III. Answer the questions:

1. What does the name “Renaissance” mean?

2. What were the main features of the Renaissance?

3. What were the main principles of humanistic pedagogics?

4. How should the teaching process be run according to humanists?

5. What systems of education existed that time?

6. What were the differences between them?

IV. Find the proper word from the text to the following definitions:

a) a period in the 14-16 c. with a great revival of interest in art, literature, learning;

b) a way of life that is simple and strict, usually because of people’s religious beliefs;

c) a belief that people can achieve happiness and fulfillment, without having a religion;

d) a kind of something with changes and improvements to a social system, law;

e) something which is made up of people, who live in a particular area;

f) concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty;

g) the way that your parents treat you and the things that they teach you when you are growing up.

V. Find synonyms to the words:

esteem, to ban, to get to know, striving, to restrict, switch over, to appear, corporal, something (somebody) of the Middle Ages.

VI. Find the English equivalents for:

духовно, направлення (рух), з’являтися, вирішувати завдання на практиці, наочне приладдя, досконалість, тілесно, повага, навколишнє середовище, обмежувати, виховання, реформаторський, естетичне виховання.

VІІ. Match the English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1) to claim a) право

2) community b) предмет, дисципліна

3) to socialize c) вільна особистість

4) cheerful d) реформувати, перетворювати

5) to characterize e) вимагати

6) attractive f) громада, община

7) right g) характеризувати

8) free personality h) спілкуватися

9) to reform i) привабливий

10) subject j) веселий

VIII. Make up sentences with the terms:

free personality, humanistic pedagogics, prominent changes, reformative, the Renaissance, mother tongue, corporal punishment, improvement, aspiration to perfection.

IX. Make up a report about one of the prominent pedagogues of Renaissance period. Don’t forget to mention his life, activity and pedagogic ideas.

Text b

I. Read and remember the following words and word-combinations:

rebirth (revival) – відродження

surge of interest – збільшення інтересу

discovery – відкриття

exploration – дослідження

decline – занепад

application – застосування, використання

innovation – інновація, нововведення

mariner’s compass – судновий компас

gunpowder – порох

significant – значний, важливий

look – вигляд; зовнішність

posture – постава

gait – хода

manor house – панський будинок

Hebrew – давньоєврейська мова

to expand – розширяти(ся)

II. Read and translate the text using the dictionary:

The term Renaissance, literally means “rebirth” and is the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages. It is characterized by the surge of interest in classical learning and values. During this period there also was the discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudal system, the growth of commerce and the invention or application of such powerful innovations as paper, printing, the mariner’s compass and gunpowder. To the scholars and thinkers of the days, however, it was primarily the time of classical learning and wisdom revival after a long period of cultural decline.

The new features of the Renaissance influenced education. Dance, for example, became increasingly significant and attracted the interest of educators. Good dancers were more easily taught the look, the posture and the gait necessary for success in aristocratic life. Music education continued, but now attention was also given to drawing and painting, which developed the visual sense. Aristocratic children continued to be brought up in the manor houses of their parents by other noblemen or at court. The formal literary education of boys was improved and now was led by professional schoolmasters. Latin was the subject given most attention; some boys learned Greek and even Hebrew.

The literary education of girls was also expanded. In addition to reading and writing they were now taught Italian and French. Some women became famous in Europe for being educated, but in general the teaching of girls was not so much widespread as the teaching of boys; their main jobs were still housekeeping and needlework.

Humanism was the major intellectual movement of the Renaissance. In the opinion of the majority of scholars, it began in the late 14th century in Italy, developed in the 15th century and spread to the rest of Europe after the middle of that century. Humanism then became the dominant intellectual movement in Europe in the 16th century. Proponents of humanism believed that humanistic studies, consisting of the study and imitation of the classical culture of ancient Rome and Greece, would produce a cultural rebirth. Under the influence and inspiration of the classics, humanists developed a new rhetoric and new learning.