V. Прочтите текст и вопросы к нему. Ответьте письменно на следующие вопросы. Answer the following questions:

a) What do children learn about in order to build solar collectors and turbines?

In order to build solar collectors and turbines children learn about environment, different forms of government. They analize the housing and learn the way people work in groups.

b) The children have a lot of freedom to design their community in the way they want, do not they?

No, they don’t. The children have a lot of freedom to design buildings of the future.

c) What does СВЕР include?

CBEP includes games, series of activities, and simulations that teach the basic steps necessary for problem-solving: observing, analyzing, creating possible solutions, and evaluating them based on the children's own criteria.

d) What do the children try out in order to choose one for the planning phase of the city?

In order to choose one for the planning phase of the city, the children try out different forms of government - monarchy, dictatorship, democracy.

e) What kind of plan do the children participating in the programme make for meeting the needs of their own town or city?

They invent new ways to meet these needs and build Styrofoam models of their creations.

f) What do the children do to see what is good and bad about each aspect of the community?

To see what is good and bad about each aspect of the community children draw free-form maps of their town and analyze advantages and disadvantages. They analize classroom environment and discuss their mistakes in groups. Each child presents her or his plan to a small group and then the most successful plan is chosen and set up in the classroom.

g) CBEP uses the process of city planning to teach both ordinary school subjects and the general skill of problem-solving, does not it?

Yes, it does. It teaches basic reading, writing, math skills, and etc.

VI. Согласитесь или не согласитесь со следующими утверждениями.Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1. An architect comes to the classroom to help the children to invent ways of solving problems. (agree)

2. The architect comes once a week. (agree)

3. The children have a lot of freedom (agree)

4. The children pretend they are in primitive times only once. (disagree)

5. The children study their own city in its present state before planning a future city. (agree)

6. The City Building Program is only used with older children. (disagree)

7. The teacher helps them to construct models of future buildings. (disagree)

8. The children also work with the classroom as if it were a City Building Educational Program. (agree)

9. The less successful plan is chosen and set up in the classroom. (disagree)

VII. Дайте русские эквиваленты следующим английским словм и выражениям.

Give English equivalents of the following Russian words and word combinations:

problem-solving, (решение проблем) aspect of the community, (аспекты жизни общества) meeting the needs of their own town or city, (удовлетворение потребностей их собственного малого или большого городов)

preliminary exercise, (предварительное испытание) no improve the environment, (без улучшения окружающей среды) the most successful plan, (наиболее успешный план) simulation, (симуляция или имитация)

a series of activities, (серия мероприятий) final model-building phase of the program ( финальная стадия моделирования по программе) , City Building Educational Program, (Образовательная программа городского строительства) basic steps, (основные шаги) to invent ways of solving problems, (изобрести пути решения проблем) surviving (выживание) , curriculum (учебная программа)

VIII. Соотнесите части предложений в правой и левой частях таблицы. Match the parts of the sentences:

1. The children draw free-form maps	a) for survival and division of labor.
2. They may organize into tribes	b) their classroom is a city.
3. A group develops a plan for subdividing the site of their future city into	c) without fear of criticism, because there are no wrong answers in a future context.'
4. The children also work with the classroom	d) to a small group
5. They elect a ruler	e) of their town and analyze what's a 'good' and 'bad' about it.
6. The fact, as the class enters the final model building phase of the program,	f) who appoints a planning commission to make the final design decisions...
7. 'They are able to use their own space-age fantasies and inventions	g) land parcels, using hills, streams, and other features as natural boundaries.
8. In one exercise the children pretend	h) an elected 'major' and 'planning commission' make all the design decisions.'
9. Each child presents her or his plan	i) as if it were a city with aisles as highways, desks as houses, bookcases as the library/cultural centre.