Language case #2 : Education (Reading +English Usage)

Topics

• School life in Russia and English-speaking countries

• Language learning

Данный кейс является приложением к основному кейсу №2 Education. Он включает тексты с заданиями для развития и совершенствования навыков чтения, а также упражнения для расширения вокабуляра и совершенствования грамматических навыков у учащихся. Весь материал составлен в пределах тематики кейса №2. Все задания распределяются по уровням сложности, деление приблизительное, на усмотрение автора:

Elementary level: 5-6 классы

Pre-intermediate level: 7-8 классы

Intermediate level: 9-11 классы

Данный кейс рассчитан на учащихся общеобразовательных школ без углублённого изучения английского языка.

Test 1. (elementary level)

I. Reading. Read the text and find the information from the text to complete the form.

My School

I go to Repin Art School. It is quite a small school with 250 pupils in all. In my class there are twenty five pupils- twelve boys and the rest are girls. My teacher is very nice. Her name is Miss Savrasova. There are twenty teachers in the school. Fifteen of the teachers are women and five are men. The Head -teacher is Mrs Demedenko. She is very strict and we are all a little bit afraid of her. We don't have a swimming pool at school but we have very good tennis courts.

We play tennis, football and basketball at school. I go to school by train. It takes twenty minutes. Repin station is only half a kilometre from the school. Most children go to school by train. We can walk to school from the station in five minutes. School starts at a quarter past nine and finishes at half past three. I leave home at half past eight in the morning and I get home at a quarter past four.

1. Name of school.......... 2. ............pupils in the class. 3. Number of the girls in the class.... 4. There are sixteen women teachers in the school......TRUE/FALSE 5. Mrs Demedenko is.... 6. Every Monday pupils have swimming lessons..... YES/NO 7. Most children go to school by...... 8. Repin station is only... (a-1.5 km, b-0.5km; c-1km) from the school. 9. School day starts at... (a-8.45; b-8.15; c-9, 15) 10. School day finishes at...( a-3.30; b-4.30; c-2, 30)

II. English Usage.

Exercise 1.

In this list of words all words except one have something in common. Which is the 'odd word out'?

1) Russian German France Japanese

2) project design argument plan

3) lend borrow take refuse

4) fix repair mend sunbathe

5) tomorrow in a day next week rarely

Exercise 2. Complete the sentences with AND, BUT or BECAUSE

6) I enjoy English. It's interesting.......I'm very good at it.

7) David wants to study Medicine.......he isn't good at Biology.

8) Maria is studying Chemistry and Biology.....she wants to be a doctor

9) I prefer Biology to Maths......Maths is very difficult.

10) Pete enjoys learning English.......he doesn't like German,

Exercise 3. You have a new pupil in your class. Ask him/her questions about his/her......

• previous school;

• subjects he/ she liked most of all;

• favourite activities at the lessons;

• interests and hobbies;

• marks;

• teachers and classmates......

(10 questions of different types )

KEY: Reading: 1) Repin Art School 2) 25 3)13 4)F 5)the Head Teacher 6)No 7)train 8)b 9)c 10)a

Ex.1: 1)France 2)argument 3) refuse 4) sunbather 5)rarely

Ex.2: 6)and 7)but 8)because 9) because 10)but