II. English Usage

Exercise 3. Choose the most suitable description from the box to complete the sentences.

Classmate, examiner, learner, principal, pupil, coach, lecturer, professor, tutor, class-mistress

1) Someone who teaches at a university............

2) The head of the school..........

3) Someone who studies at primary or secondary school.........

4) Someone in the same class as yourself.........

5) Someone who trains a sports team.........

6) Someone who writes the question papers of an examination........

Exercise 4. A new teacher entered the class and she told a lot of things to her pupils. Rewrite these sentences in indirect speech.

7) Don't talk when Гm talking.

8) Don't write on the desks and eat in the classroom.

9) Who is missing today?

10) Give your homework to me at the end of the lesson.

Exercise 5. Imagine that an American secondary school pupil is going to Russia.

Describe his/her first day in your school. What will be unusual or shocking for him/her in a

Russian school? Write a short essay (200-250words).

KEY: Ex.1 –open exercise Ex.2: 6)repeated 7)encourage 8)independent 9) shocking 10) control

Ex.3: 1)lecturer/professor 2) principal 3) pupil 4) classmate 5) coach 6)examiner

Ex.4: 7)She asked them not to talk when she was talking 8)….not to write on the desk and eat in the classroom 9)…who was missing 10) …to give her their homework

Test 4. ( intermediate level)

1. Reading. Read the text «Parents at School» and do the exercises.

Parents at School.

Tom, a 13-year-old boy, was a student at a junior high school in Ohio. He was not a good student. He did not behave at school. He talked in class, and he was often late. His teachers told him, «Go to the principal's office».

John Lazares was the principal at Tom's school. Tom went to Mr. Lazares's office. First Mr. Lazares disciplined Tom. Then he tried to talk to Tom, but Torn did not pay much attention. At last Mr. Lazares told Tom, «If your teachers send you to my office again, I'm going to call your mother». Suddenly Tom sat up in his chair «Oh, no!» he said «Don't do that! I don't want my mother at school! I'll be good. I promise!»

In the USA, principals and teachers discipline students in several ways. The teacher often writes or calls the student's parents Sometimes students have to stay at school for an extra hour If a student behaves very badly, the principal can suspend the student. The student cannot come to school for one, two, or three days. Mr. Lazares didn't like to suspend students. When he suspended some students , they were happy «A three-day vacation!» they thought.

A few days later Tom was in Mr Lazares office again. Mr. Lazares telephoned the boy's parents. «If you come to school with your son, I won't suspend him», he said. The boy's father came to school and went with his son to every class. Other students stared at the boy and his father. The boy was embarrassed. After that, he behaved better. He did not want his father to come to school again. Other students behaved better, too. They thought, «I don't want my parents to come to school» .

Exercise 1. Choose the right answer to complete the sentences.

1) Tom went to the principal's a) he didn't want to write compositions.

office because..... b) he didn't behave at school.

c) he wanted to talk to the principal about his future career.

2) Students who behave a) visits b) telephones c) suspends

very badly cannot come to

school for one, two, or three

days. The principal.......them.

3) Some students want a three-day a) they are happy when the principal suspends them vacation, so........ b) they behave belter

c) they ask their parents to come to school and have a talk with the principal

4) Other students stared at the a) surprised b) embarrassed c) proud

boy and his father. The boy

was.......

5) Students at Mr. Lazares's a) they are afraid of the teachers

school are behaving better b) Mr. Lazares suspends students who don't

because...... behave

c) they don't want their parents to come to school

Exercise 2. Choose the best form of the verb.

6) «If I were you, I........( behave) badly», said Tom's friend.

7) Tom would get better marks at school if he........(do) more homework.

8).......(you/tell) Tom if you see him today?

9) Ann asked Tom if.........(he/go) to the principal tomorrow.

10) Mr. Lazares asked Tom if.......(his parents/ come) already.

.......10 marks