1. The universities of Great Britain
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Выполнил Власенко Владислав ученик 8 класса Учитель английского языка Джамиева М.Б.

2. The universities can be divided into three groups:

3. The oldest universities;

4. The University of Oxford
This university town is very beautiful. The oldest university there is Oxford. The first of its colleges was founded in The university now has thirty-five colleges and about thirteen thousand students, many of them from other countries. There were no women at Oxford until When the first women's college Lady Margaret Hall, opened. Now most colleges are open to men and women. It is not easy to get a place at Oxford University to study for a degree. But outside the university there are many smaller private colleges which offer less difficult courses and where it is easy to enrol. Most students in these private school take business, secretarial or English language courses. Oxford is, of course, famous for its first-class education as well as its beautiful buildings. Some of the most intelligent men and women in the country live and work here. Oxford gives them what they need: a quiet atmosphere, friendly colleagues and the four-hundred-year-old library, which has about five million books. Oxford has same of the finest architecture in Britain. Some of their colleges, chapels and libraries are there, four and even five hundred years old, and are full off books and precious paintings. You can see there many lovely gardens, where the students can read and relax in the summer months.

5. Academic dress is still seen at Oxford

6. The University of Cambridge
Cambridge is the second oldest university city in Great Britain after Oxford. Cambridge is on the river Cam and takes its name from this river. There are twenty-nine colleges in Cambridge. A large part of the population of the city are teachers and students. All students have to live in Cambridge while they study there. In the streets of Cambridge you can see many young men wearing dark blue or black clothes and black square caps. The tradition goes baсk to the old times when the students had to wear dark clothes. They could not play games or sing songs and dance in those days, they could not fish either. Many great men have studied at Cambridge: Cromwell, Newton, Byron, Darwin and others. The great Russian scientist I. P, Pavlov came to Cambridge in 1912 to receive the degree of Honorary Doctor of Cambridge. The students made him a present of a toy dog. Cambridge is known all over the word. Many famous scientists have worked there: Rutherford, Kapitza and others.

8. The London University

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