5. Write the basic forms of all the irregular verbs in the text:

6. Ask all types of questions:

1. Finishing school is the beginning of an independent life for millions of school graduates.

2. But it is not an easy thing to choose a profession out of more than the 2000 existing in the world.

3. A college can accept only one out of every ten who apply.

4. The system of higher education in the United States comprises four categories of institution.

5. The great majority of these institutions are generally regarded as quite satisfactory.

6. The more desirable institutions are more costly to attend.

7. Many Americans are not satisfied with the condition of higher education in their country.

7. Underline the suffixes and state their meaning:

independent, profession, education, applications, technical, duration, majority, generally, satisfactory, desirable, employment, American, National, involvement, vocational, traditionally, direction.

8. Translate into Russian.

The American system of education differs from ours in its freedom and personal approach. There are electives – subjects one choose freely for the semester. They make up only part of the total number; there are required courses also. American professors take their job as a teacher more seriously; they are serious, honest teachers, taking their work as a duty. American teachers value the student’s viewpoint as his or her essential right – “an inalienable right”. It is the right to express their thoughts, to fulfill their potential, to feel themselves equal to the teacher – not in age or experience, but in mental capabilities.

Lesson 8

1. Read and translate the text.

Active Vocabulary:

1. lot – судьба, участь

2. female - женский пол

3. intense - напряженный

4. persistent - настойчивый, стойкий

5. male - мужской пол

6. self-conscious - застенчивый, сознательный

7. fall ill - заболеть

8. afford - позволять

9. rage - ярость, гнев

10. rewards - награды

11. expectations - ожидания

A Teacher’s Lot is Certainly a Different One

Say «teacher» and a clear image forms in people’s minds. People usually think that teachers, if female, are intense, persistent creatures, and if male, are a little strange. Teachers themselves have a particularly self-conscious view of their role. They tend to feel isolated and to grow away from friends who work a standard office day. The teacher’s job imposes exceptional stresses and conflicts, and this have the power to isolate teachers from everybody else, to alter their outlook and even their characters.

Young teachers who have had college lectures on «discipline in the classroom situation» or «the deprived child» are not properly warned of the emotional impact children make on them. They sit and brood about the children’s needs and always feel that they could be doing more. Of course that’s true, but the best teachers are the ones who can switch off, by doing whatever work is necessary. If a teacher falls ill he can’t afford to stay in bed till he gets well. Extremes of behavior are more common in the classroom than people would believe. Many teachers discover in themselves depths of bad temper, even rage, they never knew they had.

But the rewards of the job are so special that teachers learn to maintain high expectations, to apply them generally. The experience, they have at school, have a great influence on their attitudes to job and people. Most of the generalizations about them are rooted somewhere in truth – teachers are different – but few people bother to find out why.