B) Answer the following questions:
1. How can computers be used in the area of language instruction? 2. Can a computer quiz the student besides teaching him new subject matter? 3. What are the main four advantages of a computer in education, as the author puts it?
C) Summarize the whole of the text in two paragraphs.
D) Tell the class how you think computer-aided instruction should be used in language teaching at school.
H. Muchofthe information we need in carrying on either our professional work or leisure-time activities we gather through interviews — purposeful conversations, as we might call them.
I. Use the following monologues for making imaginary interviews with the speakers on the current problems of education.
Mind that besides asking questions the interviewer should encourage people to speak.
Model: Mrs. Brown, tell us what happened, will you? — Really! — So what did you do about it? — The computer, you mean... — Read it for us, will you? — And what about you, Mr. Green?
Mona Thompson, 47, comprehensive общеобразовательной school teacher
It's easy for the experts to tell us how to teach. I wish they'd tell my fourteen-year-olds how to learn. I think study techniques are becoming most important today. Besides, I wonder how I should motivate 
стимулировать my teenagers to read. Of course, there are plenty of interesting books in the library, but the boys and girls in my class aren't interested in them. All they care about is football or pop music. It's no use telling them to read. I've tried, but they don't listen.
John Kemeny, 60, mathematician
I believe that education will continue to be one of the important areas for computer applications. I have, however, two major prejudices 
предубеждения against computer-aided education. They are, first, that the computer is a very expensive substitute for a book, and, second, that it is a very poor 
substitute for a teacher. It is much more sensible благоразумно to
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let students read a page, or better a chapter, of a book on their own and then go to the computer terminal to be drilled or tested. CAI programs 
are most effective for rote learning обучение прямым запоминанием фактов and mechanical drill подготовка.
Dan Bright, 23, primary school teacher
There are too many old-fashioned people in the teaching profession and it's difficult for them to communicate with kids. It's a pity they don't go to conferences 
and learn about new teaching methods. After all, it's natural for kids not to worry much about spelling or adding up имеющим смысл rows линии of figures 
. It's obvious to anyone that English spelling is just a convention 
условность and any pocket calculator will count much faster and more accurately 
than the human brain. It's hard to interest kids unless you can show them that what they learn is useful to them.
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Jill Adams, 13, schoolgirl
The teachers get annoyed with me if I don't do my homework. But it's difficult to concentrate when the telly's on all evening. A few of the boys and girls in my class work but a lot of them never do anything. They say there's no point in it. There are some subjects I like, and a few of the teachers are all right, but you don't want everybody to call you a teacher's pet.
(From: Fowler W. Incentive Themes. Surrey, 1980.)
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