Grammar Past Simple

The verbs in Past Simple may be Regular : play - played, tune - tuned, repeat - repeated, record - recorded; pass - passed, perform - performed

Irregular: be - was/ were, beat - beat, become - became, begin - began, blow - blew, brake - broke, bring - brought, broadcast - broadcast, burn -burnt, buy - bought, choose - chose, do - did, feel - felt, get - got, give -gave, go - went, grow - grew, have - had, hear - heard, hit - hit, keep - kept, know - knew, lead - led, learn - learnt, make - made, mean - meant, read -read, ring - rang, send - sent, set - set, show - showed, sing - sang, speak -spoke, take - took, teach - taught, think - thought, write - wrote and others.

UNIT 2

Ideal of a good teacher

Submit a composition «What is your ideal of a good teacher?»/ «What makes a good teacher?».

For doing this look through the sample composition.

My ideal of a good teacher

I've never supposed that I’ll study at the Pedagogical College. It is interesting for me that I am engaged in pedagogical process. I couldn't guess that problems of pedagogics and teaching generally will be so actual nowadays.

Teaching is the bilateral pedagogical process of communication of teachers and pupils. And it is a great responsibility for teachers to grow up each child as a person, to bring them up in the spirit of high moral ideals. It is the main purpose of education and simultaneously the most difficult task for pedagogues. So, to be a teacher isn't as easy as it may seem at first. Even if you want to be a teacher you can't become a good one. You must be born one. To my mind, a teacher is like a sculptor: he moulds a personality out of a child like a sculptor creates a beautiful statue out of clay.

I can say that teacher's profession is very interesting and creative. That is why true genuine pedagogues, besides academic competence, should master broad knowledge. In my point of view a real teacher is a good actor, artist and scientist at the same time.

I guess the most important qualities in a teacher are:

• Industry

• Patience

• Honesty

Industrious and patient pedagogues loving their children will be successful in work.

Also it will be helpful for teachers to have such qualities as fairness, a sense of humor, and, finally, objectivity. It is really very important treating pupils as anyone of us would like to be treated.

As for me, I assume that all relationships between teachers and pupils should be based on cooperation and respect for a person.

In conclusion l'd like to say that in our modern hectic life such a significant person as a teacher should be swift and mobile, adopting changes. Pedagogues are learning as well as teaching all their life. So a teacher must be willing to continue his education, to perfect his knowledge not to fall behind. Because material wealth can be lost or stolen or can wear away to dust, but the wealth of the knowledgeable mind is with us throughout our lives.

GRAMMAR

Passive Voice

UNIT 3

Teaching Practice

Read the text «Teaching Practice» and discuss the problems:

1. Is teaching an art or a science?

2. Must a teacher be a good actor?

(Give your reason!)

Teaching is an activity which you can read about, think about, and be tutored in, but in the end it is something which you do. It is an action which is a consequence of thought. And you must do it for yourself in the only place where it can be done — in classrooms.

Another way of saying this is to say that teaching is an art, not a science. How is this difficult art to be mastered? The mastering can occur only with children in classrooms. It is this fact which makes the provision of teaching practice an in­dispensable part of the work of any institution whose duty it is to educate students to work as teachers in schools. Without training the concept of a profession is impossible. Without practice in schools, any system of training is impossible.

Teaching practice means an opportunity to prepare the material of one's subject more thoroughly then was necessary to pass one's examinations. The second opportunity which teaching practice presents to the students in training is the opportunity to discover how well he or she likes a subject, or indeed whether he likes it or not.

There are people who do not have power of clear communication, and clear communication means understanding one's pupils, sympathizing with them, being aware of their individual differences and special aptitudes. The good teacher is a psychologist, capable of understanding children in the complex, changing situation of the classroom.

Among other opportunities of teaching practice is the opportunity to understand the social significance of the school. What is done in classrooms influences the quality of our society.

Briefly, teaching practice gives the student in training an opportunity to recognize his profession as the highly complex activity and the vital influence which it has.

GRAMMAR

degrees of comparison of adjectives

UNIT 4

A Teacher of Music

Read and translate the text.

«It is the supreme art of the Teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge». Albert Einstein.

Before I finished school I had dreamed of becoming a singer. Many pupils want to become singers when they are in their junior forms at school. It's a very interesting and attractive profession. But when I grew older, I understood that choosing a profession or a career for your future life was a very serious problem. So, when I left school, I faced that problem.

Since I had always been interested in music I decided to become a teacher of Music.

So I made up my mind to enter Teachers’ Training College (the Department of Musical Education). I know that the Profession of a teacher is very difficult. But I also know that Teachers are special people. Whether they make Shakespeare come alive, algebra seem like child's play, or French feel like our native language, teachers open new doors for us. I love music and believe that music can be an inspiring force only if it is itself inspired. Music influences all of us in different ways because we all are unique.

Music makes our inner world richer because the range of expression is limitless.

We admire many talented musicians. Among them is S. Prokofyev.

Sergey Prokofyev was 5 when his mother gave him his first piano lesson. At the age of 6 he was already composing and actually writing small pieces for the piano.

Shostakovich was 13 when in 1919 he entered the Petrograd Conservatoire. His teachers were the splendid Russian musicians Maximilian Steinberg (composition) and Leonid Nikolayev (piano).

I would like to be a true teacher and I'll do my best to fulfill this task. Learning and studying is the key to success.

There are a lot of music schools and children's choirs in our city where children learn to play different musical instruments, to sing and appreciate music. So, besides guitar, piano is a very popular musical instrument. I'm sure I'll be a very good teacher of Music. At our college we have very experienced teachers. They are teaching me to master my future profession.

I want to be a good and successful teacher of Music. To my mind a successful teacher needs: the education of college president, the executive ability of financier, the humility of a deacon, the adaptability of a chameleon, the hope of an optimist, the courage of a hero, the wisdom of a serpent, the gentleness of a dove and the grace of God. And, you know, there's a Chinese proverb: «Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime».

II. Suggest English equivalents for:

пробуждать радость; знание; взрослеть; столкнуться с проблемой; поступать; вдохновлять; дать урок по классу фортепиано; сочинять музыку; маленькие фортепианные произведения; ключ к успеху; детские хоры; ценить; опытные преподаватели; овладевать профессией.

III. Suggest Russian equivalents for:

humility; adaptability; deacon; courage; wisdom; gentleness; dove; grace; God; proverb; feed.

IV. Read the beginning of the sentence and find its end in the text:

1. It is the supreme art of the teacher...

2. But when I grew older...

3. Whether they make Shakespeare...

4. Sergei Prokofyev was 5...

5. I would like to be a true teacher...

6. To my mind a successful teacher needs...

7. And you know, there's a Chinese proverb...

V. Ask questions about the text and let your fellow-students answer them.