Give your own views on the problems below and speak in rebuttal of your opponent. If possible make complaints about certain points.

Topic 1. Youth clubs

Talking points:

1. Links between educational establishments and youth club activities.

2. Aims of a youth club.

3. Activities to be encouraged in a youth club.

4. Qualities for a youth club leader.

5. Membership.

6. The ways a youth club can interest a group of 16-year-olds with no apparent interests of their own.

Topic 2. Children's interest in school

Talking points:

1. Preliminary home preparation in reading, writing counting.

2. Proper climate at home.

3. Possibility of blaming teachers, school administration; criti­cism when children are present.

4. Admonitions and warnings given by parents before children start school.

5. Necessity to back teachers and school staff under all circum­stances.

6. Cooperation between school and parents.

Topic 3. Music lessons in the process of upbringing

Talking points:

1. Music lessons — necessity of the time or parents' vanity?

2. The idea of a music education — to give a child an effective outlet for his feelings.

3. Parents' interest: a) a child's skill in reproducing melodies; b) the effect of music on a child's feelings.

4. Practising music. Whose responsibility?

5. Consideration of children's wish to have music lessons.

6. Important factors in developing children's interest in music.

7. Time and money spent on music lessons.

 

16. Comment on the following quotations:

1. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (O.Wilde) 2. The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. (J.Milton) It is a wise father that knows his own child. (W.Shakespeare)

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. (H.Fielding)

Unit Five

SPEECH PATTERNS

1. I can't do a thing with him. He won't take his pineapple juice.

I can't do a thing with the boy. He won't let anyone come into the room.

I can't do a thing with her. She won't take the medicine.

2. He had done some constructive thinking since his last vis­it.

I do the cooking myself.

He was doing some careful listening.

I've done enough reading for today.

3. This was no ordinary case.

William Strand was no ordinary human.

This was no petty offence.

It was no small achievement

4. The suggestion proved too much for the patient's heart.

The letter proved to be of little consequence.

He had no premonition that this call would prove unusual.

5. I just suggested it, that's all.

We just thought it necessary to make the inquiries, that's all. I just wanted to know, that's all. I just don't feel like eating, that's all.

6. Let's try and draw that vase over there on the mantelpiece.

Try and behave better. Let's try and get there on time. Try and come, won't you?

7. Good. Let's make it Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Good. Let's make it next week.

Well. Let's make it Saturday then.

Why, let's make it four o'clock.

EXERCISES

1. Complete the following sentences:

1. Steve is awfully stubborn. Mother can't do.... He won't.... 2. Mary is as obstinate as a mule. I.... 3. Where did you find this brute of a dog? I.... 4. I wasted no time. I listened and I did.... 5. Where did you go for your holidays? Did you do any..? 6. Even the police were afraid of him. He was no.... 7. You seem to forget that we deal with no.... 8. There is something fishy about the whole thing. This is no.... 9. I'd never have believed that Jack would prove.... 10. The young actress had no premonition that the performance.... 11. They had to leave India before the year was over. The climate.... 12. Why do you mind his coming so much? — I just.... 13. Don't be angry with me. I just... 14. He is not to blame. He just.... 15. You know how much I look forward to your letters. Try and.... 16. It is a very difficult sound. Try and.... 17. The task is urgent. Try and.... 18. I'd like to suit your convenience. Let's make it.... 19. It's a go then. Let's.... 20. Could you spare the time to come twice a week? — Sure. — Good. Let's....

2. Translate the following into Russian:

1. You'd lose less time if you stopped talking and stamping your feet and did a little painting for a change. 2. Martin excused him­self — he had to do some writing before dinner. 3. Mrs. Strickland did little typing herself, but spent her time correcting the work of the four girls she employed. 4. She was utterly astonished at being the one who was loved, not the one doing the loving. 5. Soames wanted to impress on Bosinney that his house must be no common edifice. 6. Gainsborough had a good ear for music and was no in­different performer on the violin. 7. I was no timid girl to turn and flee simply because no one had made me welcome. 8. It was no mere assertion. She produced facts and figures to support her con­tention. 9. I just became fascinated, that's all. Not the writing. He writes very technically. But the ideas, the way he correlates man and his environment...