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1. Read and translate the text

Education in Britain

The text describes the school system in England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems.

In England and Wales nowadays many children go to nursery school when they are three or four. When they are five, they go to primary school and they stay there for six years. At the age of eleven, they start secondary school. Students have to study between the ages of five and eighteen. Most students study at the same secondary school for seven years, but some leave school at the age of sixteen and, for example, study at college or train for a job for two more years.

At the age of eighteen or nineteen students can go to university, which usually lasts three or four years.

Some parents pay for their children to go to a private school, but most students go to state schools. Most state schools are mixed - they are for boys and girls - but some are single-sex for either boys or girls only.

Exams

There are different types of exams in British schools. All students have to study English, Maths and Science until Year Eleven. At the end of that year, at the age of sixteen, students take GCSE exams*. Students take GCSEs in five to ten subjects, so they have to revise a lot before their exams. If students want to go to university, they take A level exams*. Most students take two or three A levels, but some do four. If students don't pass their exams or don't do well and get bad marks, they can always retake the exams.

 

GCSE exams (GCSEs) - General Certificate of Seconday Education

A level exams (A levels) - Advanced Level (end-of school exams)

2. The words by heart and for dictation:

go to university

head teacher

higher education

IT (Information Technology)

IWB (interactive whiteboard)

kindergarten

last

leave school

Maths

miss a class

mixed school

nursery school

pass an exam

PE (Physical Education)

Physics

playgroup

primary school

private school

pupil

retake an exam/a test

revise for an exam

take/sit a test

take/sit an exam