Английский язык. Пятьдесят тем для продолжающих. Уровень В1 - стр. 4

1. Is it easy or difficult to find out who the best teachers are?

2. Are most teachers good or bad?

3. Are the best teachers sometimes very strict?

4. How do you work if your teacher is strict?

5. How do the best teachers talk to their students?

6. What do excellent teachers expect from their students?

7. What sort of homework do they accept?

8. What kind of teachers accept low quality homework?

9. Is Julia’s History teacher a good or a bad teacher?

10. What does Julia’s History teacher gets his students to do?

11. What does Julia do during the English Literature classes?

12. Who is Julia’s worst teacher?

13. How does the teacher tell the pupils about the Bible?

14. Why does Julia think that the teacher is in the wrong profession?

15. What sort of character do the best teachers have?

16. What are the best teachers really interested in?

17. What can’t Julia’s mother forget?

18. Is Julia’s maths teacher one of her best teachers?

19. Is Julia good or bad at maths?

20. What kind of teacher is she really?

Training 1

The best teachers are always very strict, but they make their lessons really interesting. You work hard and they don’t accept any sort of low quality homework. They pack a lot into the lessons. They talk to us as intelligent adults. They expect that we can understand what they are explaining and work fast. The best teachers have strong characters and they are really interested in their subject.

Training 2

The other teachers that are good, but not brilliant, are a bit too easy-going. They are not strict and don’t have a strong character. You can give in poor homework and not learn anything. They try to make their lessons interesting but they can’t keep discipline and their students don’t listen, and sometimes do terrible things in the classroom.

We don’t actually have name days in Britain. So, we celebrate only birthdays. Of course, these are big events for children. Usually parents buy one big present for the child and other small presents. And, of course, all the other family members give the child presents, and school friends, too. Parents usually organize the birthday party. And children usually arrive in the early afternoon. There is always a birthday cake with candles. And the birthday child has to blow out all the candles and make a wish. Parents organize games. A birthday party for ten, fifteen or twenty small kids is a difficult experience. Teenagers are a different problem for parents. Teenagers want to have discos. They want beer and music and they don’t want their parents in the house. One of the most important birthdays for a teenager is their eighteenth birthday. That is usually the age where parents will try and give them a big important present, for example, driving lessons. Some rich parents give their eighteen-year-old a car. And the next important birthday is the twenty-first. I think a birthday is like a family holiday. And the family will come together for a meal in the evening. Sometimes friends or family organize a surprise birthday party. A person comes home. And suddenly everybody jumps out from the darkness and says, “Surprise! Happy Birthday!” I think that is really nice. That happened to me once. And we had a great evening. I think it was one of my best birthdays. Actually, I like special surprise birthdays, like surprise parties or surprise presents, like a flight in a hot air balloon. That is a really great present.