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Ex.4 Give a written record of your education and employment that you send for a job applying to the Department of Track Construction at the University of Seoul. Your objective is to obtain a position as a reader (associate professor) and to join a chair of track and railway equipment.

Documents, papers:

Identity Card – удостоверение личности

Foreign Passport (Passport for traveling abroad)

Entrance (exit, transit) Visa (Period of Visa Validity, Home-coming Date)

Customs Declaration (Bill of Entry)

Customs Examination / Inspection Station (Point)

Customs Clearance Do you have anything dutiable? Please, show your customs declaration.

Insurance certificate (policy of insurance)

Medical Insurance

Vocabulary

To give (get) a good academic background

To have a good command of the EL

Unified school-leaving exam/ Unified State Exam/ to pass (to fail) one’s examination with [merit (с отличием), credit (успешно), distinction (весьма успешно, with honours), pass удовлетворительно, satisfactory - Am]

Educational establishment

To submit an application for admission

To gain entrance to the university

Free of charge/ high fees

To lay foundation for a successful future/ wide range of subjects/ optional courses/ obligatory subjects/ Supplementary programme

Professional qualification/ a highly qualified specialist

Vocational training

Self-study

To follow a course/ to take a course

To study for the first degree (BA or BS)

Degree or diploma for a particular job

Well grounded in a specific field of engineering

To graduate from the University

To conduct a research under the guidance and supervision/ To make a detailed study of something in order to discover new facts/ to engaged in research

Higher academic degree Doctor of Philosophy (for all fields of study)

How do English people address each other: by their first name or by their surname?

When they know people well they just call them by their first name. But if they don’t know each other very well then they call the person MR, Mrs or Miss followed by the surname. For example, Mr Black, Mrs Brown, Miss Parker.

And what about ‘sir’ and ‘madam’?

The Academic Word List

Useful academic vocabulary is contained in the Academic Word List, which is divided into 10 sublists in order of frequency, ie Sublist 1 has the most frequent academic words.

You can try to learn these words from the lists but to learn to use them correctly you need to study them in context.

Sublist 1 of the Academic Word List - Most Frequent Words in Families

This sublist contains the most frequent words of the Academic Word List in the Academic Corpus.

analysis

approach

area

assessment

assume

authority        

available

benefit

concept

consistent

constitutional

context

contract

create

data

definition

derived

distribution

economic

environment

established

estimate

evidence

export

factors

financial

formula

function

identified

income

indicate

individual 

interpretation

involved

issues

labour

legal

legislation

major

method

occur

percent

period

policy

principle

procedure

process

required

research

response

role

section

sector

significant 

similar

source

specific

structure

theory

variable

Sublist 2 of Academic Word List - Most Frequent Words in Families

This sublist contains the second most frequent words in the Academic Word List from the Academic Corpus.