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A Few Minutes Of English. Несколько Минут Английского

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Открыта: 14-05-2014
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A Few Minutes Of English. Несколько Минут Английского #8. Another culture, another cuisine


A Few Minutes Of English
Выпуск #8 / 20 октября 2017

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Another culture, another cuisine - другая культура, другая кухня.

Greetings from England!

Когда я только moved to England (переехала в Англию) мне пришлось изучать market (рынок), продукты и многие сочетания ингредиентов заново. Многое looked the same (выглядело одинаково), but tasted differently (но на вкус отличалось). For instance (например), чтобы сделать привычный Russian salad (оливье тут называется именно так) на новый год понадобилось полгода экспериментов. I was greatly surprised (Я была крайне удивлена) обнаружив, что яйца в супермаркете продаются уже hard-boiled (сваренные вкрутую) and already peeled (и почищенные). На первых порах оставалось загадкой, что делать, если я хочу soft-boiled eggs (яйца в мешочек) или peel them myself (почистить их самой). Luckily (к счастью), этот вопрос вскоре разрешился, как и то, где же найти cottage cheese (творог), и существует ли он вообще.

And it turned out (оказалось), что that I had a lack (у меня была нехватка) некоторых слов по части cooking recipes (приготовления рецептов). Сегодня я расскажу только о малой части, но в следующий раз we will need that to cook one traditional British dish (нам понадобятся эти слова для приготовления одного из классических блюд английской кухни) .

Tbsp – table spoon – столовая ложка

Chopped – мелко нарубленный

Mince/minced meat – фарш

Beef stock – говяжий бульон

Cutting board – разделочная доска

Drain – сливать

Boil – варить

Heat – нагревать

Ovenproof – жаропрочный

Chill – остужать

Bake – выпекать

Dialogues

Part 4
See Part 1 here: A Few Minutes Of English #5
Part 2 here: A Few Minutes Of English #6
Part 3 here: A Few Minutes Of English #7

JZ: So they don’t have to just go by themselves?

NH: No, some choose to, some choose to. But if there are some particular universities that we know we’ve got, that we work with quite a bit, then we would organize a trip or just a minibus, depends on how many want to go. And we spend a lot of time with our international students on preparing UCAS, because obviously UCAS very much is what will get them that initial offer.

JZ: Yeah.

NH: And obviously from then on it’s then about making sure that they can achieve the target grades to be able to get onto the program. And some do, and, you know, they don’t all, but generally, because all our students get their five offers which you would expect. They generally have some options to look at. But many do get their first choice which is very good for us. Because majority of our international students are hard-working students and they actually do they do very well. Because don’t forget they are taking a British qualification in English and that’s one of the reasons why a large proportion of the English we teach is academic English as opposed to just…

JZ: General?

NH: General spoken English.

JZ: Because they need academic IELTS.

NH: Yes, they need to be able to write reference correctly to produce essays and materials for university. And we wouldn’t be doing our job if we didn’t prepare them for that. And I suppose in some ways that’s one thing that actually is quite… for quite a number of international students, depends on how you’ve learnt in your country, but the way in which you are taught in the UK particularly in preparation for the university is very much about you developing how you learn. So you become an independent learner as opposed to a teacher just telling you something. It’s very much about encouraging research and those skills that go with it.

JZ: Yeah, I found it very useful here at the university, cause they didn’t do that much back in Russia.

NH: And that’s very common, depending on what country you are from, how you are taught, you know, I suppose, tutors often play, particularly towards the final stages of a course, more facilitators of learning and making those students very much be more independent learners, so then when they go to the university and they are not going to get that amount of face-to-face support, they are actually prepared for that and they are not craving for direction all the time. They are starting to seek that for themselves. And I would imagine that’s common.

JZ: Yeah, yeah, it is. I have been through that, I found that. I thought, oh, that’s a very good approach and I tend to do that with my students.

NH: Yeah. We’re lucky because we’re such a large FE college. Because obviously we’re here because we’re funded college, so we’re very fortunate that we have a large amount of support for students. So we do have specialists to deal with any student that might have any difficulty. And that difficulty could be anything to do with learning difficulty that maybe is not really fully shown itself. And we might be aware that, actually, we think you might have a little bit of an issue here, we also have our own councillors, so each student that is struggling to cope with life away from home.

JZ: Yeah, changes.

NH: We’re able to offer that. All our groups have a tutorial tutor that’s responsible very much to monitor not only the students’ welfare and their progression and how they are progressing within their course. And so obviously make sure that it’s not just about having lessons where you’re taught, it’s about having lessons where you’re supported. I think most colleagues would say we are a caring college, it’s all about the students and about getting them to be successful. We’re not a hard nose business.

JZ: Do you ever need to step in? Do you deal with students directly?

NH: Yeah, yeah. I always go and meet students to start with and say who I am, what I do, erm, I tend to see students who do really well and need some recognition, so that’ great. But obviously I also have to see students who are either not performing to the standard expected or maybe their attendance isn’t as good, because, as you probably realize, a student that’s here on a study visa, Tier 4 study visa, their attendance has to be, you know, as high as one can possible, you know, 90%, over 90% we would expect. So if a student starts to… their attendance starts to wane, we obviously then take them through a procedure of, you know, bringing them back on track. And if that doesn’t work then ultimately, I would have to see them and you know, if they don’t improve, then we have no choice, cause I’m the license holder for the Tier 4, we would have to actually ask them to leave if they didn’t attend. That’s very rare. So I tend to see the really high performing and I tend to see those students that maybe need a reminder of the importance of their professional behaviour and attendance at college. But I have to say and don’t judge me, this is very little, but I always make sure they’re aware that they don’t have a right to be here if they don’t attend.

JZ: Yeah.

To be continued...

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