24/02/2011

British Schools -Listening Practice

 
These days we are studying the language of Schools and Education in class. Here you have some further and useful practice.

Enjoy!

Early years =  Kindergarten (KG), Early childhood education, Nursery school, Pre-school 4 or 5 and younger. Kindergarten is ages 4/5
Primary = Elementary Approximately ages 4-11
Key stage 1  (KS1) = Early elementary Approximately ages 5-8
Key stage 2 (KS2) = Upper elementary Approximately ages 9-11
Secondary  = Middle and high school Approximately ages 12-18.
A level Advanced Placement Tests taken at the end of high school/secondary school usually for university bound students
GCSE = O-level, Junior Certificate Tests taken at 16 by UK and international students
Further education = Upper high school Ages 16-18

Education in Britain

The General Certificate of Education or GCE is an academic qualification that examination boards in the United Kingdom confer to students.
In the past the GCE traditionally comprised two levels: the Ordinary Level (O Level) and the Advanced Level (A Level). More recently examination boards also offer an intermediate third GCE level, the Advanced Subsidiary Level (AS Level)
O level: Formal name Ordinary level  (O level maths)
  • ·      a pass in a particular subject at O level  ‘He has eight O levels’
  • ·         basic level of the General Certificate of Education, now replaced by GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education, -similar to our ‘ESO’)


Now...Watch this interesting and easy-to-understand video. Then listen ONLY and complete the gaps in the text below.
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At the very beginning the presenter asks if you go to school on _____1____ and if you  wear a ___2___.
 Most children ___3___ school at the age of 5. Then at 11 they have to go to ___4___ until the age of 16, when they take their GCSE ___5___.
After these, about ___6___ of students leave school and the others stay  for two more years and take A level exams or ___7___ level examinations.
Then 20% of them go to university and 20% go to another kind of education and ___8___...
Most schools are ___9___ i.e. for both boys and girls.
On average there are  __10__ students in a Primary School class and ___11___ in a Secondary School class.
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The presenter goes to six different classes: 1st is a ____12___ class; 2nd ___13__, 3rd ___14___, 4th ____15___, 5th ____16___ and 6th ___17___
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Other subjects are Information technology, ___18___, ____19____English___20___, and Religion.
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At lunchtime there is a break of an hour. Some students stay at school and have their lunch in the school___21___. After school they do different activities...

Schools like Eton are ___22___. Some of them are also ___23___schools…

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6 comments:

  1. Dulce24 February 2011 at 20:45

    ANSWERS:

    1 Saturdays
    2 uniform
    3 start
    4 Secondary
    5 examination
    6 thirty %
    7 Advanced
    8 training
    9 mixed
    10 twenty-seven
    11 twenty-two
    12 maths
    13 art
    14 food technology
    15 design and Technology
    16 science
    17 foreign languages
    18 history
    19 geography
    20 literature
    21 canteen
    22 independent
    23 boarding

    :-)
    Easy?
    Please leave a COMMENT!

    Nice weekend
    Dulce

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  2. Joan of Arch27 February 2011 at 10:39

    Well, on this occasion I only got two wrong answers.It's not at all bad, is it? ;-)

    Also I'd like to say that I've liked the video very much, not only because it's easy to understand but also it shows a different way to teach with subjects like food technology.
    I think it would be a great idea to introduce this subject in our schools.

    See you
    Joan

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  3. PAMELA ANDERSON27 February 2011 at 22:01

    This listening is easier than other day but when it is going to the ehd I was lost a little. This video is talking about things that I know very well.

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  4. George Washington28 February 2011 at 15:02

    Hello, I had had this exercise. It's easy, I think. I had understood most of words. I had three mistakes. Not bad.

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  5. Ingrid Bergman15 March 2011 at 20:23

    Hi:

    This listening was easier than others. I understood most of the words.
    I had four mistakes. I think is not bad.
    I would like to practice listening likes the dangerous sport.Because I think is more difficult and good to practice.

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  6. anne boleyn20 March 2011 at 11:09

    I had 20/23 it´s great,isn´t it?.I have found this listening very very easy.I have enjoyed so much the video, it´s easy to understand and, from muy point of view, I prefer British Schools in some aspects.On the one hand, I like their subects, they are more enjoyable and pratical.But, on other hand, I prefer the timetable of Spanish school,I wouldn´t like to finish school at 4.00 o clock,it´s crazy!

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