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1、1 unit 12 Education Preview Education has long been given a priority in a civilized society. It is mostly believed that the sole responsibility for educating students lies on teachers, and for any wrong-doing in students behavior and any low achievement in students performance teachers are to blame.
2、 Is it fair? Education is a constructive and cooperative job. Virtually, parents have a critical role to play in the process of child education. How should teachers and parents work together to provide better cultivation to children? Maybe, we need more parents to put more effort into their parentin
3、g and into creating the environment in which their children come to school ready and willing to learn. IText Reading Warm-up How should parents raise their children properly, and create a better circumstance for their children? Parents are the first teachers for their children. Parents behavior, eff
4、orts they take, and the surroundings they create have critical impact on their children. How should parents raise their children properly? Please add more in addition to what is mentioned below. ? They must be helpful and inspire confidence in their children.? They are responsible for setting bounda
5、ries for their childrens behavior.? They are responsible for s etting good examples for their children. ? They should spend time with children so that children feel known and valued.? They must teach their children the most basic social skills and make their children learn rules of social behavior.
6、? They need t o show an interest in their children. ? They should help their children to play with their peers.? They should monitor what their children are watching on TV and playing on the computer.II. Ought the right of a teacher to be honored? In todays world, school violence aimed at teachers i
7、s not uncommon. However, due to the thinking that teachers are in-school guardians of students and students are mostly immature adolescents, teachers are usually wronged, and students are mostly pardoned. Do you think such reasoning rational? III. How to rebalance teachers and students rights? In Ch
8、ina today, students rights are fully protected and this, undoubtedly, is a good step towards the protection of the flowers of the country. Because of this, some teachers are afraid of punishing misbehaving students. Do teachers have the right to punish students? How can we rebalance the 名师资料总结 - - -
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10、ratch or tear sb/sth with claws or with your nails) at my hand, said one teacher. I broke up a fight and was kicked between my legs and butted, said another. Many people have heard stories like this. But the situation is more worrying still and it involves parents. 2 In this country, we do not have
11、a particularly positive record on good childhood. A report by Unicef, published last year, that described Britain as a picture of neglect (the fact of not giving enough care or attention to sth/sb) is now infamous (=notorious). We finished in the bottom third of 21 industrialized countries in five o
12、ut of six categories material well-being (=wealth); health and safety; educational well-being (health); relationships; behavior and risks; and subjective well-being (=happiness)ending up overall last, after the United States. The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland topped the league (a level of
13、 quality, ability, etc) table of child happiness. 3 We have, as a nation, to do more and to do better in our duty of care to our children. The government has declared that every child matters (=is important). My union, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, fully supports government efforts to i
14、mprove the quality of childrens lives. We recognize that it has put its money where its mouth is moving beyond pious (having or showing a deep respect for God and religion) sentiments and hand-wringing (to twist and squeeze clothes, etc)to providing real support for vulnerable (weak and easily hurt
15、physically or emotionally) children and families. 4 Every child, irrespective of (=regardless of) the circumstances into which they are born, has the right to achieve their potential, irrespective of their parents wealth and class. And we recognise that, as a nation, we are a long way from achieving
16、 this goal. 5 But with rights come responsibilities and my fear is that we are in danger of neglecting (=ignoring) the latter. Let me give some examples. When the mum of 14-year-old Emma tells the head of year that Emma is pregnant, who does she hold responsible? She might blame the senior leadershi
17、p team for the weakness of the schools PSHE (personal, social and health education) policy, or perhaps the PSHE teacher, or possibly Emmas tutor. She might, in other words, do anything she can to lay the blame for her childs pregnancy at someone elses door. 6 Or how about 16-year-old Jack whose pare
18、nts come into school highly distressed (upset and anxious) because they have discovered he is a regular cannabis (a drug made from the dried leaves and flowers or resin of the hemp plant 大麻) user. Their distress causes them to hit out. Jack has been led astray (误导, 误入歧途 ) by his school friends. More
19、 should have been done to educate him about the dangers of drug abuse. They threaten to go to the local press to tell their story. 7 You might think these are extreme examples, but teacher members of ATL (Atlanta，美国佐治亚州亚特兰大的简写) are reporting that such scenarios (a description of how things might hap
20、pen in the future) are becoming more and more common. Teachers are becoming increasingly concerned (=worried) that they are being held responsible for aspects of children and young peoples lives 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 2 页，共 13 页 - - - - - - -
21、- - 3 which are completely beyond (out of) their control. 8 We will be talking about childrens behaviour in more detail this week at ATLs annual conference (=meeting). We know far too many children are behaving badly at school, even to the point of being violent to staff (=faculty). This is horrifyi
22、ng enough, but it is hard to be surprised since many children are just mirroring (reflecting) the behavior of their parents . 9 My members tell me that parents often also come into school and threaten (=frighten) staff and some staff have been attacked by a pupils parents. One father encouraged his
23、child to start a fight in the playground before school started. A parent provided a raw egg for a pupil to smash (break into pieces) over a teachers head. A primary teacher reported that a parent (swear-) swore (-sworn) and shouted at him. 10 It is clear to me that we need to rebalance the equation.
24、 We need to have a serious and sensible (wise, reasonable) debate about the roles and responsibilities of parents and the support that they can reasonably expect of schools and teachers. Only last week, Estyn, the Welsh Ofsted, published a report which shows that over the past five years the proport
25、ion of five-to seven-year-olds achieving good levels of reading and writing skills has stopped rising, in both English and Welsh. 11 One of the key reasons for the standstill (a situation in which all activity or movement has stopped), the inspectors concluded, is that children are coming to school
26、with poor skills in speaking and listening. The inspectors exhort (=persuade) schools to do more to improve their pupils oral skills, but do not question why it is that pupils are starting school unable to converse (=talk) and to listen effectively. 12 Just what is happening in the homes of these ch
27、ildren? Why are they coming to school developmentally delayed? Children learn how to take turns in a conversation, how to ask questions, how to react to (respond to/ reply) what others say, how to follow instructions, how to tell jokes through doing all these things. They will not learn how to behav
28、e as social beings if they are stuck in front of the TV for hours every day. They need their parents to show an interest in them and to spend time with them, helping them to play with their peers (colleagues, classmates) and to learn the rules of social behavior. 13 Too many children start school wi
29、thout the social and verbal skills to be able to take part in (attend) lessons and to behave well. Too many are starting school unable to hold a knife and fork, unused to (be not used to doing) eating at a table, unable to use the lavatory (toilet) properly. These children will not be living in abso
30、lute poverty (the state of being poor). The majority will be living in homes with televisions, computers and PlayStations . What too many of them do not have are adults who are prepared (ready) to give their time and energy doing that difficult, but most essential of jobs: raising (bringing up) thei
31、r children properly. 14 Ive been accused of wanting to ban (prohibit) television in childrens bedrooms, when for many parents a television in every room is the marker that they have made it (have succeeded) and that they have provided well for their children. It comes to something, I think, when the
32、 mark of good parenting is the (provide-) provision of a television which, in too many cases, becomes a substitute for parentinga constant pacifier which suppresses interaction in the family. 15 We are in danger of becoming a nation of families living separate lives under one roof. The bedroom, once
33、 a place to sleep, has become the living space for the young. Spending hours in front of computer screens, on social networking sites or immersed in (absorbed in) computer games, children and young people spend little time with their parents and their siblings (brothers or sisters). 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料
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35、ogrammes or sitting in front of the computer screen until late into the night or the early hours of the morning. 16 Schools cannot right (correct) the wrongs (mistakes) of society and teachers cannot become substitute (1)n.; (2)vt. replace parents. Both parties need to work together. Parents must be
36、 helped and given confidence to take back control. They are responsible for setting boundaries for their childrens behaviour and sticking to (insist on) those boundaries when the going gets tough . They are responsible for setting a good example to their children and for devoting that most precious
37、of resources timeso that children feel known and valued as individuals and as part of the family. 17 Schools do not exist in a vacuum. If they are to succeed, then more parents have to put more effort into their parenting and into creating the conditions in which their children come to school ready
38、and willing to learn. Notes Unicef: abbr. for United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (联合国儿童基金会) .mirroring the behavior of their parents : imitating the way their parents do. It is clear to me that we need to rebalance the equation: We should not only lay the blame on teachers. Parent
39、s also have a role to play in childrens education. PlayStations : a home entertainment system by Sony Company. It comes to something : Something is wrong. We are in danger of becoming a nation of families living separate lives under one roof: Our nation is facing a danger of lacking interaction at h
40、ome between family members. They . the going gets tough: In this sentence, the word going means the situation of education in Britain. Word Bank annual: happening every year; yearly每年一次的butt: to strike or push against sth. or sb. with head or horns( 以头或计角 )顶，撞cannabis : the drug produced from a part
41、icular type of hemp plant大麻constant : fixed or unchanging持续的，恒久不变的converse : to talk; to communicate谈话disrupt: to bring or throw into disorder 扰乱，使混乱equation: a statement that two quantifiers are equal 等式exhausted : very tired 筋疲力尽exhort: to urge or advise strongly激励，规劝pacifier: a person who makes a
42、nother calm 抚慰着potential: possibility for developing 潜力，潜能proportion: the compared relation between two things in regard to size, amount, importance, etc.比例sentiment : thought or judgment caused or influenced by feeling情绪，思想感情名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - -
43、- - 第 4 页，共 13 页 - - - - - - - - - 5 sibling: a brother or sister兄弟或姐妹standstill : a condition of no movement or activity; stop静止状态，停止suppress : to control; to keep from happening压迫，压抑vacuum: a space that is completely empty of all gas 真空verbal: of language语言的vulnerable: weak; easy to be broken易碎的，脆
44、弱的Phrases and Expressions accuse.of: to charge with doing wrong or breaking the law指控，控告be immersed in : to enter deeply into an activity沉浸于be stuck in : to start an activity eagerly or forcefully 陷于，埋头于be unused to : to be not used to sth. or doing something 不习惯hit out: to express strong disapprova
45、l of猛烈抨击lead astray: to lead away from the right path引入歧途make it: to succeed能成功，能办到Reading Comprehension Choose the best for each of the following. 1. According to the second and third paragraphs, which one of the following statement is true in describing the situation of children in Britain? A. Bri
46、tain was the last on the league table of child happiness. B. Britain was after the United States on the league table. C. Britain did well in terms of material well-being of child happiness. D. Britain finished in the bottom third on the table in most category. 2. The two examples in Paragraphs 5 and
47、 6 are simply to show _. A. students bad behaviors at school B. students wrong-doings at school C. such happenings are becoming more and more common D. whose responsibilities it is for such behavior 3. In Para. 12, developmentally delayed may refer to the fact that children _. A. are unable to ask q
48、uestions at class B. are unable to take turns in conversation C. are unable to tell jokes D. are unable to behave properly 4. Which of the following is most neglected by parents? A. Care for children. B. Time spent with children. C. Monitor over their children. D. Their childrens school work. 5. Acc
49、ording to the passage, the responsibility lies on _. A. parents B. teachers C. schools and teachers D. schools and parents 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 5 页，共 13 页 - - - - - - - - - 6 II. Complete the following summary of the text by filling in the b
50、lanks with words. The initial letter of each word has been given to you. If a young girl student is (1) pregnant, if a young boy student gives a teacher a 2) butt in the stomach, who is to blame, the young girl, the young boy or the teacher? Happenings like the above-mentioned are not unusual today