Step 2. Compare the information from your table with the answers of your partner.

Step 3. Ask him questions like in example:

What is your mark on Finance?

Are you keen on Drawing?

Are you good at Sociology?

Activity 9. While reading the text written in American English, think about the answers to these questions:

1.What are the duties of a Freshman? What advice is given by the upperclassmen?

2.Compare your first day at the University with the described one. Was it similar or different?

UNIVERSITY LIFE & YOUR FUTURE

............ the university applicant has passed the entrance exams. Now he/she is a first-year student.... Who can forget the first day? An entrance ceremony was held under colorful autumn trees in front of the university. Speeches were made by the rector, vice-rectors, deans... Who are those people? They're...professors, associate (or) assistant professors and senior lecturers.... But where are the lecturers and tutors? We are excited and curious!

Monitors hand out student membership cards, student record books, library cards.... One feels like a real student at last.... Days, weeks, months of hard work are ahead.... So many classes, so many new subjects to fit into the timetable! Lectures, seminars, tutorials, home work, a real avalanche of assignments lie before us.

If one can not cope with the work load, he/she immediately starts lagging behind. " Believe me, It is easier to keep pace with the program than to catch up with it later, " cautions an upperclassman. Freshmen try to be, or at least appear to be diligent...watching the sophomores, juniors and seniors go about the business of each academic day... experiencing the first tests and examination sessions, first successes, and first failures. The merry-go-round runs faster...assignments, labs, written reproductions, compositions, synopses, papers, checked and marked translations... " Professor, I had a good excuse for missing classes....No, I never cheat, I just crammed." All students are one family, whether living off campus or in the dorm...we'll get through this together! What is your attitude? Do you make an honest effort to complete your assignments, do the reading that is required, participate fully in the class? All undergraduates enjoy parties at the students' club, upperclassmen try to guide us, encouraging us to knuckle down and graduate with honors. University life goes round and round from autumn to summer and back to autumn again. This is university life; I'm going to take every opportunity to improve myself and become a skilled professional...I'm ready to take responsibility for my development!

Activity 10. Determine meaning from the context (explain the words/phrases in your own words):

1. so many subjects to fit into the timetable 5. to cope with the work load

2. to keep pace with the program 6. just crammed

3. knuckle down and graduate with honors 7. ready to take responsibility for....

4. written reproductions and synopses 8. merry-go-round runs faster