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Lesson 3

1. Read and translate the text.

Active Vocabulary:

  1. available - доступный

  2. academic grammar schools - средняя классическая школа

  3. a comprehensive school - общеобразовательная школа

  4. selective - выборочный

  5. to pass an exam - сдать экзамен

  6. unfair – несправедливый

  7. craft - деревообработка

  8. ability – возможность

Secondary education in Great Britain

Since the 1944 Education Act of Parliament, free secondary education has been available to all children in Britain. Indeed children must go to school until the age of 16, and pupils may stay on for one or two years more if they wish.

Secondary schools are usually much larger than primary schools and most children – over 80% - go to a comprehensive school at the age of 11. These schools are not selective – you don’t have to pass an exam to go there. In 1965 the Labor Government introduced the policy of comprehensive education. Before that time, all children took an exam at the age of 11 called – the ‘11+’. Approximately the top 20% were chosen to go to the academic grammar schools. Those who failed the ’11 +’ (80%) went to secondary modern schools.

A lot of people thought that this system of selection at the age of 11 was unfair on many children. So, comprehensive schools were introduced to offer suitable courses for pupils of all abilities. Some LEAs (Local Education Authority) started to change over to comprehensive education immediately, but some were harder to convince and slower to act. There are a few LEAs who still keep the old system of grammar schools, but most LEAs have now changed over completely to non-selective education in comprehensive schools.

Comprehensive schools.

Comprehensive schools want to develop the talents of each individual child. So they offer a wide choice of subjects, from art and craft, woodwork and domestic science to the sciences, modern languages, computer studies, etc. All these subjects are enjoyed by both girls and boys. Pupils at comprehensive schools are quite often put into ‘sets’ for more academic subjects such as mathematics or languages. Sets are formed according to ability in each subject, so that for example the children in the highest set for maths will not necessarily be in the highest set for French. All pupils move to the next class automatically at the end of the year.

Exercises:

1. Read the following words paying attention to the pronunciation:

parliament, available, secondary, comprehensive, selective, Labor, policy, approximately, unfair, suitable, courses, abilities, Authority, immediately, individual, choice, domestic, science, languages, necessarily, automatically.

2 .Give Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:

Education Act of Parliament, free secondary education, not selective, to pass an exam, the policy of comprehensive education, the academic grammar schools, to offer suitable courses, Local Education Authority, the talents of each individual child, the talents of each individual child, woodwork and domestic science, move automatically.

3. Give English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

свободное среднее образование, сдать экзамен, примерно 20% лучших, различные способности, предлагать широкий выбор, деревообработка, в соответствии со способностями по каждому предмету, переходить автоматически.

4. Express agreement or disagreement with the following saying:

Model: Yes, you are right (it’s correct).

No, you are not right (you are wrong).

1) Since the 1944 Education Act of Parliament, free secondary education has been available to all children in Britain.

2) Secondary schools are selective – you have to pass an exam to go there.

3) In 1956 the Labor Government introduced the policy of comprehensive education.

4) All children took an exam at the age of 11 called – the ’11-’.

5) Comprehensive schools don’t offer a wide choice of subjects.

6) All pupils move to the next class automatically at the middle of the year.