Facts for little folks

Tea is prepared from the leaf of a tree;

Honey is gathered and made by the bee.

Butter is made from the milk of the cow;

Pork is the flesh of the pig or the sow.

Oil is obtained from fish and from flax.

Paper is made from straw and from rags.

Worsted is made from wool soft and warm;

Silk is prepared and spun by a worm.

Edith Segal [2]

Unit 4 emotional disturbance in younger generation

In this unit you will learn about symptoms of emotional disturbance in children and difficulties school teachers face. Before you start working with the text try:

1. to explain the term “emotional disturbance” [ı'məu∫(ə)n(ə)l dı'stə:b(ə)n(t)s]

(эмоциональное расстройство) in English.

2. To find synonyms and antonyms to:

expressive, attribute, deficient.

3. to answer the following questions:

1. What are the symptoms of emotional disturbance?

2. Is anger always the symptom of emotional disturbance?

3. Do you remember children with emotional disturbance at your school?

4. To guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations without using the dictionary.

A heterogeneous group, categories, structural, figures, situation, sensory, aggressive, depressed, expressive; status, problems, normal, patterns, present, presented, demonstrates, statistical, operation, fragments, criteria, affective, actual characteristics, characterizes, professional, reality, chronic.

4. To do the following phonetic exercises:

Ex.1. Transcribe and pronounce the words given below.

Moderate, authority, chaotic, occurrence, withdrawal.

Ex.2. Read the following clusters with assimilation.

Toward teachers; and the reasons; lead to; development does; showed that; disturbed therefore; that the; standardized tests; failed to; attributed to; present difficulty; troubled children; instead to; great difficulty; intended to.

Ex.3. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [w] correctly.

Withdrawal, with, toward, widely, whereas, which, when, we, with, between, weight, well, whether, withdraw, frequently.

Ex.4. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [r].

Reasons, increase, apparent, responses, troubled, unpredictability, generalization, realm, agreements, arrived, primary, attributed, rule, repeatedly, interference, probably, separately, severity, degree, frequency, oral, interaction, great, satisfactory, relationships.

Ex.5. Pronounce the words from the text containing the nasal sound [ŋ].

Among, caring, accompanying, considering, defining, identifying, learning, building, discriminating, younger, indicating, language, coping, feelings.

Ex.6. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiced sound [ð].

With, although, other, withdrawal, the, another, their, that, furthermore, therefore, they, them, these, whether, this, then, withdraw.

Ex.7. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiceless sound [Ө].

Youth, authority, apathetic, both, health, hypothesize.

Ex.8. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [v].

Vary, environments, severity-extent, variance, convention, between, averaged, prevented, developed, even, underachievement, activated, individual, over, overlap, verbal, severe.

TEXT

Scan through the text to understand its main ideas. Use the given vocabulary notes.