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British education
British education emas us to develop fully the abilities of individuals,
for their own benefit and of society as a whole. Compulsory schooling
takes place between the agers of 5 and 16, but some pupils remain at shool
for 2 years more, to prepare for further higher education. Post shool
education is organized flaxebly, to provide a wide range of opportunities
for academic and vacational education and to continue studying through out
life.
Administration of state schools is decentralised. The department of
education and science is responsible for national education policy, but it
doesn't run any schools, if doesn't employ teachers, or prescribe
corricular or textbooks. All shools are given a considerable amount of
freedom. According to the law only one subject is compulsary. That is
religious instruction.
Children recieve preschool education under the age of 5 in nursery schools
or in infant's classes in primary schools.
Most pupils receive free education finenst from public fonds and the small
proportions attend schools wholy independent. Most independent schools are
single-sex, but the number of mixing schools is growing.
Education within the mantained schools system usually comprises two
stages: primary and secondary education. Primary schools are subdevided
into infant schools (ages 5 - 7), and junior schools (ages 7 - 11). Infant
schools are informal and children are encouraged to read, write and make
use of numbers and develop the creative abilities. Primary children do all
their work with the same class teacher exept for PT and music. The work is
beist upon the pupils interests as far as possible.
The junior stage extence over four years. Children have set pirits of
arithmetic, reading, composition, history, geography nature study and
others. At this stage of schooling pupils were often placed in A, B, C and
D streams according their abilities. The most able children were put in
the A stream, the list able in the D stream. Till reccantly most junior
shool children had to seat for the eleven-plus examination. It usually
consisted of an arithmetic paper and an entelligent test. According to the
results of the exam children are sent to Grammar, Technical or Secondary
modern schools. So called comprehansive schools began to appear after
World War 2. They are muchly mixed schools which can provide education for
over 1000 pupils. Ideally they provide all the courses given in Grammar,
Technical and Secondary modern schools.
By the law all children must receive full-time education between the ages
of 5 and 16. Formally each child can remain a school for a further 2 or 3
years and continue his studies in the sixth form up to the age of 18 or
19. The course is usually subdevided into the lower 6 and the upper 6. The
corricular is narrowed to 5 subjects of which a pupil can choose 2 or 3.
The main examinations for secondary school pupils are general certeficate
of education (the GCE) exam and certificate of secondary education (the
CSE) exam. The GSE exam is held at two levels: ordinary level (0 level)
and advanced level (A level).
Candidats set for 0 level papers at 15 - 16 years away. GCE level is
usually taken at the end on the sixth form. The CSE level exam is taken
after 5 years of secondary education by the pupils who are of everage
abilities of their age.
My future profession
What I would like to become? This question pasels me greatly. Every job
has its elements of difficulties and interest. I think that nearly all the
professions are very important in life. But to choose the right occupation
is very difficult, because we must take in to consideration many factors.
We must consider our personal taste and our kind of mind. At the same time
we must satisfy the requirements of our society and peoples needs in one
profession or another.
The end of school is the beginning of an independent life, the beginning
of a more serious examination. In order to pass that very serious exam we
must choose the road in life which will help us best to live and work.
Each boy and girl has every opportunity to develop mind and use knowledge
and education received at school. Some may prefer to work in factories or
works, others want to go into construction: to take part in building power
stations and new towns. Many opportunities to work and to satisfy at the
same time the requirements of the society and your own personal interest
are offered in the sfere of the services transport, communications and
many others.
I have a specially liking for to became a programmist. I like this
profession because it very interest.
Art gallereys of London
Speaking about art gallereys of London we should first of all mention The
national gallery, The national portret galerey and The tate gallery. I
would like to tell you about National portret gallery and about Tate
gallery.
The national gallery houses one of the richest and most extensive
collections of painting in the world. It stands to the north of the
Trafalgar Square. the gallerey was desighned by William Wilkins and build
in 1834-37. The collection covers all schools and periods of painting, but
is a specially famous for it's examples of Rembrant and Rubents. The
british schools is only moderately represented as the national collections
are shared with the Tate gallerey. The National gallerey was founded in
1824 when the government bought the collection of John Angerstein which
included 38 paintings.
The Tate gallery houses the national collection of british painting from
the 16-th century to the present day. It is also the national gallerey for
modern art, including painting and sculpture made in Britain, Europe,
America and other countries. It was opened in 1897 as the national
gallerey of british art. It owes it's establishment to Suie Henritate who
built the gallerey and gave his own collection of 65 painting.
British theatres
Until reccently the history of the english theatre has been build around
actors rather then companies. It has been hard to find any London theatre
that even had a consistent policy. There are no permanent staff in British
theatres. Apply is rehearsed for a few weeks by a company of actors
working together mostly for the first time and it is allowed to run as
long as it draws the odious and pays it's way.
Another peculiarity of the theatres in Great Britain is an follows: there
are two kinds of seats, which can be booked an advanced (bookable), and
unbookable once have no numbers and the spectators occupy them on the
principal: first come - first served. And ancient times plays were acted
inside churches and later on the market places.
The first theatre in England "The Blackfries" build in 1576, and "The
Globe" build in 1599, which is closely connected with William Shakespeare.
Speaking about our times we should first of all mention "The English
National theatre","The Royal Shakespeare company" and "Covent Garden".
"Covent Garden" used to be a fashionable promenade - it was, before then,
a convent garden - but when it became overrun with flower-sellers,
orange-vendors and vegetable-growers, the people moved to more exclusive
surroundings farther west, such as "St. Jame's Square".
The first "Covent Garden theatre" was build in 1732. It was burnt down in
1808 and rebuild exactly a year after. It opened in September 1809, with
Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Since the middle of the last century "Covent
Garden" became exclusively devoted to opera.
Now "Covent Garden" in busier than ever, it is one of the few well-known
opera houses open for 11 months of the year and it employs over 600 people
both of the Opera company and the Royal Ballet.
THE NATIONAL THEATRE
It took over the hundred years to establish a national theatre company.
It's first director from 1962 was Lawrence Olivier. This is the first
state theatre Britain has ever had. A special building for it was opened
in 1976. It has three theatres in one: "The Oliver theatre", the biggest
is for the main classical repertoire; "The Lyttilton", a bit smaller is
for new writing and for visiting foreigh countries and "The Cottesloe
theatre", the smallest is used for experimental writing and productions.
"The Royal Shakespeare company" are devided between the country and the
capital and it's produces plays mainly by Shakespeare and his
contempraries when it performs is "Stratford -on-Avon", and modern plays
in it's two auditoria in the Cities, Barbican centre.
Moscow theatres
For decades Moscow has had a reputation as a city of theatres. The birth
plays of the historic "Bolshoy", "Maly" and "Moscow Art" theatres the city
has been and steel is a centre for the development exploretary modern
ideas in the dramatic art and is famous for it's great number of
highlygifted, interesting directors, actors, playwrigts and artists.
Every evening the doors of Moscow theatres open to streams of
theatre-gowers. The best Moscow theatres devoded themselves to developing
the principals of directing and acting laid down by Stanislavsky,
Meerhold, Nemerovich-Danchenko, Vachtangov and others. The discoveries and
successes of Moscow theatres today exists due to experience and triumphs
of preceding generations.
I'd like to tell you about the Bolshoy Theatre. The magestic building of
the Bolshoy Theatre stands in Theatre Square in Moscow's central quater,
not far from Kremlin. This is the leading Russian opera house with the
best vocalists and choreographers in it's company.
The Bolshoi traces it's history to 1776 when a standing opera company was
organized in Moscow. The first opera shown in Bolshoi theatre was opera
"life of tsar" (now "Ivan Susanin"). At later times operas by
Dargomyzhsky, Serov, Tcaikovsky, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and
Rubinstein were produced here.
At the same time the Bolshoi company staged the best operas and ballets by
West European composers-Mozart, Rossini, Weber, Verdi and others.
The bolshoi ballet company enjoys well-deserved fame as the world's
finest. This is equally true of it's brilliant realistic style of
perfomance and repertoire.
My favorite painter
One of my favorite artists is Rembrant is the greatest Dutch master, one
of the supreme geneuses in the history of art. To this day the art of
Rembrant remains one of the most profound witness of the progress of the
soul in it's earthly pilgrimage towards the realisation of higher destiny.
The son of the prosperous miller, Rembrant was born in Leiden in 1608. He
studied at Leiden University, but his real vocation was painting. His
rapid sugsess promoted him to move to the Amsterdam in 1631.
In 1632 Rembrant bought a splendid house, started a collection of
paintings and rarities.
The universal artist dealt with many world subjects. Rembrant created a
number of portraits and some group portraits which were traditional to the
Dutch art. The best of them are "Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp" and "The
night watch".
In 1655 Rembrant found himself in the midst of several financial troubles.
At that period he painted "The Polish Rider", which is an allegory of the
man's earthly journey.
Probably in 1669, the year of his own death, Rembrant painted his famous
"Return of the Prological son", which stands at the ultimate peak of
Cristian spirituality, illuminating the relationship of the self to the
eternity.
The biblical theme was very important to Rembrant. He painted "Artakserks,
Oman and Eshpir", "The Saint Family".
Rembrant was not understood when he was alive. He died in poverty. But it
is the spirituality of his art that distinguishes Rembrant from his Dutch
contemporaries making him the greatest artist of the world.
Art in Moscow
Speaking about art gallereys of Moscow we must mention the most famous
gallereys.
The State Tretyakov gallery is one of the best known picture gallereys in
Russia. It takes it's name from it's founder Pavel Tretyakov, a Moscow
mercant. In the 19'th century Tretyakov began to collect russian
paintings. He visitet all the exibitions and art studios and bought the
best pictures. Little by little Tretyakov extended his interests and began
to collect earlier Russian paintings. In 1881 Tretyakov opened in St.
Peterburg his collection to the public, 11 years later he donated it to
the city of Moscow. Since then the gallerey has received hundred paintings
from other museums and private collections. The Tretyakov gallerey
reflects the whole history of Russian paintings from 11'th century to the
present day. The gallery contains such halls devon-ded to the works of
18'th century painters, as Рокотов, Левитский, Боровиковский. The first
half of the 19'th century is reprisentive by brilliant paintings by
Брюллов, Веницианов and others. The gallery has the best collection of
"передвиженники" , such as Кромской, Перов, and such
great names as Суриков, Репин, Вознецов, Левитан.
Also I'd like to tell you about state pushkin museum of fine art. The
building was built in Greek stile by Roman Klein in 1898 - 1912 to house a
museum of fine art, founded of initiative of professor Ivan Cvetayev.
Since 1937 it has be known as The Puskin museum of fine art. It has one of
the worlds largest ancient collections of european art. Now the picture
gallerey has over 2 thousands works of various schools of painting which
enaibous us to understand and appreciate the variaty of staills over the
centuries.
The Pushkin museum pereodically hald's exibition of the art of various
countries and of individual outstanding artist of past and present.
Theatres, music halls and cinemas
Theatres are very much the same in London as anywhere else; the chief
theatres ,music halls and cinemas are in the West End. If you are staying
in London for a few days, you'll have no difficulty whatever in finding
somewhere to spend an enjoyable evening. You'll find opera, balley,
comedy, drama, revue, musical comedy and variety. Films are shown in the
cinemas during the greatest part of the day.
The best seats at theatres are those in the stalls, the circle and the
upper circle. Then comes the pit, and the last of all the gallery where
the seats are cheapest. Boxes, of course, are the most expensive. Most
theatres and music halls have good orchestras with popular conductors.
You ought to make a point of going to the opera at least once during the
season if you can. There you can get the best of everything - an exellent
orchestras, famous conductors, celebated singers and well dressed
audience. But, of course, if you are not fond of music and singing, won't
interest you.
At the West End theatres you can see most of the famous English actors and
actresses. As a rule, the plays are magnificently staged - costumes,
dresses, scenery, everything being done of the most lavish scale. Choose a
good play, and you'll enjoy yourself thoroughly from the moment the
curtain goes up to the end of the last act. Get your seats beforehand,
either at the box-office of theatre itself or at one of the agencies. When
you go to a theatre, you'll probably want to seat as near to the stage as
possible. But if you are at the cinema, you may prefer to seat some
distance from the screen. In fact, I would say, the further away the
better.
Music in our life
Music - it art, reflecting validity in sound art images, one of the forms
of public ideology. Having by powerful force direct emotional effect,
music during of all history of man-kind plays a huge social, cultural and
educational role.
Leading composers are connected to progressive public movements, life,
interests and aspirations people. Each nations differs by peculiar
national features. Folk music, being improved by creative efforts of many
generations of the people, reaches a high degree of art maturity. On the
basis of riches of national music professional musical creativity of
composers is developed. Rejection of music from advanced ideas epoch of
national culture, national roots of art leads to it's to decline and
degeneration.
Idea emotional contents of music is passed through sound art images,
implemented in musical sounds. The basis of music is the tune. According
to the way of performance music is devided into 2 main branches:
instrumental and vocal.
There are a great number of different styles of music, such as Jazz, Pop,
Rock, Classic; and new musical directions. One of the new music directions
is Rave. I prefer to listen hard-core and more quiet music such as Roxette
and others.
Now days the number of music styles is growing, and every young people,
which are fond of music can easily choose that style which appeals to
them.
The use of computers
Just as television has extended human sight across a barriers of time and
distance, so the computers extend the power of the human mind across the
existing barriers.
Computers in medicine
Computers are one of the great importance in modern hospital. The chief
use of computers is the storing and sorting the medical knowledge which
has been equired in the last 50 years. No doctor can possible keep up with
all discoveries. The only solution of the problem is store medical
knowledge in a computer. Today there are medical computer centers were all
existing knowledge of simpthoms of various dessieses and of their
treatment is stored. Doctors feed data on simpthoms in the computer and
get the nessesary information on current diagnostics and treatment.
Computers that can be learn
Ordinary computer can remember only the data stored in the hard disk. Now
scientists have desighned machines, that are capable of learning from
experience and remembarary what they have learned. Such a machine is
capable of recognising objects without human help or control. Of course,
they made many mistakes.
There is another similar machine which can look at letter alphabet a
simple words and they “say” thought a loudes speaker what it has seen. The
machine has as thoughtarn learning power.
Computers at the school
Information science with the ideas and message of processing and storing
informations is of great importance today. That's why computer technology
must be told in secondary school. The new subject “basic information
science”, and “computing machine” was intreduste for the siner through the
schools. The pupils teach computers to anlestigate school problems.
Contact with the machine increases the interest in learning, makes them
more serious about studing new subject. School computers are used not only
for studing information science, but also examinations purposes. Young
people who finish must be tried to operate computers.
Exploration
Christopher Columbus
300-400 years ago a great deal of the world was undiscoveried. But now
there seems little more to explore, the wild north was conquered, the
jungle was conquered too. And it seems that all the pages of the great
book called “The Earth” has been filled in, but exploration still goes on.
In the 15th century people knew only 3 continents: Europe, Asia and
Africa. They knew nothing about America. The man who was thought to be the
discoverier of America was born in 1451 in Italy. His name was Cristopher
Columbus.
Knowing that the earth was round he desided to reach India by sailing to
the west. It was very difficult for him to organize an expedition as
nobody wanted to help him. At last the Spanish government gave him some
money. In the 1492 he sailed with 3 small ships in to the Atlantic ocean.
They had been sailing for more than 2 months and at last they saw land.
Columbus was certain that the lands he discoveried were part of India and
he called these islands “The West Indias”. He made 3 voyagers to America.
His last voyage was made in 1502-1504. After that, seriously ill, he
remained in Spain until his death. He died believing that Cuba was part of
Asia. Colum-buse's voyagers gave Europe first important knowledge of the
new world. Many places have been named in his honour. America however was
named after another explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Americus Vespucius (or Amerigo Vespucci, as the name is spelled in
Italian) was born in Florence, Italy, in 1454. He was in Spain at the time
of Columbus' first and second voyages. In a letter, written in 1504 and
printed in 1505, he claimed to have made four voyages, on the first of
which, in 1497, he explored the South American coast. This would make him
the first European to land on the American continent, for at that time
Columbus had only reached the outlying islands. Most scholars reject
Vespucius' version of this voyage. Vespucius perhaps did accompany a
Spanish expedition that of Alonzo de Ojeda to South America in 1499, and
in 1501 and 1503 he probably went with Portuguese expeditions. Probably he
never commanded an expedition himself and, of course, was not the first
person to set foot on the continents to which his name is given. Vespucius
died in Seville, Spain, in 1512.
Learning languages
The problem of learning languages is very important today. Foreign
languages are socially demanded especially at the present time when the
progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge
and has contributed to an overflow of information. The total knowledge of
mankind is known to double every seven years. Foreign languages are needed
as the main and most efficient means of information exchange of the people
of our planet.
Today English is the language of the world. Over 350 million people speak
it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great
Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English
is one of the official languages in the Irish Republic, Canada, the South
African Republic. As a second language it is used in the former British
and US colonies.
It is the major international language for communication in such areas as
science, technology, business and mass entertainment. English is one of
the official languages of the United Nations Organization and other
political organization. It is the language of the literature, education,
modern music, international tourism.
Russia is integrating into the world community and the problem of learning
English for the purpose of communication is espicially urgent today.
Learning a foreing language is not as easy thing. It is a long and slow
process that takes a lot of time and patience. But to know English is
absolutely necessary for every educated person, for every good specialist.
It is well known that reading books in the original , listening to the BBC
news, communicating with the English speaking people will help a lot. When
learning a foreign language you learn the culture and history of the
native speakers. One must work hard to learn any foreign language.
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916).
The novelist and short-story writer Jack London was, in his lifetime, one
of the most popular authors in the world. After World War I his fame was
eclipsed in the United States by a new generation of writers, but he
remained popular in many other countries, especially in the Soviet Union,
for his romantic tales of adventure mixed with elemental struggles for
survival.
John Griffith London was born in San Francisco on Jan. 12, 1876. His
family was poor, and he was forced to go to work early in life to support
himself. At 17 he sailed to Japan and Siberia on a seal-hunting voyage. He
was largely self-taught, reading voluminously in libraries and spending a
year at the University of California. In the late 1890s he joined the gold
rush to the Klondike. This experience gave him material for his first
book, 'The Son of Wolf', published in 1900, and for 'Call of the Wild'
(1903), one of his most popular stories.
In his writing career of 17 years, London produced 50 books and many short
stories. He wrote mostly for money, to meet ever-increasing expenses. His
fame as a writer gave him a ready audience as a spokesman for a peculiar
and inconsistent blend of socialism and racial superiority.
London's works, all hastily written, are of uneven quality. The best books
are the Klondike tales, which also include 'White Fang' (1906) and
'Burning Daylight' (1910). His most
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