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Task 17. Search the Net, find information about any university you like and present it to your fellow students.

 

 

Tasks for independent work

 

1. Fill in the correct word.

1. I could get a job as a secondary school_____________ now, but I want to continue studying to become a university_____________. (teacher/ lecturer)

2. History is my favourite__________ but today's_________ wasn't very interesting. (lesson/ subject)

3. My primary school only has 300 _________but there are over 5,000 ___________ at my brother's university, (pupils/ students)

4 Frank got good ___________ in all of his school exams, so he was able to go to university to do a __________. (grades/ degree)

5. There will be no lectures during the last ___________of my history___________ as we are expected to study for exams then. (course/ term)

6. I got an extra __________for remembering the name of Napoleon's horse, so my final________for the test was 19 out of 20! (point/ mark)

7. The __________of the arts faculty used to be the ____________of a primary school.(dean/ headmaster)

8. When I went to __________ I only saw my parents during the holidays, but now that I go to a_________ I see them every night. (day school I boarding school)

9. It is necessary to pay school fees in order to go to a __________whereas a __________is run by the state and is therefore free. (comprehensive school/ private school)

10. My brother and sister go to a_________ but I go to a ___________ where there are only girls. (co-educational school/ single-sex school)

(taken from Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley Enterprise 4 Intermediate Coursebook,p. 123)

Complete the following text with the correct derivatives of the words in bold. The first one has been done as an example.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori is not (0) ..primarily., (primary) remembered for being Italy's first woman to graduate in medicine, although this was the first of her many significant (1) ___________(accomplish). Montessori went on to become one of the leading (2)______________ (educate) of the twentieth century. She worked with 3)_______ (mental) disabled children at the beginning of the century, and in 1907 opened her first school for children of "normal" (4)_____________ (intelligent). What made her approach unique was her (5)______________ (believe) that children learn more if their (6) _____________(create) talents are encouraged to develop. Individual, rather than cooperative, learning was stressed. Montessori used (7)________________ (interest) objects to capture the (8)__________(attend) of her pupils. They were allowed to work on their own, exploring and discovering new ideas at their own pace. (9)___________ (surprise), Montessori's schoolchildren did not become (10) ____________ (bore) very easily, and undisciplined children became much better behaved. Today, there are schools all over the world which bear Maria Montessori's name and use her methods.

(taken from Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley Enterprise 4 Intermediate Workbook, p. 69)

Reading



Text 1

Read the text and fill in the missing sentences. One is extra. The first is done for you as an example.

Cooperative kids

The concept of cooperative learning is alien to all of us who were taught the traditional way, but it offers our children the adventure of finding their own answers. Di Liiford reports.

 

If you took a doctor from the 19th century and put her in a modern operating theatre, she would have no idea what to do, but if you put a teacher from the 19th century into a modern classroom she would be able to carry on teaching without pause. 0|D

The idea remains that students are empty containers which the teacher fills with knowledge, and that all stu­dents have to do is listen and write.

 

Education consultant Alyce Miller says: "This approach does not work in today's changing world. We are not teaching creative problem-solving. We encourage competition, believing that this brings out the best in people." But this is not so. 1|___ She goes on to say that the teacher's role is no longer to feed stu­dents with information. "The facts are available in libraries, on CD ROMS and on the Internet. What stu­dents need are the skills to find this information, to use it and to think creatively in order to solve the problems of our world."

 

Miller believes that cooperative learning is the future of education and thinks of it as the best way to encourage responsibility, tolerance and helpfulness towards oth­ers. 2|___

 

In cooperative learning classes, the traditional class­room physical layout is abandoned. 3|____

Pupils learn to work first in pairs, then in threes, and ó finally in teams of four. Students are required to parti­cipate actively in discussing and shaping their own knowledge. The teacher, who is still very important to the process, becomes the helper rather than the master.

 

Aarnout Brombacher, head of the mathematics depart­ment at Westerford High School, says: 'The incorrect assumption that many people make about cooperative learning is that it is merely group work. It is much, much more. 4|___ With this technique, most of the time in the classroom is spent teaching them these skills - life skills."

 

Brett Melville, a 17-year-old pupil at the school, agrees. "You learn the same material as you would using the normal method, but this way you learn how to work with others at the same time. In our class, we are given enough time to discuss issues and problems in detail." 5|___

One teacher, Lynne Gedye, has been using cooperative learning in her classes for two years. She says, "This year we have several pupils in the class who can hardly speak a word of English. I was tearing my hair out, wondering what to do, but I need not have worried. The children's response was amazing. 6|___

All in all, it seems that cooperative learning turns the classroom from a competitive arena into a place where learning facts and life skills is both more fun and more effective for pupils and teachers alike.

A Children do not sit in straight rows of desks facing the teacher, but rather face one another to make it easier to share ideas.

 

 The strong ones coached the weak ones endlessly so that they could participate in the question time too.

 

Ñ However, she believes that this method is not suitable for all pupils.

 

D Teaching methods have hardly changed in one hundred years.

 

E She says that good relationships are the key to effective learning.

 

F Encouraging children to concentrate on getting the best marks destroys motivation and takes the fun out of learning.

 

G He adds that it might take longer than simply listening to the teacher lecture, but the students remember much more afterwards.

 

H It recognizes that pupils do not have the skills to work together.


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