Task 1.Answer the following questions

1) What do you do after school?

2) Does doing homework develop a pupil's ability to work without assistance?

3) Is homework necessary?

4) Is homework essential in learning languages?

5) What do you think about doing homework?

6) Isdoing homework valuable for you?

7) What subjects do you think homework is unnecessary in?

8) Is it more difficult to learn English for a pupil if he is shy and doesn't speak Russiana lot?

9) Is it possible to learn English on your own, without a class or a teacher? Give your arguments.

10) Is it necessary for you to look up all the words you don't know in the dictionary?

Task 2. Give Russian equivalents: arguing over, observe, improvement, instead of pursuing, personal interests, do a mountain of homework, outside-school hours, unnecessary, stupid, effort, duplicating, however, learn by heart, exercises.

Task 3. Complete the sentences with words from task 2.

Task 4.True or false. Correct, if it is necessary.

1) When you get home from school you play computer games.

2) Teachers and parents think homework develops a pupil's ability.

3) Homework is totally unnecessaryfor many subjects.

4) I don`t think it's stupid to copy from a textbook.

5) I believe, homework is essential in learning languages.

Task 5. Complete the sentences

1) Instead of ... personal interests, I often have to do a mountain of homework.

2) I believe that for many ... homework is totally unnecessary.

3) I think, it's really ... to copy from a textbook.

4) However, I believe, homework is ... in learning languages.

5) I agree that some phrases have to be ... by heart.

Task 6. Ask your friend about homework. Use Task 1.

Task7.TranslateintoEnglish.

1. Учителя и родители считают, что выполнение домашнего задания развивает способность ученика работать без посторонней помощи.

2. Я считаю, что нет никакой необходимости в домашней работе по многим предметам, и она не приносит мне никакой пользы. Я только теряю время.

3. Однако я считаю, что по некоторым предметам домашняя работа необходима.

4. Многие считают, что выполнение домашнего задания - очень скучное и утомительное дело. Но только не моя сестра! "Учителя задают ей найти что-нибудь интересное о том, что она изучала в классе. Онавыполняетсвоюработусудовольствием.

READTHETEXT. Schoolrules

Make one copy of the worksheet for each group of three students in the class. Give one copy of worksheet to each group of students and ask them if any of the rules they have thought of are mentioned in the "Contract for students". Then ask the students to write an imaginary contract for teachers, including the rules and regulations they think teachers should follow.

Encourage the students to be as imaginative or as amusing as they like.

Contract for Students

Class times

Students should be in the classroom five minutes before the teacher and they mustn't leave before the lesson has ended. Students who arrivelate should expect their teacher to believe their excuses.

Behaviour in class

Students should be polite to one another and the teacher.

Students should stay awake, but if they have to fall asleep, they shouldn't snore.

Students are not supposed to chew gum in class.

Students should turn off their telephone.

Homework

Students mustn't use the following excuses if they haven't done their homework: 'The dog ate it' or 'It fell out of my bag.'

I agree to respect the rules and obligations above.

Signed

CONTRACT FOR TEACHERS

…………………………..

…………………………..

I agree to respect the rules and obligations above.

Signed

Scientific Societies

The students work much in class, at the college laboratories and library. As the students want to become not ordinary but good teachers they must pay attention to modern pedagogical literature. It means that they must study not only, their textbooks but read many special pedagogical articles in Russian and foreign languages. They should continue to study foreign language in class and at the foreign language society.

Already in the first year some students join students' scientific societies. There they work on those subjects which they care for. It may be Pedagogics or Psychology. In the Pedagogics scientific society the subject of the students' work may be the study of the History of Pedagogics. Some students join the Psychology scientific society where they study thepsychological peculiarities of children. This work in the scientific societies will help future teachers to understand better the character of many pupils. It will teach them to be more observant.

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