Professor Lin. Complete the questions and

Answers.

Use the words in brackets and will or won't.

Caller 1:Hello, Professor Lin. My question is this: __ the car of the future (1) __ (run) on gasoline?

Professor Lin:No, it (2) __ . It __ probably (3) __ (use) batteries. Thanks for calling. Next?

Caller 2:Good morning. I had a flat tyre yesterday. I was wondering, __ we still (4) __ (get) flat tyres on these future cars?

Professor Lin:No, we (5)__. In fact, by the year 2010, flat tyres (6) __ (be) a thing of the past. Tyres (7) __(have) a special seal so they (8)__ (repair) themselves automatically.

Caller 3:It sounds great. In what other ways __ the car of the future (9) __ (be) different?

Professor Lin:Well, instead of keys, cars (10) __ (have) magnetic entry systems. These (11) __ (look) a lot like credit cards. They (12) __ (open) doors, and they (13) __ (adjust) the seats, mirrors, and steering wheels. They __ even (14) __ (control) inside temperature.

Caller 3:__ they (15) __ (prevent) car thefts?

Professor Lin:Yes, they __. OK, next caller?

Caller 4:Hello. I'm curious. How much __they(16)__(cost)?

Professor Lin:I don't know exactly, but they certainly (17) __ (not be) cheap.

Education and Bringing Up Children

Priorities

1. Why do you go to school / university? Number these reasons in their order of importance from 1 (most important) to 12 (least important):

__to acquire general knowledge

__to prepare for a job

__to meet other young people

__to train one's memory

__to learn something about subjects one will not

deal with again later

__to find out what one is really interested in

__to give one's parents some peace and quiet

__to test one's intelligence

__to learn how to study and work with books

__to have a good time

__to be kept dependent

__to learn discipline and order

What kinds of pupils / students do you find it

Difficult to teach? Why?

Look at the list of factors contributing to a teacher's

Job satisfaction. Number them in order of their

Importance to you. How satisfying do you find a

Teaching job? Why?

security of tenure long holidays

a good salary well - motivated students

a good pension a pleasant school building

a sense of achievement a supportive head teacher

good school equipment other (specify)

 

4. Read the text:

Teachers and Actors

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of the good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn't sit motionless before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.

Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

The fact that a good teacher has some of the qualities of a good actor doesn't mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage; for there are very important differences between the teacher's work and that of the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part; even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed before. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions. The teacher, therefore, has to understand the needs of his audience which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, he must invent it as he goes along. I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play.....

Answer the questions:

1. What makes teachers and actors akin?

2. What qualities are necessary to become a good

teacher?

3. What can a good teacher do that an actor can't?

4. Give a character sketch of a good teacher.

 

5. Translate the following phrases into Russian:

to give background knowledge -

to possess an adequate level of personal education -

to have a sufficient command of the subject he teaches-

to give information about teaching means and

methodology -

to give extensive liberal education -

(not) to admit a person who marks himself out as

unsuitable to teaching -

to display a keen interest in teaching -

inadequately low level of professional orientation -

poor grounding in the essentials of a child's psychology

and development -

a gap between school and college -

no strict criteria for admission to colleges of education -

inability to anticipate the occupational hazards of

teaching -

unawareness of the emotional impact children make on

teachers -

to display emotional maturity -

to have a wide experience of life -

to move with the times -

ability to control the teaching process -

to possess an individual approach to pupils -

ability to manage the classroom activities properly -

to stimulate smb to creative, productive work -

to have the capacity to arouse smb's interest -

to involve and excite -

to exhibit unusual intellectual curiosity -

tend to be critical -

to have a way with children -

to have insight into one's psychology -

to hold the attention of the students -