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4. By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
5. Better untaught than ill taught.
6. Brevity is the soul of wit.
7. Dot your i's and cross your t's.
Exercise 38
Translate the following quotations and comment upon them.
'A university should be a place of light, of liberty and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
'Knowledge is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone.'
Ralph W. Emerson
'Knowledge is power.'
Francis Bacon
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'
Alfred Tennyson
Exercise 39
Role Play. "A Talk in the Living-Room".
Setting: The Richardsons' house.
Situation: A group of students gather at Richardsons' on their vacations. They used to be classmates once.
Now they are all students of different colleges and universities. In the evening they are sitting in the
living-
room near the fireplace and speak about their college life, sharing experiences.
Characters:
Card I—II — Sarah and Terry Richardson. They have in
vited everyone to their house. They are a
sister and brother and go to a technical college. Sarah hates it and Terry loves it.
Card III—IV — Dora and Laura. Two medical school students. They have just had their professional
experience in a hospital and compare studies and real life.
Card V —
Harry, a student of the chemical faculty at
the university. He failed to pass his exams in
spring and is going to take them in autumn.
Card VI — Barbara, a student of the French department of the faculty of foreign languages at a
university. She has won a personal grant for success in studies.
Card VII—VIII — Barry and Jerry, two friends who do economics at the university. Both are enthusiastic
learners and like to speak about their future speciality.
Card IX — Flora, a student of an art school. She likes her drawing classes but does not like any of her
other subjects.
Card X—XI — Clarry and Nora, students of a music school. In school years they used to be friends
because they played in a school orchestra. They are thinking of creating a pop-group of their own.
Card XII — Lany. He was expelled from the faculty of Maths for missing classes and is dreaming of
getting back.
WRITING
Exercise 1
Prepare to write a dictation. Learn the spelling of the words and phrases in bold type from Introductory
Reading and the words from exercise 1 on page 208.
Exercise 2
Write an essay on one of the following topics.
1. Our College Life Needs Changes.
2. Some Advice for College Students.
3. Why (Psychology/Sociology/...) Is So
Popular with Students.
4. I Would Put Myself in the Group of (Diligent/Lazy/...) Students.
5. Education Reform. To Be or Not to Be?
Exercise 3
The world is changing, and many people feel that college will have to change to keep up. Make a list of
the ways college may be different in response to these changes in the year 2025. Use these ideas to write a
letter from a student in the year 2025, telling a grandparent about his or her first day at college. Begin it like
this: