Практическая работа № 5.

1. Чтение и перевод текста “Мои планы на будущее”.

MY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.

There are many interesting and useful professions but I like the profession of a teacher. I know the proverb: “Like teacher, like pupil”. I agree with it. I began to think about my future profession at the age of 14. I was born in the family of a teacher. My mother is a teacher and I like this profession, too.

When I was a little girl, I went to school with my mother attending her lessons. I saw my mother at the lessons, I watched her and I wanted my mother to be a favourite teacher for the pupils.

Once our English teacher caught a cold. I was in the 9^th form and was fond of English. The head teacher asked me to give an English lesson in the 5^th form. I entered the classroom, saw many pupils, sitting at their desks, and said, “Good morning”, and began the lesson. I wanted the pupils to like English. We read, wrote, sang songs, asked and answered questions. I gave English lessons several times and I was glad to teach the pupils when the teacher was absent.

Now I know well what I am going to do after leaving school. I want to be a teacher of English. It is a very interesting and difficult profession. It is interesting because you work with the pupils, with the personalities. It is difficult because you have to teach them a foreign language.

To be a good teacher means to be a highly educated person and to know a lot. Every day I improve my English, reading books, translating sentences from Russian into English, reading English newspapers, looking through magazines and sometimes speaking with Englishmen. I am fond of English and I want to be a skilled teacher.

Vocabulary:

1. Like teacher, like pupil – Каков учитель, таков и ученик

2. watch – наблюдать за кем-либо

3. catch a cold – простудиться

4. head teacher – директор

5. personality – личность

6. skilled - квалифицированный

2. Выполните упражнения по тексту:

1. Прочитайте диалог по ролям и переведите.

- Nina, have you got any plans for future?

- Yes, I have. I am going to be a librarian. I like this profession, because I like books very much.

- I know that your mother is a librarian, isn’t she?

- Yes, she is. She works at our school and she is a skilled librarian.

- Do you often go to the school library?

- Yes, of course. My friend and I like to go to the school library after classes.

- What do you do there?

- My mother tells us about the books, about the first books in Russia.

- I see that your future profession depends on your mother’s profession.

- There are many fashionable professions now, for example a manager, an economist, a businessman, a lawyer, a pilot. I like the profession of a librarian and I like how my mother works.

- I think that your mother tells you about big libraries in Moscow.

- Yes, she tells a lot of interesting things about the history of libraries. She says that there are nearly 500 libraries in Moscow.

- What is the largest library in Moscow?

- My mother says that the Russian State Library is the largest one. What professions do you like?

- I like many professions. But I began to make plans for the future when I was a small girl. My parents are cooks. My mother likes to make cakes and pies. I help her to make them. My pies are very tasty. My friends like my pies. If you want I’ll teach you to make them.

- Thank you very much. If I have free time I’ll ask you to teach me to make pies. I agree that a cook is a very interesting and useful profession.

2. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. Do you think about your future profession?

2. What kinds of professions do you like best of all?

3. What do you know about your future profession?

4. What do your parents do?

5. Do you like your mother’s profession?

6. When did you begin to think about your future profession?

7. The profession of a teacher is difficult, isn’t it?

8. Does your father tell you anything about his profession?

9. You want to be a pilot, don’t you?

10. Who do you want to be?