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B) Argue the pros and cons of: 1. Tutorial system. 2. Students' uniform. 3. Residential colleges.
XI. Describe the pictures on p. 183:
XII. Try your hand at teaching:
A. Preparation.Get ready for a talk on one of the following topics:
1. Higher education in Russia.
2. Higher education in Great Britain.
3. Oxford University.
4. Cambridge University.
5. Teacher training in Great Britain and in Russia.
B. Work in Class. Listen to the students' talk and say a few words about the construction of each talk: its beginning, development, conclusion, and the general balance of these parts.
Speak on what you think may surprise a Russian student at an English University (Oxford, Cambridge): a) programme, b) teaching methods, c) students' extra-curricular activities.
Prompts: I think (suppose, guess, believe, dare say)...; Well, my opinion is that...; My view is that...; True, but...; You may be right... but all the same...; I wouldn't say that; But on the other hand.
XIII. Read the text. Comment on its content:
Students in Tents
Three small tents — two blue and one khaki — are pitched among trees on a hill above Sussex University campus. This weekend they are 'home' to three students who cannot find a bed in the neighbouring town of Brighton.
They are an apt symbol of an accommodation crisis that is affecting thousands of students throughout the country. Tonight 80 other Sussex students will bed down on mattresses on the floor of the university senate chamber. It will be the sixth — and probably final — night of a'protest occupation!
In every major city there are students on camp beds in nooks and crannies and others 'crashing' on the floors of friends' flats.
The National Union of Students describes it as the worst ever student accommodation crisis! The indications are that it is a foretaste of a massive problem.
Unless something radical is done, the concept of a student having the right to go away to university may soon be dead. (See: Ttofi C., Creed T. S. English in Mind. Lnd., 1982)
XIV. Speak on:
1. Your intentions as to your teaching career.
2. What you are going to do to become a highly-qualified specialist.
XV. Role-playing.
Work in two groups, one playing the university lecturers, the other presenting students. Both groups are discussing one and the same exam. Compare their versions and make your conclusion as to the difference in approach:
Exam: English Literature.
Results: Dave Robertson — Sat Charles Hope — Poor
Duncan Holmes — Good Dorothy Baird — Very Good
Jenny Richards — Good
XVI. Compose a short story to which the pictures on pp. 187-189 might serve as an illustration. Use prompt words and phrases listed betow:
physicist; theory of relativity; treading on air; full of sweet reminiscences;
cast a glance; a sudden shock; come to realize; a guilty conscience;
first traces of fatigue; tired-out;
with a wet towel round his head; in frustration; a dazed look; a tub of water; scattered all over; peeping inside; puzzled;
strange visions; welcome cheerfully; arm-in-arm; a cane;
in a frenzy of enthusiasm; leaning on; lunatic asylum.
XVII. Film "Mr. Brown's Holiday". Film segment 5 "Is it Good to be a Student?" (Chrichester). a) Watch and listen, b) Do the exercises from the guide to the film.