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Practice of English writing and conversation
Correspondence dpt. 4th year, 7th term
TEST 1. Teaching as a career
Part I. Reading
Task 1.
A Like other reception class mothers, I peeked at her friends’ bookbags to see if the books they were reading were more advanced. Invariably they were. My growing anxiety was assuaged by a wise fellow mother remarking that my exuberant child was busily engaged in things, like pretend games and drawing, which delighted her more. She also loves books, but often pleads for the right to be able to make up her own stories to the pictures (frequently more exciting than those by the author).
B Those who consider such reservations a middle-class luxury should look at Europe. We’re alone in bullying children to read so young. The Norwegians don’t start until they’re seven, when it’s usually painless. Sylvia Hopland, headmaster of the Norwegian School in London, says: “We know that we could teach children to read at four, but we want them to spend those years playing. We want to teach them to solve problems, cooperate with others and cope with life.”
C Imagine the blow that might have dealt to his creative genius. Also, one problem with exerting much pressure on pre-school children is that it can make children resistant to reading. Once affecting extravagant interest in my second daughter’s new book-title, I was rewarded with: “You’re just trying to get me to read it and I won’t.”
D When I asked her to tell me what she thought of her classes, she was unabashedly sincere: “I like books with pictures, but books with too many words are boring.” My immediate urge was to force her, threaten her or coax her nose into her books. Until it suddenly occurred to me: at what age did I start reading?
E For the best part of the year I lugged her wretched bookbag to and from school without opening it, and resolved as far as possible to follow her own reading timetable. Her reception teacher adopted what today is rare, daring stance: there isn’t much you can do to make a child read before they’re ready.
F Being against it, is like being against vitamin or bank holidays – completely perverse. Among the over half-million web pages devoted to teaching children to read, none of those I browsed are on learning to read too soon.
G The obsession with reading has led to a major decline in the time and energy given over to music, art and drama. And the heresy that dare not speak its name is that children are being pressurized to learn to read too early.
Task 2. Read the text below, then answer the questions 1 to 6 that follow.
A babies do not respond to verbal communication.
B babies who are orphaned will grow up to be less bright than those with parents.
C babies’ brains are not fully developed at birth.
D babies deprived of love and care do not suffer any long term emotional damage.
A research conducted on animals.
B funding from the US government.
C recently developed technology.
D the Royal Society of Medicine.
A might never function properly if not activated before the age of eight months.
B cannot be stimulated in a child born with cataracts.
C relies on the number of synapses already developed.
D depends on which other parts of the brain are already active.
A Because intelligence is genetic.
B Because the part of the brain that deals with intelligence develops later in childhood.
C Because they are more friendly than ‘normal’ children.
D Because they are less emotional than ‘normal’ children.
A To form a bond between the mother and child.
B To teach the child to be competitive.
C To teach the brain how to shut out unnecessary information.
D To prevent the child from becoming over-sensitive.
A are not proven.
B depend on the child in question.
C are not fully understood.
D can be reversed.
Part II. Use of English
Task 1. For questions 31-40, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Use the word given and other words to complete each sentence. You must use between two and five words. Do not change the word given. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write only the missing words in the answer boxes provided.
Task 2. Using a dictionary if necessary, underline the correct word in the sentences. Use the remaining words in 10 sentences of your own.
Task 3. The adjectives below have been grouped in order of increasing intensity. Use them to complete the sets of sentences which follow. Use each adjective only once.
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archaic < dated < modern < advanced; modest < substantial < immense < extravagant; bigoted < biased < tolerant < open-minded; boring < pleasant < moving < inspirational |
● The life of Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller’s teacher, serves as a(n) _______________ message to all of those who work with the disabled.
● The head girl’s words were very ______________ and several of her fellow classmates were in tears before she had finished.
● The kindergarten teacher had a ___________________ singing voice, and as a result her young students loved the time they spent learning new songs.
2. ● Most schools in the country have opted to teach ______________ Greek as opposed to ancient Greek.
● The elderly professor was let go as he refused to change his _____________ teaching practices.
● I’m sorry, but as our institution seeks to maintain a traditional standard, your ideas are just too ________________ for us.
● That reference book was published over 20 years ago so some of the information it contains is probably rather _______________ .
3. ● My parents earned a(n) ________________ income and were unable to send me to public school.
● Her _______________ praise embarrassed the child so badly that he refused to draw any more pictures in art class.
● To the head master’s ___________________ delight each and every one of his pupils was accepted into Oxford University.
● Although he paid a(n) ____________________ amount of money for his daughter’s education, she has never held down a steady job.
4. ● In the past, many history books were ____________ towards those countries that had lost wars.
● You may well have a PhD in philosophy, but to my mind you are both ___________ and racist.
● My grandfather is very opinionated about certain things, but at least he is ___________ of co-educational schooling.
● His _______________ attitudes towards progressive education won him a position at the prestigious college.
Task 4. Replace the underlined words and expressions with one of the fixed phrases below. Then, in pairs, use the fixed phrases to make up sentences of your own.
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by and large; by and by; (fall) by the wayside; by chance; by the way; by the book; by law; by word of mouth |
Task 5.
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a – adhere e – manage to elicit b – reserve f – continue to employ c – inappropriately mention g – stay level with d – ruin, lessen sb h – continue unnecessarily |
with that man when he’ll only drag you down?
well.
do a lot of revising at home.
new boss.
much work.
you sooner or later anyway.
Task 6. Complete the following sentences using words formed from the words in bold.
Task 7. Read the two texts that follow. Use the words in the boxes below each text to form words that fit in the same numbered spaces in the text. There is an example (0).
Part III. Listening
Task I. Listen to three people talking about what they used to like and dislike about school and put the correct letters in the spaces provided.
Task 2. You will hear a professor giving a lecture about improving memory. For questions 1-7, fill in the gaps with a word, short phrase or number.
Total number of lectures Dr. Sullivan will give: 1.____________
Dr. Sullivan claims to be able to remember over 2.____________ names.
Good memory reduces need to refer to a) 3._________________; b) computer.
Other improvements: a) concentration levels; b) making informed/intelligent decisions; c) 4.___________________ .
Can also help to: a) combat dementia; b) 5._________________________ .
Brain: most amazing and 6.____________________ human organ.
Function of long term memory: 7. ___________________ .
Part IV. Writing
Be prepared to communicate with the teacher on the following topics: