Unit 16. Education
LISTENING WARM-UP

• What are the arguments in favour of school uniforms?
• What are the arguments against school uniforms?
• Do you think school uniforms are a good idea?
• Does it matter what teachers wear in the classroom?
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DEVELOP YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
WORDPERFECT
Read these sentences and then use the words in bold to complete the sentences below.
Key.1 special needs
2 lectures
3 school uniform
4 gap year/year off/year out
5 lesson
6 lecturer
7 undergrad(uate)
8 PhD
9 professor
10 subject
• I'm going to take a gap year/year off/year out before university, to travel round Europe.
• Our French lesson on Thursdays is two hours long.
• Physics is my least favourite subject. I find it so boring!
• If you are a professor, you have a very senior position in a department at a university.
• A lecturer is a teacher at a university or college. Не/She is less senior than a professor.
• When I was at university, I had ten hours of lectures and six hours of seminars each week.
• Masha is an undergraduate at Moscow State University. If she passes her exams, she'll get her degree next summer.
• I got my degree in English Literature, then I did an MA and now I'm working for my PhD. When I get that, I'll officially be called Doctor Stephens.
• Pauline teaches kids with special needs at a Comprehensive in London. She says it's hard work, but very rewarding.
• When I was at school, the school uniform was a pair of grey trousers and a blue sweater. We wore grey shorts in the summer!
1 Teachers have begun to realise that learners with ____________,such as children with dyslexia, need particular help and support.
2 Dr Dawkins' ____________ are always entertaining. He makes astrophysics come alive.
3 Wearing a ____________ means you don't have to worry about what to put on!
4 I went to Australia for my ____________. It taught me about surviving in the real world.
5 There was a fire practice during our German ____________ this morning, so we didn't have a test!
6 Simon was a/an ____________ for twenty years before they made him a professor.
7 When I was a/an ____________, you used to get a grant from the government to cover your living expenses at university.
8 I'm thinking of doing a ____________ on the similarities between Eminem's rap lyrics and the poetry of Robert Browning.
9 Like most university lecturers, Angela hopes to become a ____________ one day.
10 I'm thinking of doing another A level, but I can't decide which ____________ to choose.
PRACTISE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
Listening know-how
• Выполняя задание H, помните, что фразы "Speaker One", "Speaker Twо" ит.д. отсутствуют аудиозаписи. Аудиотекст представлен небольшимиотрывками, которые разделены короткими паузами. Чтобы избежать случайнойошибки при записи ответа, отмечайте вопросы, которые уже прозвучали.
•Выполняя задание I, вы услышите разговор трех собеседников. Слушаязапись, обращайте особое внимание на имена, для того, чтобы точно знать,кому принадлежит тот или иной голос.
Listen to someone saying this sentence two different ways:
You didn't go to Cambridge, did you?
The meaning depends on the tone of voice.
The first time, the speaker expects the answer 'No, I didn't.'
The second time, another person has just said that they went to Cambridge, and the speaker is expressing surprise at this information.
Now listen to these seven questions. For each one, decide if the speaker expects the answer 'No', or if they are surprised at the information they have just heard. Tick the appropriate box.
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