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Unit 15

Task 1. Watch Video 45 and Video 46 leads and transcribe them. Compare the contents of each lead and the way each video: a) reports opening of a school year; b) reports on the variety of new subjects to be taught in school in England. Write them down into slots below.

Video 45 lead major information points:

Video 46 lead major information points:

Task 2. Watch Video 45 again, restore the words and expressions gapped below using the context in which they function in the video.

  1. …1-2… to school

  2. … government’s new …1-2…

  3. It will allow struggling teenagers …1-2…

  4. … and those who excelled, …1-2…

  5. Edd Balls is (post?) …

  6. Sean Fenton is (post?) …

  7. But it will be a particular …

  8. … that they will …1-2…

  9. …1… financial skills like …2… …3… …4… and …5…

10) … of being able to …1-3… in the kitchen.

11) … are described as …1… …2… world languages…

12) in an effort to …1-2…

13) If employers do really …1-3…

14) to encourage up to 90 % of students …1-4…

What is the American equivalent of the term headmaster ?

Task 3. Identify the grammatical structures used in Video 45. The sentences in question open and end up with the following words.

1. Teenagers … diploma courses.

2. 20,000 … cookery.

3. A new school … with it.

4. One which the government … stretched.

5. Education Secretary … agree.

6. As part of the school time table …cards.

  1. “The introduction of … common sense”.

8. And 11 to 14 year olds … obesity.

9. But there’s concern … little.

What sentences prevail among the listed above – simple, complex or compound?

Task 4. Write out the following subcategories of lexical units of Video 45.

a) terms … (education, finance) …

b) phrasal verbs …

c) intensifying words …

d) nominative constructions …

e) clichés …

Task 5. Watch Video 46 for details. Fill in the gaps in the sentences below and make lexical, morphological and stylistic analysis of the material.

1. The first day back at school can be …1-2… …3…

2. …1… if it’s at a new school, …2… …3… with a …4-5… of teaching too.

3. …1… year many students …2-3… …4-5…

4. They’ll be the first …1-4… education until they are 17, …5-9… a new curriculum and new qualifications too.

5. The new school time table has been modernised and revised …1… more…2…to …3… like balancing credit cards and mortgages.

6. “I …1… say it …2-3… more beneficial. I …4… , …5… with finances, …6… for 6-formers, …7… . We …8-10… to go to university, finance definitely go more and more …11-13… . …14… to be able to manage money and not to …15-17… for the rest of your life, it’s quite useful, …18…”

7. For …1-13…, there are new specialist diplomas, …14-15…

8. “I think I will be …1… worried about it. …2… …3… obviously (I don’t know) as diplomas are …4… seen as …5-6… lower than A-level. …7… , higher universities …8… not see it as good a qualification as A-level”.

9. …1… hope the pilot programme will …2-4… aren’t a …3-7…

10. “…1-4… …5… for students with a good basis in vocational experience as well as …6… . The danger is – it’s untried. We don’t know if …7-10… work.” …11-15… being a two tear system …16-18… are retained for the more able students and the diploma becomes seen as the …19… for those …20-24…

11. “These young people will …1-4… the scope of the whole industry. …5… , …6… , they will be able to make an …7-8… …9-10… what’s right for them, and their talents and …11… that …12-14… of the industry.”

12. Those studying for them have also given them …1-3…

13. …1-4… 5… d

14. …1… now the government must hope …2-8… the new curriculum …9-11… …12-13…

Task 6. Compare the factual contents of Video 45 and Video 46 and fill in the table below..

Similarities

Differences

1. Video 45:

Video 45:

2. Video 46:

Video 46:

3. Video 45:

Video 45:

N… Video 46:

Video 46:

Task 7. Fill in the gaps below (Video 47), memorise the collocations you have got:

  1. to get … As

  2. now turning to … exams

  3. which allows pupils to … in subjects

  4. and also to … next

  5. designed to …1… the …2… pupils

  6. we’ve a …1-2… of other qualifications

  7. one school of thought …1-2… that

  8. and caught …1-3… are pupils

Task 8. Close the gaps (Video 47) and say what stylistic features the sentences below employ:

  1. the …1… …2… competition for…

  2. in subjects …1-2… construction and the built environment

  3. making secondary education …

  4. an … bewildered consumer

  5. …1… this fast becoming …2-4…

  6. …1-7… who, …8-9…, can only answer …10-16…

Task 9. Listen to the interview and make corrections in its transcript on the next page.

“…Cause we know that the big barrier to recruit and retain people in teaching is bad pupil’s behaviour, we shall take decision actions to discipline. Unless the order is kept in classroom, teachers cannot teach while children cannot study.”

Task 10. Fill in the gaps in the two interviews below (Video 50) and compare them in terms of style. Make your point.

A. “…1-3… ,” says the Education Secretary:

“Thousands of children, including some of our very brightest leave school …1… to …2-5…, …6-10…, incapable of writing a clear and …11-12… . Well, let me be clear – under this government we …13… insist that our exams once more …14-18… the need to spell, punctuate, and write a grammatical sentence.”

B. Katie Ivens, “Campaign for …1-2…”

“You talk about …1-2… . But in fact the most advanced education systems in the world …3-6… their children have …7… of their own language. …8-10… , it’s a very advanced thing …11-13… .”

Task 11. Watch the report in Video 51 and correct the transcripts below.

A. Kate Appleby:

“I’ve had few problems with my money, that’s why I got job in my 2nd year trying to find steady income. But in general I’m quite lucky to have the support from my parents. But I know that’s not the case for everybody. And if it wasn’t that I have got the support from my parents I would be a lot harder done by. And I can see how people do get into proper debt problems.”

B. Professor Steve Smith, President of “The Universities UK”:

“We think Lord Browne is good news for university, provided Lord Browne can be implemented and go through the parliament. Because in a week we get the Spending Review which reduces university spending. For ‘U UK’ the number one concern is that we maintain quality and the standing of the UK higher education.”

Task 12. Close the gaps in the transcripts below (Video 51).

Student No 1:

“I am not very financially secure. So …1-2… the university with that much …3… . We’ll have to …4… whether I’ll like to go to university.”

Student No 2:

“I’ll definitely …1-2… about whether to study in London or to travel out or just travel home sometimes.”

Task 13. What are the stylistic and syntactical features of the following sentences (Video 51).

1. As in any market, the rich will …1… richer and the poor will …2… poorer.

2. The National Union of Students talk of the …1… of the system which could double student’ debt and increase interest payments for those who borrow most to …2-5… university.

3. At the time of cuts, high fees and …1-3… for graduates young people may be forgiven for …4-8…

Task 14. Watch Video 51’s second half, starting with the news presenter’s words We’re live to Westminster now.

What are the three points on the tuition fees (or key recommendations) the reporter mentions. Put them down:

1) … 2) … 3) …

Task 15. Fill in the gaps in the transcript below. Analyse its grammatical and syntactical features (Video 52).

A. “We all know what it’s like – you’re at …1… week. You …2-3… with a …4-5… and do things that you regret. Isn’t it true he’s been …6-7… by the Tories …”

B. “Let’s …1… the Labour Party’s record: against …2-3… in 1997, introduced them a few months later. Against …4-6… in a manifesto in 2001, introduced top-up fees. …9… set up the Browne Review which …10… are now …11…. Now have a policy to actually tax graduates which half …12-14… doesn’t even believe in …”

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