American educational system

Name of school	Grade	Age	Subjects
Primary or Elementary			Reading, writing, spelling, adding, drawing, singing
		Language, arts, subtraction, spelling, drawing, singing
		Language, arts, social studies, multiplication
		Language, arts, social studies, division
		Language, arts, history, geography, fractions
		Language, arts, history, geography, decimals, science
Junior High			Language, arts, history, geography, algebra, science, foreign language, manual arts, home economics
		Language, arts, history, geography, geometry, science, foreign language, manual arts, home economics
High School			College Prep.	Vocational (professional)	Business
Freshman		English Math Science Physical Biology Physics Chemistry Foreign lang. Spanish, French	English Economics Civics* Math Shop Home Group Economics	English Bookkeeping Civics Math Typing
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Junior College (2 yrs)	Freshman		English, foreign language, history, biology, physical science, sociology or psychology, physical education, ROTC **
Sophomore
College or University (4yrs) (undergraduate)	Junior		Courses in major and minor fields***
Senior
Graduate or Professional School	MA     PhD		One year plus theses     Three years plus dissertation

* Civics - a school subject in which you study how government works and what people’s rights, duties, and responsibilities are as citizens.

** Reserve Officers’ Training Corps служба подготовки офицеров резерва (в гражданских учебных заведениях)

*** Major and minor fields - main and additional subjects

5. Render the text in English.

Школы Британии очень разные. Здесь и старинные частные школы, именуемые по непостижимой причине «публичными», и религиозные, и суперсовременные государственные (а значит, бесплатные) технические колледжи. Частных школ в Англии менее 10 %, но многие состоятельные люди отправляют своих детей именно туда – ведь школы эти очень престижные.

С 5 до 11 лет британские дети идут в начальную школу, где учат английский, арифметику, письмо и начало естественных наук. Оценки выставляются по семибалльной шкале, только не цифрами, как в России, а буквами. Оценки от А до C считаются хорошими.

Для школьников после 11 лет, или, точнее, их родителей, существует широкий выбор школ. Одни предпочтут частные школы – там красивая форма, больше спорта и музыки, железная дисциплина.

В государственных школах порядки посвободнее, форму обычно можно не носить, хотя дисциплина здесь не менее строгая.

В какой бы школе ни учился юный британец, в 16 лет всем положено сдавать одинаковые экзамены. На этом обязательное образование кончается. Затем можно идти работать или продолжать образование.

1.3 Jokes

1.

“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories”.

2.

Teacher: Jack, why are you late to school every morning?

Jack: When I come to the crossing I see the words: “School – Go slow”.

3.

Teacher (looking over Teddy’s homework): I don’t see how it’s possible for a single person to make so many mistakes.

Teddy (proudly): It isn’t a single person, teacher, Father helped me.

4.

When a little boy arrived home from school his mother asked him if he had been a good boy.

He replied: “Sure I was good in school today! How much trouble can you get into standing in a corner?”

5.

Once the teacher asked the pupil: ” Bobby, how many fingers have you?” The pupil answered at once:” I have ten fingers.”

The teacher asked him another question:” Well, if four were missing what would you have then?” – “No music lessons,” was the answer.

6.

One day Pete came home from school and said:” I was the only pupil today who could answer the teacher’s question.”

“Very nice, Pete. And what was the question?”

“The teacher asked who broke the window in the classroom.”

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