Vocabulary notes

endurance – выносливость;

tolerance – сдержанность;

ability – способность;

significant – важный;

height – рост;

weight – вес;

nutrition – питание;

average – средний;

pronunciation – произношение;

delay - задерживать;

row – ряд;

frequent – частый;

enhanced – повышенный;

awareness – информированность;

denounce – разоблачает;

appreciation – высокая оценка;

diminishes – уменьшает;

adolescence – юность;

frustration – чувство разочарования;

inferiority – низшая степень.

SECONDARY EDUCATION

Formerly, at the age of eleven children went to a grammar school or secondary modern school. At present, the state school system has changed at the secondary school level to provide, in place of grammar and secondary modern schools, a single comprehensive school system, where children, at every age, find their own level according to ability. Formerly, children took an exam at the end of their primary education. Then they continued their education at secondary modern or grammar schools. At secondary moderns pupils received a more practical education. At grammar schools the emphasis was academic.

Now about 90 % of all secondary schools are comprehensive. Pupils go there automatically, regardless of intelligence. However, some comprehensive schools do not have the full range of academic courses for six-formers. Pupils can go either to a grammar school or to a six-form college to get the courses they want.

Parallel to the state system, there is a private education system. Private schools charge fees for education. Many private schools are also boarding schools, at which pupils live during the term time.

Since 1988, most sixteen-year-olds have taken the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in five, ten or even fifteen subjects.

The exams are taken as individual subjects, so a pupil may take as many subjects as ability and time permit, and success or failure in one subject will not influence another.

Pupils going on to higher education or professional training usually take A level examinations in two or three subjects. These require two more years of study after GCSE, either in the sixth form of a secondary school or in a separate sixth-form college. Other pupils may choose vocational subjects such as tourism, secretarial and building skills. Subsidized courses in these subjects are run at colleges of further education.

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