Education in Russia.

Our educational system is not very complex. It is divided into three stages: preschool education, secondary education and higher education. Each of them has its own peculiarities.

The preschool education is provided by nursery schools and it depends upon the parents to send their children or not. There children learn the fundamentals of reading, writing, counting.

There are different types of secondary schools: general secondary, technical schools, and vocational schools.

Every boy or girl must get secondary education. They go to school at the age of six or seven and must stay there until they are 14-17 years old. At schools pupils study academic subjects, such as Russian, Literature, Mathematics, History, Biology, a foreign language and other.

Higher education in our country is available to those having secondary education who have passed entrance examinations. Most colleges, universities and institutes are state ones, but there are also private colleges. They train specialists in different branches of science and technology.

Most higher schools have their own hostels and living and recreation complexes for students.

Our educational system is in the process of perfection to meet the requirements of our developing economy.

Our enterprises work in close collaboration with foreign enterprises of the same field and carry out the exchange of specialists.

2. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. Our educational system is very complex, isn’t it?

2. What are the main stages of our educational system?

3. Is higher education available for everybody?

4. Are all the colleges in our country private?

5. Where do young specialists work after their graduation?

6. What do you know about the exchange of specialists?

7. Do high-school students usually apply to more than one college or university?

8. How do the university students spend their summer holidays?

9.   Do you have to pay for your education?

10. Do students of higher and secondary specialised education establishments            get grants?

11. Are graduates of your institute given degrees?

12. If you have a chance would you prefer private or slate college?

3.Составьте вопросы с данными словами, используя нужную форму глагола to be в настоящем времени.

1. /at home / your mother?/ ………… Is your mother at home?

2. /your parents / well?/       

3. /interesting / your job?/

4. /the shops / open today?/

5. /interested in sport / you?/

6. /near here / the post office?/

7  /at school / your children?/

8. /why / you / late?/

4. Переведите следующие предложения и определите, к каким частям речи относятся выделенные слова в предложении.

1. We usually measure volume in cubic centimetres.

2. The students were measuring the temperature in the laboratory.

3. Measuring temperature is necessary in a lot of experiments.

4. The operating speed of these systems will be measured in nano -seconds.

5. The distance measured enabled scientists to correct mistakes.

5. Выберите для этих отрицательных предложений нужную форму глаголов be или do : am not / isn ' t / aren ' t / don ' t / doesn ' t .

1 Tom  doesn't  work in the evenings.

2 I'm very tired. I .......want to go out this evening.

3 I'm very tired. I........going out this evening.

4 George.........working this week. He's on holiday.

5 My parents are usually at home. They...............go out very often.

6 Barbara has travelled a lot but she................speak any foreign languages.

7 You can turn off the television. I.................watching it.

8 There's a party next week but we............going.

6.  Составьте предложения. Поставьте глаголы, данные в скобках,                     во времена группы Simple (Present, Past, Future), используйте данные наречия. Предложения переведите.

Always, often, rarely, frequently, sometimes, hardly, ever, usually, occasionally, never.

1. We/provide / good service.

2. I / have / face-to-face meetings / new customers.
3. Our company / employ / external consultants.

4. I / be / busy in summer.

5. We / write / reports.

7.Выберите правильный вариант.

1. a) What is the girl doing now?

b) What the girl is doing now?

   c) What doing the girl now?

d) What does the girl doing now?

2. a) What those people arc looking for?

b) What are those people looking for?

c) What is those people looking for?
d) What do those people looking for?

3. a)When are you going to have a meal?

b) When do you going to have a meal?

c) When going you to have a meal?

d) When you are going to have a meal?

4. a) Why do they looking at me like that?

b) Why is they looking at me like that?

c) Why are they looking at me like that?

          d) Why they are looking at me like that?

5. a) Is die girl speaking rudely or politely?

b) Are the girl speaking rudely or politely?

c) Does the girl speaking rudely or politely?

d) The girl is speaking rudely or politely, isn't she?