- •Kolomna
- •Contents
- •Personal identification
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Why do people ever get married?'
- •Reading and speaking section
- •In pairs or groups, refer to the information below and on the next page, discuss to what extent the ideas are true about you and the others in your group.
- •22 December - 20 January
- •21 January-19 February
- •20 February - 20 March
- •21 March-20 April
- •21 April-21 May
- •22 May-21 June
- •22 June-23 July
- •24 June - 23 August
- •24 August-23 September
- •24 September-23 October
- •24 October - 22 November
- •23 November - 21 December
- •Friends for life
- •Modern british families
- •Families and family life
- •The extended family
- •Family life
- •In pairs or groups, look through the questions of Task 6 and report on The Modern Russian Family. Translation and rendering section
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Vocabulary work
- •Insert prepositions or post-verbal adverbs where necessary:
- •Reading and speaking section
- •A week-day in john’s family
- •Children’s chores
- •The use of leisure
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Houses and homes
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Vocabulary work Exercise 1. Write down the English equivalents for the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •Home sweet home
- •My room and welcome to it
- •Eating and drinking
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Eating out (by Clement Hardine)
- •Fast food (by Rebecca Mitchell)
- •The abc of table manners
- •Meals in britain
- •Comprehension Check
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Shops and shopping
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Exercise 2.
- •Exercise 3.
- •Exercise 5.
- •Exercise 6.
- •Exercise 7.
- •Exercise 8.
- •Exercise 9.
- •Exercise 10.
- •Vary, short, likely, freeze, success, expense, reduce, complain, polite, willing reading and speaking section
- •Marks & spencer
- •Comprehension check
- •Shop till you drop. A new disease of our time.
- •Borrowing out of control
- •Vicious circle
- •A cure for shopping?
- •I. At the millinery department:
- •II. At the shoe department:
- •Learning foreign languages
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •English today
- •Learning english is important for me
- •Learning a new language
- •Academic reasons for studying foreign languages
- •The study of foreign languages
- •How to learn a language
- •What makes a good language school?
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Пять способов выучить английский. Какой из них лучше?
- •1. Индивидуальные занятия
- •2.Занятия в группе
- •3. Лингафонный курс
- •4. Обучение под гипнозом
- •5. Суггестопедия
- •Languages. Countries. People
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Seasons and weather
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Weather Vocabulary Quiz
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Seasons and weather
- •Russian weather
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Travelling
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Translation and rendering section
What makes a good language school?
Every year, thousands of young people come to Great Britain to learn English. They come from a range of backgrounds, and have varying expectations of what their stay in the country will be like. Two things they all have a right to expect, however, are that their stay in Great Britain will be reasonably enjoyable, and that they will return to their countries speaking English a lot better than when they left them. How can a language school ensure that these expectations are not disappointed?
Clearly, the first objective is that what students do in the classroom should improve their English. First of all, the teachers should be capable and qualified. That is to say, they should know what the students need to learn, and be able to help them learn it. On top of that, the school should provide students with efficient material to work with. Lastly, a school ought to try to keep up with technological developments in language learning, in order to be able to offer these facilities to students.
The second question is school facilities. Apart from good-sized classrooms, the school must offer a comfortable place for students to meet and talk between lessons. Furthermore, it is convenient for students if the school provides meals, coffee and so on. Some schools even contain a bar for socialising among students and staff.
The final way in which schools can help students is by making sure that they enjoy themselves outside schooltime. The most important question here is accommodation, and a responsible school will not only find students somewhere to stay, but also take care that accommodation continues to meet high standards. In addition, it is part of a school's responsibilities to inform students about places to go in the town, so that students don't sit at home all the time. Last but not least, in one or two very good schools there is a welfare officer, whose job is to look after the well-being of students, and to give advice when needed.
Few schools meet all these requirements, and one cannot expect the cheaper ones to do so. However, any school that meets most of them is doing a pretty good job.
The following ideas were left out of the text.
The school should be well-heated in winter.
Materials should be suitable for the level of the students.
Examples of equipment are language laboratories, video, computers.
The school should arrange parties, excursions, entertainments.
Students should be graded into groups of similar language ability.
Classrooms should be attractive and well-lit.
Expand the items as you like (thinking particularly of purpose). Say
where you would fit each into the text and the connecting expression
you would use.
Task 7.
Make up the story "My Institute", using the words below.
To enter an Institute (a University)/ to be admitted to-he university, to take an oral/ written examination (in), to pass (fail) an examination in English; to have classes in Grammar (Home-Reading, Phonetics, Written Practice, Conversation, Psychology, Sociology, Medicine, the Theory of Education, Educational Psychology, Socio-Political History, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Linguistics); to have seminars/ lectures on; to take a course in psychology, 3 double-periods weekly, a wide range of subjects, an examination paper (a test paper) in Grammar, the course of study runs (lasts ) for 5 years, to receive (get) grants (Grants are paid once a month, the amount depends on the results of the previous set of examinations and the students' social work (activities); the winter (summer) term; attendance is compulsory (sport / physical education is compulsory during the first years of study);an optional subject (there are optional courses in English Philology); to have holidays twice a year, to house 9 faculties; the teaching staff consists of professors, lecturers, assistants; full-time students (part-time students); a well-equipped language laboratory; to borrow books from the library (to join the library, the library is well stocked with books from the reading list of recommended works for students; our students' clubs are extremely popular with the students of our faculty; to take part in the activities of our discussion and theatrical groups, to be interested in research work (to join a linguistic society, club); to attend special preparatory (preliminary) courses; to train teachers (I'm training to be a teacher).