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Exercises

Here are some school subjects but the letters are mixed up. What are the subjects?
Example: MGREAN .@erman oo...
1 TAHMS oo 6 EHGORAGPY owe
2 IRTHOSY oo. 7 RAT eect
3 CNECSED oo. 8 SIMCU oo.
4 NISGEHL oe. 9 EHNFCR oo.
S HOGTCEYNLO owen 10 NEOCCIOSM oo

78.2 How much can you remember? Try to answer these questions or complete the sentences
without looking at the opposite page.
At what age do children go to nursery school?
AWN At what age do they start primary school?
When they go to secondary school it is either a grammar school or a 00.000...
At what age can English and Welsh children leave school?
According to the timetable the foreign languages studied is ................ .
SINAN What happens if children fail all the exams they take at the age of 16?
Not including PE, how many subjects do the children do?
What can they do if they pass all their exams at the age of 18?

78.3 What about you and your country? Answer these questions.
rR Did you go to nursery school?
WN Is the secondary school system similar or different?
Do most children start primary school at the age of five?
nnt What was/is your favourite subject?
How many subjects did/do you study at secondary school?
Did/do you study any subjects which are not included opposite?

How many lessons did/do you have every day?
Tom At what age can you leave school?
Is/was your school a state school or public school?
—= How many terms are there in a school year?

78.4 Complete these sentences with the correct expression.
1 When she was a child she went ...........00.000.00000... in a small village with only fifty other
pupils.
2 He didn’t go to school last term because he was very ill and he had to go

3 I was very tired, so after I finished my homework I went ..........0..00000:00:000008
4 When I left school I went 000.000.0000. and studied medicine.
5 It was a religious school, so we had to g0 0.0... quite a lot.

73.5 The next unit is about university and further education. Can you think of six subjects you
can study at university which you do not usually study at school? Write down your answers,
then turn to the next page.

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