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Ex. 12. Work in pairs and discuss the questions below.



 

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS

1. How is education in your country today different from in the past?

2. Do you think you have a good education?

3. Was there a high standard of education at your schools?

4. Do you think the quality of education is slipping?

5. What do you think of the idea of all education being online?

6. What kind of education did you have in your home?

7. What would the world be like if everyone had access to a good education?

8. Does your government really care about education?

9. In which country do you think you can receive the best education?

10. What changes do you think will happen in the classroom in the near future?

 

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS

1. Is the level of education in your country good?

2. What subjects aren’t being taught in schools but should be?

3. What would you like to change about the education system of your country

4. Would you like to work in education?

5. Do you think there’s a lot of money to be made in education?

6. What kind of experience and qualifications do you think a government’s education minister/secretary needs?

7. When does education begin?

8. What do you think Mark Twain meant when he said, “never let school interfere with your education”?

9. What do you think of single-sex education?

10. What do you think of the idea of lifelong education?

VIDEO

Ex. 13. A) Before you watch, check these words/phrases

fees can’t afford a graduate a student loan pay something back be in debt

B) Watch the video. How many people think that university education should be free for everybody?

University education

C) Watch again. Are these sentences true or false?

 

1. Carol did all the cooking.

2. Amy is definitely going to university next year.

3. Carol and Matt didn’t have to pay university fees.

4. Ben and Amy think that most people don’t want to be in debt when they leave university.

5. Students in the UK have to start paying bаck their student loans when they’re at university.

6. Ben and Jackie didn’t go to university.

 

D) Asking for opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

 

1. What do you think, (Jackie)?

2. I agree ( with Amy).

3. I’m not sure about that.

4. I’m sorry, I don’t agree.

5. Maybe you’re right.

6. What about you, ( Ben)?

7. Do you think (students should pay)?

8. No, definitely not.

9. Yes, I think so.

10. Do you agree (with that)?

11. Yes, definitely.

12. No, I don’t think so.

 

E) Fill in the gaps with these phrases

Do you think maybe you’re right I don’t agree     definitely not     What do you think

 

A 1.______________________ English is an easy language to learn?

B No, 2.____________________. I think it’s really difficult.

A 3.______________________, Carla?

C I’m sorry, 4.___________________. The verbs in English are easier than Spanish verbs.

B Yes, 5.______________________.

 

I agree with     Do you agree   What about don’t’ think so                       not sure about that

 

A I don’t think money makes people happy.

B I’m 6.________________________. Without money, life is very difficult.

C 7.________________________ Bob. It’s hard to be happy without money.

A 8.____________________ you, Dave? 9.____________________ with that?

D No, I 10.________________________. People make us happy, not money.

SPEAKING

Ex. 14. Find from the Internet additional materials about education in Russia, Great Britain and the United States and compare education in these countries. Divide into two groups and discuss differences and similar features in groups, then express your opinion in class.

 

WRITING

 

Ex. 15. Write a letter to your penfriend about yourself and your study at the University following this scheme:

1) Your name, age; 2) the name of your university; 3) the date of its foundation; 4) its faculties; 5) the faculty you are in; 6) the subjects you study; 7) your success in studies; 8) exams; 9) whether you get a grant or not; 10) the place you live in.

Unit 6. Students life in Russia and abroad

READING

Ex. 1. A) Read the text and do the tasks below.

My education

Read David’s story about his school-days:

My name‘s David. I started school when I was five years old. I enjoyed my time at primary school, made lots of friends and learnt to read and write and do arithmetic.

But when I was eleven my family moved to another part of the city and I had to leave all my friends who went to a different secondary school. It was scary being in a new school with hundreds of older and bigger children I didn’t know. But my new class teacher was wonderful – she really helped me feel more secure in my environment. And she made us all work really hard too!

After working hard for the first year with Mrs Green ‘s encouragement, I really realised I didn’t need to do so much work, so I didn’t make much effort in any classes, because I found everything quite easy. I know this was stupid but none of the teachers pushed me to do better so I just did the minimum amount of work necessary.

When I took my GCSEs at the age of sixteen my results were really poor. That taught me a good lesson and since then I haven’t been so lazy!

Now I’m studying history at uni.

Now read Sally’s story:

I’m Sally. Like David, I was eleven when I went to secondary school. At first I had really hard time because, although I did have two good friends, some of the other children picked on me and teased me because I was quite small for my age. My reaction to this was to be naughty in class and cheeky to the teachers and this got me into troubles – I was in detention a lot. This went on for a couple of years until I became confident. I decided to work hard to show the others that I was better than them. The trouble was that despite my hard work I didn’t do very well in tests and still got bad reports from the teachers. So I really didn’t like school, and I stopped making an effort.

But now I’m in the sixth form, everything is different. I’m interested in the subjects I’m doing, the teachers all treat us like adults and (fingers crossed!) I hope to do well in my exams at the end of the year.

If I get the grades I’m hoping for, I’m going to take a gap year before starting university in two years’ time.

(Module I. Student’s Book)

B) Fill the gaps in these sentences with words from below.

detention         graduated head      honours leave

marks/scores/grades          naughty place      primary school

punished pupils/students scholarship secondary school sixth form

staff strict University

 

1. In the UK most children start .................... at the age of five and move to ..................... when they are eleven. They .................. school at sixteen, but most students stay on in the .................... till they are eighteen.

2. Our teacher was very .................. and we were always ................ if we misbehaved. Sometimes, if we were really ................... we were put in ..................... and had to stay after school.

3. The ............... is in charge of the ....................... and .................... of a school.

4. Mary got such good .................. in her exams, that she got a ................. at a Cambridge ..................... and a ............... to pay for her studies. She did so well that she ................ with the first class ....................

C) Match the words and their definitions given below.

Scary, to realise, to push somebody to do something, to pick on somebody, to tease, naughty, cheeky, detention, confident, despite, report, to treat somebody, to take a gap year

 

1. sure that something will happen in the way that you want or expect;

2. disobedient; frightening; to know and understand something;

3. a period of time when nothing is happening, that exists between two other periods of time when something is happening;

4. to behave in an unfair way to someone;

5. a punishment in which children who have behaved badly are forced to stay at school for a short time after the others have gone home;

6.  to laugh at someone and make jokes in order to have fun by embarrassing them; rude or disrespectful, sometimes in a way that is amusing;

7. used to say that something happens or is true even though something else might have prevented it;

8. complain;

9. to behave towards sb/sth;

10.  to make somebody do something.

 

LISTENING

 

Ex. 2. A) Look at the photos of Tony and his niece Jess. Listen to their conversation. Who talks about:

 

• their business degree?

• their computer and IT course?

• commitments other than studying?

• online support from tutors?

• time spent with friends?

• flexible study programmes?

• their student loan?

• how long their course is?

 

 

B) Listen again. Fill in gaps a-f with one word.

 

1 JESS: You're doing an Open University course, aren't you?

TONY: Yes, I am - at long last. It's something I've wanted to do for  

a)_____________.

 

2 J: What course are you doing?

T: I'm doing a b)___________ in computing and IT.

 

3 J: Oh, I was told you're really enjoying it.

T: I am, but I have to say I found the first few c)____________ a bit scary.

J: So does everyone at the beginning. Don't worry, it does get easier.

4 J: How do you manage to do d)_____________?

T: Sometimes I don't.

J: Nor do I.

 

5 T: Your Aunt Gayle was hoping to do her first e)_____________ in four years -  

   it actually took eight.

J: Did it?

 

6 J: Do you think you'll have finished your degree by the end of next year?

T:  No, I don't. But I'm quite optimistic - I think at the rate I'm going, I should   

   finish before my f)_______________ birthday!

 

READING

 


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