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Questions

1) What steps in regard to the education of handicapped children did the state take after the Great October Revolution?

2) What kinds of schools were established for this purpose?

3) What system of special education is developed at present?

4) Is medical examination compulsory for every child entering school?

Notes

1) handicapped - зд. страдающие недостатками (физическими или

умственными)

2) in accordance with - в соответствии с

3) retarded (children) - умственно отсталые (дети)

4) auxiliary school - вспомогательная школа

5) 2nd division hard of hearing - 2-я степень глухоты

6) motor function - двигательная функция

TEXT 3

CHILDREN'S THEATRES

A new type of theatre was born in the country: the children's theatre. At present over twenty million school­children attend performances at children's theatres annually.

The theatres play an important role in the ideological and aesthetic education of children. Their productions touch upon the most burning problems of today; they present a truthful and realistic picture of life in modern times, they stage plays about the heroic past, shaping the child's aesthetic tastes.

The theatres are most influential in helping the schools to instil in the pupils an interest in and appreciation of literature's classical her­itage. The theatres have a definite tradition in staging classical plays. There are special means of helping the school in the study of these plays after the children have attended a performance. Each theatre has its own thematic plan. Thus the Saratov Children's Theatre builds its classical repertoire according to a main theme: young people of times now past. Its classical repertoire includes The Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoevsky, A Profitable Position by Ostrovsky, Three Sisters by Chekhov and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Moscow Central Children's Theatre's repertoire includes Dead Souls by Gogol, Boris Godunov by Pushkin and a stage version of Dickens' Oliver Twist.

Younger children prefer puppet shows. Here they are introduced to the treasures of folk and fairy tales of the peoples of Russia and the world. The State Puppet Theatre is actually an artistic and meth­odological centre for all of the country's puppet theatres.

The work of the children's theatres is closely linked to the schools. Every theatre has an educational section staffed by pedagogues. They take part in organizing school theatricals, drama clubs and special theat­rical concerts; in a word, they help to bring the theatres directly to the schools.

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