- •Our English lesson. Everyday classroom routines
- •I’m your new English teacher.
- •It’s nice to meet you all.
- •I’m glad you are here.
- •I hope you are feeling better.
- •Oversleep * close the lid * recovered * miss * the matter with * absent * corridor * step on it * a move on * on time * got down to * getting on * wrong * slam * hang up
- •Answer, complete, list, match, read, use, work, write
- •School rules and regulations
- •Instructions / imperatives
- •In everything we do
- •Don’t write, answer, work (2), do (2), speak, use, take out, don’t work, write, open, don’t read, ask
- •Is everything clear?
- •Teacher’s speech at the lesson
- •I’m waiting to start.
- •Essential speech structures at the lesson
- •School rules
- •School of independent study
- •The educational system in england and wales
- •Secondary Education
- •Further Education
- •Length of school life. Streaming
- •Special educational treatment
- •Independent schools
- •Independent schools
- •I. Types of institution
- •2. Independent, private
- •Independent (private) schools
- •Primary schools in england and wales
- •Grammar schools
- •Modern schools
- •Comprehensive and technical schools
- •Universities and colleges in great britain
- •10 Things you should know about british universities
- •Applying to a university
- •College life
- •How to get a degree
- •Happy New Year
- •Give English equivalents to the following words and phrases.
- •Ask your fellow-students:
- •The us system of education
- •Issues in american education
- •Schools in america
- •F urther education in the usa
- •If you had an opportunity to choose what part-time job would you prefer?
- •If there was a university called a University of Life, what subject do you think they would teach?
- •Teacher education
- •Continue the text on the part of the teacher. You may find the following ideas useful:
- •What's your line?
- •5. Translate the sentences below into English. Use Vocabulary from the text:
- •A teacher in a class
- •Read a quotation on a teacher’s role in our life. Suggest your own ideas what professions are connected to teaching. Prove your reasons.
- •Answer these questions:
- •Read a joke below. Retell it in indirect speech:
- •Dealing with the children
- •Read the quotes about teaching children. Which one do think the best one. Prove your point of view.
- •Read a poem and answer the questions below:
- •Read the end of the story about Anne, and check your guesses. Answer the questions.
- •The first days at school are rather troublesome not only for teachers but for the children and their parents. Read a story and fill in prepositions where necessary:
- •5. Translate the following putting it in your own words. Comment on what you have read:
- •Discipline in a class
- •Read the quotes about teaching children. Which one do think the best one. Prove your point of view.
- •Read an essay written by one of the British schoolmasters. Answer the questions. My Memories and Miseries As a Schoolmaster
- •Read a story about Megan, define whether she is Jack or Jimmy.
- •Read another extract devoted to teaching a child. Write out the advice given by a teacher.
- •Disciplining today’s students
- •Read some information about discipline problems many years ago and nowadays. Are there any problems of that kind in your group?
- •For each item below, choose the statement that is closest to what you believe. Make one choice for each item.
- •If Column 2 has the highest total, you’re more comfortable if:
- •If Column 3 has the highest total, you’re more comfortable when:
- •Do you believe that an apple is like an appletree? Give your pros and cons.
- •The sentences below appear on a chart that is often found in baby clinics and child centers, but the second halves of the sentences have been mixed up.
- •Devise a ‘Good parents’ charter’ based on the points in the chart. For example:
- •The rights of the child
- •Read a poem and think of your suggestion of the title to the poem. Prove your idea.
- •Read the main points out of Declaration on Child’s Rights and make sure you won’t break a law in future. Write down your recommendations both to the parents and teachers.
- •Read a little nursery rhyme. Tell the class what point of the Declaration the teacher violates.
- •Read an article and suggest why tolerance and harmony are important in relations with the parents.
- •Teacher’s vital role in society
- •1872 Rules for teachers
- •20Th century
- •21St century
- •An educator of future
- •Look at the picture and explain what an innovative teacher needs and what for.
- •2. Read a panel discussion description and tell what a tacher should know and what abilities to have to fulfill the needs of the modern society.
- •3. Read a quotation and explain it. Prove it with your own examples.
- •4. Here is a modern model of a teacher’s development concept. Look through and answer the questions:
- •Education: fact or myth?
- •It appears that the ‘brain zapper’ ….
- •Why I Didn't Do My Homework
- •You can’t control students and force them to behave. But you can control yourself and your actions.
- •You can’t control students and force them to behave. But you can control yourself and your actions.
Teacher’s vital role in society
Watch a movie ‘Teachers are people’ and answer the questions.
Does education play a vital role in the modern community?
What are the qualities of the modern teacher?
Does an experienced teacher always ‘equip himself’ for the classroom? What does it mean?
Guess what will happen in the second part of the cartoon. Watch and check. Answer the questions below.
What are the names of the children in the classroom?
How many children are there at the lesson?
What is the first lesson? Is it interesting for children? Why?
Are the children really eager to return to the classroom?
What are the next lessons? At what time do the lessons finish?
What does a teacher do after the classes?
Read the quotes about teaching children. Which one do think the best one. Prove your point of view.
Quality teaching involves both the head and the heart.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Read an essay written by a student on the case of his teacher absence. Is a teacher really important in the children’s life?
Did I miss anything?
Nothing. When we realized you weren’t here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours.
Everything, I gave an exam worth 40 percent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I’m about to hand out a quiz worth 50 percent.
Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning. Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class I assure you will not matter either to you or me and are without purpose.
Everything. A few minutes after we began last time a shaft of light suddenly descended and an angel or other heavenly being appeared and revealed to us what each man or woman must do to attain divine wisdom in this life and hereafter. This is the last time the class will meet before we disperse to bring the good news to all people on earth.
Nothing. When you are not present how could something significant occur?
Everything. Contained in this classroom is a microcosm of human experience assembled for you to query and examine and ponder. This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered.
But it was one place and you weren’t here.
By Tom Wayman
Teaching has always been a complex role and it has become more so as schools have taken on increased social responsibility. To understand the role as it exists today requires a brief historical review. Read and make a scheme. Tell the class what has changed crucially in the teachers’ lives. Do you want to be a teacher of 1872?
1872 Rules for teachers
Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session.
Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
Every teacher should lay aside from each day pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or get shaved in a barber shop will give reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.
The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Eucation approves.
Women were required to sign: I promise …..
to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work, donating of my time, service and money without stint for the benefit and uplift of the community;
to abstain from dancing, immodest dressing and any other conduct unbecoming a teacher or a lady;
not to go out with any young man except as it may be necessary to stimulate Sunday-school work;
not to fall in love, to become engaged or secretly married;
to remain in the dormitory or on the schools grounds when not actively engaged in school or church work elsewhere.
Not to encourage or tolerate the least familiarity on the past of any of my boy students;
To wear not less than 2 petticoats.