Topics for Written Composition

1. Teaching foreign languages. What should it be like?

2. What makes a good language teacher?

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PROFESSION-ORIENTED QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

I. Listen to your fellow-student's reading of Ex. 2; correct the mistakes, if any.

II. Ask your fellow-student to read the word combinations from Ex. 3; analyse his mistakes in assimilation and the linking "r", if any, and correct them.

III.Listen to your fellow-students' reading of the passage (Ex. 4), correct their mistakes.

IV.Answer the following questions:

1. What in your view are specifically English features of school life as can be judged by this extract? 2. What are the most important problems of the current educational system in Great Britain? (Speak of secondary education.) 3. Can you suggest the lines of improve­ment in the system of Russian secondary education?