I. Decide if the following statements are true or false:

1. Pre-school education is compulsory and is fee-paying.

2. Compulsory secondary education begins at the age of 6-8 and is free in state schools and fee-paying in private ones.

3. All the subjects in the secondary schools are obligatory but there are optional courses that students of senior grades can take in addition to the required ones.

4. Extra-curricular activities usually include a variety of sports and drama clubs, interest groups and various school parties.

5. Those senior students who want to get qualification alongside the secondary education, can go to vocational training schools.

6. Post-secondary education isn’t provided by technical schools and colleges of 1st and 2nd Level of Accreditation that train young specialists in different trades.

7. Institutions of higher learning (higher educational establishments) include universities, academies institutes and conservatories.

8. They all hold entrance examinations to select the best applicants to be their pupils.

9. Among the best known higher educational establishments there are Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv Polytechnic University, International Independent University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv State Conservatory, Lviv State University.

10. Doctorate Degree is awarded for an outstanding scientific research.

II. Match the columns:

1. Fee-paying

2. compulsory

3. secondary education

4. lyceums

5. vocational training schools

6. nursery schools

7. scientific research

8. post-secondary education

9. extra-curricular activities

10. outstanding

a) видатний

b) обов’язковий

c) ліцеї

d) платний

e) середня освіта

f) наукове дослідження

g) дитячі садки

h) професійно-технічні училища

i) позакласні заходи

j) післядипломна освіта

III. Find the right equivalent in the text:

1. Дошкільна освіта

2. наукове дослідження

3. післядипломна освіта

4. ліцеї

5. присуджувати

6. ступінь доктора наук

7. ступінь кандидата наук

8. середня освіта

9. кандидати

10. факультативні курси

IV. Correct the mistakes:

1. Pre-school education is not compulsory and is fe-paying.

2. Compulsary secondary education begins at the age of 6-7 and is free in state schools and fee-paying in private ones.

3. Some schools, especially those with language slant, have preparatory clases.

4. In addition, there are schols with technical, computer, mathematical, law, pedagogical and art slant.

5. Extra-curricular activities usually include a variety of sporrts and drama clubs, interest groups and various school parties.

6. Post-secondary education is provided by technical schools and colleges of 1st and 2nd Level of Accreditation that train young specialists in diferent trades.

7. Institutions of higher learning (higher educational establishments) include universities, ecademies institutes and conservatories.

8. They all hold entrance examinations to select the best applicants to be their stydents.

9. Doctorate Degre is awarded for an outstanding scientific research.

10. Post graduate education begins after the last year of studies and usually results in theses on the chosen scientific topic and the degree of the Candidate of Scienci.