Unit The Education I Received.ppt

Unit 1 The Education I Received Background Information 1. Yale University Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale University is a private liberal arts coeducational institute in New Haven, Connecticut. It is a member of the Ivy League. In addition to the undergraduate Yale College there are schools of medicine, divinity, law, art, architecture, music, forestry and environmental studies, nursing, organization and management, and drama and a graduate school of arts and sciences. Yale awarded the first American Ph.D. in 1861. Notable facilities at Yale are the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, a radio station, a planetarium, an art gallery, the Center for British Art and British Studies, and the Institute of Far Eastern Languages. Undergraduate students live in 12 residential colleges, each with its own living, dining, and library facilities. Background Information 2. 学位(Degrees) 硕士学位Master介于博士学位Doctor与学士学位Bachelor之间.MA是文学硕士学位Master of Arts一词的缩写,注意用an MA来表示单数.在查阅美国学校的资料时,每所学校都提供该大学授予的学位类型,分别用英语字母表示如下: A Associate 准学士学位 B Bachelor 学士学位 M Master 硕士学位 D Doctor 博士学位 Background Information 此外,在英语中常用缩写来表示各种学位,如: BA Bachelor of Arts 文学士 BS Bachelor of Science 理学士 MA Master of Arts 文学硕士 MS Master of Science 理学硕士 Med Master of Education 教育学硕士 MBA Master of Business Administration工 商管理硕士 Language Focus Focal Words and Expressions Act, course, education, fair, graduate, patient, protest against, receive, refuse, solve, sympathy, tend, take a course, graduate from, no point in doing something, have a chance to do, found a university, do one’s degree in, enjoy one’s time, go on strike, give (private) lessons to, pass one’s exam, be good at doing something, offer to do something, pay somebody for something, feel sympathy for Focal Functions and Patterns When/Where/How long to receive the education; When/Where to graduate from