Ex. 2. Ask your own questions to the text. Ex. 3. Read the text and translate it using a dictionary:

Ex. 3. Read the text and translate it using a dictionary:

I. Y. Yakovlev – the Great Chuvash Educator

We have some salad, slices of sausage and bread, sour milk or cereal. Sometimes my mother cooks something tasty for us.

In the evening our family likes to watch TV. If the programme is not interesting, I listen to the music or read journals.

At 10 o'clock I go to bed.

Ex. 4. Use in your retelling other variants suitable for you:

My working day does not begin very early, but quite late.

I shave.

I do make-up.

For my breakfast I have 2 eggs (porridge, macaroni with a chop or with a sausage, a pie).

I go to the University by bus or by taxi.

I go on foot as live not far from the University.

We train much in the sportshall and take an active part in different competitions.

After classes I come back to the hostel.

After classes I run to the training.

I listen to the radio or tape-recorder.

Ex. 5. Make up a dialogue on the topic. You may use the following questions.

1. Does your working day begin early?

2. What time do you get up at?

3. How do you prepare for the workday?

4. Do you keep your bedroom in order?

5. Where do you hurry after breakfast?

6. How do you get to the University?

K. D. Ushinsky was the founder of the Russian primary school and pedagogical training for teachers. His contribution to Russian education was great.

K. D. Ushinsky was born in 1824 in Tula in the family of a landowner. At the age of 16 he entered Moscow University at the faculty of law and graduated from it with high honours when he was 20. Two years later, despite his youth, K. D. Ushinsky was appointed acting professor of “cameral sciences” (economics, finance, etc.) at the Demidov Law Lyceum in Yaroslavl. His lectures were an immediate success for they were based upon his considerable erudition and leading for his time ideas.

In 1859 K. D.Ushinsky was appointed inspector at Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg. In 1860 K. D. Ushinsky became editor of the Journal of the Ministry of Education and in two years completely changed its character. Under his editorship its focus was centred upon real problems of teaching, theories of pedagogy and psychology, accounts of educational activities and criticism of current pedagogical literature. Smolny Institute became a laboratory to which the eyes of everyone interested in education were directed. Ushinsky's name became popularly known throughout Russia and at the end of his three years of work there he was already well-known as one of the foremost teachers and guides of educational movement in Russia.

K. D. Ushinsky was not only concerned with Russian affairs but was a devout patriot. One of his basic pedagogical principles is the inculcation of a feeling of patriotism in the young. He believed that "education must be based on patriotism". K. D. Ushinsky thought that this could be done best with the help of the native language, taught at school. One of his most famous works "Rodnoe Slovo"

7. How many classes do you usually have?

8. Do you do well at your study?

9. Where do you have your lunch?

10. Do you go home after classes?

11. What do you do at home?

12. Where do you have your supper?

13. Are you busy in the evening? What do you usually do?

14. What time do you go to bed?

Ex. 6. Speak out how you spend your weekday.