Vocabulary Notes

compulsory — обов’язковий to involve — включати schooling — навчання в школі

trimester — триместр quarter — четверть respectively — відповідно elementary education — початкова освіта secondary education — середня освіта higher education — вища освіта notion — поняття preschool education — дошкільна освіта nursery school — дитячий садок to aim — бути націленим to acquire the experience of association — отримати досвід спілкування

grade — клас drug education — уроки, присвячені вивченню соціальної ролі наркотиків skill — навик goal — ціль curriculum — навчальний план elective subject — предмети на вибір guidance counsellor — порадник щодо професійної орієнтації freshman — новачок sophomore — студент другого курсу коледжу або учень 10-го класу середньої школи junior — студент передостаннього курсу коледжу або учень 11-го класу середньої школи senior — студент останнього класу коледжу або учень 12-го класу середньої школи  majority — більшість   bachelor's degree — ступінь бакалавра  master's degree — ступінь магістра to be engaged in — займатися чим-небудь research work — науково-дослідницька робота 

E x e r c i s e s

I. Answer the questions:

1. At what age do American student start and finish their compulsory education?

2. How are school years called in the United States?

3. The length of the school year varies among states, doesn’t it?

4. What are the basic components of American education?

5. Do all children have to attend nursery school?

6. When does elementary education start?

7. What is main aim of elementary education?

8. The secondary school curriculum doesn’t imply a number of basic subjects, doesn’t it?

9. What are elective subjects?

10. Who is a guidance counselor?

II. Fill the gaps with the appropriate word or word-combination from the text:

1. Education in the United States of America is ........................ for children from the age of 6 till 16 (or 18).

2. The whole school year is .............. ......... three terms/trimesters or four quarters.. 3. The .................... of the school year varies among the states as well as the day length. Students go to school 5 days a week.

4. At the age of 4 or 5 children just ........ .......................... ......... the formal education in a nursery school.

5. The preschool education programme aims to prepare children for elementary school through playing and help them to acquire the ..................... ... ........................... .

6. The education is mostly concentrated on the ................. .............. (speaking, reading, writing and arithmetic).

7. The secondary school ................................ is built around specific subjects rather than general skills.

8. After the first two years of education they can select subjects according to their.......................... ....................

9. The ........................... are to be connected with the students' future work or further education at university or college.

10. Every high school has a special teacher — a ..................... ..................who helps the students to choose these elective subjects.

11. Students in the ninth grade are called ....................... .

12. Students in the tenth grades are ....................... .

13. Students in the eleventh grades are called ................... .

14. Students of the twelfth grades are called ..................... .