establish sign gather pull 1. ____________ a target
2. ____________ a culture
3. ____________ someone in the eye
4. ____________ a school, college or academy
5. ____________ pace
6. ____________ your weight
7. ____________ something for granted
8. ____________ a contract
Ex. 9. Read and translate the text: Before an exam you can revise or cram for it. If the exam happens every year, you can look at past papers. Some things can be memorized or learnt off by heart. But rotelearning is not sufficient for most subjects. It is also possible to use mnemonics. But tricks alone are not enough, and the best idea is to bury yourself in your books until you know the subject inside out.
Now rewrite this short text using words and phrases from the text above. When I’m preparing intensively for an exam, I don’t see any point in looking up exam papers from previous years, nor is there any point in just learning things by memory. I know some people develop very clever memory tricks to help them remember the material, but there’s no real substitute for re-reading and going over the term’s work. It’s a good idea to have some sort of diagram to organize your ideas, and memory-learning is useful, but in a limited way. At the end of the day, you just have to read a huge amount until you feel you know the subject 100 per cent.
Ex. 10. Discuss the following problems: Russian and American systems of higher education.
Pros and cons of the coeducation.
Russian National State Exams. Merits and disadvantages.
