My Academy

My name is Victor Petrov. I am a student. I study at the Perm State Agricultural Academy. It is named after Dmitry Nikolayevich Pryanishnikov. He was a famous scientist and agrochemist.

Our academy is rather old. It was founded in 1918. At that time it wasn’t so big. It had only one faculty with three specialities. Nowadays the Perm State Agricultural Academy is very big. It has many faculties, for example: agronomy faculty, economy faculty, faculty of applied informatics, faculty of land use planning, engineering faculty and others.

I am a student of the agronomy faculty. This faculty was founded in 1918. Our faculty has many specialities: agronomy, wine growing, fruit- and vegetable growing and others. My speciality is agronomy. I am a full-time student. I am a second-year student. I like to study at this academy, because we take many new and interesting subjects such as mathematics, philosophy, English, physics, history, crop growing, plant physiology and others. At the end of each term I have to pass some tests and examinations.

1. Remember the words and word-combinations:

to study at ['stʌdi]

faculty ['fækəlti]

extra-mural faculty [ɛkstrə'mjʊərəl]

speciality [spɛʃi'æliti]

department

to be a first (second) - year student

full-time student

extra-mural student

to take a subject

term

academic year

test

examination/exam

to take an exam

to pass an exam

to be at the head of

rector

dean

to have practical

to attend lectures/lessons

2. Pay attention to the reading of the following words:

agriculture ['ægri kʌlʧə]

maths [mæθs] or mathematics [,mæθə' mætiks]

physics ['fiziks]

chemistry ['kemistri]

botany ['bɔtəni]

zoology [zo(u) 'ɔləʤi]

physical education ['fizik(ə)l ,edju(:)'keiʃən]

history ['hist(ə)ri]

economics [,i:kə'nomiks]

computer science [kəm'pju:tə'saiəns]

3. Match the pictures with the names of subjects:

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.

a) chemistry	d) animal husbandry	g) farm machines	j) physics
b) book-keeping	e) English/German/French	h) flower growing	k) history
c) geodesy	f) physical culture	i) animal physiology	l) botany

4. Say what subjects must a future professional study.

A future landscape designer must study mathematics, botany, Latin, drawing, PT, farm machines, soil science and flower growing.

To become landscape designers students study mathematics, botany, Latin, drawing, PT, farm machines, soil science and flower growing.

To become	(an) economist		study	Mathematics
	(a) book-keeper	the students		Chemistry
A future	(a) manager			Botany
	(an) accountant	must		Latin
	(a) veterinary	need to		Crop Growing
It is necessary for a future …	(a) land organizer			Animal Husbandry
	(an) agronomist	to	learn	Pig-Breeding
	(an) agrochemist			Book Keeping Accounting
	(a) farm engineer			Drawing
	(a) civil engineer			Vegetable Growing
				Geodesy