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Kingman Well, of course, we don't want to cut them down, but the land.............................. (need) for offices and flats. Reporter What do you think about the demonstration last Saturday? Mr Kingman Well, you can see that it ........................................ (organize) by a group of young hooligans. Two of them .............................. (arrest) for fighting. Reporter But their petition .............................. (sign) by nearly a thousand people. Mr Kingman Yes, but the names ...................................................... (not check) yet. We don't know if they are real. Reporter The oak trees .............................. (plant) in the time of Napoleon. Nearly two hundred years of history ......................................... (destroy). Does that worry you? Mr Kingman We care about the environment, but we must look to the future. New trees ..................................................... (plant) after the offices ........................................... (build).

Cambridge are fairly new. London University is the biggest of the modern English universities and has many colleges and schools.

A university usually has both faculties and departments. The faculties are arts, law, medicine, science and theology. The departments include engineering, economics, commerce, agriculture, music and technology.

At the head of each faculty there is a professor. A staff of teachers called lecturers help him. Professors and lecturers give lectures to large numbers of students or study with small groups, and here the students have a chance to discuss.

All universities admit men and women, but within some universities there are colleges specially for one sex. Most of the universities provide hostels for their students. There are many types of colleges in England. There are colleges within universities. There are teachers’ training colleges. There are also technical colleges of various types, colleges of arts and commerce. Colleges give a specialized training.

Those who wish to become teachers spend three years at a teachers’ training college. They study various subjects and learn how to teach, they have practice lessons at schools.