Make up sentences of your own using the words and word-combinations given below.

Задания такого типа ставят своей целью отработку лексических навыков.

При переходе к изучению следующего текста нужно попросить студентов его пересмотреть и найти в нем ранее изученный активный лексический материал. Таким образом, осуществляется процесс интеграции.

PART I

PEDAGOGICS

LESSON 1

1. Read and translate the text.

Active Vocabulary:

1. moral values - моральные ценности

2. to make decisions - принимать решения

3. student’s experience - опыт школьника

4. to influence - оказывать влияние

5. opportunities - возможности

6. polite - вежливый

7. deeper study - углубленное обучение

8. to make efforts - прилагать усилия

What makes a person educated?

What do you think can help you to be successful in your studies?

How can you acquire a good knowledge of different subjects?

Each of us has to study at school. Only school can make a person educated. School teaches us moral values, helps to understand ourselves better and make our own decisions. That’s why school plays one of the greatest roles in everyone’s life. It’s often at school that we learn to make friends and get on with other people. A student’s experience at school can influence how he or she relates to the rest of the society. The kind of education a student receives will of course influence his or her job prospects. Besides, it offers many opportunities for many kinds of activities. So schools are often responsible for producing the citizens of tomorrow. Besides school introduces us to different sorts of people, it makes us polite and well-behaved and helps us to use our free time sensibly. And, which is most important, it teaches us about our country, its history, culture and its present-day place in the world, because an educated person contributes more to the rest of the society and education on the other hand gives a person the prospect for professional advance. Taking part in all kinds of contests, making reports and holding discussions give us opportunities to develope speaking skills and explore new ideas. The scientific knowledge, which pupils get at their lessons of chemistry, biology and physics, will be valuable to them.

The activities of the school day afford different opportunities for pupils to participate in sports and in some useful work. They give opportunities for deeper study, for exercising speech, for making a wall newspaper, for developing our talents for paintings, music, drama and so on. These opportunities for practice are with us all day and every day.

In Russia there is a nine – year compulsory education, but to enter a university one has to study two years more. This system of education is quite good: those who fill with studies can go working or in special places to learn this or that profession. Others, more diligent pupils continue their studies to get a higher education and to enter university.

Still there is always place for improvement. For example, pupils want uniform at schools not to be compulsory or they want more educational excursions to be arranged.

But it is not a secret that studying at school isn’t easy so we have to face lots of problems. Nobody is good at everything without making any efforts. Good work habits, constant study and a good memory help us to acquire a serious knowledge of some subject. We should take any opportunity of speaking English if you want to improve your conversational skills. Diligent work, additional reading and responsibility can help us to pass examination successfully. We will need someone’s parent’s advice and daily practice and a friend’s help and support to cope with a difficult subject. We need all this to become an educated person, to become personalities, because an educated person is one who knows a lot about many things. Knowledge is power, light and wealth.

EXERCISES:

1. Read the following words paying attention to the pronunciation:

person, successful, acquire, knowledge, subjects, values, decisions, experience, influence, opportunities, responsible, well-behaved, sensibly, present-day, contributes, professional, advance, discussions, explore, scientific, knowledge, chemistry, biology, physics, valuable, exercising, speech, diligent, improvement, conversational, responsibility, power, wealth.

2. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:

to be successful in studies, different subjects, moral values, make own decisions, student’s experience at school, will influence his or her job prospects, offer many opportunities, make polite and well-behaved, to use free time sensibly, present-day place in the world, the prospect for professional advance, to develope speaking skills, place for improvement, conversational skills, diligent work, to pass examination successfully, daily practice.

3. Give English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

приобрести хорошие знания, моральные ценности, принимать собственные решения, опыт ученика, перспективы работы, вежливые и благонравные, образованный человек вносит вклад, навыки говорения, предоставлять различные возможности для учеников, прилежные ученики, получить высшее образование, усовершенствование, диалоговые навыки.

4. Fill in the blanks with articles if necessary:

1) Only school, can make … person educated.

2) … student’s experience at school can influence how he or she relates to the rest of … society.