1. Find in the text words and word combinations characterizing cooperation and professional qualities of the people.

2. Is it true or false?

1. The concept of cooperative learning is alien to all of us who were taught the traditional way, but it offers our children the adventure of finding their own answers. Prove.

2. If you took a doctor from the 19th century and put her in a modern operating theatre, she would" have no idea what to do, but if you put a teacher from the 19th century into a modern classroom she would be able to carry on teaching without pause. Give your reasons.

3. Cooperative learning is the future of education and thinks of it as the best way to encourage responsibility, tolerance and helpfulness towards others. Comment on this statement.

4. Cooperative learning turns the classroom from a competitive arena into a place where learning facts and life skills is both more fun and more effective for pupils and teachers alike. Prove.

3. Explain what it means.

1. The teacher's role is no longer to feed students with information.

2. The teacher, who is still very important to the process, becomes the helper rather than the process, becomes the helper rather than the master.

3. You learn the same material as you would using the normal method, but this way you learn how to work with others at the same time.

4. Children do not sit in straight rows of desks facing the teacher, but rather face one another to make it easier to share ideas.

5. Teaching methods have hardly changed in one hundred years.

6. Good relationships are the key to effective learning.

4. Express the idea of the story using proverbs. Argue the choice.

Oleksandr murashko

(1875-1919)

Painter, educator, public figure

Oleksandr Murashko originated from an artistic family. His father ran an iconpainting studio and participated in decorating St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv; his uncle, Mykola Murashko, was a painter and a reputed educator, the founder of Kyiv Drawing School. The school was the place of Oleksandr Murashko's initial training, which he continued at I.Repin's class of St. Petersburg Academy of Art. For his graduation work, Funeral of the Kish Otaman, Murashko was awarded the artist's degree and the right to travel abroad. He visited Paris, and later studied in Munich at A. Aschbe's studio.

O.Murashko's works, starting from the earliest ones, displayed shrill observational skill, artistry, and bright decorative pattern. The young painter skilfully applied techniques he learned from I. Repin, at the same time practising the contemporary European artistic trends.

His portraits attract with the diversity of expressive techniques, original compositional solutions, wide use of colour planes and light reflexes. Sunlight radiates almost from every portrait. The critics called the light the Murashko's special.

O.Murashko gained European recognition in the 1910 s. The picture Carrousel sent to the 10th International Art Show in Munich in 1909 was a sensation and won a gold medal. Since then, O.Murashko's name became known to artistic circles of different countries, and his works, exposed in Venice, Berlin, Dusseldorf and Cologne, were acquired by European galleries and private collectors. With the artist's every new canvas his skill advanced, his strokes became freer and more energetic, his colours richer and clearer, and his compositions more refined and expressive. His works Peasant Family; Washer-woman, and Flower Sellers were the masterpieces of Ukrainian painting.

Seeking to increase significance of Kyiv as a centre of culture and to stir up its artistic life, Murashko initiated the establishment of the Kyiv Artists' Fellowship in 1916 and of the Ukrainian Academy of Art in 1918, and opened his own training studio. O. Murashko tragically died at the peak of his creative performance. The Self-Portrait, one of the painter's latest works (1918), was an exquisite piece of artistic excellence, artistry and inspiration.