Exercise 2. Retell the main idea of the listened text.
SPEAKING
Exercise 3. Discuss on the given situation. (Time for preparation – 3 min., for answer – 1 min) You are going to study abroad. You want to know about educational system in the USA, and Great Britain. You want to visit one of the high schools abroad and meet the teachers and speak about our education.
Use the following expressions:
I think …. In my opinion …. I believe.... I suppose... It seems to me... It appears.... As far as I know.… As far as I remember …. I feel … To my knowledge… … I'm sure that… I have no doubt that…
| Exercise 4. Answer the questions. |
1. Why did you choose to study in this Academy?
2. What are some of the things you would change about your Academy?
3. What are your favorite subjects/lessons at Academy and why?
4. What do you think? How can you use your English in the future?
5. How is it best to learn English? What has worked for you? Why?
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
How do you understand the quotation? What does it mean? Do you know the same in Russian and Kazakh?
READING
Exercise 5. Read the text and translate the 2nd paragraph.
Education
1. Education plays a very important role in our life. Human progress mostly depended upon well-educated people. Education develops different sides of human personality, reveals his abilities. We know that science and art belong to the whole world. Before them, the barriers of nationality disappear. So education brings people closer to each other, helps them to understand each other better.
2. The educational system of Great Britain is extremely complex and bewildering. Schooling for children is compulsory from 5 to 16. The state school system is divided into 2 stages (secondary and primary). They are subdivided into infant schools (ages 5 to 7), and junior schools (ages seven to eleven). There are several types of schools in Great Britain. Grammar schools provide an academic cause for selected pupils from the age of 11 to 18.
3. Public education at all levels in the USA the responsibilities of individual states. Education is provided to all children from the age 5 to 18 in the school system. Education is compulsory until the age of 16. After 6 years in elementary school children go on to junior high (or middle school) and then to high school for another 6 years. The usual plan for dividing schools is: 6 years of elementary school, 3 years of junior high, 3 years of high school, but this plan may be different in different states.
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