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Task 10. Work in pairs or mini-groups, use the information from the text to
answer 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
| 1. A long time ago when education was a privilege of the rich, | a) as some public schools charge up to £20,000 a year. |
| 2. The first thing you need to have is money | b) as a public school for the children of poor farmers but rapidly became one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. |
| 3. Harrow, the second best public school in the UK after Eton, was founded in 1572 | c) is that it is all about class. |
| 4. Famous Old Harrovians include | d) the only schools where poor people could go were funded by charities. |
| 5. Harrow is an all-boys school | e) but most pupils have to pay about £13,000 a year plus extra charges. |
| 6. There are some free places for gifted pupils | f) such as Latin and Greek, and start learning modern languages earlier. |
| 7. The main thing that you should understand about public education | g) because they do not want their children to be near home as it interferes with their social life. |
| 8. There is also an opportunity to study elite subjects | h) so it can be a bit intimidating for poorer children. |
| 9. I also do not like the idea of single sex education, especially for boys, | i) with 800 pupils. |
| 10. On the negative side, I would certainly mention high fees and that most public school kids have very well-to-do parents, | j) as it can lead to future communication problems with the opposite sex. |
| 11. A lot of upper middle and upper class families traditionally send their kids to full boarding schools | k) Winston Churchill and Lord Byron. |
(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 ______________________.
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| B) Study the table on p. 6 | | | Task 22. Match the following synonyms from the article. |