institutes, more than 70 departments and colleges; the academic staff (teaching and research) consists of 1632 (4)________________ (special).
In the year of 2008 Oxford had the largest number of (5) _________________ (science) research works in a total of 48 fields.
Oxford’s research grants and contracts for 2007/8 was £285.3 million, which was spent on (6)______________ (design) cars, constructing air and space craft, (7)____________________ (develop) new electronic devices.
(edited from http://www.ox.ac.uk)
c) Translate the following text into Russian.
You should remember the following words and phrases!
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a merger |
слияние, объединение |
a campus |
студ.городок |
engineering |
проектирование и строительство |
designing |
проектирование |
a scholar |
ученый |
scientific research |
научные исследования |
full-time tuition |
дневная форма обучения |
distance learning |
заочное обучение |
a graduate |
выпускник университета |
post-graduate courses |
аспирантура |
to get a degree |
получить научную степень |
Bachelor |
бакалавр |
Master |
магистр |
PhD |
кандидат наук |
teaching staff |
преподавательский состав |
a training airfield |
тренировочный аэродром |
an aircraft fleet |
авиапарк |
a hostel |
общежитие |
prominent figure |
видный деятель |
to foster cooperation |
укреплять сотрудничество |
Word order is very important in English, it is fixed.
In a declarative sentence, the subject comes in front of the predicate. The object and the adverbial (when there is one) come after it:
Ssau trains engineers nowadays.
1. In the text (p.3-4), underline subjects and predicates.
2. Put the words in the right order to make full sentences.
a) part/students/in/take/scientific/active/research.
b) began/in/SSAU/with/cooperating/the USA/in 1990/universities.
c) branches/a degree/of/graduates/many/in/get/engineering.
d) practice/the/airfield/can/students/the/have/training/at.
e) learning/a/education/popular/is/distance/form/of
Question types:
General (Yes/No) Question
Auxiliary verb Subject Predicate …?
Do you study at SSAU?
Alternative Question
Auxiliary verb Subject Predicate … OR … ?
Do you study at SSAU or at Oxford?
Special Question
Question Word (Phrase) Auxiliary verb Subject Predicate … ?
Where do you study?
BUT a special question to the subject
Who
What predicate (3rd person singular) … ?
Which of…
Who studies at SSAU?
Tag Question
Subject Predicate (positive) …, auxiliary verb (negative)+ subject (pronoun)?
OR
Subject Predicate (negative) …, auxiliary verb (positive)+ subject (pronoun)?
You study at SSAU, don’t you?
You don’t study at Oxford, do you?