Exercise 4.Choose one of the suggested topics and comment on it. Listen to your colleagues’ opinions and agree or disagree with them.
1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today .
2. Plan your work; work your plan.
3. Practice your skills to perfection.
Topic 3. THE TIME-TABLE
When you enter the hall of our technical school you can see the time tableon the wall. There are always many students standing near the time-table and looking forthe number of the rooms where they must go to.
Our classes begin at 9 o'clock in the morning. We have six or eight hours a day with a lunch break.
Our time-table includes obligatoryand optional subjects. In the first year all the students of the technical and specialized schools study the same general educational subjects. They are Ukrainian, Ukrainian Literature, World Literature, a foreign language (English, German or French), sciences (physics, mathematics, and chemistry), and social sciences.
We get physical training. The students also begin to study specialized subjects. They are either technical drawing or anatomy and biology, or electronics and strength of materials, or psychology or others.
We have lectures, practice (tutorials) and do laboratory works.
The time-table includes subjects, the names of the teachers, time and numbers of the rooms for each day of the week.
Near the time-table there is an advertisement boardadvertising running meetings, socials, club and society sittings.
We don't go to the technical school on Sundays. It is a day off.
Vocabulary:
time-tableрозклад. What is the time-table for Friday?
to look forшукати
numberчисло, номер. Go to room number five.
classesзаняття. Our classes begin at 9 а. m.
to includeвключати. The text includes many new words.
obligatoryобов'язковий. Specialized subjects are obligatory.
optionalфакультативний. We have not only obligatory subjects but optional ones as well (також).
Either ... or або... або. You may go either to а social or to а society sitting.
practiceпрактичні заняття. During our practice we do laboratory works.
tutorialсемінар. We have tutorials every day.
to advertiseоголошувати, повідомляти
advertisementоголошення. Do you see the advertisement on the wall?
the sameтой же (самий), такий же. We went there by bus and returned the same way.
Exercise 1. Answer the following questions:
1. Where is the time-table in your technical school?
2. When do classes begin, and when are they over?
3. What subjects does your time-table include?
4. What does the time-table show?
5. What does an advertisement board run?
Exercise 2. Role-play ( in pairs). New subjects and teachers
| Student A | Student B |
| You are a student of the Dnipropetrovsk Welding and Electronics Technical School. In the street you meet a former classmate. Exchange news, pay compliments to each other. Ask him questions about his studying in school (for example, about new teachers and subjects) Answer his questions. | You are a student of the comprehensive secondary school. In the street you meet a former classmate. Exchange news, pay compliments to each other. Ask him questions about his studying in technical school (for example, about new teachers and subjects) Answer his questions. |
Topic 4. MY RELATIVES.
I think that a family is the most important thing for every person. Relativesare the people that always love you, support you and help you. For me it is impossible to live without my relatives. My family is rather large. There are: my parents, brother, sister and grandparents.
My father is a plastic surgeon; he helps people become more beautiful. He is a professional. My father does his work very well and gets a very good salary. My mother is a housewife. She looks afterthe house and us, the kids. Mother makes very tasty breakfasts and dinners. Our mother is very kind, but strict to us. She always checks how we do our homework. Mother arranges our free time, so that we cannot just fool around.
My elder brother, Jason, is a student of the medical faculty. He wants to become a good surgeon, like our father. Besides he is also a member of the local theatre club. He plays main parts in severalplays.
My sister, Jenny, is finishing school this year. But she has not yet made up her mind about her future profession. On one hand she loves animals and can become a vet, on the other hand she is very good at mathematics and knows some complex computer programs. Maybe she will have a year off to think over her future possibilities.
As for me, I have always loved music. I can play the guitar and piano very well. I love all kinds of music, but mostly I prefer rock. After school I am planning to enter the music college, because I want to become a professional musician. Parallel with that I want to have my own rock band.
Our grand parents are scientists. Grandfather is a historian and grandmother is a linguist. They give lectures in different universities and write serious books. We all get on with each other very well.
Every one in our family is rather busy, but we always look forward to a possibility to spend some time together. My family means a lot to me.
Vocabulary:
Relatives -родичі
to support -підтримувати
salary –платня, зарплата
а housewife -домохохяйка
to look after -піклуватися
strict -строгий
to check -перевіряти
а play -п'єса
а vet -ветеринар
possibilities -можливості
to prefer -вважати за краще
а band –група
scientists -вчені
а historian -історик
а linguist -лінгвіст
to get on- ладнати
to look forward to– чекати з нетерпінням
to mean- означати