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природокористування України «Бобровицький коледж економіки

та менеджменту ім.. О. Майнової»

Education in Ukraine
(Методична розробка заняття)

2011 рік
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Укладач: Салоїд Наталія Володимирівна, викладач першої категорії.

Рецензент: Змігродська Ніна Сергіївна, викладач вищої категорії,

викладач-методист.

В даній роботі розкривається методика вивчення теми.

Методична розробка містить навчальний матеріал, необхідний для
проведення заняття в формі віртуальної екскурсії і спрямована на практику
мовної діяльності студентів: читання, аудіювання, письма, монологічного і
діалогічного мовлення при вивченні теми «Освіта в Україні».
Дана методична розробка може бути використана викладачами і студентами
під час вивчення вищезазначеної теми.
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І.Організаційна частина.
Teacher: Good morning, students! Sit down, please. Who is on duty in your group
today? Who is absent? – Very well, thank you. Are you ready for the lesson?
Who is not ready? Have you any questions to me with your homework? ( It is
a conversation with the student on duty ).

II. Основна частина.

1.Перевірка раніше засвоєних знань:
a) What do you know about education in Great Britain and in the USA? Answer the
following questions:
- When do children begin to go to school in Great Britain? (They begin to go to
school at the age of five.)
- What schools do they study first? ( First they study at infant schools.)
- When do children begin to go to junior schools? ( Children begin to go to junior
school at the age of seven.)
- When does secondary school begin? ( Secondary school begins at the age of
eleven.)
- What kind of exam do students have to take when they are sixteen? ( When students
are sixteen years old they may take an exam in various subjects in order to have a
qualification.)
- How many universities are there in England? ( There are 47 universities.)
- Does the American system of school education differ from the systems in other
countries? ( The American system of school education differs from the systems in
other countries.)
- What kinds of schools are there in the USA? ( There are state public schools, private
elementary schools and private secondary schools.)
- Is it true that each state has its own system of public schools? ( Each state has its
own system of public schools.

b) Let’s remember the grammar materials. Put the adjective in brackets into the
proper degree:
1. I think the weather today is much (good) than it was yesterday.-I think the weather
today is much better than it was yesterday.
2. Jack is (young) than his brother. He is (young) child in the family. - Jack is
younger than his brother. He is the youngest child in the family.
3. It is (good) film I have ever seen. - It is the best film I have ever seen.
4. The illness is (serious) as you think. - The illness is more serious as you think.
5. The marks were (good) as we expected. – The marks were better as we expected.
6. You should gargle your throat (often) as you did before. – You should gargle your
throat more often as you did before.
7. It was (interesting) book I have ever read. – It was the most interesting book I have
ever read.
8. It was (difficult) exercise as I did yesterday. – It was more difficult exercise as I
did yesterday.
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2. Повідомлення теми, мети, задач заняття:
Teacher: The team of our lesson is:
Participle I. Speaking on the topic “Education in Ukraine”.
Text “Dictionaries”.
The form of our lesson is travelling. We shall go to “The Country of Education”.
If you want to go to this country, you must buy a ticket.
The condition of buying a ticket is to learn grammar rules about Participle I and to
do the exercise. If you do the exercise well, you will get the ticket to “The Country of
Education”.

3. Пояснення граматичного матеріалу (Grammar material):

Teacher: Well, listen to me very attentively:
The participle is a non-finite form of the verb which has verbal, adjectival and
adverbial properties.
There are two participles in English: Present Participle (or Participle I) and Past
Participle (or Participle II).
Present Participle is formed by adding the ending –ing to the infinitive without the
particle to.
Spelling Rules
1. if the verb ends in a mute -e, this -e is dropped before the ending -ing:
to write – writing;
2. if the verb ends in one consonant preceded by a short stressed vowel, the final
consonant is doubled before the ending -ing:
to sit – sitting; to begin – beginning;
3. A final r is doubled if the last syllable is stressed and has no diphthong:
to prefer – preferring;
4. A final l is doubled if it is preceded by a short vowel, stressed or unstressed:
to travel – travelling;
5. If the verb ends in -ie, -ie is changed into -y before the ending -ing:
to lie – lying; to die – dying;
Note. A final -y is not changed before -ing:
to study – studying; to try – trying.

Present Participle Indefinite may have different time relations to the finite verb.
Present Participle Indefinite may express an action:
a) simultaneous with that expressed by the finite verb:
Reading English books I write out new words. – Читаючи англійські книжки,
я виписую нові слова.
Reading English books I wrote out new words. – Читаючи англійські книжки,
я виписував нові слова.
Reading English books I’ll write out new words. – Читаючи англійські
книжки, я виписуватиму нові слова.
b) referring to the present irrespective of the time of the action expressed by the
finite verb:
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The students working in our village came from Kiev. – Студенти, що
працюють у нашому селі, прибули з Києва.
c) having no reference to any particular time:
The bisector is a straight line dividing an angle into two equal parts. –
Бісектриса – це пряма лінія, що поділяє кут на дві рівні частини.
d) preceding that expressed by the finite verb if these actions closely follow each
other:
Entering his room, he went quickly to the other door. – Увійшовши в свою
кімнату, він швидко пішов до інших дверей.
Perfect Participle is user to express an action preceding that expressed by the finite
verb:
Having said this, they stopped speaking. – Сказавши це, вони припинили
розмову.
Present Participle Active is used when the noun or pronoun it refers to denotes the
subject of the action expressed by the participle:
Having opened my window, I went downstairs. – Відкривши вікно, я зійшла
вниз.
Present Participle Passive shows that the noun or pronoun it refers to denotes an
object of the action expressed by the participle:
Being invited to an evening-party she couldn’t go to the theatre. – Оскільки її
запросили на вечірку, вона не могла піти в театр.

Present Participle Indefinite Active is used as an attribute and as an adverbial

modifier.
Present Participle Indefinite Passive is mostly used as an adverbial modifier,
sometimes as an attribute.
The only function of Perfect Participle is that of adverbial modifiers.

Закріплення граматичного матеріалу:

Teacher: Let’s practice Present Participle. Open your books on page 38 and find
the exercise 16 ( V. Plakhotnyk, English, the 10-th form ).
Now you will get some cards with sentences. You have to translate the sentences
into Ukrainian paying attention to the words in Present Participle. If you do the tasks
well, you will change the cards into tickets for travelling to “The Country of
Education”. Cards may have the following sentences:
1. Do you know the man standing there?
2. While going home I met an old friend of mine.
3. Leaving London she sent me a telegram.
4. The boy playing in the garden is my brother.
5. The man speaking to the student is a teacher.
6. The pupils learning English will see an English film after classes.
7. He sat in an arm-chair watching TV.
8. He left the room without looking at me.
9. Not knowing what to do, they went for a walk.
10. My father likes to rest in the evening walking slowly in the park.
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4. Спілкування по темі «Освіта в Україні».
Teacher: Now we are going to start our trip. But before leaving to “The Country of
Education” you may learn the travelling programme:

Travelling Programme

1. The First Stop: History of Schooling in Ukraine.

2. The Second Stop: The System of Education in Ukraine.
3. The Third Stop: The Secondary Education.
4. The Fourth Stop: The Higher Education.

At every stop some of our students will be as guides. They will explain us the name
of every stop. Let’s go to “The Country of Education”…(звучить музика, яка
затихає під час зупинки).

Student 1: The First Stop is devoted to the history of schooling in Ukraine. There
exists a supposition that some sort of literacy had place in Kyiv Rus before
Christianity had been introduced but we are not going to jump at conclusions. As it is,
we can see some traces of schooling which existed at the times of baptism of Rus,
when the Cyrillic alphabet was given to the Slavs by the great enlightener St. Cyril.
Christian monasteries and temples became the first centres of schooling. Most of the
religious communities had a school, where monks and priests were the first teachers.
In the 16-th – 18-th centuries an ever-increasing number of schools were founded
by the communities – the so-called Brotherhoods. The Greek-Slavonic-Latin
Collegium, Ukraine’s first seat of higher learning, was founded in Ostrog (Rivne
region) in 1576. In the 18-th century the level of public literacy in Ukraine was
higher than in most western and eastern European countries. Schools could be found
in most of the villages.
The first universities appeared in Lviv (1784), Kharkiv (1805), Kyiv (1834) and
Odesa (1865). It should be mentioned that such a seat of higher learning as the
Mohyla Academy came to be as early as 1615. Until 1616 the Academy was the only
institution of higher learning of Eastern Europe.

Teacher: Thank you for your interesting information. Let’s go to another sight of
this Country (звучить музика, яка затихає під час наступної зупинки).

Student 2: The name of this stop is “The Main Rules of Education in Ukraine”. And
I want to say that the right to education in Ukraine is guaranteed by the Constitution
(Article 53). Every boy and girl must get secondary education; it means that
secondary education is compulsory in our country. There are state schools where
education is free of charge and private primary and secondary schools where pupils
have to pay for their studies.
Every school has a core curriculum and a school curriculum. The core curriculum
includes Ukrainian, Ukrainian Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Geography, World Literature, a Foreign Language and others.
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The educational system comprises more than 23 thousand preschool child-care
centres, like nursery schools or kindergartens, but they are not obligatory. The basic
link of the system is general educational school; their total number equals to about
21 thousand now. This school has three phases: primary, basic and senior. Recently
there appeared new types of schools intended for talented children. The kinds of
secondary educational establishments are lyceums and gymnasiums. They offer
programmes giving a profound knowledge in some field of study.
An important role in the system is played by vocational training schools offering
almost 800 qualifications.

Teacher: Thank you for your interesting information. Let’s go to another sight of
“The Country of Education” (звучить музика, яка затихає під час наступної
зупинки).

Student 3: The name of the third stop is “Secondary Education”. As you have heard
earlier the general educational school has three phases: primary, basic and senior.
Children in Ukraine usually go to school at the age of 6 or 7. Primary school
comprises 1 to 4 forms. I want to recite you the poem “The School”:
The School
The school has doors that open wide,
And friendly teachers wait inside.
Hurry, hurry, let’s go in,
For soon the lessons will begin.

Books and pencils I will need,

When I start to write and read.
Lot’s to learn and lots to do
I like to go to school, don’t you?

Student 4: I want to follow the information about secondary education. Basic

secondary forms comprise 5 to 9 forms. After finishing the 9-th form of a secondary
school young people can go to the 10-th form, or to a vocational or technical school.
The kinds of secondary educational establishments are lyceums, gymnasiums and
specialized colleges. They offer programmes giving a profound knowledge in some
field of study. They prepare students in different fields, whether the humanities or the
sciences. Some of them are organized under the authorities of higher educational
establishments.
The secondary school must secure a uniform level of knowledge necessary for
each student.

Teacher: Thank you for your interesting information. Let’s go to another sight of
“The Country of Education” (звучить музика, яка затихає під час наступної
зупинки).
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Student 5: The Higher Education is the post-secondary education. After getting
secondary education a school-leaver can start working or enter technical schools,
colleges and institution of higher learning: universities, academies, institutes,
conservatories. They prepare students in different fields, whether the humanities or
the sciences. Their number is great and diversification of qualifications is numerous.
Universities offer a five-year course of study and usually have from six to twelve
departments.
Institutes train specialists for industry, agriculture and economy. Most of them have
been conferred the status of Academy or University recently.

Student 6: Students are also offered post-graduate education and scientific research
work. Nowadays due to the state of our national economy not many young people are
engaged in the research work. But still in some fields of science there are outstanding
discoveries and research papers.
Recently a great number of private educational establishments have appeared.
Some institutions have fee-paying groups or departments. The students may get
education there at the same high level as in the state institutions.

Teacher: Students, thank you very much for your interesting information. Our trip
is going to the end.

5. Text “Dictionaries” ( V. Plakhotnyk, English, 10-th form, K., 1998, p. 109 ).

a) Робота із словником. Ознайомлення із лексичними одиницями до тексту

“Dictionaries” ( V. Plakhotnyk, p. 109 ).
dictionary - словник; size - розмір;
purpose - мета; in common use - широковживані;
origion - походження; to master - опановувати;
engineering – техніка; thoroughly - старанно;
contain - містити; explanation - пояснення;
room - (тут) місце; to compile - укладати.

б) Читання і частковий переклад тексту, пояснення складних граматичних

конструкцій речень.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries are very good books. We need them for various purposes. Even in our
own language we often find it necessary to look up a word, sometimes for spelling,
sometimes for the pronunciation, sometimes for the meaning or origin of the word.
In the 12-th century with the development of sciences and engineering special
dictionaries have been compiled: commercial, technical, medical, etc. There are some
large dictionaries which contain almost all the words of the language, but they are not
convenient to use. They are too heavy and take up too much room. It is better to have
a dictionary which is not too big in size.
Students of foreign languages need dictionaries, which contain all the words in
common use in their own language and their equivalents in the language they are
mastering. Words may have numerous meanings for many different situations. Such
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dictionaries sometimes, but not always, give translations of phrases and expressions.
Dictionaries of this kind are useful to students and translators, but to students who
master languages thoroughly it is useful to have dictionaries which give meanings,
explanations and examples in a foreign language.

в) Користуючись текстом знайдіть і випишіть англійські еквіваленти

слідуючих словосполучень:
походження слова - the origin of the word;
з розвитком науки - with the development of sciences;
незручні для користування - not convenient to use;
еквіваленти у виучуваній мові - equivalents in the language they are mastering;
займають багато місця - they take up too much room;
такі словники корисні для перекладачів - such dictionaries are useful for
translators.

6. Teacher: Now, let’s have a rest. You see a crossword puzzle. It is devoted to the
team of education. Let’s work!

8.
s c h o o l
1.

b o o k
2.

l e s s o n
3.

b e l l
4.

t e a c h e r
5.

e n g l i s h
6.

p e n
7.
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ACROSS:
1. The type of educational establishment, where you can get primary and secondary
education. (school)
2. What helps you to prepare hometasks? What do you read at the lessons and at
home? (book)
3. How do we call the period of studing at school between breaks? (lesson)
4. What tells you about the rest after the lesson? (bell)
5. Who teaches you at the lesson at school? (teacher)
6. What foreign language do you study at the collage? (English)
7. What helps you to write at the lesson? (pen)

DOWN:
8. The type of educational establishment, where do you study. (college)

7. Tests in English about pupils. Choose the correct answer:

1. The children can get to school ten minutes earlier if they take a short ….. through
the park.
a) cut b) link c) pass d) path
2. When Mr Obsequious was at school, he won first ….. for good behaviour.
a) present b) price c) prize d) reward
3. This is an exciting book which ….. new ground in educational research.
a) breaks b) reaches c) scratches d) turns
4. Little Tom did not like his first ….. at school at all.
a) course b) period c) presence d) term
5. We all laughed at his ….. of the teacher.
a) copy b) image c) imitation d) mimic
6. They had lunch together in the school …...
a) bar b) café c) canteen d) restaurant
7. You could ….. all the worthwhile information in this article into one page.
a) condense b) contract c) decrease d) shorten
8. Sue’s teacher ….. her to improve her drawing.
a) encouraged b) insisted c) made d) persisted
9. We all make mistakes; no-one is …...
a) fallible b) infallible c) mistaken d) unmistakable
10. It’s your ….. that we’re late for school again.
a) care b) fault c) mistake d) trouble
11. I think you should ….. that matter with your teacher.
a) complain b) demand c) discuss d) enquire
12. Since Oscar had no proper reason for missingschool, his absence should be
treated as …...
a) abstention b) desertion c) neglect d) truancy
13. If pupils are to understand the notice, the instructions must be ….. clearer.
a) done b) got c) made d) wrote
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14. You are late again – please try to be ….. in future.
a) accurate b) efficient c) punctual d) reliable
15. An I. Q. test is supposed to measure the ….. of your intelligence.
a) degree b) extent c) level d) size
16. You are not very ….. today, Hugh. What’s the matter? I’ve never known you so
quiet.
a) chattering b) loud c) speaking d) talkative
17. Those pupils never ….. any notice of what their teacher says.
a) attend b) give c) make d) take
18. Annie is already twelve but she hasn’t learned to ….. the time yet.
a) know b) read c) say d) tell
19. Patrick ….. the whole morning looking for his essay, but still couldn’t find it.
a) brought b) had c) passed d) spent
20. Rita is not ….. of doing this work – she should change her class.
a) capable b) fit c) possible d) suitable
21. After he broke the window, the boy was ….. from school.
a) exiled b) excluded c) expelled d) extracted
22. A child’s first five years are the most important as far as learning is …...
a) affected b) concerned c) hit d) touched
23. It takes a great deal of ….. for the class to make a trip abroad.
a) arrangement b) business c) expense d) organization
24. There is no ….. in going to school if you’re not willing to learn.
a) aim b) point c) purpose d) reason
25. There are three of us and there is only one book so we’ll have to ….. it.
a) distribute b) divide c) share d) split

Key:

1. a 6. c 11. c 16. d 21. c

2. c 7. a 12. d 17. d 22. b
3. a 8. a 13. c 18. d 23. d
4. d 9. b 14. c 19. d 24. b
5. c 10. b 15. c 20. a 25. c

ІІІ. Заключна частина.

Teacher: So, friends, now you know very many interesting things about the system of
education in our country, and about the system of education in Great Britain and in
the USA.
Present-day independent Ukraine has got a rather developed system of education.
General secondary education is free and compulsory. The secondary school must
secure a uniform level of knowledge necessary for each student.
The system of higher education is presented by universities, polytechnic institutes
or specialized institutes. Universities offer a five-year course of study and usually
have from six to twelve departments. Institutes train specialists for industry,
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agriculture and economy. Most of them have been conferred the status of Academy
or University recently. Students are also offered post-graduate education and
scientific research work. Nowadays due to the state of our national economy not
many young people are engaged in the research work. But still in some fields of
science there are outstanding discoveries and research papers. Some universities and
institutes have refresher courses.
I hope that you’ll follow your education after finishing our college. You’ll be able
to choose the higher educational institutions. Graduates from the Ukrainian
institutions of higher learning became famous writers, scholars, prominent diplomats,
ethnographers, economists, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, geologists,
physiologists, ets. (підведення підсумків заняття, виставлення оцінок та їх
мотивація).

IV. Homework:
V.Plakhotnyk, English for the 10-th form, K. 1998: text, page 109; exercises 10,11,
page 37.
Speaking on the topic: “Education in Ukraine”.
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РЕЦЕНЗІЯ

Дана методична розробка має структуру відкритого заняття, розкриває

методику його проведення у формі віртуальної подорожі і присвячена

вивченню матеріалу по темі «Освіта в Україні».

Методична розробка містить різні завдання та вправи, що спонукають

студентів до сумлінної роботи на занятті і до активної навчальної

діяльності. Мовний матеріал всебічно висвітлює різні аспекти теми

заняття і характеризує обсяг лексичного запасу студентів, навичок

аудіювання та монологічного і діалогічного мовлення.

Методична розробка може бути використана викладачами і

студентами під час вивчення даної теми.

Рецензент Н.С.Змігродська,
викладач-методист.