III. Ask questions to the content of the text and give short answers

II. Look through the text again, find unknown words and write down them into your vocabulary.

School Life in Britain

III. Make up a plan of the text in the form of questions.

II. Write down new words into your vocabulary.

IV. Translate the following words and word-combinations into Ukrainian and memorize them:

nursery school, infant, primary school, to attend, training, to keep an eye on, local education authority, free, timetable, junior school, eleven-plus subjects, to be streamed, eleven-plus examination, comprehensive school, secondary education.

TEXT 3

I. Read the text. What is it about? What information of the text is the most interesting (in your opinion)?

There is no countrywide system of nursery (i.e. pre-primary) schools. In some areas primary schools have nursery schools attached to them, but in others there is no provision of this kind. The average child does not begin full-time attendance at school until he or she is about five and starts primary school. Almost all schools are either primary or secondary only, the latter being generally larger.

Nearly all schools work a five-day week, with no half-day, and are closed on Saturdays. The day starts at or just before nine o'clock and finishes between three and four or a bit later for older children. The lunch break usually lasts about an hour-and-a-quarter. Nearly two-thirds of pupils have lunch provided by the school. Parents pay for this, except for the 15% who are rated poor enough for it to be free. Other children either go home for lunch or take sandwiches.

Methods of teaching vary, but there is most commonly a balance between formal lessons with the teacher at the front of the classroom and activities in which children work in small groups round a table with the teacher supervising. In primary schools, the children are mostly taught by a class teacher who teaches all subjects. At the ages of seven and eleven, children have to (or soon will have to) take national tests in English, mathematics and science. In secondary schools, pupils have different teachers for different subjects and are given regular homework.

The older children get, more likely they are to be separated into groups according to their perceived abilities, sometimes for particular subjects only, sometimes across all subjects. But some schools teach all subjects to 'mixed ability' classes. The rights and wrongs of this practice have generated heated debate for several decades and there is great variety from school to school and area to area.

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