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Round-table discussion “Perm Krai and Youth”

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Here you may get acquainted with one of its samples.

Let’s try to figure out what you really can do for your Mother Land.

Draw a spidergraph in your note-book (Note: one of the students goes to the blackboard and works there).

Activity 1

Teacher: You know that everyone wants to have “good life”. Today’s teenagers will enter tomorrow’s civilization. Bringing a child into the world today is a little bit like dropping one into a tiger’s cage. Children can’t handle their environment and they have no real resources. They need love and help to make it.

Question: Do you feel love and help from different people in your native city?

It is a delicate problem to discuss. There are almost as many theories on how to raise a child or not raise him as there are parents. Some try to raise children the way they were themselves raised, others attempt to exact opposite, many hold an idea that children should just be let grow on their own. None of these guarantee success.

A child is a little bit like a blank slate. If you write the wrong things on it, it will say the wrong things. But, unlike a slate, a child can begin to do the writing; the child tends to write what

has already been written. The problem is complicated by the fact that, while most children are capable of great decency, a few are born insane and today, some are even born as drug addicts: but

such cases are an unusual few.

Question: What do you think: Can people of your native town help them?

And you?

Activity 2

After having shared the ideas the teacher attracts the students’ attention:

“Friends! Look at the blackboard. Read the quotations and comment on

them:

1) “Almost everything that is great has been done by youth” (B.Disrael)

2) “East or West, home is best”

Activity 3

You have a cord with a letter on it.

Teacher: Read the letter of one student and say:

 what country the boy is from and how old he is.

 which of his life views you share

 which aspects of his life-style are appealing to you

 which items you would have changed.

I. Final Project Work

Topic: “My Native land. Perm Krai. Perm”.

To sum up what you’ve got to know take part in the following project work “My native land. Perm Krai. Perm”. For this you have to follow the algorithm*:

Step 1

Choose the topic of your presentation.

Step 2

Find up the information on the topic using the Internet resources:

www.wikipedia.ru

www.yandex.ru

www.mail.ru

www.rambler.ru

www.google.com

www.visitperm.com

www.uraltourism.com

www.museum.perm.ru

www.theatre.perm.ru

www.gallery.permonline.ru

www.permm.ru

www.drama.perm.ru

www.stage-molot.ru

www.umosta.perm.ru

www.balletpanfilov.ru

www.muzei.nytvasc2.ru

www.perm36.ru

www.ogonek.3dn.ru

www.zemlyaki.perm.ru

Step 3

Use the bibliographical resources at the city and the University

libraries.

Step 4

Make up the list of modern and historical realia (museums, theatres, architectural (and other) monuments, historical dates, figures and famous people, who were, are and will always be of great value for our Perm Krai and Perm.

Step 5

Systematize and summarize them.

Step 6

Arrange the material logically.

Step 7

Try to find some illustrations to use for the topics of your presentations.

Step 8

Match the text and the illustrations for it.

Step 9

It’s necessary to drill the pronunciation of the report to deliver it more confidentially (not to be confused by phonetic challenges).

Step 10

Self-control questions:

You have to be certain about the answers to the following questions:

1. How old is Perm and Perm Krai?

2. What art and sculpture masterpieces are there in Perm Gallery (and in your native city’s museum)?

3. What particular features (of every day life, demography, architecture, geology and history) characterize Perm (and your native city) and differ it from other Russian cities?