Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
Exercise 49. Answer the following questions.
1. Where did you live before you came here?
2. What were you like as a child?
3. What sort of character did you have as a child?
4. What were your childhood dreams and ambitions?
5. What did you want to be when you grew up?
6. Did you have any pipe dreams? What was your parents’ attitude?
7. What kind of school did you attend?
8. Which subjects did you have to study?
9. Which subject(s) did you like most?
10. Which did you like the least?
11. Which three subjects are most useful, in your opinion, for someone who 
wants to be:

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an architect; 
a teacher;
a businessman/woman;
a politician;
a doctor; 
an engineer;
a lawyer; 
a journalist?
12 What was discipline like at your school?
13. Did you play truant when you were at school?
14. What did you enjoy most about school?
15. What didn’t you like about school?
16. What was your first day at university like?
17. Your iuniversity life is quite different from your school life, isn’t it?
18. Did you have to change your lifestyle? If so, in what way?
Exercise 50. In groups, tell each other about your school days.
1. Which subjects did you like the least? Why? Which subjects were your 
favourite ones? Why?
2. Summarise the findings of your group survey so that you can report to 
the class. Find out:
1) the most popular subject;
2) the least popular.
3) the most common reasons why people dislike certain subjects.
Exercise 51. Discuss and plan “the ideal school”.
Take into consideration the following points: What new subject(s) will 
you introduce? Which subjects will you drop? Why? 
How will the school be run — rules, pupil power, in classrooms or out-
doors? How much influence will parents have in running the school?
Astronomy
Mathematics
Biology 
Music
Business Administration 
Native Language
Chemistry 
Philosophy
Composition 
Psycology
Drama 
Religion
Economics 
Rhetoric
Engineering 
Sociology
Environmental studies 
Statistics
Foreign languages 
Zoology
Geography
Linguistics
Literature
Geology
History 
Journalism

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Exercise 52. The Vice-Chancellor of your university is very upset by re-
cent studies which show that the average graduate from his university is less 
competent than the average graduate of 40 or 50 years ago.
As a result, he wants to change the entire educational approach. The stu-
dents of his university have to take three years of «core» courses besides some 
optional ones. Only during their senior year they may take electives in their 
major.
The core courses must be designed to «give the students a broad background 
in the general humanities and sciences with the result that the students possess 
analytical skills and written and verbal ability necessary to be a leader in society».