Т ЕМА 6.1. ОСВІТА. ПРОФЕСІЙНІ НАВЧАЛЬНІ ЗАКЛАДИ

TOPIC 6.1. EDUCATION. VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Task 1: read the text to brush up the system of secondary education in the UK.

British education made simple

There are many different types of schools in Britain. There are a state sector and an independent / private sector in education. 93 % of children attend state schools. 7% of children attend private schools.

The state sector consists of: 1) the comprehensive system;

2) The selective system.

The independent / private sector consists of: 3) the private system.

Besides, there are :

• schools for boys only,

• schools for girls only,

• mixed schools – for boys and girls,

• voluntary schools – often with a religious background.

The state sector

At the age of 5 children go to a nursery school. At the age of 7 they go to a junior school. Nursery and junior schools are primary schools. At the age of 11 children get elementary / primary education.

Then children can choose at a comprehensive system or a selective system.

The comprehensive system

90% of children who go to state schools go to comprehensive schools. It means that all children go from one school to another without taking exams, and without being selected according to their abilities.

The selective system

The older system of education is a selective system. Children are selected according to their abilities. Children take exams at the age of 11. These exams are called the 11plus. Those children who pass the 11plus exams successfully go to a grammar school. They are only about 20%. These children get more academic secondary education.

Those children who don’t pass the 11 plus exams successfully go to a modern secondary school. These children get less academic and more vocational education.

Children study at secondary schools till the age of 16 and get secondary education.

The private system

There are three levels of private schools:

1. from the age of 4 to 8: primary schools;

2. from the age of 8 to 13: preparatory (= prep) schools; children take exams;

3. from the age of 13 to 18: public schools.

Most of the preparatory and public schools are boarding schools. It means the children live at schools during the school terms. Public schools are usually very expensive.

Vocabulary

1.	to attend	відвідувати	18.	according to	відповідно до
2.	comprehensive	загальноосвітня	19.	abilities	здібності
3.	selective	вибіркова	20.	grammar school	граматична школа
4.	nursery school	початкова школа у віці від 5 до 7 років	21.	modern secondary school	сучасна середня школа
5.	junior school	початкова школа у віці від 7 до 11 років	22.	vocational	професійна(освіта)
6.	primary school	початкова школа	23.	public schools	приватні школи
7.	elementary/ primary education	початкова освіта	24.	preparatory (= prep) schools	підготовчі школи (готують до вступу у приватні школи)
8.	being selected	бути обраним	25.	boarding school	школа-інтернат

Task 2. Answer the questions to the text.

1. What are two sectors in the British education?

2. What is the percent of children who attend state schools?

3. What is the percent of children who attend private schools?

4. At what age do children go to a nursery school?

5. At what age do children go to a junior school?

6. What education do children get at primary schools?

7. What systems of secondary education are there in the state sector?

8. When do children take the 11 plus exams?

9. In what system are children selected?

10. What types of schools are there in the selective system?

11. what schools prepare children to enter to a public school?

12. What are boarding schools?

Task 3. Choose the correct word.

1. Many children go / goes in for sport.

2. Princes and princesses don’t / doesn’t study at comprehensive schools.

3. A selective system was / were introduced in 1944.

4. A boarding school is / are a school where children live / lives during the terms.

5. Yesterday Tom Wilson takes / took his 11 plus exams.

Task 4. Each sentence has a mistake. Find the mistake.

1. A lot of children attends comprehensive schools.

2. Does you attend selective school or a comprehensive one?

3. Did Oleh studied at a private school?

4. At the age of 5 Sam Johnson did went to a nursery school.

5. Did he went to a secondary modern school?

6. What education did he got after finishing a secondary modern school?

7. Five years ago my sister studies at a prep school.

Task 5. Put the words in the correct order.

1. Children \ according to \ their \ selected \ are\ abilities

2. expensive \ Public \ usually \ are \ very \ schools.

3. of 7 \ go \ they \ to \ the \ school \ age \ At \ a \ junior.

4. comprehensive \ get \ secondary \ and \ schools \ Children \ secondary \ education \ at.

5. attend \ children \ state \ schools \ 93 %\ of .

Task 6. Ask the questions to have the following answers.

1. My best friend attended a comprehensive school.

2. Public school is very expensive.

3. Children get an elementary education at primary schools.

Task 7. Fill in the blanks using a suitable derivative of the words given.

(1) compare (3) generate (5) hard (7) revise (9) exaggerate

(2) child (4) educate (6) agree (8) examine (10) behave