EXAM QUESTIONS Year 4, Term 7 2014-2015

1. Individual Reading.  Speak about the novel “1984” / "The French Lieutenant's Woman". Dwell on the author’s manner of writing, composition, characters, problems. 
2. 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, central problems, characters, language (on the example of an extract from the book).
3. Student Teaching. 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?
4. Student Teaching. Describe your student teaching experience. Did it come up to your expectations? What could you have done differently?
5. Student Teaching. Share your ideas on what makes a good teacher and what makes a teacher bad.
6. Student Teaching. Discuss the limitations imposed by the teaching profession and the rewards of it.
7. Student Teaching. What should the 21st century classroom look like? Could interactive technology provide solutions to the current system of education?
8. Student Teaching. What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?
9. 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)
10. 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”.
11. School Education. Describe the difficulties a child faces at school (based on “An Education in Language” by R. Rodriguez). In your opinion, what are the best ways to teach children.
12. School Education. Speak about school education in Britain. Dwell on types of schools, stages, exams, curriculum, and problems.
13. School Education. Speak about school education in the USA. Dwell on types of schools, stages, exams, curriculum, and problems.
14. School Education. What are the tasks of contemporary schooling: giving knowledge, teaching to learn, educating or other?
15. School Education. Do you think Russia should pattern its system of school education on that in Britain or the USA? Justify your point of view (argumentative essay).
16. Movies. Give a review of one of the movies you watched in class: “Dangerous Minds” or “Admission”.  Speak on its message, give your interpretation of the problem raised.
17. Higher Education. Describe the procedure of the written examination as presented by R. Gordon in “Doctor in the House”. Why are, in Gordon’s opinion, oral examinations so unpopular with the students? Share your ideas on the best ways to examine a student.
18. Higher Education. Speak about higher education in Britain. Dwell on the types of institutions, admission, grants, degrees, courses, ‘red brick’ universities.
19. Higher Education. What steps do American students have to take to enroll in a college / university for admission? Dwell on the types of institutions, admission, grants, degrees, courses, tests (PSAT, SAT, ACT), types of universities, universities of the Ivy League.
20. Higher Education. Speak on the most prestigious universities in Britain and the USA, rules of admission and famous people who have graduated from them.
21. Higher Education. Students’ life and problems: are they different? Speak on the cultural and in-system peculiarities of students’ life in Britain, the USA and Russia (argumentative essay).
22. Movies. Give a review of one of the movies you watched in class: “Larry Crowne”, “Freedom Writers”, “The Great Debaters”. Speak on its message, give your interpretation of the problem raised.
23. Listening. Dwell on the biography of Alexander Hamilton.