8. Match the school places with their definitions:

Staff room where do you PE

Hall where you play football and other sports

Gym the teacher’s room

Classroom a big room where the whole school can meet for assembly

Chemistry/physics lab a quiet place to read or look things up

Playground where students go during breaks

Library where you have most of your lessons

Playing fields a special room where you can do expeiments

Lesson 7

Education in the USA

1. Schools. Complete the sentences with the words from the brackets:

(colleges, pupil, education, goal, magnet, private, teacher, alternative, graduates, high, schools)

1. Americans have shown a great concern for __________- since colonial times.

2. Some _________ of Cambridge founded Harvard College in 1636.

3. Today 35% of Americans aged 3-4 attend nursery ______. 95% of 5-years old attend kindergarten

4. 88% of American children attend public schools and 12 % go to ________ schools.

5. About 60% of school graduates enter ______ and universities. There are 300 of them in the USA.

6. Average expenditure per ______ in the US is $4000. Alaska, NY, NJ and Wyoming spend $5000.

7. Average public school ___ earns %22000, in Alaska -$41000.

8. The American _________ school is a combination of all types of schools.

9. ______________children attend the same schools that anyone else does.

10. There are also ________schools which help students who did not do well in traditional schools.

11. Among the most popular are the _________ schools which stress the field of study: maths, arts, etc.

12. Education in America serves the traditional _________ of ‘Americanization’.

2. System of education

(English, students, tests, literate, fields, free, applicants, system, education, universities)

1. The US doesn’t have a national _________________________of education.

2. __________is ‘a national concern, a state responsibility, and a local function’.

3. In 60% of the states, local schools are _________ to choose any teaching materials.

4. There are two ________ for high school students who wish to attend a college or university.

5. The SAT/ Scholastic Aptitude Test/ measures aptitudes in verbal and mathematical ______________.

6. The ACT /American College Testing/ -in_________, maths, social and natural sciences.

7. Each year the SAT is taken by two million _________, and the ACT is taken by one million students.

8. The tests are used by ___________ as standards for comparison, but are not official.

9. Some universities are very selective, Stanford admitted 16 % of _______ and Harvard 17 %.

10. 99% of Americans are ________ but 1/10 of all Americans are functionally illiterate in English.