Listen to the recording and tick the qualities mentioned.

3. What qualities would you add to the list? Do you know any particular teacher who has those qualities? What kind of teacher are you going to be in the future?

THE BOLOGNA PROCESS

(04:05)

Discuss the following questions.

1. What positive features do you think higher education in Russia has? What can be improved? Why?

2. Have you ever heard about the Bologna process? If you have, what do you know about it?

Listen to a presentation about the Bologna process and make notes.

Decide whether you think these sentences about the presentation are true or false. Listen again to check your ideas.

1. The Bologna process is influencing education systems in countries outside Europe.

2. There is a new EU initiative forcing football supporters to wear earplugs at matches.

3. Under the old system, you could have ended up getting a degree simply by studying long enough.

4. Under the new system, the way a student performs in exams will not totally decide their final grades.

5. Most European countries are starting to introduce longer degree courses.

6. In several countries, the government now has less control over what happens at universities.

7. Attempts to put the Bologna process into practice have caused outrage in Greece and France.

8. The UK is happy about the changes.

Speak on what you have learnt from the presentation. Give your own opinion about the Bologna process and the changes it has involved.

GOING TO SECONDARY SCHOOL

(05:43)

You are going to listen to the man talking about secondary schools in Great Britain. Before listening complete the sentences using the words in the box below.

1. In England children normally start going to __________ when they are about five.

2. At the age of ten children move to __________.

3. Some schools are very popular – for example, schools with __________, or good __________.

4. There is too much __________ in England – white middle class children at one school, poorer children at another.

5. Children in Britain used to sit an exam in their last year at primary school. It was called __________.

6. Children who did well in the “eleven-plus” exam went to schools called __________.

7. Children who did not pass the “eleven-plus” exam went to __________.

8. Sometimes parents pay __________ to prepare their children for school exams.

9. Schools in the state school system which are run by a religious group are called __________.

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