Exercise 7. Read the text once more and decide if the following statements are true or false. Prove your point.
1. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was a German educator who opened the first German-language kindergarten in Germany.
2. The children’s play has the educational value.
3. In Salem she worked as assistant teacher to Amos Bronson Alcott.
4. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody had a reading knowledge of ten languages.
5. The «Conversations» were organized by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
6. Margaret Fuller opened her kindergarten for children younger than six in 1860.
Exercise 8. Complete each sentence below with a suitable ending.
1. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody opened…
2. The children’s play has …
3. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody spent …
4. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody engaged in teaching…
5. She became a prominent figure …
6. Peabody published articles about early childhood education …
7. The practice of providing formal schooling for children younger six …
8. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody visited Germany for …
a) in the Transcendental movement.
b) educational value.
c) which had drawn on German models.
d) the purpose of studying the educational methods of Friedrich Froebel more closely.
e) her childhood in Salem.
f) the first English-language kindergarten in the USA.
g) was largely confined to Germany. h) in Boston.
Exercise 9. Read the text «Elizabeth Palmer Peabody» and answer the following questions.
1. What is Elizabeth Palmer Peabody famous about?
2. What have you learnt about E.P. Peabody’s parents?
3. How many languages did she know?
4. Who organized the «Conversations»? What were they about?
5. What great questions did women face with?
6. Who took part in the «Conversations»?
7. For what purpose did E.P. Peabody visit Germany?
8. Can you prove the extent of E.P. Peabody’s influence in support of free kindergartens?
Exercise 10. Make an information map to collect information about Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the founder of the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.
Elizabeth Pal-mer Peabody
to be an American
educator
Exercise 11. Creative task.
Brainstorming. Brainstorm all your ideas and thoughts and make computer presentations "The first English-language kindergarten educator in the United States". (Pay attention to the rules of brainstorming at p.14).
Text 5. Peter Lesgaft (1837 – 1909)
Grammar: Времена группы Perfect Continuous
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Peter Franzevich Lesgaft was a Russian teacher, anatomist, physician and social reformer. He was the founder of the modern system of physical education and medical-pedagogical control in physical training, one of founders of theoretical anatomy. Peter Lesgaft was born on September 21, 1837 in Sankt-Petersburg, the third son of a jeweler of German descent. In 1861 he graduated from Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg and remained there as a teacher of anatomy. Since 1865 the doctor of medicine, since 1868 the professor managing the faculty of physiological anatomy at the Kazan university. But soon he was barred from teaching for his outspoken criticism of the unscientific methods used. In 1872 he became consultant on therapeutic gymnastics in the private practice of Dr. Berglindt. In 1872-1874 he supervised a group of Russian women for the first time allowed to employment in the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy. He also became known for publication of a descriptive history of sport in Europe and ancient Greece and an article on naturalistic gymnastics. As a result he was put in charge of the physical training of military cadets. In 1875 he was sponsored by the Russian Military Ministry to spend two summers in Western Europe, studying the systems of physical education. During that time he visited 26 cities in 13 European countries. He carefully studied British system visiting English public schools, the Central Army Gymnastics School at Aldershot, the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and Oxford University P.F.Lesgaft Institute of Physical Culture in St. Petersburg is named after him. Unity and integrity of all organs in human body was the basis of Peter Lesgaft system of the pointed exercises for both physical development and intellectual, moral and aesthetic education. Outdoor games were his favorite means in both physical development and formation of character of a child.
In 1877, he published Relationship of Anatomy to Physical Education and The Major Purpose of Physical Education in Schools. He was able to organizing courses for physical education instructors for the military academies – until then non-existent. In 1893 Peter Lesgaft organized Biological laboratory which in 1918 was transformed into P.F.Lesgaft Institute of Natural Science. In the basis of the theory of physical training of P.Lesgaft the principle of unity of physical and intellectual development of a person lays. Unity and integrity of all organs of an organism, communication of nervous-muscular activity and internal bodies with mental displays gave P.Lesgaft basis to consider system of the directed exercises as means not only of physical development, but also intellectual, moral and aesthetic education. Great value Lesgaft gave to outdoor games as to means of physical development and formation of character of a child. Considering laws of education of the child in family, formations of his temperament and character, Lesgaft gave the analysis of biological bases of heredity and development of children. Giving crucial importance to conditions of environment, he called for creation in family and school of favorable conditions for showing of all abilities of the child. Peter Lesgaft died in 1909.
NOTES
Peter Franzevich Lesgaft – Петр Францевич Лесгафт
Medical-Surgical Academy – Медико-хирургическая академия
Russian Military Ministry – Главное управление военно-учебных заведений
«Relationship of Anatomy to Physical Education» – «Отношение анатомии к физическому воспитанию»
«The Major Purpose of Physical Education in Schools» – «Основная цель физического воспитания в школах»
EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Put in the missing letters. Check yourself with a dictionary: f-u-der, -na-om-, g-m-a-ti-s, -o-sul-a-t, s-i-nti-ic, d-v-lo-me-t, p-a-ti-e, l-b-rat-ry, in-e-ri-y, i-te-lec-u-l.
Exercise 2. Find the right pronunciation of these words in a dictionary, read them and explain their meaning: to be the founder of the modern system of physical education, a son of a jeweler, to be a consultant on therapeutic gymnastics, the scientific methods.
Exercise 3. Match the words with their definitions.
1. relationship
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a. a medical doctor, esp. one who has general skill and is not a surgeon
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2. jeweler
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b. the process by which characteristics are able to be given from a parent to their child through the genes
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3. consultant
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c. involving the process of thinking
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4. employment
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d. the usual state of mind of a person which is shown in the way that he behaves
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5. to sponsor
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e. the classes at school in which children do exercise and learn to play sport
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6. physician
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f. a close friendship between two people
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7. mental
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g. to have a job
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8. physical education
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h. a person with special knowledge on a particular subject
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9. temperament
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i. a person who sells and sometimes repairs jewellery and watches
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10. heredity
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j. to support a person, organization or activity by giving money or other help
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Exercise 4. Learn new words and word combinations and use them in your topics.
to be a consultant on therapeutic gymnastics outdoor games
the faculty of physiological anatomy the scientific method
criticism of the unscientific methods the private practice to be barred from smth for smth the abilities of the child
the system of physical education physical development
moral and aesthetic education nervous-muscular activity
to organize courses for smb the temperament and character
to visit a public school the formation of child’s character
Exercise 5. Read and translate the text with a dictionary. Choose sentences which help you to tell about Peter Lesgaft, the founder of the modern system of physical education.
Exercise 6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences. Check yourself with a dictionary.
1.consultant
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2. sponsor
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1. Wilberforce was a great British social … who fought for the abolition of the slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th century.
2. … levels are unlikely to rise significantly before the end of next year.
3. In England, a …is a private school at which girls aged from 11 to 18 and boys aged from 13 to 18 usually live while they study.
4. They have a very good business …
5. I think we need to use a computer … before we make an expensive mistake.
6. His … and physical health had got worse.
7. She got a family friend in Bristol to agree to be her …
8. My watch is at the … being repaired.
Exercise 7. Read the text once more and decide if the following statements are true or false. Prove your point.
1. Peter Lesgaft was a German teacher, physician and social reformer.
2. He founded the system of medical-psychological control in theoretical anatomy.
3. Peter was a son of a jeweler of German descent.
4. Peter Lesgaft worked as a teacher of anatomy in the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy in Kazan.
5. He had never gone abroad.
6. The principle of unity of physical and intellectual development of a person lays in the basis of Lesgaft’s theory of physical training.
Exercise 8. Read the text again and complete the following sentences by choosing the one correct variant (a, b or c) that best completes the sentence.
1. Peter Lesgaft was the founder of the modern system of … .
a) pedagogical education b) medical education
c) physical education
2. Peter Lesgaft graduated from … .
a) the Royal military academy b) the Kazan University
c) the Imperial medical-surgical academy
3. He was put in charge of the physical training of … .
a) a group of Russian women in the medical academy
b) military cadets c) Military Ministry
4. … were Lesgaft’s favourite means in both physical development and formation of character of a child.
a) Indoor games b) Outdoor games c) Table games
5. Peter Lesgaft organized … - until then non-existent.
a) first kindergartens
b) courses for physical education instructors for the military academies
c) outdoor games for children’s physical development
6. P. Lesgaft called for creation in family and school of favorable conditions for … .
a) founding the modern system of physical education
b) developing physical training c) showing all abilities of the child
Exercise 9. Read the text «Peter Lesgaft» and answer the following questions.
1. What was Peter Lesgaft?
2. Where and when was he born?
3. Where did he work and study?
4. What was his father?
5. Why did Peter Lesgaft go to Western Europe?
6. How many countries and cities did he visit during that time?
7. What was his famous book? What is this book about?
8. What is the main idea, according to Peter Lesgaft, in the education?
Exercise 10. Make an information map to collect information about Peter Lesgaft, the founder of the modern system of physical education.
Peter
Lesgaft
to be a Russian
teacher
Exercise 11. Creative task.
Project work. Study the information about the world great educators of kindergarten movement. Now you are a first-year-student of Preschool education department of Surgut State Pedagogical University. You have got a chance to interview a group of nursery nurses who work in different kindergartens in Surgut. Ask them
• how long they work in the kindergarten;
• how many children they have in their group;
• with children of what age they work;
• whose method of education they use in their work;
• if their work is difficult for them;
• if they are proud of their work.
Text 6. Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 – 1923)
Kate Douglas Wiggin is an American author who led the kindergarten education movement in the United States. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. A graduate of Abbot Academy, she started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers.
Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour. Born in 1856, Kate herself experienced a happy childhood, even though it was saddened by the American Civil War and her father's death. Kate and her sister Nora were still quite young when their widowed mother moved her little family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Portland, Maine, then, three years later, upon her remarriage, to the little village of Hollis. There Kate matured in rural surroundings, with her sister and her new baby brother, Philip. Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a "dame's school," some home schooling under the capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic instruction of her stepfather, a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Although rather casual, this was more education than most women received at the time.
During 1873 Kate's family relocated to Santa Barbara, California, where Kate's stepfather died three years later. A kindergarten training class was opening in Los Angeles, and Kate enrolled. After graduation, in 1878, she headed the first free kindergarten in California, on Silver Street in the slums of San Francisco. The children were street Arabs of the wildest type, but Kate had a loving personality and dramatic flair. By 1880 she was forming a teacher-training school in conjunction with the Silver Street kindergarten. However, according to the customs of the time, when Kate married Bradley Wiggin in 1881, she was required to resign her teaching job.
Still devoted to her school, she began to raise money for it through writing, first The Story of Patsy (1883), then The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887). Both privately printed books were issued commercially by Houghton Mifflin in 1889, with enormous success. Ironically, considering her intense love of children, Kate Wiggin had none. Her husband died suddenly during 1889, and Kate relocated to Maine. For the rest of her life she grieved, but she also traveled as frequently as she could, dividing her time between writing, visits to Europe, and giving public reading for the benefit of various children's charities. Her literary output included popular books for adults, scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel, and of course the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o' the River.
Wiggin was also a songwriter and composer of music. For "Kindergarten Chimes" (1885) she created some of the lyrics, music, and arrangements. For "Nine Love Songs and a Carol" (1896) she created all of the music.
During the spring of 1923 Kate Wiggin traveled to England as a New York delegate to the Dickens Fellowship. There she became ill and died, at age 66, of bronchial pneumonia. At her request, her ashes were brought home to Maine and scattered over the Saco River. Her autobiography, My Garden of Memory, was published after her death.
From http://www.britannica.com/
NOTES
Kate Douglas Wiggin – Кейт Дуглас Виггин, основатель дошкольного движения в США.
American Civil War – Гражданская война в Америке (1861 – 1865 гг. Война Севера и Юга).
Morison Academy in Baltimore – Академия Морисона в Балтиморе.
Abbot Academy in Andover – Академия Аббата в Эндовере.
«The Story of Patsy» – «История Петси».
«The Birds' Christmas Carol» – «Рождественский гимн птиц».
«Kindergarten Chimes» – «Перезвоны детского сада».
«Nine Love Songs and a Carol» – «Девять песен о любви и Кэрол».
EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Put in the missing letters. Check yourself with a dictionary: d-s-e-t, l-b-ur, -hi-dh-od, su-ro-n-ing, -a-ual, g-ad-a-ion, p-rs-na-ity, -on-un-ti-n, au-o-io-ra-hy, -ha-i-y.
Exercise 2. Find the right pronunciation of these words in a dictionary, read them and explain their meaning: to devote smb’s life to the welfare of children, to have a happy childhood, to head the kindergarten, to resign smb’s teaching job.
Exercise 3. Match the words with their definitions.
1. success
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a. a person who has a degree from a university or college
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2. graduate
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b. to give up a job by telling your employer that you are leaving
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3. welfare
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c. the achieving of desired results
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d. to teach someone how to do smth
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e. a system of giving money, food or help free to those who are in need because they are ill, poor or homeless
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6. to resign
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f. extremely large
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7. charity
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g. natural ability to do smth well
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8. enormous
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h. a helpful or good effect, or smth intended to help
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i. the man who is married to someone’s mother but it is not their real father
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Exercise 4. Learn new words and word combinations and use them in your topics.
the kindergarten educational movement a descent
a song writer and composer of music a graduate
to resign smb’s teaching job a stepfather
the educational principles an instruction
to raise money for smth a district school
the benefit of charities a training school
the welfare of children enormous success
Exercise 5. Read and translate the text with a dictionary. Choose sentences which help you to tell about Kate Douglas Wiggin, an American author who led the kindergarten education movement in the United States.
Exercise 6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences. Check yourself with a dictionary.
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1. The company takes on about ten … each year.
2. This national fund pays for … benefits such as unemployment and sickness pay.
3. When his mother married again, he went to live with her and his new … .
4. I need someone … me in how to use the computer.
5. He … from the company in order to take a more challenging job.
6. People tend to give to … at Christmas time.
7. The … of almost any project depends largely on its manager.
8. He earns an … salary, so he can afford to live in a large house and drive an expensive car.
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