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SEPTEMBER 2015
 I like school because ...
I think exam should ...
Breaks are ...
1. Complete gaps 1-6 with the box .
school system   free    independent  
public   fees   private   AN AMERICAN SCHOOL. FOUR EXTRACTS
It is easy to become confused by terminology related
to the British school system. The state provides free
education in state school, but increasing numbers of
parents opt for fee-paying private education which can
be obtained at 'independent schools' . The most
prestigious, and incidentally , most expensive
independent schools in England are known as public
schools. Public schools musn't be confused with private
schools. Although their _____ may amount to as much
as 10 000$ a year, they are not run for profit and are
not privately owned. To add to the confuson, in
Scotland and the USA, the term 'public schools' and
'public-school education' is used to refer to the free
system suplied by the state
2. Choose the odd one
1. get a good mark pass an exam fail the entrance exam
2. pupil principal classmate
3. gifted talented lazy
4. biology music chemistry
5. attend classes go to classes skip classes
6. punctual uncooperative hard-working
3. Chosose the  correct version of the sentence.
1. How often do you have to learn things by heart/memory
2. Have you ever done / played truant?
3. Do you always hand / gey in your homework on time
4. Do you try to make / do your best at school?
5. Do you feel that you have made / done a lot of progrss at
school recently?
6. Do you want to get into / to university in the future?
7. Do you like reading lecture / set books?
READ THIS ARTICLE ABOUT
ARE MISSING FROM THE TEXT
. COMPLETE THE TEXT WITH THE
 MISSINGEXTRACTS FROM OPTIONS
 A-E BELOW. THERE IS ONE EXTRACT YOU WILL
NOT NEED TO USE. 4 POINTS
The first impressions are rather menacing. Visitors must sign in and show
identification before being allowed into the building. 1
__________But what a deceptive first impression! Manhattan
Comprehensive Night High School may be the friendliest, most caring
institution in all of New York City. A school of last resort for many of its
students, it is their best chance to turn their lives around, and make
friends in the process. Manhattan Comp, as it's called, is the first full-
time night high school in America. High school is compulsory until the age
of sixteen in America, but many students drop out, either before or after
they reach sixteen, and before receiving their high school diplomas. Until
now, night education programmes for dropouts only provided the basics
and then awarded an equivalency certificate. 2 _____________ The
students receive an academic diploma, which they say is more helpful in
getting a job than an equivalency certificate. More than sixty percent of
Manhattan Comp's students go on to college. Most of the school's 450
students have either been expelled from or dropped out of other high
schools. Some have been in two or three schools before this one. What
seems to make this school work for these hard-to-place students is the
staff and, most importantly, the principal. All the students call him Howard.
3 ________________ The institution is his own creation. He designed
and opened it in 1989. Most students at Manhattan Comp are between
eighteen and twenty-two years old. You must be at least seventeen to
enrol (in regular day high schools, students are usually between fourteen
and eighteen years old). The classes run from 5 to 11 p.m., Mondays
through Thursdays, with all-day enrichment programmes onSundays
which explore topics like playwriting, art and video
production.4_____________Most students already have some academic
credits from previous schools, so instead of the normal four years in high
school, they spend, on average, between six months and two years
atManhattan Comp
A School terms are ten weeks long, which gives students the opportunity to
take time off for family matters or jobs.
B The community coordinator helps students write resume and find jobs, and
has even brought in clothes for students so they can dress up for interviews.
C As he walks through the building, he greets students by name, asks about
their families or jobs and jokes with them about the lack of variety in the
school cafeteria.
D Such tight security gives one the feeling of entering a prisonor some
other dangerous place.
E But now, Manhattan Comp offers the total high school experience,
complete th a 'lunch' break, physical education and clubs.
 VOCABULARY  AND READING

Some of the very brightest children are transformed by school - they become bored, bullied and alienated, their giftedness
unrecognised. But withdrawing them is not the only answer. Judith Judd talks to the experts. Opposite, Mike Gerrard meets a
five-year-old who is now being successfully taught at home by his unqualified mother WHAT is the best way to teach a
genius? Britain's two youngest graduates for several hundred years - 13-year-olds Ruth Lawrence and Ganesh Sittampalam
- achieved their success by markedly different routes. Ruth was taught at home by her father who then accompanied her to
Oxford University where she studied full-time. Ganesh attended Surrey University at Guildford one day a week, continuing to
follow the normal curriculum with classmates at King's College Junior School, Wimbledon. He still gained a first-class degree
in two years. When his success was announced last month, the university said it was a landmark in the education of gifted
children because he had not sacrificed his childhood for a degree.

Yet, according to the National Association for Gifted Children, many very able children suffer the same fate as Matthew
Crippen (see case study opposite) when they attend school. They become bored, upset and regress. Dr Edward Chitham,
the association's educational consultant, says: 'There are significant numbers of teachers who do not recognise the signs of
giftedness. The effect is that the child feels very alienated. There is a climate of opinion in some schools that children of high
ability can cope on their own.'

On the contrary, after five years at home with parents who have fostered their interests, the arrival at school where teachers
have often not been trained to spot gifted children can be a shock. The association recently dealt with the case of a highly
intelligent little boy who wrote very little because he worked out so much in his head. He was made to stay in at break to write
down his ideas. Children who have a bad experience at school may suffer debilitating doubts about their ability despite the
fact that they have every reason to be confident. So is the answer to take a child out of school and turn to an organisation like
Education Otherwise, which helps home-educators of children with all abilities?

Mike Turner of the National Association for Curriculum Enrichment and Extension, opposes withdrawal. 'We have a very
good education system and we can cater for these children within it.' His own school, St Anne's, Oldland, Bristol, a state
primary, coped with a talented mathematician by inviting sixth- formers from a local secondary school to come in and work at
problem-solving with him. 'We kept in close contact with his parents who felt a balanced personality was developing as well
as an able mathematician.' If we start taking the most able out of school, he says, we have to think about withdrawing the
least able and any child who is exceptionally talented in one area of the curriculum, which could mean 40 per cent of the
school population.

Dr Chitham is also cautious: 'We can support people who take their children out of school but our long-term aim is to try to
change the climate of opinion in schools.' Parents have other options besides withdrawal, he suggests. They can look around
for a more suitable school. That may well be a state school with the right teacher and the right head. A fee-paying school is
not necessarily the answer. 'We get as many agonised calls from parents of children in private schools as we do from state
school parents. The discipline and regimentation of some private schools is not right for a loner who wants to explore on his
own.' This is particularly true of primary schools. At secondary level, some fee-paying schools, with their greater resources,
are able to offer a wider curriculum.

Rather than switching schools, parents can ask for their child to be put up a class, though experts disagree about the merits
of 'acceleration' and some schools and local authorities refuse to allow it. Mr Turner, who aims to spot and foster musical,
sporting and artistic as well as academic ability in his school, says: 'It is better for them to stay in their age group and for the
teacher to organise the curriculum to meet their needs. It is not necessarily a question of giving them harder work, going on
10 exercises beyond everyone else, but of challenging them to higher and wider qualities of thought.' In the case of sport or
music, special provision may have to be made out of school.

Dr Chitham, however, says schools should be flexible about teaching children either full or part-time with an older group.
Since able children do not always develop at the same rate in all subjects, they can be with an older group for maths, say,
but with their own class most of the time. 'A lot of people worry about the social aspects of acceleration but a lot of these
children are not enormously social whichever group you put them in.'

Many gifted children will progress cheerfully through school to a double first at university. Research by Joan Freeman of the
European Council for High Ability suggests that a very able child is not necessarily a very difficult one. Dr Chitham advises
that parents should remember that education is not a race and that children are not there to fulfil their parents' unfulfilled
ambitions. Teaching should be to satisfy the needs of the child

Read the text and match paragraphs 1-8 with summaries A-I . There is one extra summary which you don't need to
use

A. Advice for parents B. School failure C. Good school example D. Parents attitude E. Special tasks
F. Academic succes examples G. Teacher's blindness H. Timetable I. School teaching drawback
 Listening  and speaking

1. Listen to the extract from a radio programme and 2. Listen to a part of the programme and decide which
try to answet the question what it is about. sentences are true and which are not.

a. importance of a literacy
b. current thinking in education
c. stifling pupils' creativity
3. Speaking time: The school of your dreams. What
kind of impovements would you like to introduce to
your school to be your dreamt one?
1. There is the same hierachical sybject
system everywhere on the Earth
2. We do not use maths on daily basis at all
3. According to the speaker dance is equally
important as math
4. The man thinks arts are more imortant
than science
5. Nowadays kids are not very physically
active in a school

Exam task 4. Describe the picture

Pytania dla egzaminującego

1. What exactly the girl is doing on her bed? Why do you think so?
2. Do you like to study with your friends or on your own?
3. Tell me about the last time when you had to use a computer to do your homework

* Do you think high technology is relly needed and helpful in the process of learning? Why?
 Present Simple and Present Continous

Grammar Time

1. Choose the present simple or present continuous for

the verbs in these texts
What's the difference between the Present Simple /
Present Continuous and how to use them. 1 Fletcher ............... (pass) to Coles who .............
(shoot) just over the bar. United ................. (attack)
We use the present simple tense when we want to talk much more in this half...
about fixed habits or routines – things that don’t change. 2 A man ...................... (come) home late one night after
the office Christmas party. His wife
We use the present continuous to talk about actions .................. (wait) for him, and she .............(say) to
which are happening at the present moment, but will him...
soon finish. 3 Now that the rice ................ (cook) you ..................
(chop up) the carrots and tomatoes and you
Compare these two statements: .....................
3. Complete the sentences with SIMPLE PRESENT or
(put)them in a dish...
PRESENT CONTINUOUS:
(present simple) I play tennis. 1. Susan usually ………………. (go) to school by bus,
(present continuous/ progressive) I am playing tennis. but now she
(present simple) ‘I play tennis’ tells us that playing tennis …………………….. (go) to school by train.
is something the speaker always does. It is part of a 2. Mary often ……………….. (read) in bed, but today she
routine or habit. We can call this a permanent situation. is very tired and she
………………………. (not / read).
(present continuous/ progressive) ‘I am playing tennis’ 3. The boys usually ………………… (ride) their bikes to
tells us that the speaker is playing tennis right now. Soon school. They …………….
the game will be over. We call this a temporary situation. ………………… (like / ride) their bikes. They
……………… (be) very naughty
boys. They always …………………… (go) to school late.
Today their teacher
2. Fill in the blanks with PRESENT CONTINUOUS or . …………………. (be) very angry, because they
SIMPLE PRESENT: ………………… (be) late again.
1. The children ………………………….. (play) outside 4. Mary ……………………….. (like / eat) sweets. Every
now. morning she …………….
2. She usually ………………………. (read) the (have) coffee with a lot of sweets and chocolate. For
newspaper in the morning. lunch she and her friends
3. I …………………………… (do) my homework now. often ……………….. (eat) sweets or ice-cream. She
4. I ………………………… (eat) my dinner now. ……………………… (not /
5. ……………………………. (you / want) a pizza? like / eat) fruit or vegetables. She ………………………
6. They …………………………….. (watch) TV now. (eat / never) eggs or ( ON, IN, AT, BY ) in each blank:
4. Use a preposition
7. I ……………………………. (not / like) spaghetti. cheese. Today
a. Jane goes toshe …………………
work …………………. bus.
8. The baby …………………………. (sleep) now.
b. My birthday is …………………. March.
9. My mother usually …………………. (cook) dinner in
c. We are going to meet …………… 4:00 p.m.
the evening.
d. Students must go to school …………….. weekdays.
10. He …………………….. (write) a letter to his pen-
e. Do you do play tennis ……………….. the weekend?
friend every month.
f. His birthday is ………………… November 5th
11. She ………………………. (not / like) football.
.
12. Mary ………………………….. (listen) to music now
g. We have art lesson ……………. Mondays.