Assignments:
1. Practise giving instructions to pupils in a polite manner, use the phrases
below:
go on to the next exercise, carry on (proceed) reading, repeat what you said, copy this off the
board, work in twos (threes), share the textbook, try the next item, practise the irregular verbs, listen
carefully to what I say, etc.
2. Take it in turns to play the part of the teacher beginning and finishing the lesson. Make
sure that you don't sound too straightforward. (See "Classroom English", Sections II and III.)
LABORATORY EXERCISES (I)
1. Listen to the text "Anne Meets Her Class", mark the stresses and tunes,
repeat the text following the model.
2. Respond as shown in the models, check your replies.
3. Combine the sentences into one conditional sentence.
4 . Write a spelling-translation test:
a) Translate the given phrases into English.
b) Check them with the key.
5. Answer the questions using the phrases "to like the idea/dislike the idea".
6. Translate the given sentences into English. Check your sentences with the
key.
7. Listen to the Jokes connected with school life. Get ready to retell them in
indirect speech.
TOPIC: CHOOSING А CAREES
TEXT A. WHAT'S YOUR LINE?
School! Lessons, games, clubs, homework. A bell rings. You go to a classroom. A bell rings.
You have lunch. A bell rings. You go home.
But one day you go to school for the last time. What to do after that? You realize that the time
to choose one job out of the hundreds has come. It's going to be a hard choice and nobody can make
it for you.
Before you can choose, you ask yourself quite a lot of questions. What do you know you are
good at? What do you enjoy doing? Perhaps you enjoy working with your hands. Or you may prefer
using your head — your brains. Are you interested in machines? Or do you like meeting people? It's
difficult to know all the answers to these questions until you have left school and actually begun
work.
Many young people consider teaching as a career. It's not surprising: after your parents your
teacher may be the most important person in your life. With all the teachers you meet, you think
there isn't anything you don't know about the work. That's where you are wrong, since only those
who are in it can appreciate it. Have you ever asked yourself why most teachers are so devoted to
their work and privately think, though they may not like to admit it openly, that they serve humanity
doing the most vital job of all? Those of us who spend our days in schools know how rewarding the
job is. At the same time it is not easy and a real challenge to your character, abilities and talent, as