Задание №3. ответьте на во письменно.
1. What do a teacher and an actor have in common?
2. How do they differ?
3. Do you think teaching is easy?
4. What difficulties do young teachers face?
5. What is an ideal teacher? What qualities should he or she possess?
TEACHERS AND ACTORS
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of the good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit motionless before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching, he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the qualities of a good actor does not mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage; for there are important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learned by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part; even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed before. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions. The teacher, therefore, has to understand the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
There are many teachers who are fine actors in class, but are unable to take part in a stage-play …
Chris is a seventeen year old blond with dark skin having got wet to the skin ran into the tent. "I had a great time, but I'm really looking forward to returning home," he said to his friends. "But Chris! The festival is not over!" cried his best friend Yuri. "As you wish, but I can't in such a cold place to live!" said Chris and went out of the tent.
The kid passed the entire field, where were placed the tents of all the festival guests, and went out in the car Park. A lot of cars were tightly parked on the large square. Chris was awakened in the Parking lot in the rain for a few hours, but never found his car. He would have continued this pointless search, if not for their accompanying Jack came looking for him.
Jack brought the teenager back to the stops and wrapped in towels. Quietly sipping tea in a tent, the boys began to see the funny side of what happened. Jack looked at Chris and laughing, said, “I thought we were going to the festival, but not in the disaster area.”
"Yes," nodded Chris, "truly disastrous holiday!"