Выполнить задание.

1. Составьте сравнительную таблицу по системам высшего образования в Великобритании, США и России (на английском языке). Обратите внимание на следующие аспекты:

• Number of universities (Количество университетов в стране);
• Private or State Universities (Частные или государственные);
• Tuition Fee (Стоимость обучения (диапазон), наличие бесплатной формы обучения);
• Academic Degree (Квалификация по окончании (ученые степени));
• Duration of Study (Врумя обучения на каждой ступени);
• Academic Year (Количество семестров в учебном году, время начала и конца уч. года);
• Kinds of Lessons (Формы обучения (лекции, практики и .д.), обязательно ли посещение);
• % of Foreign Students (Процент иностранных студентов);
• Number of Top 100 Universities (Количество университетов в Топ-100);
• Best Universities (Самые престижные университеты).

2. Сравните системы высшего образования в данных странах. Что общего и что отличается? Что бы Вы хотели изменить в нашей системе высшего образования . позаимствовать из зарубежных систем?

3. Read the text carefully.

Respect the Land

When we consider a subject as sweeping as the environment, we often focus on its most tangible aspects - the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we put on the table. Those things are critically important. But to me the environment is also about something less tangible, though no less important. it is about out sense of community - the obligation we have to each other, and to future generations, to sageguard God's earth. It is about our sense of responsibility, and the realization that natural beauty and resources that took millions of years to develop could be damaged and depleted in a matter of decades.

Those are values I learned firsthand as a young boy on my family's farm in Tennessee. We didn't call it environmentalism back then; it was simply common sense.

Today the threats to our environment are even clearer to see - and much greater in scope and number. "We live in a world where climate change, deforestation, holes in the ozone layer and air pollution are growing sources of concern. Our challenge is to find new ways to address those problems by reaching back to our oldest values of community are responsibility - by inspiring a greater respect for the land and the resources we share - even as economies and societies advance and develop around the world.

Fortunately, as I have raised a family of my own, I have learned that we have millions of powerful allies in this cause: our children. It is often children who remind their parents of the simple miracles of nature - the crops that come from our farms, the parks and lakes and campsites where families and communities gather.

If we are to protect and preserve our environment on a global scale, we all must do our part, as nations, as families and as individuals. The need for awareness has never been greater, and the opportunity for us to make a difference is just as great. If we practise and teach the right of care and commitment for our environment, it will not only to bring us its natural gifts, but also to bring us together.

A. Match the words on the left with their equivalent meaning on the right.

B. Complete according to the text.

1. The topic "environment" is commonly associated with ______________________.
2. However, AI Gore thinks differently. Most important for him is not only _________________.
3. Nowadays the greatest threats to our planet are: ________________________.
4. Today children ______________________________________________.
5. The environment will be clean and beautiful again if ___________________________.

C. Write a text about the place where you live and what you personally can do to protect the environment.