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Task 10. Work in pairs or mini-groups, use the information from the text toanswer the following questions: 1. What is the percentage of pupils graduating from private schools? 2. Why are the private schools called public? 3. What are the best private school in the UK? 4. What professions do usually the graduates of private schools get? 5. What kind of people go to a public school? 6. What are the 2 lists of Eton? 7. What do children pass to get a place at a public school? 8. Do public schools provide better education? Give facts to support your opinion. 9. What would be the best way of using the private sector? Task 11. Look through the text 2. Find the words having similar meaning: 1. roughly, almost - 2. of only average quality; not very good – 3. a tiny amount or proportion – 4. the chief support of a system or organization – 5. absolutely necessary – 6. person who makes a formal application for something - 8. an unoccupied position – 9. a person's education, experience, and social circumstances – 10. only –
Task 12. Match the words to make the phrases. Give your own examples: Inadequate Fatally Golden Colonial Deeply Boarding Competitive Preparatory Equally Social Low-income Ablest School Good Teacher Service Status Area Funding Age Attractive Fee Resistant Examination Task 13. Fill in the correct preposition: Due ___ To account ______ Entry _____ Improvement ____ emphasis ____ vital _____ resistant ____ to be located ______ demand ____ to register ____ birth applicant _____ to be destined ____ regardless ____ Task 14. Match two parts of the sentences
(taken from www.busyteacher.org) Task 15. Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases given in the box: Thomas's London Day Schools are a group of family run, _______________ schools for children from the ages of two and a half to thirteen. We offer first class _____________, Lower, ________ and Upper School education in our preparatory schools throughout London. The aim of the coeducational kindergartens is to _____________________ to learn, experiment, play and to gain independence. The ____________ is designed to foster the emotional, physical, social, intellectual and creative development of each child. During their first year children attend three mornings a week, in their second year, five mornings and they are welcome to join afternoon club activities. In the Lower School, where children need a focal point, the form teacher takes most ________________. The education benefits of giving children access to teachers who have a true passion for their subject. French, Music, Drama, Art, Pottery, Ballet and PE are therefore taught by specialist teachers. At Thomas's, Battersea children join Year 3 in their form groups but they are set for Mathematics. In Year 4 the classes are _______________ new social groupings and in Years 4 and 5 the classes are set for Mathematics. Pupils in the Upper School are set, according to ability, in all academic subjects. Scholarship classes are arranged in Year 8. The 13+ Common _________________ taken in Year 8 is for entry into the traditional ______________ for boys, for coeducational schools and for a growing number of girls' schools. Traditionally girls proceeding to London day schools take ______________________. Date: 2015-12-17; view: 2126
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