Reading. Tell the story in short.

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1. Complete the sentences using suitable words:

a. There are many nice and interesting ... in our country.

b. One of the most important profession is certainly the profession of a ...

c. It is a very noble and human profession because the teacher not only educates

public but also actually ...

d. ... is the person who makes a man out of a pupil.

e. The profession of ... is sooner an art than a pure profession.

f. Because it requires also inspiration and talent, love and devotion to ...

g. The upbringing of a new generation in our country, the upbringing of a new man, a new mentality in many respects depend on the ... today.

2. Presentation.

Reading

Tell the story in short.

DUISHEN

After Ch. Aitmatov

When we got to school, Duishen told us to sit on the floor and gave each of us a

notebook, a pencil and a small board.

“Put the board on your knees and the notebook on it, it’ll make writing easier", he explained.

Next he showed us a picture he had put upon the wall. It was a portrait of a revolutionary man on it.

I shall never forget that portrait. I never came across it later and to myself I still call it “Duishen’s picture”.

He was wearing army clothes and his face looked tired with a clever look of his eyes. He seemed to say to us; “Children, if you know what a beautiful future is for you. In that moment of silence, I imagined, he was really thinking of my future.

Duishen must have had that picture for some time. It was printed on a cheap paper. But there was nothing else on the walls of the schoolroom, just this picture of that Great revolutionary man. . .

“I’ll teach you to read and count, I’ll show you how letters are written Duishen told us. I’ll teach you all I know myself.

He really taught us all he knew. He showed each of us how to hold a pencil, and

explained unknown words to us.

Thinking of it now I admire that courageous young, fellow, who could hardly read and who had no textbooks, not even a reader, but he did that great job. It was not easy to teach children whose fathers and forefathers had not gone to school. He taught us as well as he could, he taught us what he taught. In that school of his, in that old house with holes in the walls through which we could see the snow white mountains, we Kyrgyz children, who had never left our village, suddenly opened a new and wonderful world.