2. Read the sentences paying attention to the intonation.

   1. School attendance is required in all 50 states.

   2. Many parents are involved in working for better quality education in the United States.

   3. High school students can take vocational courses that prepare them to perform specific jobs.

   4. Tests showed that student achievement in science and mathematics, which had declined during the 1970s, improved during the 1980s.

   5. Corporations have also given grants to universities to improve teacher education.

   6. Most states and school districts have passed new, more demanding standards that students must meet before they can graduate from high school.

3. Practise reading the following words and word combinations.

Preschool, nursery, kindergarten, elementary schools, elementary schools, middle school, junior high school, secondary school, high school, public school, private school, require, parents, university, college, high school, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, Europe, Japan, U.S. Department of Education, the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education, issue.

Grammar exercises

4. Read the sentences and translate them into Russian. In each sentence point out the Subject and the Predicate.

1. Students may attend either public schools or private schools.

1. Special education (for the handicapped student) is offered in most schools.

2. In nine other states, the minimum age for leaving school is 17.

3. How are American schools changing?

4. The U.S. leads the world in the percentage of the population that receives a higher education.

5. The quality of education in the United States has often been debated in the course of American history.

7. Business organizations, realizing that their future employees needed skills that could be learned in schools, pitched in to help.

8. Educators believe that these and other methods improving education are beginning to show results, and that U.S. schools are at least reversing the previous decline.

9. High school students can take vocational courses that prepare them to perform specific jobs, such as that of a carpenter or an automobile mechanic.

10. Most states and school districts have passed new, more demanding standards that students must meet before they can graduate from high school.

5. Define the correct word order in an English sentence.

1. играют / вечером/ они/ в парке/ в футбол

2. Свою/ отдал/ брат/ коллекцию/ мне

3. в классе/ что-то/ они/ шумно/ обсуждают

4. мы/ всем/ родственника/ приглашения/ отправили

5. в кафе/ встречались/ они/ вчера вечером

6. Мама/ мне/ письмо/ передала/ от друга

7. вёл/ машину/ он/ медленно

8. На уроке/ мы/ слова/ вслух/ читали

6. Make up sentences out of the suggested words.:

1. she, won, easily, the game

2. tennis, every weekend, Ken, plays

3. quietly, the door, I, closed

4. his name, after a few minutes, I, remembered

5. a letter to her parents, Ann, writes, every week

6. some interesting books, found, we, in the library

7. across from the park, they, a new hotel, are building

8. to the bank, I, every Friday, go

9. on Saturday night, didn't see, at the party, you, I

10. brightly, is, shining, sun, the

11. in, lives, my, sister, New York

12. a, became, doctor, good, Mary

13. a, decided, go, on, picnic, to, we