Контрольна робота з теми "Education"

Контрольна робота

Тема: Education

1. Change from direct into indirect speech:

1. The pupils say, “We study English”. 2. The girl say, “I learned French at school”. 3. The man says, “I speak Spanish”. 4. The woman says, “I saw Helen there”. 5. The doctor says, “I’ll come again in the morning”. 6. My friend says, “I don’t recognize him”. 7. The teacher says, “He does not know the rule”.

2. Read the text and say if the sentences are true or false. Correct the false ones:

Oxford

Oxford is the most famous city for its University. How many tourists visit Oxford every year? Tourists and students visit it as often as London. Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest educational centres of Great Britain. These cities are connected with each other by the university history. Oxford’s first college was founded in 1249. Now Oxford and Cambridge Universities are federation of parallel colleges, some big, some small, each governed by its staff and each with its chief. Many great men studied in these universities: Cromwell, Newton, Byron, Darwin and others. Oxford University is the oldest in Britain and the third oldest in Europe. Oxford University has thirty-five separate colleges. For many years, only five of these colleges were for women. However, since 1979 nearly all the colleges have accepted both men and women.

 It’s very interesting to know the history of Oxford. As was the custom then, students had joined themselves into a “Universitas” of Society – the word “University”, like the word “College”, meant originally a society of people with a common employment; it was only later it came to be associated with scholarship. Those students were all churchmen and had been studying in Oxford at that city’s well-known schools. It was a hard life at Oxford because of troubles between the townsfolk and the students. “Town” and “Gown” battles were frequent. Then one day a student accidentally killed a man of the town. The Mayor arrested three other students, who were innocent, and by the order of the King John (who was quarrelling with the Church and knew that the death of three clergymen would annoy it) they were put to death by hanging. In protest, some students moved to the place Cambridge; and so the new University began. Of course there were not many colleges in those early days and students’ life was very different from what it is now. Those from the same part of the country tended to group together and these groups called “Nations”, they still exist at Oxford and Cambridge and, by the way, at some European Universities.

 Oxford is not only a University city. It’s a wonderful place where historic buildings combine with modern buildings of shops, restaurants and cinemas. The Asmolean Museum at Oxford has one of the most important collections in England. It’s also a market town, where ordinary people live and work. In fact, there were not so many tourists in the 1960s and 1970s in Oxford. The city was quite pleasant then. But it’s very difficult nowadays for the people of Oxford to live their daily lives. Sometimes they feel that the city doesn’t belong to them. Now in summer there are too many cars and too many people in Oxford. Over one million visitors come to Oxford every year.

1.  The first college in Oxford was founded in the thirteenth century.

2.  A lot of outstanding people studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

3.  Oxford University is the oldest university in Europe.

4.  Only men could study at colleges.

5.  More than one million people come to Oxford every year.

3. Speak about the oldest University in the place you live, using the main ideas:

• when it was founded;
• who founded it;
• what faculties it had then and it has now;
• what outstanding people studied there;
• what it is famous for.

4. Write a short composition and explain why you are sure education is important. List some reasons.