- •Contents
- •Предисловие
- •Introduction
- •Our Teaching Practice
- •1. Find the English equivalents for the following:
- •2. Speak of your teaching practice.
- •I. The teacher
- •And Gladly Teach
- •1. Practise reading the following words:
- •2. Give synonyms and antonyms (if possible) for the following words:
- •3. Paraphrase the following:
- •4. Confirm or refute the following statements:
- •5. Give detailed characteristics of each category. Role play
- •This extract comes from a play about life in a convent school in London in the 1950s.
- •1. Work with your partner to decide if each of the following
- •Interpretations is correct or not. Give your grounds.
- •2. Work with your partner to do the following exercise.
- •This extract comes from a novel about a teacher who worked at a girls’
- •Look at what Miss Brodie says in the sentences before and after stop 2 and 4. In each case:
- •4. What do you think the main intentions of the writer of each extract were? Write Yes (y) or No (n) for each extract in the boxes below. Give reasons for your ideas, and add any ideas of your own.
- •Read it and say what she thinks the teacher can do to keep the classroom trouble-free.
- •B) Identify all the errors and correct them. What makes a good English teacher?
- •Writing
- •II. Teacher-pupil relationship Topical vocabulary a Adults/Teachers: educational goals
- •Assistant Teacher
- •5. Read these personality evaluation profiles of different pupils and using the topical vocabulary (see above), give detailed characteristics of your own.
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •Role play
- •III. School and schooling education in great britain Topical Vocabulary
- •State Schools
- •Voluntary grammar schools;
- •Independent Schools
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •In late 1989 Britain decided to follow the example of most other countries and introduce a national Curriculum into schools. Read the extract below and answer the questions. The national curriculum
- •1.Match the words from the text with their equivalents:
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •Winston churchill’s prep school
- •1. Explain or paraphrase the bold-faced words and expressions.
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •1. What are the differences between the following types of British schools?
- •2. Divide into three groups. Each group should read one of the articles about schools.
- •1. Work with two people who have read the other articles and find out about the other two students at different schools. Make notes of:
- •2. Discuss any surprises you got while you were reading these texts and any differences between these schools and the one you went to.
- •3. Which of the three schools would you send your children to? Give your reasons.
- •Summerhill education and standard education
- •1. Explain the bold-faced words and expressions.
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •Writing
- •The Philosophy of Summerhill
- •Penalties Against the Fixed Rules
- •1.Explain the bold-faced words and expressions.
- •Should punishment be used in class?
- •1. Explain or paraphrase the bold-faced words and expressions.
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •In groups, discuss one of the following topics:
- •Writing
- •2. Work in small groups. Summarize the issue presented in the background reading. Take notes to complete the following outline.
- •Opinion 1
- •1.Listen to the commentary. Check the statement that summarizes the commentator’s viewpoint.
- •2. Read the following questions and answers. Listen to the commentary again and circle the best answer. Then compare your answers with those of another student. Listen again if necessary.
- •Introduction
- •Defending the Common School
- •2.Find boldfaced words in the essay that have similar meaning to the following:
- •Writing
- •Year-Round Schooling is Voted in Los Angeles
- •School and life
- •1. Explain or paraphrase the bold-faced words and expressions.
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •Vocabulary self-check
- •I. Choose the correct answer.
- •II. Use each verb, at least once, in the correct form to complete the following.
- •IV. Read the text below and fill in one suitable word for each number. Lionel Mendax: Curriculum
- •V. Read the text below and decide which option (a, b, c or d) best fits each. Lionel Mendax: The Truth
- •Writing
- •Где учатся «карьеристы»
- •IV. Higher education Topical vocabulary
- •British and American universities
- •Oxford and Cambridge—Two Famous University Cities
- •1.Explain the bold-faced words and expressions,
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •Higher Education in the United States of America
- •1.Answer the questions:
- •2.Find in the text the factors, which determine the choice by an individual of this oг that college or university.
- •3.Summarize the text in three paragraphs.
- •1.Use the topical vocabulary in answering the following questions:
- •2.Give English equivalents of the following words and expressions:
- •3.Speak about Vitebsk State University, its administration and organization, facilities, faculty, admissions requirements, student body, etc. Use the topical vocabulary.
- •Role play Exams or continuous assessment?
- •The argument: key words
- •1. Great progress in many fields, but exams: a primitive method of testing knowledge and ability.
- •The counter-argument: key words
- •Colleges Begin to Ask, “Where Have the Men Gone?”
- •Match the columns and reproduce the context:
- •2. Paraphrase the following vocabulary items:
- •3. Give synonyms and antonyms (if possible) to the following words:
- •4.Which words collocate with the following vocabulary items?
- •5.Give English equivalents to the following words and expressions:
- •6. Confirm or refute the following statements:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Role play
- •Vocabulary self-check
- •I. Choose the right answer.
- •II. Match the words for people in education with the correct definition
- •Selecting Courses
- •IV. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the passage below.
- •Students
- •V. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the text.
- •Examination Grading
- •VI. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the passage below.
- •Payment Plans
- •VII. Choose the best synonym.
- •VIII. Complete the following article by filling in for numbers the missing words. Use only one word for each space. Bears on campus
- •Writing
- •Supplementary material the profession of teaching
- •Career ladders and master teachers
- •Teacher education
- •Teacher as researcher and scholar
- •Role play
- •Литература
- •Газеты и журналы
Match the columns and reproduce the context:
1.religiously |
a) service |
2.a residential |
b) researchers |
3.to tolerate |
c) literature |
4.enrolment |
d) edge |
5.advanced |
e)criteria |
6.overly |
f) the liberal arts |
7.in-house |
g) environment |
8. recruiting |
h) affiliated |
9. preset |
i) fear |
10.stained |
j) degrees |
11.a male |
k) possibilities |
12.a bias against |
l) imbalance |
13.majoritarian |
m) college |
14.old atavistic |
n) glass |
15.gender |
o) boredom |
16.dating |
p) concerned |
2. Paraphrase the following vocabulary items:
1) to raise concerns; 2) the population tipped towards women; 3) the thatcher, the baker, the candlestick maker; 4) less committed to higher education; 5) confluence of factors; 6) modest means; 7) intercollegiate sports; 8) to entice male applicants; 9) to be heavy toward women; 10) a critical mass; 11) a mindset… more generous to the men;12) to develop a sense of unease; 13) to thrive on gender imbalance; 14) to take somebody on; 15) to have one’s pick of women; 16) off campus.
3. Give synonyms and antonyms (if possible) to the following words:
1) the liberal arts; 2) domain; 3) to recruit; 4) to outnumber; 5) a skew; 6) to persist in school; 7) to pose a challenge; 8) the highest-performing women; 9) mindset; 10) an edge.
4.Which words collocate with the following vocabulary items?
officials, standards, policies;
majoritarian, inclusive, diverse;
male, female.
5.Give English equivalents to the following words and expressions:
Основной предмет специализации; гуманитарные науки; перекос; интернатура; установка; предубеждение; преимущество; пугать, угрожать; придать более привлекательный облик; снижать планку; привлекать; бросать учебу; зарегистрированный; склоняться; разрыв между мужчинами и женщинами; слишком (чрезмерно); территория университета; статистические показатели; одновременное действие; скромного достатка; принимать вызов, мериться силами.
6. Confirm or refute the following statements:
1.Dominance of women in all the academic spheres of the US higher education system raises concerns.
2.The gender gap can be easily bridged, and, in fact, it’s getting smaller and smaller.
3.Men are genetically more intent on going on to higher education but women are more intelligent, brighter, which accounts for the existent gender imbalance.
4.Men are psychologically different from women: they are overly concerned about financial matters, without thinking of how higher education may contribute to their income.
5.African-Americans demonstrate worse academic performance than whites for the reason of their genetic peculiarities.
6.The men-women ratio should be 50-50 at any higher education institution for the latter to function properly.
7.The behaviour of higher-performing women in colleges depends on the level of men’s scholastic achievement, which is natural.
8.To entice male and female applicants the same means of recruiting won’t work at all.
9.The male advantage at Harvard, Yale and Princeton is tremendous.
10.Men adapt easily to a majoritarian female environment. In fact a man fears other men more than women.
11.Women’s institutions are lesser institutions.
12.The decrease in dating possibilities that results from gender imbalance at colleges and grad schools is a surmountable obstacle for women.