Unit 1 teacher's profession

It is not an easy thing to choose a profession but I've made my choice and decided to become a teacher. My parents are also teachers and I know that teaching is a very specific and very interesting job. A teacher is a person who is learning as well as teaching all his life. Most jobs can be done within the usual office hours of 9 a. m. - 5 p.m., but teacher's work is never done. When classes are over teachers stay at school to hold competitions, discoes, meetings of clubs and societies and are busy doing other kinds of extra-curriculum (out-of-class) work. Evenings are mostly spent marking exercise-books and preparing for the next lesson.

While teaching you have to encourage your pupils and keep them interested. A good teacher is a model of competence. He studies his children closely -to discover their interests, their needs and abilities. He plans his work upon what he learns about his children. The relationships between him and his pupils should be based on cooperation and respect for a person.

The function of education is to prepare children for real life situations, to help them live in the community, to bring them up in the spirit of high moral ideals. It is a great responsibility. Teachers develop their pupils' intellect, form their views and characters. They teach children to be honest and kind, to be active and industrious, loving their native land.

To be a teacher is not so easy as it may seem at first but love for children and great patience combined with deep knowledge would be quite enough to succeed in work.

This teacher's profession is a very hard job, but it is also very interesting and creative. That is why thousands of young people choose this profession and dedicate their lives to the education of younger generation. The schools of Russia are proud of such outstanding pedagogues as Ushinsky, Makarenko, Amonashvili, Shatalov and others.

choose (chose, chosen) – выбирать

hold (held, held) – проводить (мероприятие)

encourage – подбадривать, поощрять

abilities – cпocoбности

relationships – отношения

respect – уважение

community – общество

bring up (brought, brought) = educate – воспитывать

in the spirit of – в духе

responsibility – ответственность

views – взгляды

industrious – трудолюбивый

patience – терпение

succeed – преуспевать

Task 1. Give the Russian equivalents for:

• to choose a professions

• to make a choice

• to hold competitions

• meetings of clubs and societies

• extra-curriculum work

• to mark exercise-books

• to encourage one's pupils

• to keep the children interested

• a model of competence

• a discover one's interests, needs and abilities

• to be based on cooperation and respect

• to prepare children for real life situations

• to bring up children in the spirit of high moral ideals

• to develop intellect

• to form views and characters

• to be honest and kind

• to be active and industrious

• to love one's native land

• great patience and deep knowledge

• to succeed in

• to dedicate one's life to the education of younger generation.

Task 2. Finish up the sentences:

• It is not an easy thing...

• Teaching is...

• When classes are over...

• Evenings are mostly spent...

• The relationships between him and his children...

• The function of education is...

• Teachers develop...

• Thousands of young people...

Task 3. Answer the questions on the text.

1. Why have you chosen the profession of a teacher?

2. What qualities are the most important in a teacher?

3. What do teachers stay at school for when classes are over?

4. What is the main function of education?

5. What is necessary to succeed in teacher's work?

6. What are the tasks and role of school in present-day life?

(Write down the answer in a form of a short resume and exchange your ideas with the partner. Report to the class.)