4. Share your ideas about how your parents and you can support the school:

In some poor schools, teachers and principals are so overworked that parent conferences are nearly impossible to arrange and the teachers are unable to give more than slight individual attention to a child.

In this case a parent may be a supplementary teacher for the child. Parents should le the child understand that during the teaching period they are going to be objective, unemotional, strict, friendly, like a good teacher. The child is to enter willingly into the plan for supplementary teaching. If it is done against his will, results will be poor.

Parents must show that they themselves have a zest for learning: read, talk about books, keep pen the new ideas, provide trips to museums, theaters, have as many interesting visitors as they can in their home.

The family must keep complaints about school in proper prospective. Occasionally, reports from school come home in a form contrary to the fact. If a serious injustice have been done parents have to suspend judgment until they’ve had a chance to check the facts.

5. Complete the sentences with words from the brackets:

(Teachers, life, problems, homework, view, facts, lesson, question, people)

1. Teachers sometimes act as if they never went to school and had ___________.

2. He doesn’t see our point of _________ and after demands too much of us.

3. Teachers try to scare the ____________ into us and not teach.

4. When you ask a ________ they ignore it or say, ‘I’ll pick that up later’ and never do.

5. _____________seem to get the third or fourth person who has done something wrong, and not the first.

6. They accuse a person too quickly without finding out all the _______.

7. They don’t punish people who don’t do their __________ but complain to people who work hours that it isn’t good enough.

8. They are too fussy, everything has to be strictly right, and they ask you about your private _____ on questionnaires.

9. Most of them will not be criticized, although they love to criticize other________.

6. Complete the dialogue with the correct form of the verbs in the brackets:

(fail, pass, revise, re-sit)

1. Hi, Dale, I’m so happy. I ___________- all my exams. I even got a great A in maths.

2. I didn’t too badly, but I ___________ chemistry. I’ll have to _________ it next term.

3. You spent ages on chemistry. What happened? I just didn’t ________ hard enough.

7. Use the following verbs and words to complete the text:

(applied, university, passed, degree, got, secondary, sat, college, doing, primary, graduated, nursery)

1. When I was very young I went t a play group and then a ___________ school.

2. When I was 5, I started at the local ____________________ school.

3. My primary school was mixed, but when I was 11, I went to all-boys ________ school.

4. After five years at secondary school, I decided to go to six form_____________.

5. In my last year in the six form I _______ exams in 4 subjects- physics, maths, geography and chemistry.

6. I_________ them all and _______ A grades in physics and maths.

7. I ___________ for a place at ___________ to study astronomy.

8. It was a three-year __________ course.

9. I _____________ with first class honors.

10. I thought about ___________________ a postgraduate degree, but decided to earn some money.