Vocabulary. schooling-школьное образование

schooling- школьное образование

state school- государственная школа

mental abilities- умственные способности

curriculum -программа

religious instruction -основы религии

organized games- зд.: физкультура

to be divided into streams- разделяться на потоки

to reveal -отражать

elementary school- начальная школа

to provide -предоставлять

complete secondary education - законченное сред­нее образование

intelligence - интеллект

to leave school – заканчивать школу

stratum (pl. strata) – социальный слой

private school – платная школа

to be controlled financially - контролироваться в финансовом отношении

to charge high fees - взимать высокую плату

to train smb. for political, diplomatic, military and religious service - готовить для политической, дип­ломатической, военной и цер­ковной карьеры

school-leaver - выпускник

non-state school - негосударственная школа

Exercise 2. True or false:

1. English children must go to school when they are five.

2. Young children are divided into two groups according to their standard of living.

3. The junior classroom often looks rather like a shop.

4. When pupils come to the junior school for the first time, they are still often divided into three «streams» - А, В and С.

5. Usually these examinations should reveal not so much what a child has learned at school, but his mental abilities.

6. Modern schools provide complete secondary education.

7. Some modern schools do not teach foreign languages.

8. The grammar school is a secondary school offering a full theoretical secondary education including foreign languages.

9. The comprehensive school combines in one school the courses of all three types of secondary schools.

10. The doors of Oxford and Cambridge, the best English universities, are open to all school-leavers.

Exercise 3. Explain the meaning of the following words:

Start like this: Infant school is a school for children between the ages of 5 and 7. It is a part of compulsory secondary school.

Infant school, junior school, modern school, technical school, grammar school, comprehensive school, public school, independent school, preparatory school.

Exercise 4. Discussion

1. Name the main stages of English schooling and say if they correspond to the stages of schooling in our country.

2. Discuss the idea of streaming young children and of the Eleven Plus examination.

3. Speak on differences in education provided by different types of school in Britain. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each type.

4. Say if you are for or against private educational establishments. Give you reasons.

Exercise 5. Make up a summary of the text using the following scheme.

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