Unit 5. Higher education

UNIT 5
What are the English names of these universities ?
ca
Ca
ca
Cambridge University
Hanoi University
of Architecture
Hanoi University of
Natural Science
Hue University
1. Which university would you like to attend?
2. How do you feel when you first start a new university?
* Vocabulary
. campus (n):
the buildings of a university or college and the land around them:

. mate(s ) = friend (s )
. daunting [`dɔ:ntiη] (a) :
something that is daunting


. scary (a):
. challenge [`t∫ælindʒ] (v) : test the skills or abilities of someone or something
 challenging (adj)

1. The new library was built in the centre of the __________
2. They ___________the rise in oil prices for the big increase in inflation.
3.That’s the __________story I’ve ever heard
4. Intelligent boys do something if it really __________them.
5. The new car goes at an ___________ speech.
Task 1. Complete the following sentences, using the right forms of the words on the left
campus
blame
scary
challenge
amazing
blamed
scariest
challenges
Work in pairs
These are the feelings that Sarah, Ellen and Branda have in their first year at university?
Guess what kind of feelings each has by putting the adjectives under each column.
amazing/ daunting /exciting /challenging / lonely /scary / free
Work in pairs
These are the feelings that Sarah, Ellen and Branda have in their first year at university?
Guess what kind of feelings each has by putting the adjectives under each column.
amazing/ daunting /exciting /challenging / lonely /scary / free
exciting
lonely
free
amazing
daunting
scary
challenging
a. _________ attended the party on the first weekend at college.
b. _________ didn’t get on very well with the roommate.
c. ___________ was not used to meeting different people every day at college.
d. ____________ liked having a chance to be creative.
e. ____________ was very excited about going to college
f. ____________ enjoyed the first year at college.







Task 2. Find out who:
Sarah
Ellen
Ellen
Brenden
Sarah
Brenden
1.What did Sarah do on the first weekend ?

2.Why did Sarah feel so lonely at the party ?


3. What problems did Ellen have with her roommate ?


4. What did Brenden think about his first year at college ?


5. What does the social calendar of the colleges provide him ?

Task 3. Answer the questions.
 She went out with her new friends, walking around campus.

 Because at the party everyone was busy playing some game and no one seemed to notice her.
 Her roommate left the window open when it was cold outside. She went to bed early. She blamed Ellen for making her sick.

 He thought his first year at college was the best and most challenging of his life.

 It provides him plenty of opportunities to meet non-engineering students as well as other engineers and many of them have become his best friends.

* Work in groups.
Answer the following question:
Why do many people want to get higher education nowadays ?