2. Find the new words in the text you have just read and read the sentences with them aloud.

3. Check the meaning and the pronunciation of the words from the text in your dictionary:

major (adj) psychology (n)

scientific (adj) pedagogical (adj)

establishment (n) immediately (adv)

lyceum (n) status (n)

gymnasium (n) research (n)

4. The following suffixes are used to form different parts of speech:

Nouns -ment; -ness; -sion; -tion; -ty; -al; -ance Adjectives -ful; -ic; -able; -ous; -y; -ive; -al; Verbs -ize/ise

Using your dictionary fill in the gaps with the other parts of speech

Noun	Verb	Noun	Adjective
establishment		profession
	prepare		pedagogical
nomination		science
	found		linguistic
reconstruction		education

5. Here are the answers. What are the questions?

• On May the 22^nd 1931.

• In 1992.

• In 2004.

• Since 2011.

UNIT III

THE FACULTY I STUDY AT

1. the Institute of Pre-school, Primary Education and Special Pedagogy

1. Find out the information of the Institute

In October 1979 a new faculty “Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education” was opened on basis of Industrial Pedagogical School of Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute.

In December 1989, the democratic elections of Dean were held. Doctor of Science, a professor of Pedagogy and Psychology of Primary Education Department Svetlana Yarikova was elected as the first dean. Several departments had been established: Pedagogy of Pre-school Education, Pedagogy of Primary Education, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Russian Language and Methods of its Teaching at Primary School.

In 1989 the faculty introduced some additional educational programs for Social Pedagogy, Psychology, Foreign Language, and Music Education. On basis of these additional specializations new specialties were opened – “Speech Therapy” and “Pedagogy and Psychology”.

By 2004, the faculty had already had two large branches: part-time (1.200 students) and full-time (1.050 students), 7 departments of training in eight specialties of full-time and nine specialties of part-time branches.

In September 2004 the Faculty of Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education and Pre-school Education was transformed into the Institute of Pre-school, Primary Education and Special Pedagogy with two departments: the Faculty of Pre-school and Primary Education and the Faculty of Social and Correctional Pedagogy.

The institute co-operates with several educational institutions of Volgograd and Volgograd Region, and several Russian and international universities.

Now there are a lot of different programs of education at the institute:

• Pedagogy of Pre-school Education;

• Pedagogy and Psychology of Primary Education;

• Information Technology and Methods of Teaching Computing Science;

• Russian Language and Methods of Teaching it at Primary School;

• Natural Sciences and Mathematics;

• Speech Therapy;

• Oligophrenia Pedagogy;

• Pre-school Psychology;

• Pre-school Pedagogy and Psychology with the additional specialty;

• Social Pedagogy;

• Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education with the additional specialty “Information Technology”;

• Pedagogy and Psychology;

• Primary Education;

• Social Pedagogy and Children's Practical Psychology;

• Psychological Support of Training for Children with Intellectual Problems;

• Training Technologies of Pre-school Education.