TEXTBOOK 1 (кликните по ссылке): TEACHING PROFESSION
TEXTBOOK 2 (кликните по ссылке): EDUCATION IN BRITAIN AND THE USA
TEXTBOOK 3 (кликните по ссылке): ILLNESSES AND THEIR TREATMENT
Лексические темы (по опорным материалам Teaching, Education, Illnesses and their Treatment) | Лексические единицы (по пособию Do Well in English) | Сроки прохождения тем |
ТЕМА 1: Teaching
| Опорный текст 1: A Story About Making A Difference to make a (real) difference at the school one works to explore new ideas to be open to change It matters to this one! a trainee a trainee teacher to plan (very) good activities to work at a state school to tell somebody about one’s experiences in her school the conditions in state schools to be paid more / less the budgets of the schools to be low (about school budgets) to provide Internet access for students to be (very) lucky to have someone as a teacher one’s passion and dedication to feel a bit isolated to be enthusiastic to share one’s experiences with other people who care to make presentations at conferences to meet enthusiastic teachers like herself to keep a blog to connect with the other teachers to inspire someone with their great ideas to keep one’s enthusiasm alive to share one’s ideas and experiences via presentations and blogging a blog post to make more difference by ‘sharing’ to be gifted with the ability to make a difference have the power to shape the future Опорный текст 2: ‘Mistakes I made as a New Teacher’ (Video) a high school teacher a first-year teacher the mistakes that someone made as a new teacher to fall back into making the mistakes to plan one’s lessons for the entire week / day to day as a new teacher your time is scarce to think ahead even as far as (three) days to have a general idea to what your week is going to look like to plan one’s entire week to be (really) behind in content to plan ahead to grade (students works) one’s learning objective to do an activity to create an activity to wrestle with content to engage with each other the assignment to stress someone out to have a lack of organization a hot mess (AmE) a (huge) mismanagement of time to get overwhelmed with tasks to be important but not urgent to put something off to the side to lead to stress to get sick from stressing to do a work life (and a personal life) balance to live a balanced life to manage your time to strive for perfection to be a part of one’s personality to do well to prove that you belong there to beat oneself up about certain things that one didn’t get a chance to do or didn’t do well to meet the learning objective\ the hard way becomes exhausting be content with what you currently have to improve one’s experience as a first-year teacher Опорный текст 3: Interview with Michael Beresford teaching as a career a nursery school primary school / secondary school the vast majority of a career which many take up with enthusiasm at this level a kind of a substitute for the mother to figure a natural development secondary education a secondary school teacher to start one’s teaching career to be in teaching for a long time to put up resistance to cope with problems to get disillusioned to give up teaching to be short of good teachers to recruit people to pay somebody better salaries to have few problems of recruitment state secondary schools comprehensive schools one’s idea of a good teacher to know his or her own subject to be skilful with the subject he or she is teaching to be a person with a pleasant nature, pleasant personality to be sympathetic to young people and their problems to be understanding not to be full of sarcasm. to be educated to put scorn on children to make a slight mistake to be taught with great scorn and contempt to make somebody look foolish and ignorant to make somebody feel uncomfortable the opposite approach is required with somebody children who are most lacking confidence to encourage somebody from the part of a teacher to improve the child’s learning to learn from a teacher the matter of personality (is a problem of teaching) to know the subject perfectly to be a good and sympathetic person to be first and foremost training and skill and knowledge to come second Опорный текст 4: Survived My First Week
to “survive” one’s first week (as a trainee teacher) the children didn’t eat me alive, nor did the staff to have a great, although incredibly tiring week so many things happened in my first week teaching as a ‘proper teacher’ I could go on for ages, to stand in front of one’s class an incredibly frightening moment but an enjoyable one none the less the first time one really realized that one is a ‘proper’ teacher a great feeling to know that … the children sitting there looking expectantly at (the teacher) One of the strangest things to get used to (was…) to have someone frequently in one’s lessons to check somebody’s plans to be incredibly frightening overall it was great to have the freedom to use my ‘professional judgment’ to decide how to approach things the ability to do things in one’s own way the staff at a school
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ТЕМА 2: Education in Britain and USA
| Опорный текст 5: Education in the UK
to receive full-time education to be financed from public funds fee-paying independent schools non-selective comprehensive education selective school entry to ensure that only the highest achieving pupils succeed to be selected as a result of one’s academic ability to be assessed through the 11+ test state grammar schools private schools academic assessments qualify for a place comprehensive schools admit children of all abilities a comprehensive education compulsory to legally attend primary and secondary education runs from (about 5 years old) until the student is (16 years old) further education non-advanced education to be taken at further education colleges HE institutions an optional final stage of formal learning at a higher level than secondary school full-time students Early Years education not to be yet old enough to start school state nursery schools nursery classes voluntary pre-schools privately run nurseries a childminder home childcare nanny to offer full day care to offer sessional care only primary education to start school in the year in which he/she turns five to start reception reception classes within primary schools to cater for (younger children) public sector primary schools to transfer straight to secondary school at age (11) primary education to achieve basic literacy and numeracy to establish foundations in science, mathematics and other subjects secondary education to be publicly funded to benefit from greater freedoms to innovate to raise standards freedom from local authority control to set their own pay and conditions for staff the delivery of the curriculum the ability to change the lengths of terms and school days to admit pupils based on academic performance to be entered for a range of external examinations post-compulsory education to be distinct from the education offered in universities education for people over 16 excluding universities work-based learning adult and community learning institutions post-16 courses FE courses to be offered in the school sector and at some universities an advanced level of education beyond a full course of secondary education to be provided in distinct institutions at postgraduate level bachelor’s / master’s/ doctoral degree first degree courses ‘degrees with honours’ to take three years to complete a period of practical work outside the institution specialist courses vocational or professional degree courses further specialist training
Опорный текст 6: Education system in the USA to be provided in public, private, and home schools to do a better job of educating students to have a federal system of government to have historically valued local governance to have (no) country-level education system or curriculum (not) to operate public schools to set guidelines for the schools to receive funding from the individual state public colleges and universities to pay tuition to earn a scholarship to receive a loan to lie in the hands of each local school district to be governed by a school board national curriculum to guide school instruction to set general policies for the school district to meet state guidelines elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools to be composed of students in kindergarten and grades 1-5 to attend kindergarten to begin 1st grade at age six to be composed of students in grades 6-8 to contain grades 9-12 a wide variety of courses in English, mathematics, science, and social science to be required to take foreign language or physical education to elect to take music, art, or theatre courses to offer vocational training courses to be one semester or two semesters in length the academic year to be compulsory for all students until ages sixteen to eighteen depending on the individual state high school graduates to graduate at the age of seventeen or eighteen-years-old to pass all of the required courses the grading scale to fail a required course to repeat the course to be enrolled for an undergraduate degree to have the option of attending a two-year community college to apply to a four-year university admission to community college a high/low tuition to transfer up to two years of course credits to a university admission policies to vary from one university to the next to determine admission based on several criteria a student’s high school course of study a student’s accumulated grades university admissions officers applications from high school students to participate in extracurricular activities voluntary participation to learn valuable life lessons teamwork, leadership, civic responsibility write an essay as part of the application process admissions office to determine the length and content of the essay an applicant to have a personal interview with a representative from the admissions office to pursue a Bachelor’s /a Master’s / Doctoral degree degree a graduate student to attend university a liberal education to take courses across several disciplines to specialize in a major field of study one’s major (field of study) to be one semester long to be assigned a number of credit hours to be 1, 2, 4 or 5 credits (about a course) to complete a minimum number of credit hours before graduation to require students to write a final thesis admission to a graduate program to be based on several criteria completion of a Bachelor’s degree the student’s undergraduate coursework to be expected to write an essay as part of their application Master’s programs to have a minimum score on (an examination) to test verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills to take a course at the graduate level to earn enough credit hours to attempt one’s qualifying examinations to pass one’s qualifying exams to be advanced to candidacy to write one’s dissertation to be given a degree a completed dissertation to be orally defended before the candidate’s faculty committee | ноябрь |
ТЕМА 3: Illnesses and their Treatment
| Опорный текст 7: Challenge to live a hundred to stay healthy to keep fit the doctor’s prescription approved medical treatment health foods vitamin pills keep-fit books and videos to live to a hundred a keep-fit fanatic a non-smoker a teetotaler to be very detailed about what one eats to languish in bed in plaster healthy lifestyle to acquire a (broken wrist) (not) to be just a matter of a good diet and plenty of exercise to be harmful (to one’s health) a jogger to eat the right food to become an obsession to overwork to afford one’s membership of a (health) club health food a few holidays in peaceful and healthy places Опорный текст 8: Examination Fever to be allergic to allergy a history of (diseases) in a school a case of (a disease) to prove (very) contagious/catching to suffer a mild attack of (influenza) to give (a disease) to the others to spread rather rapidly a serious outbreak of (a disease or medical condition) infectious to catch (a disease) from somebody a chronic case of (a disease, e. g. traumatic brain injury) to be down with ( a disease) to reach epidemic proportions to suffer from (a disease) amnesia to make a total recovery to develop into a touch of to have a sudden fit of (a disease or a condition, e.g. weakness) a terminal disease a convalescence and recuperation period Опорный текст 9: What Seems to be the problem? not to have been feeling well recently/not to be feeling very well to get out of breath very easily (when one climbs stairs or walks short distances) to get pains in one’s chest to break the habit to cut down on the amount of … you (eat) eating habits to put on weight to be a little overweight to tend to drive everywhere (because of one’s job) to be out of condition to take some regular exercise to take up jogging to lose some weight to go on a diet to cut out fatty foods to cut out drinking completely (for the next few months) to change one’s lifestyle to be in trouble That’s easier said than done What seems to be the problem? to stay up late at night studying to pass out to come round (after a few seconds) to feel a bit off colour to get splitting headaches to burn the candle at both ends to be overdoing it to be overtired to take it easy for a while to get enough sleep to have a few early nights to be absolutely worn out at the end of the day to eat regular meals to be (a bit) run down to write out a prescription for some extra iron and vitamins to come back in a couple of weeks to feel a bit under the weather Опорный текст 10: National Health Service in Great Britain put time, money and energy into keeping well and keeping fit go to see your GP a GP (a general practitioner, or family doctor) to write a prescription for somebody to take to a chemist’s or pharmacy to have to pay to see your doctor to have to pay part of the cost of your medicine to get one’s medicine free to be over (sixty) to be expecting a baby to see a specialist doctor to have medical tests or an operation, to send somebody to a hospital to be part of the NHS (the National Health Service) NHS hospital treatment to provide free medical care for everyone in Britain from the very young to the very old to provide free visits to doctors and dentists, free treatment, free prescriptions, free eye tests and free glasses to have to pay for prescriptions for eye tests and glasses and for trips to the dentist. one of the highest levels of (heart disease) in the Western world to have a very high level of cancer to have to wait a long time before one can see a specialist or have an operation. to see private doctors to use other kinds of treatment to use alternative medicine (like reflexology , homeopathy and acupuncture) not to hurt at all alternative medical practitioners to stay healthy to eat well to have a longer and healthier life to raise life expectancy on average to live to the age of … to live to … to reach the age of 100 | декабрь |