Topic: Secondary education in Ukraine.

Basic secondary education covers a period of 5 years past primary

school with 190 school days a year, plus 3 weeks of examinations and
tests at the end of the ninth grade (last year of study). The program of
study is specified every academic year by the Ministry of Education.
This defines the core part of the curriculum for all the schools in the
territory of Ukraine. The curriculam are published in periodicals and
newsletters intended for schoolteachers and administrators.

The annual study load is from 860 to 1030 hours, depending on the
grade. They are divided between obligatory subjects, established by the
Ministry of Education, and optional disciplines, introduced on the school
level (four to five hours a week).

In the fifth grade all the students have classes of the Ukrainian or other
native languages and literature; foreign language and literature;
mathematics and basics of computer science; Ukrainian history; nature
study; music; art; physical training; household arts; and health
education. Other subjects are gradually added on at different levels of
instruction: world history, geography and biology in the sixth grade;
physics in the seventh grade; chemistry in the eighth grade; and so on.

Each subject is taught by a different teacher. The weekly number of

hours devoted to every discipline is from one to five. The schedule is
different every day. All the lessons are attended by the whole class,
which can include 5 to 30 people.

An evaluation is made at the end of each quarter and based on the

students' current performance, as well as final tests. In order to be
promoted to the next grade, students have to complete the requirements
in all the subjects. Otherwise, they have to repeat the previous grade. At
the end of the ninth grade all the students take final examinations, which
culminate the program of basic secondary education. Ninety-six percent
of young people in Ukraine get basic secondary education, most of them
by the age of 15.

Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English using

Topical Vocabulary, Essential Vocabulary and Speech Patterns:
 1. Все, що ти можеш зробити, це сказати правду.

All you can do is to tell the truth.

2. Якщо ти зможеш зберігати спокій, коли всі навколо тебе його

втрачають, то ти будеш чоловіком, мій сину.

If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, you’ll
be a man, my son.