The profession of a primary school teacher
I’m a third year student of Teachers’ Training College. My speciality is primary education that means that when I graduate from the university I’ll become a primary school teacher. I’ve chosen this profession because it’s one of the most honourable and important in every society. And it is also of great responsibility too as you should teach your pupils not only the ABC's of reading, writing and counting but give them the basic knowledge of other subjects they are going to learn during their future school life. It’s no doubt too that a primary school teacher mustn’t only teach his pupils, he or she must develop their mind and form their views and characters.
What makes a good primary school teacher? First of all, he should have true interest in children and love for them. Also he must be a well-educated person with a broad outlook and deep knowledge of his subjects and child psychology. And at last he must be ready to learn throughout all his teaching career that is to work hard to remain up-to-date in his subjects and to find out about new trends and developments in methods of teaching. They say that teaching is a very stressful job taking much time and efforts. I fully agree with that but I’d like to mention that it’s one of the most enjoyable jobs too so I hope that after my graduation from the university I’ll be able to get a job which I will really enjoy.
Questions
1. What English-speaking countries do you know?
2. Have you been to any of them?
3. Which variant of the English language do you like more: British or American?
4. Did you study any other languages at school?
5. How long does it take a person to learn to speak a foreign language, in your opinion?
6. Do you find languages easy or difficult to learn?
7. What other languages besides English would you like to learn?
8. What languages belong to the family of Romance languages?
9. What languages belong to the family of Slavic languages? What family does the English language belong to?
10. What language is spoken in France? Germany? China?
11. What language is spoken in Holland? Switzerland? Brazil?
12. Why is it important to know foreign languages?
13. What are your future plans?
14. Do you read newspapers?
15. What newspapers do you read?
16. What are your favourite magazines?
17. Where can you buy newspapers and magazines?
18. What newspapers and magazines do you subscribe to?
19. Which sections of a newspaper are you especially interested in?
20. Do you read reviews of new books, films and plays?
21. What is an editorial?
22. What's the difference between an editor and a reporter?
23. Do you like to read stories about the private lives of pop stars and actors?
24. Do you read any newspapers in English?
25. What British newspapers do you know?
26. Do you agree that radio and television have made newspapers unnecessary?
27. Do the mass media report the events objectively?
28. What TV programmes are most popular with young people?
29. What are your favourite TV programmes?
30. What programmes do your parents usually watch?
31. What do you think of soap operas?
32. Do you like quiz shows?
33. Do you ever watch educational TV programmes? Are they helpful?
34. Are you an Internet-user?
35. Are you for or against cloning people? Why?
36. Do you think people will live longer in the future? Why?
37. What has man's interference in nature led to?
38. Why do so many species of animals and plants die out for ever?
39. What pollutes and poisons the air?
40. Why are acid rains so dangerous for people?
41. What do you know about the consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy?
РЕЦЕНЗИЯ
на учебно-методическое пособие
«Сборник материалов для подготовки к устному экзамену по дисциплине «Английский язык»
для студентов 3 курса специальности «Преподавание в начальных классах»,
составленное Зварыкиной С.Г.
Данный сборник подготовлен в соответствии с государственным образовательным стандартом и отвечает требованиям программы по дисциплине «Английский язык» для средних специальных учебных заведений.
Текстовый материал представляет собой базу для взаимосвязанного развития навыков и умений основных видов речевой деятельности, расширении профессионально-ориентированного лексического запаса обучаемых и для подготовки студентов средних специальных заведений к сдаче зачетов и экзаменов по английскому языку.
Пособие предназначено для студентов III курса специальности «Преподавание в начальных классах», изучающих английский язык. В сборнике использованы материалы из оригинальной английской литературы и Интернет-ресурсов.
к.ф.н., доцент кафедры Акинина Н.В.
социально-гуманитарных дисциплин