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1 Study the news excerpt from ‘Economist’ and paraphrase the information presented, using the ‘Impersonal Passive Structures’. Refer to the tips if necessary.
‘China has made English compulsory in school from a young age, but teachers are overstretched and mostly underqualified, says Jing Zhao, a visiting researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Just over 1 m English-language staffs teach over 200m Chinese pupils, a heroic, if mind-boggling, teacher-pupil ratio. In Guangdong, an affluent province that Ms Jing has studied, just 257 of 53,500 English-language teachers had master’s degrees. Many speak a scripted English in class and prefer to focus on the pen-and-ink grammatical work on which their pupils are examined. “They’ve been teaching for the tests all their career,” she says.’
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21643148-why-are-countries-failing-so-badly-teaching-engl
Impersonal Passive Structures
The following structures can be used with reporting verbs:
Plurilingualism is claimed/said/thought to be the peculiarity of most regions around the globe.
Learners’ achievement levels are believed/reported/thought to have improved.
It is thought/expected/said/understood that internationalization of the education will be beneficial for the country.
There are thought/expected/said/known to be expenses on the financing of school education.
Read the sentences and choose the correct structure.
1. This year the results of the test are to be estimated / are estimated to have improved.
2. It is argued / is to be argued that educating children at an early age will be effective.
3. There is supposed / is to be supposed to be a creative approach to constructing models.
4. There are being reported / are reported to have been a record number of learners studying Chinese this year.
5. Language education is expected to become / will become an important part of the school’s policy.
6. It / There is assumed that the subject will provide great opportunities for learners.
7. Over 300 graduates are being calculated / are calculated to have participated in the State Test.
8. Your catalogue is guaranteed will be delivered / to be delivered within a week.
9. The teacher is believed to have used / to use Information-and-Communication Technologies to organize students’ independent work.
10. There / It is known that Intercultural Communication will be the part of the curriculum.
Write a passage about languages taught at school in the Republic of Kazakhstan, using at least eight examples of impersonal passive structures.
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