Objectives:
• to develop students' skills of reading and speaking
• to develop cross-cultural awareness
• to develop skills of using Indirect Speech structures
Warm up
Questionnaire
What Kind of Pupil Are You?
1. When do you arrive at school?
a) At break.
b) After you teacher has marked you absent.
c) Twenty minutes before the lessons.
2. How long does it take you to do your homework?
a) What homework?
b) The time it takes me to travel to school.
c) Two hours.
3. What are your hobbies?
a) Playing computer games.
b) Sport.
c) Reading literature.
4. What is your favourite subject?
a) None.
b) PT.
c) Mathematics.
If you have answered No.3 in each question you are a perfect pupil. But
if you have answered No.l, the only thing we can say is that you are human.
If you have answered No.2 in each question you are a "mixed-up
kid".
Introducing the Topic
Work in pairs
Use the word from the box to complete the sentences.
colleges; ninth form; 12 years; universities; 6 years old; enroll;
technical; higher; 18 years old; school
In Ukraine children attend_(school) for_(12years), from about_
_ (6years old) to_(18years old). After the_(ninth form), students may
continue a general academic program or may_(enroll) in_(technical)
schools or_(colleges).
Ukraine has over 200_(higher) educational establishments. The largest
and best-known_ (universities) are Kyiv National University, Lviv and
Kharkiv Universities.
Game
Getting to know you
How well do you know your classmates? Play this game and get to know
about them better.
Step 1.
Find a partner. Tell each other about you, your
hobbies and interests.
Step 2. Then form a group of four with another pair of partners. Each
member of the group introduces his / her partner to the others and tell them
something about his / her hobbies and interests.
Questions you must answer:
You and your school
What subjects do you like?
What subjects don't you like?
Other questions:
What do you think of the school (buildings, teachers, pupils, rules,
homework)?
Is it easy or hard to change schools? Reading
ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINIAN TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS IN GREAT BRITAIN
St. Mary's Ukrainian School 154, Holland Park Ave. London, WII4 UH
The St. Mary's Ukrainian School opened in 1955 on a part—time basis, as
it is to this day. The objective of the school is to ensure that the children
of Ukrainian descent have an opportunity to leam about the land of their
parents, since they attend English school on a full time basis.
Tuition is in the Ukrainian language in subjects such as: literature,
poetry, history, geography, music, song abd dance, and religious education, egg
decorating and decorative wood — work are crafts which are also taught and are
well renowed in Ukraine.
Special attention must be made of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and
Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, with its Eastern roots, which safeguard the
spiritual welfare of the Ukrainian population throughout GreatBritain.
The priests and teachers generously give up their own time to the young
scholars to promote love and respect for the country where they have never
seen.
In conclusion I would like to thank the teachers, who give up their
time, the parents who help in so many ways and without whose assistant the
school could not function.
Mykhailo Shynkaruk Headmaster
Post-reading activity 1. Compare
the subjects which you have at your school with those at St. Mary's Ukrainian
School in London. Which subjects would you add to their curricula?
2. What is the role of the Ukrainian school for the Ukrainians living in
Great Britain?
3. Why do Ukrainian communities in foreign countries create Sunday
schools?
Grammar
Presentation
In Direct commands and requests we use the imperative form of the verb.
In Indirect commands and requests we don't use the imperative form of
the verb we ues the irifinitive.
We introduce the Indirect commands by some word like "told" or
"ordered" (for commands) and "asked" (for polite
requests).
The teacher (to Henry): "Clean the blackboard". — The teacher
told Henry to clean the blackboard.
The teacher (to Henry): "Don't waste time". — The teacher told
Henry not to waste time.
A) Make up sentences and complete them. The librarian tells the
little...
The parents tells children to write...
The teacher ask Mike (not) to make drawings...
...asks Helen (not) to make dog's ears.
...the young to tear the pages.
...readers to lose books .
...to return books in time.
...to use book-marks.
...to cutout...
...to colour...
...to keep the books...
.. .to put the books...
.. .to wash their hands...
B) Write the following sentences as Indirect Commands or requests.
1. Teacher to Richard: "Write the exercise out carefully".
2. Officer to soldiers: " Bring the gun into position".
3. Mary to John: "Open the box, please".
4. Mrs. Green said, "Please sing at our party, Mary".
5. "Release the prisoners", said the officer to the sergeant.
6. The captain of the shipwrecked vessel said to the sailors,
"Lower the boats at once".
7. Teacher to George: "Be careful. Think before you answer".
8. Farmer to the visitors: "Don't leave the gate open".
9. Richard's father said, "Don't climb that tree in your new
trousers".
10. Mother to boys: "Please don't make so much noise".
C) Game "Tact". (Reported Speech)
This game may be played in small groups of three to five. Three is an
ideal number: one for each side of the dispute and one to carry messages.
Divide the students into small groups and copy three sets of cards (neighbours,
husband and wife and countries) for each group in the class. Arrange the
classroom if possible so that there are two rows of the desks with a free space
between them. Seat all the neighbours A in one row, all the neighbours B in the
opposite row, with the go-betweens standing in the middle.
Give out the cards: neighbours A, neighbours B and go-between.
The object of the game is for neighbours A and neighbours B to reach a
satisfactory compromise.
The rule is that they cannot speak to each other, but must relay
messages through go-between.
When a group has reached a compromise, ask two of them change roles, so
that a different person has a chance to be the go-between, and give them the
husband and wife cards.
Neighbour A
You're fed up with your neighbour's behaviour.
You wish they'd:
turn their TV down
keep their dogs of your back garden
stop parking in front of your gate
You also wish they'd stop complaining about you: you don't see why you
should do anytWng to change your lifestyle.
Neighbour B
You're fed up with your neighbour's behaviour. You wish they'd:
prevent their teenagers from having late night parties
chop down the big tree in their garden
pick their baby up when it cries instead of letting him scream
You also wish they'd stop complaining about you: you don't see why you
should do anything to change your lifestyle.
Go-between
You have to carry messages from one person to the other. Your object is
to get them to reach an agreement, but you mustn't report exactly what they
said to each other.
Husband
You wish your wife would: stop complaining have dinner when you came
home stop quarreling with your mother
But you don't see why you should do anything to change your lifestyle.
Wife
You wish your husband would: help in the house occasionally look after
the children sometimes
talk to you in the evening instead of slumping in front of the telly But
you don't see why you should do anything to change your lifestyle. Go-between
You have to carry messages from one person to the other. Your object is
to get them to reach an agreement, but you mustn't report exactly what they
said to each other.
Paranoia
Your neighbouring country Neurotica is causing a lot of problems:
• they are illegally occupying part of your territory on the eastern
border
• they are destroying large areas of rain forests, which is causing
flooding and damage to land in your country
You don't want to start a war: you'd better prefer to solve these
problems through negotiations.
At the same time, you don't want to give way on any issues.
Neurotica
Your neighbouring country Paranoia is causing a lot of problems:
• they are illegally occupying part of your territory on the western
border
• they have built a nuclear power plant near the border
• they have a ban on car imports (your main industry)
You don't want to start a war: you'd better prefer to solve these
problems through negotiations.
At the same time, you don't want to give way on any issues.
Go-between
You have to carry messages from one person to the other. Your object is
to get them to reach an agreement, but you mustn't report exactly what they
said to each other.
Homework
Compare your school with an English school point by point and find likeness
and differences. | 
