Task 2. In class discuss the following

1 Do you think Bruce Cox's children are getting a good education?

2 Did you enjoy your education? Bruce Cox said, 'I think many people didn't do very many activities (at school) for the enjoyment and pleasure of doing them.'

Is this true for you? Is it the role of schools to provide 'enjoyment and pleasure'?

3 What do you understand by the 'carrot and stick' motivation?

4 The interviewer said, 'I would have loved to have been educated like that.'

What about you? Would you have liked your parents to be your teachers?

5 Would you like to educate your children at home?

The activity is taken from Liz and John Soars Headway Intermediate (Old edition) Student’s book, pp. 58

III. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND

BRITISH SYSTEM OF EDUCATION

1. Comment on the following quotations:

1. The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. (Claiborne Pell)

2. Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. (Clive James)

Reading

Pre-reading Tasks

Task 1. Compare the terms used in the USA and Britain

THE USA	BRITAIN
Public school (a school paid by the government)	Public school (an expensive private school) (Eton, Harrow, Winchester)
Kindergarten (the first year of school at the age of 5)	Kindergarten – nursery for children aged 4 or 5
Elementary school (grade school) - children aged between 5 and 11	Primary school - children aged between 5 and 11
Grade	Form
Junior high school (12/13-14)	Secondary school (11-18)
High school (14-17)	Sixth form college
To graduate from school	To finish school
A university = a college = a school (gives a degree)	A college does not give a degree. A university gives a degree.
A graduate course = a course taken after graduation from the university or college	A post graduate course
To be in School / College / University	To be at School / College / University
A freshman	A first year student
A sophomore	A second year student
A junior	A third year student
A senior	A fourth year student
A semester – one of the two periods that a year is divided into at schools and universities	A term - one of the three periods a year is divided into at schools and universities
First semester	Autumn term
Second semester	Spring term
A quarter – one of the four main periods a year is divided into at some American schools	Summer term
Instructor	Lecturer
Dean	Professor
Department	Faculty
Student	Pupil
To take a class (in business)	To take a course (in business)
To flank out – to leave school before you have finished it	To drop out – to leave school before you have finished it

Task 2. Discuss the questions.

1. What do you know about the systems of secondary education in Great Britain and America?

2. What are their similarities? What about differences?

Task 3. Work in pairs. Student A will read the text about Great Britain, Student B – about the USA. Ask each other questions given below the texts in order to exchange information (Student B asks Student A questions about Great Britain, Student A asks Student B questions about America).

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