МОСКОВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

ИМЕНИ М.В.ЛОМОНОСОВА

ФИЛИАЛ МГУ В Г. СЕВАСТОПОЛЕ

КАФЕДРА ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ

КРЫЛОВЕЦКАЯ Л.В., КУРТЕНКО О.В.

EDUCATION

Сборник материалов

для проведения практических занятий

по общему английскому языку

для студентов I курса (квалификация бакалавр)

Севастополь

2013

ББК 81.2 Англ.

Т 34

Рецензенты

Коцюбинская Л.В. – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры перевода и переводоведения Ленинградского областного государственного университета им. А.С.Пушкина

Кира Р.В. – кандидат педагогических наук, заведующая кафедрой иностранных языков Севастопольского военно-морского института им. П.С.Нахимова

Данное пособие предназначено для работы с темой “Education” в курсе общего английского языка для студентов 1 курса, независимо от специальности. Каждая из пяти глав рассчитана на 4 – 6 часов аудиторной работы. Предлагаемый материал соответствует уровню Intermediate и особо акцентирован на личностно-ориентированном подходе, актуальном для студентов и предполагающем использование ими своего опыта учебы в средней и высшей школе. Небольшие по объему, но информативные тексты дают возможность познакомиться с некоторыми аспектами образования в Великобритании и США. Пособие имеет практическую направленность и имеет цель активизации навыков чтения, говорения, аудирования и письма, а также формирования вокабуляра по данной теме.

Contents

	p.p.
Chapter 1. School Education	4
Chapter 2. School Memories and Experiences	11
Chapter 3. Leaving School	23
Chapter 4. University Education	40
Chapter 5. Starting University Life	50
References	61

Chapter 1. School Education.

Task 1. What things come to your mind when you think of school? Make a list of words to do with school education. Compare the list to your partner’s. Do you have the same words on your lists?

Now group the words into the following categories:

1. school subjects

2. school objects

3. people in a school

4. places in a school

5. studying and exams

6. types of schools

Task 2. School subjects. Match the subjects to the activities.

Subjects	Activities
Maths	play team sport
Science	learn to use software
Geography	solve problems
History	do vocabulary exercises
Language and literature	draw or paint
Foreign languages	study maps
PE	read and discuss set books
IT	learn about the past
Art	do experiments

Now tick the activities you enjoy and put a cross next to the ones you dislike. Tell another student about your choices.

Task 3. Which subjects are the people below talking about? Write the name of the subject next to the appropriate comment.

Languages Art Religious Studies Biology

Maths Literature Chemistry Geography

Music Media Studies Economics Drama History

Psychology Physical Education (PE) Information Technology (IT)

1. ‘I could never remember the names of all the authors.’ literature

2. ‘I enjoyed this because I was interested in animals and plants.’

3. ‘My worst subject - I always got all my sums wrong.’

4. ‘I loved doing experiments in the lab.’

5. ‘I found them difficult - I couldn’t understand the grammar.’

6. ‘There were a lot of dates to learn, but the teacher really brought it to life for us.’

7. ‘I found it interesting to see how biased the different newspapers are.’

8. ‘I liked finding places in the atlas, but I was no good at remembering the names of the capital cities.’

9. ‘One of my favourite subjects - I loved dressing up and learning lines.’

10. ‘I hated it - I’ve never been good at team games!’

11. ‘I wasn’t very good at it but I found painting really relaxing and liked experimenting with different colours.’

12. ‘It was a difficult subject, but very interesting to find out how the mind works.’

13. ‘This was my best subject. I played the piano and sang in the school choir.’

14. ‘I found it boring and I still do: just ask my bank manager!’

15. ‘I think it’s important to learn about different people’s beliefs.’

16. ‘A very useful subject to study at school, especially when most people will use computers at some point in their lives.’

Now look at the subjects and say:

Which subject at school ...

1. was your favourite? Why?

2. did you find difficult? Why?

3. did you find interesting? Why?

4. did you hate? Why?

5. were you good/bad at?

6. is the most/least useful in future life? Why?

Task 4. Read through the following School report and write in the names of the subjects. Look at the example first.

HASTINGS COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SCHOOL REPORT Pupil’s name: Joanna Steele Class 4B
SUBJECT	GRADE	TEACHER’S REMARKS
ENGLISH	C +	Quite good, but her spelling needs to improve.
	B	Good. Her holiday in Paris has certainly helped her a lot.
	C-	Needs to work harder - especially at map reading.
	A	An excellent pupil. Very interested in the subject and her project on "Roman Britain" was the best I have ever read.
	D +	Poor. Still uses her fingers to count!
	C	Fair. A lot to learn but seems to enjoy doing experiments.
	B +	Always tries hard and is becoming an excellent tennis player.
	E	Very poor. Hates the subject – especially singing.
	C +	Quite good. Likes drawing teachers!
	B	A good pupil. Regularly does the readings at Morning Assembly.

Task 5. School objects. Complete the sentences with names of school objects.

1. Adam, can you please wipe the b____________ for me? And could you also go and fetch some ch____________?

2. Would everyone please put on their n____________ on their desks so that I can collect them?

3. Don’t lose this material. Put it in your f____________ now.

4. This year we are going to use a new English t____________. There are tons of vocabulary exercises in it!

5. ‘Has anyone got a r____________? I need to correct something.’ – ‘there is one in my p____________ c____________. Help yourself.’

Task 6. Classroom language. Work with a partner. Discuss the questions you might ask in these situations. Then listen  and check.

1. You don’t know what ‘pensioner’ means. What does ‘pensioner’ mean?

2. You don’t know the English word for

3. You don’t know how to pronounce a word.

4. You don’t know how to spell a word.

5. You don’t know which page to look at.

6. You don’t know what tonight’s homework is.

7. You didn’t hear what the teacher said.

8. You want your teacher to write a word on the board.

9. You didn’t understand something.

Are there any other questions or phrases that you need in the classroom? Which ones?

Task 7. Correct the classroom questions:

1. How to pronounce ‘b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s’?

2. Can you writing ‘customer’ on the board please?

3. What’s English word for this?

4. Which page we are on?

5. Have anybody got a spare pen?

6. Can you say again that, please?

7. What are tonight’s homework?

8. How you spell ‘journey’?

9. What means ‘colleague’?

Task 8. People in a school. Complete the sentences with a word from the box.

classmate deputy head examiner head teacher students form teacher staff

1. There are twenty-eight ___________ in my class.

2. Miss Hutchinson is a(n) ___________ as well as a teacher. She knows all about the final exams.

3. The ___________ is away at a conference this week. In her absence, the ___________ is in charge of the school.

4. Uncle Gerald is not really my uncle. He’s my dad’s old ___________. They went to school together 30 years ago.

5. Our school is big. There is a teaching ___________ of more than 100.

6. The teacher who is responsible for a whole class of students is called a ___________.

Now answer the questions below.

1. Do you keep in touch with your classmates?

2. How many students are there in your group?

3. What subject did your form teacher teach?

4. Were you afraid of your head teacher?

5. Did your school have a big staff?

6. What did the deputy head do at your school?

Task 9. Read the text about school system in England and Wales and translate the words in bold into your language.