Syllabus Year 4 Term 8

SYLLABUS

Academic Year 2013-2014

Year IV Term VIII

English 4 Part 2

READING & SPEAKING	ASSESSMENT
1. STUDENT TEACHING (24/03/14 - 27/04/14)
Textbook “English 4” Part II: Thematic Vocabulary Vocabulary Work Discussion Translation & Interpreting Practice Texts “Gryphon” by Ch. Baxter My Best Teaching Practice Top 10 Reasons To Become A Teacher Top 5 Things To Consider Before Becoming A Teacher Additional Texts	Essay 1: Why is teaching practice a culminating experience in teacher preparation? Dwell on its key position in the programme of teacher education Rendering 1: «Мое педагогическое кредо»
2. LAW. COURTS & TRIALS (28/04/14 - 08/06/14)
Textbook “English 4” Part II: Thematic Vocabulary Vocabulary Work Discussion Translation & Interpreting Practice Texts “A Time To Kill” by John Grisham Judicial Institutions The Legal System In The USA/Britain/Russia Trial By The Jury Kinds Of Cases Capital Punishment Juvenile Crime Alternative Sentences Additional Texts	Essay 2: Dwell on the saying, “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a state’s failure.” (H.G. Wells) Translation 1
DEBTS (09/06/14 – 15/06/14)

Listening Comprehension

Laboratory works

Laboratory Works

Video

Being Julia

The Emperor’s Club

A Time To Kill

The Life of David Gale

HOME READING
Reader 4

Study Guide for Theatre

24/03 – 30/03 Biography and works of William Somerset Maugham. “Theatre”: Pre-reading activities, tasks to Ch.1-6

31/03 – 06/04 Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart

07/04 – 13/04 Aldous Huxley The Giaconda Smile

14/04 – 20/04 Graham Greene The Case For The Defense

21/04 – 27/04 W.S.Maugham. “Theatre”: tasks to Ch.7-14

28/04 – 04/05 O’Henry The Man Higher Up

05/05 – 11/05 Edmund Wilson The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles

12/05 – 18/05 John Grisham The Testament

19/05 – 25/05 W.S. Maugham. “Theatre”: tasks to Ch.15-24

26/05 – 01/06 John Grisham The Street Lawyer

02/06 – 08/06 W.S. Maugham. “Theatre”: tasks to Ch.25-29, A Retrospective Look. Movies. Discussion.

09/06 – 15/06 Pleasure Reading

PORTFOLIO

YEAR IV TERM VIII

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-2014

GROUP:__________

STUDENT:__________________________________________

TEACHER:__________________________________________

YOUR PORTFOLIO

You are required to have a portfolio. A well-maintained, organized portfolio will be one of your most important study tools as you learn to communicate in English. You are required to keep all your English papers in it.

Your portfolio should be used solely for one subject: English conversation class. It should be in a good shape. Creativity is a must.

You will need subdividers clearly labeled for each topic.

Your portfolio will contain:

1. Cover sheet (Student's name, year, term, group, language instructor)

2. Vocabulary pertaining to the topic (in handwriting)

3. Topics studied on the curriculum (ready for presentation in oral and multimedia form)

4. Lab. Works written tasks, Listening Comprehension written tasks, video accounts

5. Reviews on your Pleasure Reading Book

6. Individual Reading Book tasks and reviews

7. Miscellaneous: handouts, texts, interesting documents collected by you or your peer students.

All entries in the portfolio must be dated and labeled according to the theme or topic.

Your portfolio should be kept up-to-date on a regular basis.

Preferably A4 paper should be used.

Keep your portfolio and its contents for future reference, they will come in handy one day!

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Student Teaching

1. What surprised you most during your first day of student teaching?

2. Were you happy with the school you were appointed?

3. Did you like the class you were assigned?

4. Were there any unexpected things at your first lesson?

5. Was pupils' level of knowledge of English high or far below the level required for a particular form?

6. Did your pupils realize that you were but a student teacher or did they regard you as if you were a regular teacher?

7. Did the regular teacher or the institute supervisors give you any useful recommendations about helpful teaching techniques?

8. Did you ever feel at a loss at a lesson, why?

9. Did you manage to write good plans of your lessons or were you up a dark valley sometimes?

10. Did you use the suggestions that you were given in the course of methodology?

11. Were the pupils in your class alert, attentive, responsive, willing to learn or were they restless and inattentive?

12. Did you have any troublemakers in your class (who, for instance, was talking back, chatting all the time, was jabbering, was calling out, was making silly remarks, was fooling around, in fact, was creating a disturbance and was a general nuisance)?

13. Did you ever experience during your student teaching that you couldn't control your feelings? Did you yell at the pupils?

14. Did you often have formal observation lessons? Were there many people to observe you? Did you regard your observation lessons as an ordeal or did you look forward to them?

15. Did your supervisor or your formal teacher, whoever the observer might be, criticize you on many points? Was the criticism justified as a rule?

16. Were there any disheartening episodes while you were observed?

17. Did you try to be a tyrant of a teacher or were you a softie?

18. Do you believe you are now familiar with all the teaching techniques or do you think you still have much to learn?

19. Do you think you managed to apply practically all the theoretical things you were taught at the Institute?

20. Have you acted as substitute-teacher? Can you enumerate pros and cons of substitute-teaching?

21. Did your student-teaching come up to your expectations?

22. What advice can you give to your fellow-students concerning student-teaching?

Law. Courts & Trials

1. What is the duel court system existing in the USA? What three levels of courts does it consist of?

2. What is the jurisdiction of the trial court? Define the jurisdiction of the common pleas courts.

3. What kind of civil matters are brought to common pleas courts? Electorate on probate, domestic relation and juvenile matters.

4. Speak about the jurisdiction of state and federal courts of appeals and state supreme courts.

5. What is the duty of the US Supreme Court?

6. Who are the participants of the legal procedure?

7. In what way does a legal procedure start: a) in civil cases; b) in criminal cases? 8. Describe the procedure of the trial in the American court of common plea.

9. What kinds of offences are known to you? Specify the felony and misdemeanor.

10. What penalties and sentences are imposed in the USA courts?

11. How is jury selected? What is the difference between a grand jury and a petit jury?

12. What is the job of a juror? What qualities should a good juror have? What requirements should one meet to be eligible for jury service?

13. What is a civil case?

14. Who is a plaintiff?

15. Who is a defendant?

16. What is a complaint?

17. What is a counterclaim?

18. Who is the plaintiff in a criminal case?

19. How many jurors are necessary to agree upon the verdict in a civil case?

21. How many jurors are necessary to agree upon the verdict in a criminal case?

22. What do you think of the causes of juvenile crime in disadvantaged and affluent families?

23. What measures do you think can help to prevent juvenile crime? How does the juvenile justice system try to treat and rehabilitate youngsters?

24. What is the role of drug addiction and alcohol consumption in the growing crime rate in juvenile delinquency? 25. Do you believe that aggression is innate in man, that is in his/her genes?

26. Do the terms “capital punishment” and “death penalty” mean the same? What is lynching?

27. Can we speak about “effectiveness of capital punishment”?

28. What are the classical moral arguments in favor of and against death penalty? Does death penalty exist in the USA and in Britain?

29. Do you agree with the opinion “Get punishment fit the crime”?

30. What is alternative sentencing? What kind of alternative sentences are being practiced now?

EXAMINATION TOPICS

Year 4, Term 8

2013-2014

1. Home Reading. The book in your Pleasure Reading: Are they the books we always have time to read? Substantiate your choice. Dwell on one of the books that gave you pleasure, give reasonable arguments. Speak about its subject, theme, characters, central problems (on the example of an extract from the book). Interpret it.

2. Home Reading. Speak about William Somerset Maugham, his life, occupation and creative work, his manner of writing. Interpret the novel “Theatre” according to the plan given, be ready to comment on the characters and problems.

3. Home Reading vs. Movies. Speak on the movie after W.S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre” (“Being Julia”): compare the plots, genres, production periods, main characters and events, talk on the way it corresponds to the original text.

4. Home Reading. Edgar Allan Poe – the founding father of the horror story genre. Speak in detail on his style and his place in the world literature. Interpret the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

5. Home Reading. Aldous Huxley – speak on his style and his place in the world literature. Interpret the short story “The Gioconda Smile”. Comment on the author’s message in the following lines, “He felt that some extraordinary kind of justice was being done. …It was tit for tat, and God existed after all”. Do you agree with the author’s philosophy?

6. Home Reading. Graham Greene – speak on his style and his place in the world literature. Interpret the short story “The Case For The Defense”. Comment on the problem of “divine vengeance” raised in the story.

7. Home Reading. O’Henry is famous for surprise endings and the lawlessness of his stories. Speak on his style and his place in the world literature. Interpret the short story “The Man Higher Up”. Comment on the lawless element revealed in it.

8. Home Reading. Ch. Baxter – speak on his style and his place in the world literature. Give your opinion on the story “Gryphon” by Ch. Baxter. Do you approve of Miss Ferenczi's methods of teaching. Would you like your child to be taught by a teacher like Miss Ferenczi?

9. Home Reading. John Grisham – speak on his style and his place in the world literature. Interpret an excerpt from his legal thriller “A Time To Kill”. Speak about its subject, theme, characters, central problems. Be ready to name and discuss his other works.

10. Home Reading vs. Movies. Speak on the movie after John Grisham’s legal thriller “A Time To Kill”: compare the plots, genres, main characters and events, talk on the way it corresponds to the original text.

11. Movies. Give a review of the movie “The Life of David Gale”. Comment on the statement, “The crime is clear, the truth is not”.

12. Movies. Give a review of the movie “The Emperor’s Club”. Comment on the statement, “In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference”.

13. Student Teaching. Describe your first student teaching experience. Did it come up to your expectations? What could you have done differently?

14. Student Teaching. Share your ideas on what makes a good teacher and what makes a teacher bad.

15. Student Teaching. Discuss the limitations imposed by the teaching profession and the rewards of it.

16. Student Teaching. What should the 21st century classroom look like? Could interactive technology provide solutions to the current system of education?

17. Student Teaching. What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

18. Student Teaching. Dwell on the issue raised in the essay “Angels on a Pin” be Alexandra Calandra. What is the basic purpose of tests and examinations?

19. Student Teaching. Why is teaching practice a culminating experience in teacher preparation? Dwell on its key position in the programme of teacher education. (Argumentative Essay)

20. Law. Courts and Trials. Speak on the USA Legal System, dwell on its strong and weak points.

21. Law. Courts and Trials. Speak on trial by the jury (the history, participants and procedure), dwell on its strong and weak points.

22. Law. Courts and Trials. “For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists” (ALBERT CAMUS). Speak on the effectivenes of capital punishment, provide arguments for and against the death penalty.

23. Law. Courts and Trials. Speak on juvenile crime, dwell on causes of delinquency and methods of treatment of offenders.

24. Law. Courts and Trials. Dwell on the notion “creative justice”, its pros and cons. Is it really true justice?

25. Law. Courts and Trials. Dwell on the saying, “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a state’s failure.” (H.G. Wells). (Argumentative Essay)