IV. Speak about the English lesson at a primary school.

THE FIRST LESSON

After she had written the letter everything had seemed very simple. She had had an interview in the summer holidays with the headmaster, who lucky hadn’t turned her down, although she was inexperienced.

The building had looked rather old, but it had been quiet with none of its pupils in the school.

She had found a small flat near the school, although her mother said that Grace was too young and the district was too dangerous, Grace felt she had done the right thing.

So this was Form IIIB. The morning had been bad enough, while the pupils were still wary and getting used to Grace’s ways. Yet when she climbed back to IIIB after her lunch, she was, for one moment after she opened the door, on the point of running away from Green Lane forever.

There were two fights going on, one in each corner of the room. There were pieces of paper all over the floor. One of the tables was on its side, with one leg broken.

She laid her books on the desk.

- Be quiet! – shouted Grace, wondering what she was doing there any way she had decided to become a teacher. She had told Geoffrey she could shout as loudly as he, and perhaps it was true. The two fights stopped and those who were watching them or talking and laughing in the middle of the room turned round and looked at her in surprise.

- Be quiet, - Grace repeated. – And pick up that table. We’ll write a dictation.

- Can’t, - said the red-haired girl in the white sweater.

- The boys’ve broken it.

- What do we do then?

They sat guietly now looking at her.

- Well, pick up the table anyway. Put it at the back of the room.

One of you boys at the back. – That was a mistake. That gave each of them an excuse to think she meant someone else.

Suddenly she felt tears coming to her eyes. She couldn’t cry in front of everybody.

- I’ m asking you the last time-pick-up-that-table. Immediately, a large boy with a red face was on his feet. He went to the broken table and picked it up.

It was all right now. Grace could look up at her class. She sat down and started checking the register of Form IIIB.

Notes

interview – здесь собеседование с поступающими на работу

headmaster – директор школы

Green Lane – название школы

to turn smb. down - отказывать

Exercises

1. Define the tenses of the underlined verbs.

2. Agree or disagree.

Use the phrases:

Nothing of the kind.

On the contrary.

No doubt.

Quite so.

1. The teacher was very experienced.

2. The building of the school was modern.

3. The teacher had an interview with the headmaster.

4. There were a lot of pupils at the school.

5. The name of a teacher was Mary.

6. The first lesson was in the 1^st form.

7. Grace was able to maintain order & discipline.

8. The pupils were standing & waiting for her when she came in to classroom after her lunch.

9. The pupils followed all her requests.

10. Grace cried before her pupils.

3. Ask 10 questions to the text.

4. Describe the first lesson of a beginning teacher.

5. Describe you first lesson.

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