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| EDUCATION | AGE | JAPAN | NEW ZEALAND | YOUR COUNTRY | |
| pro-school | nursery | ||||
| primary school | elementary school | ||||
| secondory school | |||||
| college/ university | polytechnic |
a Read the text and answer the questions. (Ignore the gaps.)
1 How many years of compulsory education are there in Japan?
2 What is the name of the last compulsory school?
3 How many students stay at high school for six years?
| The educational system in |apan Japan has nineyears of compulsory education, from the age of six to fifteen. The schools are (1)________ or public, and the (2)_________ year is from April to March. Pre-school education Pre-school education is nor compulsory. Children can go to private or public kindergartens from the age of three. |
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B Read the text again and complete it with the red words in the box.
Children have to start school at six. They go to elementary school for six
Years (to die age of twelve). All the (3)________ are compulsory.
They then spend six years at high school. They still have compulsory
subjects but some subjects are now (4) _______. Students can leave high
School after three years, but about 90 percent stay for another three years,
| academic college of education compulsory intermediate kindergarten optional primary private secondary specialised subjects university с Use the information from the text to complete the table in Ex. ib for Japan. |
To continue their general education but also to take some (5) _________
Subjects, to prepare for work or university.
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Students can go to college or university at eighteen. They have to pay Ices for rheir education and courses usually take four years.
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b What do you know about question words?
1 You have studied three wh- question words that are not in Ex. 4a? Which ones?
2 Match the question words to the words and phrases in the box.
How? the way something works
How long? Where? What? When? How many?
