Progress test 1. Lessons 1-2

1. Translate into English:

Профессиональное выгорание; электронное обучение; учителя с большим стажем работы; система оплаты труда, при которой размер заработной платы зависит от качества работы; завышение оценок; наследственный; держать ребенка под «домашним арестом»; вседозволенность.

2. Provide several synonyms for the following words and word-combinations:

Воспитание детей (2), студент-практикант (2), трудный ребенок (2), проступок (2), непослушный ребенок (4).

3. Provide antonyms for the following words:

Permissive, lax, withdrawn, delinquent, self-confident, “wild” (child).

4. Fill in the gaps in the text that follows with the suitable grammatical forms of the words and word-combinations given in the list below.

It is entirely reasonable to expect that children raised by parents who are morally defective, (1)__________,(2)___________, irresponsible, or incompetent should turn "bad." Historically, three major theories have been utilized to explain this phenomenon. The oldest of the three held that the bad child had been possessed by the devil. A new idea more compatible with scientific thinking was the theory of the (3)_____________ ______________ of behavioral or personality traits. This idea, too, was discredited by twentieth-century (4)_____________. According to the third explanation, the parents of delinquent children have been too irresponsible to have punished their children for various minor and major (5) ______________. Warnings against (6) ______________ are currently available to parents in their efforts to prevent and treat (7) ____________ ______________.

It is the parents' fear of permissiveness that forces them to abandon gentleness, faith, and forgiveness as the major (8) ______________ instruments, and, by doing so, the parent (9) _____________ the child.

Words and word-combinations: Geneticists, to alienate, indolent, transgressions, hereditary transmission, behavioral disorders, child-rearing, infantile, permissiveness.

Total: 35 / _____