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4. Complete each sentence (a–j) with a suitable ending (1–10). Use each ending once:

a)Joe was absent most of the time.

b)Sue wanted to do the experiment for herself.

c)James was a very gifted pupil.

d)Lucy couldn’t find a duster to clean the board.

e)Dave could pick up languages very easily.

f)Brenda wanted to leave space for corrections.

g)Tony didn’t pay attention in class.

h)Helen was educated at home by her parents.

i)Brian attended evening classes in photography.

j)Cathy wanted to get into university.

1)so he didn’t have any problems passing his exams.

2)so he started talking in French after only a few days.

3)so she had to study for the entrance examinations.

4)so his name was removed from the register.

5)so he didn’t go out with his friends much during the week.

6)so she wrote her answers in the corner.

7)so she didn’t have many friends of her own age.

8)so she wrote everything on alternate lines.

9)so she went to the science laboratory.

10)so he could never remember what the teacher had said.

5. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence: a) Helen’s parents were very pleased when they read her school _____.

b) Martin has quite a good _____ of physics.

c) In Britain, children start _____ school at the age of five.

d) Edward has a _____ in French from Leeds University.

e) My favourite _____ at school was history.

f) It’s time for a break. The bell has.

g) Our English teacher _____ us some difficult exercises for homework.

h) Before you begin the exam paper, always read the _____ carefully.

i) If you want to pass the examination, you must study _____ .

j) Most students have quite a good sense of their own _____ .

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6. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line:

School report

7. Decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space:

Learning how to learn

There is usually one important (1) _____ missing from most school (2) _____. Very few students are (3) _____ how to organize their learning, and how to

(4) _____ the best use of their time. Let’s take some simple (5) _____ Do you know how to (6) _____ up words in a dictionary, and do you understand all the

(7) _____ the dictionary contains? Can you (8) _____ notes quickly, and can you understand them (9) _____ ? For some reason, many schools give learners no (10) _____ with these matters. Teachers ask students to (11) _____ pages from books, or tell them to write ten pages, but don’t explain (12) _____ to do it. Learning by (13) _____ can be useful, but it is important to have a genuine (14) _____ of a subject. You can (15) _____ a lot of time memorizing books, without understanding anything about the subject!

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EXAM PRERATION

To get ready for the answer at the oral exam, answer the following block of questions, using the words in brackets.

1.What stages of education are there in England and Wales? (compulsory, preschool, primary, secondary, further, higher…)

2.Which of stages of education are compulsory?

3.In what institutions can children get pre-school education? (nursery, infant...)

4.Do all children attend nursery schools or classes?

5.Who is responsible for the provision of maintained school education?

6.Do all primary and secondary schools in England and Wales belong to the state system?

7.In what schools within the maintained system can children get primary education?

8.What is the aim of primary education?

9.What methods of teaching are used in primary schools?

10.What subjects are studied in primary school?

11.At what age are pupils usually transferred to secondary schools?

12.What was the “eleven Plus”?

13.Try to explain the difference between dividing pupils into “streams” A-B-C-D?

14.What secondary schools maintained by the state do you know? (secondary, grammar, secondary modern, technical, comprehensive, first, middle, mixed, special…)

15.Are all of secondary schools mixed?

16.What kind of education do grammar schools offer?

17.What does the term comprehensive imply?

18.What is the difference between selective and comprehensive education.

19.What percentage of secondary school children go to fee-paying school?

20.Which subjects in the British national curriculum have you studied in your own school system?

21.What are the proclaimed advantages of comprehensive schools?

22.What does the tern “independent schools” imply?

23.What is very puzzling to foreigners?

24.What are the three main of a public school education?

25.What types of independent schools do you know? (grammar, mixed, singlesex, special, independent, public…)

26.Which are the most notable public schools?

27.What do public schools train pupils for?

28.What does the tern “boarding school” imply?

29.How many independent schools are there in Great Britain?

30.Do all children can study at the independent schools?

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31.What kind of education do grammar schools offer?

32.What kind of education do technical schools offer?

33.What do you know about Secondary modern schools?

34.What are the principal examinations taken by secondary school pupils in England?

35.What exams are taken at the age of 18?

36.What subjects are included into the curriculum of secondary school?

37.How can you account for the fact that the percentage of those attending comprehensive schools is becoming a bit lower nowadays?

38.Can the “Sixth Form” be compared with anything in our education?

39.What are the advantages and disadvantages of project work?

40.What are the three terms of the school year?

41.How many subjects is it necessary to pass in order to gain the GCE (CSE)?

42.What exams are taken at the age of 18?

43.What are the “first”, “middle”, “upper” schools in England?

44.Are there any special schools in Great Britain?

45.How long does it usually take to finish degree in your country?

46.Do you need to pass any examinations before you can go to University?

47.What is the percentage of men and women students in British universities?

48.What is a graduate?

49.What do the abbreviations B.A., B.Sc, M.A., M.Sc stand for?

50.When can these degrees be received by a student?

51.Do students get a grant to study at University?

52.Is the tuition free if you go to University?

53.Do you have similar postgraduate degrees in your country?

54.What is a secondary vocational school in your country? What opportunities does ot offer young people?

55.What do you know about the oldest Universities?

56.In what educational establishments do you get higher education in Great Britain?

57.What do you know about Polytechnics?

58.Is there any difference between Universities and Polytechnics in Great Britain?

59.What do colleges of further education offer to students?

60.What should you do if you want to study at home?

61.What do you know about the open Universities?

62.What features of English education would you like to introduce into the system of education in Russia?

63.What is the duration and vacations in a British University?

64.Who is the head of University?

65.Who helps professors?

66.Do all students have a chance to organize discussions?

67.Are there many types of colleges in England?

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68.How many years is it necessary to study to become a teacher?

69.Who is a good teacher in your opinion?

70.What are characteristics of a good teacher?

71.How is teaching organized in schools in your country?

72.What forms f reward and punishment are normally used?

73.How are children and parents informed of progress?

74.In what way are parents involved with the school?

75.What are the common pupils’ norms of behavior?

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APPENDIX

A FRESHMAN’S EXPERIENCE

From “Daddy Long-Legs” by Jean Webster

The book “Daddy Long-Legs” by an American writer Jean Webster (1876–1916) is a novel written in the form of letters. The author of these letters, a young girl, Judy by name, writes them to her guardian, a rich man whom she has never seen.

Judy was brought up in an orphan asylum where her life was hard. The children were wholly dependent on charity. They were badly fed and had to wear other people’s cast-off clothes. Judy was a very bright girl and when she finished school, her guardian sent her to college.

Judy feels very happy about it. She hopes to become a writer and pay back the money spent on her education by her guardian. About the latter the girl knows almost nothing: she knows that he is a very tall man. That is why she jokingly calls him Daddy Long-Legs.

This text is one of her letters giving us a glimpse of her early college impressions.

October, 25th

Dear Daddy Long-Legs,

College gets nicer and nicer, I like the girls and the teachers and the classes and the campus 39 and the things to eat. We have ice-cream twice a week and we never have corn-meal mush.

The trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you’ve never learned. It’s very embarrassing at times. I made an awful mistake the first day. Somebody mentioned Maurice Maeterlinck1, and I asked if she was a freshman. The joke has gone all over college.

Did you ever hear of Michaelangelo? He was a famous artist who lived in Italy in the Middle Ages. Everybody in English Literature seemed to know about him, and the whole class laughed because I thought he was an archangel. He sounds like an archangel, doesn’t he?

But now, when the girls talk about the things that I never heard of, I just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia. And anyway, I’m just as bright in class as any of the others, and brighter than some of them!

And you know, Daddy, I have a new unbreakable rule: never to study at night, no matter how many written reviews are coming in the morning. Instead, I read just plain books – I have to, you know, because there are eighteen blank years behind me. You wouldn’t believe what an abyss of ignorance my mind is; I am just realizing the depths myself.

I never read “David Copperfield”, or “Cinderella”, or “lvanhoe”, or “Alice in Wonderland”, or “Robinson Crusoe”, or “Jane Eyre”. I didn’t know

1 Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949): a Belgian poet and dramatist.

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that Henry the Eighth was married more than once or that Shelley was a poet. I didn’t know that people used to be monkeys, or that George Eliot was a lady. I had never seen a picture of the “Mona Lisa” and (it’s true but you won’t believe it) I had never heard of Sherlock Holmes.

Now I know all of these things and a lot of others besides, but you can see how much I need to catch up.

November, 15th Your five gold pieces were a surprise! I’m not used to receiving Christmas

presents. Do you want to know what I bought with the money?

1.A silver watch to wear on my wrist and get me to recitations in time.

2.Matthew Arnold’s poems2.

3.A hot-water bottle.

4.A dictionary of synonyms (to enlarge my vocabulary).

5.(I don’t much like to confess this last item, but I will.) A pair of silk stockings.

And now, Daddy, never say I don’t tell all!

It was a very low motive, if you must know it, that prompted the silk stockings. Julia Pendleton, a sophomore, comes into my room to do geometry, and she sits cross-legged on the couch and wears silk stockings every night. But just wait – as soon as she gets back from vacation, I shall go in and sit on her couch in my silk stockings. You see the miserable creature that I am – but at least I’m honest; and you knew already, from my asylum record, that I wasn’t perfect, didn’t you?

But, Daddy, if you’d been dressed in checked ginghams all your life,

you’d understand how I feel. And when I started to the high school, I entered upon another period even worse than the checked ginghams. The poor box3.

You can’t know how I feared appearing in school in those miserable poorbox dresses. I was perfectly sure to be put down in class next to the girl who first owned my dress, and she would whisper and giggle and point it out to the others.

To recapitulate (that’s the way the English instructor begins every other sentence), I am very much obliged for my presents.

I really believe I’ve finished. Daddy. I’ve been writing this letter off and on for two days, and I fear by now you are bored.

But I’ve been so excited about those new adventures that I must talk to somebody, and you are the only one I know. If my letters bore you, you can always toss them into the waste-basket.

Good-bye, Daddy, I hope that you are feeling as happy as I am.

Yours ever, Judy.

2Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), an English critic and poet.

3A box (usu in a church) in which money may be placed to be given to poor.

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EXERCISES

I.Answer the following questions:

1.What did Judy mean by classes and campus?

2.Why did Judy mention ice-cream and соrn-meal mush in her letter?

3.What did Judy think was the trouble with college?

4.What joke had gone all over college?

5.Why did Judy keep still when the girls spoke about things she didn’t

know?

6.Why didn’t Judy study at night, no matter how many written reviews were coming in the morning?

7.In what way did Judy want to catch up with the group?

8.What did Judy mean by saying that she was at least honest?

9.What did Judy mean by saying writing this letter off and on for two

days?

10.Where had Judy studied before college?

11.Why did Judy feel embarrassed at times?

12.What did Judy mean by blank years and abyss of ignorance?

13.What shows that the text was written by an American writer?

II.Explain (in English) what is meant by and give Russian equivalents of:

A.blank wall, blank look, blank verse, blank sheet, blank form, blank cheque, blank years, blank mind, blank face;

B.empty room, shallow interests, vacant house, shallow girl, bright dress, bright face, bright child, bright eyes, ignorant person, incomparable bore.

III.Paraphrase the following sentences:

1.He stared at her in utter astonishment.

2.He opened his eyes for a short while but then lost his consciousness

again.

3.A faint smile enlivened her face for a moment.

4.There was a gap in my memory.

5.There are many interesting items in the newspaper today.

6.The silk stockings caused Judy’s envy.

7.He used to be a capable pupil.

8.The letter aroused great interest.

9.At times she felt very unhappy.

10.The trouble with him is that he is a light-minded person.

11.This fruit is quite eatable, I’d say.

12.Your friend differs much from what he was years ago.

IV. Translate the following sentences into English:

1.Вы хорошо знаете свою роль или вам нужен суфлер?

2.Конечно, у Джуди были недостатки, но она по крайней мере была

честна.

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3.Она очень волновалась, так как именно ее доклад был первым.

4.Девушкам не разрешалось выходить с территории колледжа после того, как колокол пробьет десять.

5.Оливер Твист воспитывался в работном доме (work-house). С раннего возраста детям приходилось много работать, одеваться в чужие обноски и есть одну овсянку. Большинство учителей, невежественные люди, очень жестоко обращались с детьми.

6.Не подсказывайте. Она знает урок и просто немного волнуется.

7.Вам нужно заполнить бланк и расписаться вот здесь.

8.Простое белое платье Джеммы очень шло ей.

9.Княжна Марья была некрасива, но улыбка, освещавшая ее лицо, была прелестна.

10.Ирэн всегда одевалась просто, но с большим вкусом.

11.Глаза мальчика блестели от возбуждения.

12.Джуди поняла свою ошибку только тогда, когда ее подруги начали смеяться.

13.Свежий воздух и простая пища – вот что ему нужно сейчас.

14.Временами ей казалось, что она не сможет вынести такого горя. Но у нее был сын, о котором надо было заботиться.

15.Я еще не привык работать с магнитофоном. 16. Беда в том, что я потеряла билеты и не могу их найти.

V.Retelling:

a.Retell the contents of Judy’s letter in Indirect Speech.

b.Retell the contents of Judy’s letter as her guardian might describe it to a friend of his.

c.Describe Judy’s first steps in college as Julia Pendleton might be describing them to a friend of hers.

d.Give a summary of the text

VI. Insert prepositions or adverbs where necessary:

1.The trouble ... the book is that it’s boring me ... death.

2.It will take me ... least a month to catch ... the group.

3.What did you buy ... the money you got ... your father?

4.I need an alarm clock to wake me up ... time.

5.I’ve been writing the letter ... and ... two days, now I’ve finished it ...

last.

6.I was perfectly sure to be put ... the desk next ... the girt whom I didn’t like to sit ...

7.His visit was a surprise ... me, I didn’t know he was ... town.

8.When I come ... some English words which I don’t know I always look them ... the dictionary.

9.In his speech he pointed ... all the drawbacks ... our work.

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10.The drills on the English sounds bore me ... times, but I know that they are very useful.

11.He helped me a lot ... my mathematics and I’m much obliged ... him ...

it.

VII. Revise Essential Vocabulary and translate the following:

1. Вы должны догнать группу, как бы много ни пришлось вам рабо-

тать.

2.Он до смерти надоел мне рассказами о своих приключениях.

3.У него по крайней мере пять ошибок в каждой контрольной.

4.Вся беда в том, что у меня с собой только 50 копеек. Что я могу купить на эти деньги?

5.Как бы много новых слов ни было в тексте, я все их смотрю в сло-

варе.

6.Вы делаете ошибки в каждом втором предложении.

7.Я не раз говорила этому студенту второго курса, что, если он хочет выдержать экзамен, ему надо больше заниматься.

8.Предполагается, что все студенты знают, когда начинаются экза-

мены.

9.Трудно признаваться в том, что ты не прав, но он был вынужден сделать это.

10.Я знаю, что поступила плохо, но, по крайней мере, я осознала, что мне не следовало так поступать.

11.Этот живой, сообразительный мальчик очень понравился Оливеру, и они стали друзьями.

12.Я вам признателен за помощь.

13.Вы должны читать больше, это позволит вам значительно расширить ваш запас слов.

14.Он смотрел на меня непонимающим взглядом, как будто не слышал, что я говорю.

15.С какой стати вам так волноваться из-за мелочей?

16.Учитель указал на наиболее грубые ошибки в диктанте, просто и ясно объяснил правила, которыми нужно пользоваться, чтобы избежать их.

17.Подробно опишите свои впечатления от этой поездки.

18.Мне нравились в нем ясный ум и простая речь.

19.Что привело класс в такое возбуждение? – Волнующая для них новость; у них будет новый учитель по геометрии.

20.Они были когда-то хорошими друзьями. Просто не могу себе представить, почему они поссорились.

21.Старик указал на картину, которая висела на противоположной

стене.

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