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public funds ‒ государственные средства
receive education ‒ получить образование
science study ‒ естествознание
secondary high school = high school ‒ 1. средняя школа 9-12-й классы общеобразовательной школы с четырехлетним сроком обучения (возраст 14-17 или 15-18 лет), дающая также некоторые профессиональные навыки 2. старшая средняя школа 10-12-й классы в школе с трехлетним сроком обучения (возраст 15-17 или 16-18 лет).
take course, v ‒ изучать курс, заниматься на курсах
verbal section ‒ устный раздел
vocational course ‒ профессиональный курс
Phonetic exercises
Read the sentences paying attention to the intonation.
1. School attendance is required in all 50 states.
2. Many parents are involved in working for better quality education in the United States.
3. High school students can take vocational courses that prepare them to perform specific jobs.
4. Tests showed that student achievement in science and mathematics, which had declined during the 1970s, improved during the 1980s.
5. Corporations have also given grants to universities to improve teacher education.
6. Most states and school districts have passed new, more demanding standards that students must meet before they can graduate from high school.
Practise reading the following words and word combinations.
Preschool, nursery, kindergarten, elementary schools, elementary schools, middle school, junior high school, secondary school, high school, public school, private school, require, parents, university, college, high school, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, Europe, Japan, U.S. Department of Education, the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education, issue.
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Grammar exercises
Read the sentences and translate them into Russian. In each sentence point out the Subject and the Predicate.
1. Students may attend either public schools or private schools.
2. Special education (for the handicapped student) is offered in most schools.
3. In nine other states, the minimum age for leaving school is 17.
4. How are American schools changing?
5. The U.S. leads the world in the percentage of the population that receives a higher education.
6. The quality of education in the United States has often been debated in the course of American history.
7. Business organizations, realizing that their future employees needed skills that could be learned in schools, pitched in to help.
8. Educators believe that these and other methods improving education are beginning to show results, and that U.S. schools are at least reversing the previous decline.
9. High school students can take vocational courses that prepare them to perform specific jobs, such as that of a carpenter or an automobile mechanic.
10. Most states and school districts have passed new, more demanding standards that students must meet before they can graduate from high school.
