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2. Answer these questions:

a. What are the Paralympic Games and who takes part in them?

b. How many and what kind of Paralympic events are mentioned in the text?

c. How were Paralympic athletes helped to participate in the Games by the IOC?

d. How are disabled/handicapped people treated in our society? Talk about this in terms of education, mobility and employment.

3. Match the following words and word combinations:

а) досягнення 1. to reach the top

b) неспроможний 2. achievements

c) мати можливість 3. interested in

d) змінювати сприйняття 4. disabled

e) зацікавлений 5. promote

f) досягати вершин 6. to have a chance

g) просувати 7. the range of skills and

abilities

h) нація, що розвивається 8. to catch public eye

i) перелік навичок та здібностей 9. to change perceptions

j) звертати увагу суспільства 10. developing nation

4. Give it the name:

– strong desire;

– devoted attitude to smth;

– public admiration and approval;

– be taught the skills of a particular job or activity;

– very unusual or surprising.

BOARDING SCHOOL

1. Fill in the gaps in the model below using linking words or expressions from the list. For each item there may be more than one answer.

To sum up, Firstly, In my opinion, What is more, Contrary to what most/many people believe, In addition, To begin with, In conclusion, Some people argue that, In my view, Finally

Sending one's children to boarding school used to be the most acceptable way of educating them, but over the past few years people's opinions have begun to change.

(1) … however, sending one's children away to school can be extremely beneficial for them in later life.

(2) … children who go to boarding school learn at a young age to become independent and to live without their parents. This means that they are better pre­pared to live on their own when the time comes for them to go to university or start work after leaving school.

(3) … boarding school teaches young people how to get along better with others, since they live with their classmates twenty four hours a day. This can help them later on in life to cooperate with colleagues at work and with people around them in general.

(4) … boarding schools are bad for children because children need to be able to spend time with their parents on a daily basis. It is said that this is especially true for younger children, who may feel that their parents have abandoned them by sending them away.

(5) … I feel that boarding schools have a lot to offer. This is shown by the fact that children who have been to boarding school are often far better equipped for life than those who have not.

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of such schools.

3. Make up the plan to the text.

4. Give the summary of the text according to the plan.

MARIA MONTESSORI

1. Complete the following text with the correct derivatives of the words in bold. The first one has been done as an example.

Maria Montessori is not (0) ..primarily (primary) remembered for being Italy's first woman to graduate in medicine, although this was the first of her many significant (1) … (accomplish). Montessori went on to become one of the leading (2) … (educate) of the twentieth century. She worked with 3) … (mental) disabled children at the beginning of the century, and in 1907 opened her first school for children of "normal" (4) … (intelligent). What made her approach unique was her (5) … (believe) that children learn more if their (6) … (create) talents are encouraged to develop. Individual, rather than cooperative, learning was stressed. Montessori used (7) … (interest) objects to capture the (8) … (attend) of her pupils.

They were allowed to work on their own, exploring and discovering new ideas at their own pace. (9) … (surprise), Montessori's schoolchildren did not become (10) … (bore) very easily, and undisciplined children became much better behaved. Today, there are schools all over the world which bear Maria Montessori's name and use her methods.