School Leaving Age Set to Rise to 18

(based on http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0701/070118-school.html)

Task 9. Talk to your partner, find out at what age everybody left school and/or university?

Task 10. Spend one minute writing down all of the different adjectives describing pupils character formed at their school leaving age, you may use both positive and negative ones.

Positive	Negative
e. g. mature	stubborn

Task 11. Choose six of these adjectives. Write three sentences using two of them in each. Try to associate them with the school leaving age. Compare your sentences with the work of your partner.

e.g. When pupils reach their school leaving age they are usually mature enough to work individually, but quite stubborn assuming they are rather old to make their own choice.

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Task 12. Sentence starter. With your partner(s), finish these sentence starters. Change partner(s) and talk about the sentences you made.

a) Children in Great Britain finish their ______________________________

b) Two public academic examinations are traditionally __________________

c) American students usually stay _________________________________

d) Pupils who don’t want to have professional training __________________

e) Seniors are _________________________________________________

f) The school year in the United States begins _______________________

g) Young people in my country leave_______________________________

h) Education is ________________________________________________

i) Qualifications _______________________________________________

j) If you were a high student______________________________________

Task 13. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a.	The school leaving age for Europe’s kids is set to rise to 18.
b.	The new plans come into effect in 2030.
c.	Kids will have a choice of two years at school or workplace training.
d.	The additional two years should have positive effects on crime.
e.	A British politician regretted not continuing his education.
f.	In the past, it was easy to get a job without having qualifications.
g.	A teaching union leader said Britain could not afford education.
h.	A 16-year-old said he wanted to stay at school, like his big brother.

Task 14. Synonym match. Match the following synonyms from the article. Use dictionaries if necessary:

a.	pass	1. strengthen
b.	legislation	2. unavoidable
c.	revision	3. laws
d.	bolster	4. government interference
e.	bound to	5. sickening
f.	repellent	6. approve
g.	lamented	7. ignore
h.	inevitable	8. rued
i.	neglect	9. change
j.	Big Brother	10. sure to

TASK 15 Replace the underlined words in the sentences with their synonyms from the Task 14.

1) The government hopes the additional two years of training will strengthen the quality of young Britons.

2) The Prime Minister passed this law concerning educational reforms two days ago.

3) These changes in educational system are unavoidable.

4) You shouldn’t ignore the disruptive behavior of some seniors in this school.

5) A friend of mine regrets not staying on in education.

Task 16. Phrase match. Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

a.	government is soon to pass	1. training
b.	The new plans will come	2. you could walk into
c.	vocational	3. Big Brother
d.	major revision of the compulsory	4. mistakes of the past
e.	bound to	5. legislation
f.	He lamented on his	6. have positive knock-on effects
g.	there were loads of jobs	7. and demands of life
h.	We cannot afford to	8. into effect by 2013
i.	unprepared for the rigors	9. neglect those young people
j.	politicians trying to be	10. education age limit

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