Exercise 2. Составьте предложения, используя Present Perfect.
We/to return/from the journey/just.
I/to see/my boss/today.
Helen/to decorate/her room/already.
My cousins/to be/to this cinema/never.
Max/to buy/а magazine/today.
You/to spend/а lot of money/this month.
Ian and Peter/to repair/the radio/already.
I/to drive/а car/never.
We/to get/some letters/this week.
The dog/to run away/just.
Exercise 3. В следующих предложениях измените время глагола на Present Perfect. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
The pupils are writing a dictation.
My friend is helping me to solve a difficult problem.
I am learning a poem.
She is telling them an interesting story.
Kate is sweeping the floor.
The waiter is putting a bottle of lemonade in front of him.
I am eating my breakfast.
We are drinking water.
He is bringing them some meat and vegetables.
You are putting the dishes on the table.
They are having tea.
She is taking the dirty plates from the table.
The children are putting on their coats.
Susan is making a new dress for her birthday party.
She is opening a box of chocolates.
I am buying milk for milk shakes.
James is ordering a bottle of apple juice.
We are looking for more CDs with good music.
Are you recording your favourite film on his video recorder?
I am translating a difficult article from German into Russian.

Computers or teachers: who wins?

Now it is the 21 century. Our life is full of IT technologies. Of course, it`s so comfortable, so exiting and interesting. But changing teachers for computers is a crazy idea!

In Russia education isn`t so good as in European countries, it`s a known fact. Our goverment gives a lot of money for new computer classes, for the best books, gyms,but it does not work. Why?Because pupils don`t have desire to study, to learn new interesting things, which our nature and science have. After schools they go home to play computer games or watch TV. They aren`t interested in reading and learning.

That`s whychildren need attention to their works, their actions. Teacher can discuss problems with them, explain how to do something right. Teacher will understand you, will help, will calm you. And so-called iron boxes can`t do these things.

A lot of people like scientists or programmists think that computer is our future. Yes,that`s right. But it doesn`t mean that we should give these machines a chance to teach pupils! It is not a good way to get better education.

Somebody does not like computers at all, and they are right too. These things spoil our vision, they can`t make our brain work properly. Computers have made people addicted to them.

By the way of conclusion, I want to say that our future is in our hands. We should think about our sons and daughters.On my mind, they want to study well and understand everything clearly. And it won`t be possible with robots, which we already use at home and school more than 50% of our time a day

To start with, nowadays there are lots of hot debates about computers in the school. Some people strongly assure that they could replace teachers, however, others disagree, singling out that new technologies have a great deal of drawbacks. 

 

I definitely stand for the second point of view. My first argument is that computers are quite harmful not only for the eyes of children, but for thier nervous system too. Because of this they become agressive, tired and cannot concentrate on the work. Furthermore, pupils can misuse computers: it is possible to chat or play the games instead of learning. What is more, today it is very dangerous to rely on computers. If it breaks down, your information will be lost. 

 

However, there are some people who are fully against it. They point out that with computers it is simply enough to make tests and check them. I agree up to the point, but it must be taken into consideration that in this way pupils have more possibilities to answer with the help of classmates and there is nobody to control them. Moreover, they are trying to persuade that that computer can manage every work you want it to do. I strongly disagree, as I do believe, that only the teacher could explain difficult problems to the children, so that they understand it.

 

To sum up, it is not an easy question to answer and opinions are different. Personally I am in favour of learning with the help of teachers. To my mind, nothing could take their place.