Task 4. Fill in the table to compare three styles of learning

Styles	How People Learn?	What Teachers Should Do?
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic

Task 5. Learning Pyramid. How do we remember best? Study the pyramid and tell about your best ways to remember.

Task 6. Read the text. For each of the empty space (1–8) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Why study abroad? 10 reasons why you should study in a foreign country

Have you considered studying abroad, but are not sure whether it’s worth your time? If you ask anybody who studied abroad, he or she will most certainly tell you that it is a (1) _________ experience and one of the most rewarding things he or she has ever done. Here are 10 very excellent reasons why you should take the plunge:

1. Study abroad is the optimal way to learn a language. There is no better and more effective way to learn a language than to be immersed in a culture that speaks the language you are learning. You’re (2) _________ by the language on a daily basis and are seeing and hearing it in the proper cultural context.

2. Study abroad provides the opportunity to travel. Weekends and academic breaks allow you to venture out and explore your. Some more structured study abroad programmes even have field (3) _________ planned in or around the curriculum.

3. Study abroad allows you get to know another culture first-hand. Cultural differences are more than just differences in language, food, and personal habits. A person’s culture reflects very deep (4) _________, beliefs, and values. Students who experience cultural differences personally can come to truly understand where other cultures are coming from.

4. Study abroad will help you develop skills and give you experiences a classroom setting will never provide. Being (5) _________ in an entirely new cultural setting is scary at first, but it’s also exciting. It’s an opportunity to discover new strengths and abilities, conquer new challenges, and solve new problems.

5. Study abroad affords you the opportunity to make friends around the world. (6) _________ abroad, you will meet not only natives to the culture in which you are studying, but also other international students who are as far from home as yourself.

6. Study abroad helps you to learn about yourself. Students who study abroad return home with new ideas and perspectives about themselves and their own culture. The experience abroad often challenges them to reconsider their own beliefs and values. The experience may perhaps strengthen those values or it may (7) _________ students to alter or abandon them and embrace new concepts and perceptions. The encounter with other cultures enables students to see their own culture through new eyes.

7. Study abroad gives you the opportunity to break out of your academic routine. Study abroad is likely to be much unlike what you are used to doing as a student. You may become (8) _________ with an entirely new academic system and you will have the chance to take courses not offered on your home campus. It’s also a great opportunity to break out the monotony of the routine you follow semester after semester.

1 A life-threatening B life-changing C life-loving D life-killing

2 A surround B surrounding C surrounded D surrounds

3 A life B trips C travels D journeys

4 A perceptions B acceptations C accounts D activities

5 A raised B acquainted C involved D immersed

6 A while B if C as D so

7 A because B cause C of course D course

8 A accurate B accepted C perceptive D familiar

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