11th form Reading

16.05.2023

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Complete gaps 1–5 with the correct sentences. There is one extra sentence.

LEARNING FROM HOW OTHERS LEARN

If we want to give our children the best education possible, it is sensible to look at the most successful education systems in the world for ideas. Different countries have different ideas about how to ensure that their children maximise their potential. It’s clear that no education system is perfect. (1) ___ So, what, if anything, can we learn from them and are there any similarities between them at all?

The answer appears to be by sheer hard work. Students are under immense pressure to achieve their goals.

The two countries are South Korea and Finland. Korea has a one hundred percent literacy rate. Its students achieve outstanding grades in all kinds of tests compared to those in other countries. How do they do it? (2) ___ Many are taught by private tutors after their normal lessons. Despite large class sizes, there are no problems with discipline. Teachers are respected and teach in a traditional manner with the children paying attention and obeying instructions unquestioningly.

These comparisons can hide faults and ignore positive aspects of poorly performing students but, generally, they give us a good idea of which education systems work best.

Finnish children also do very well in comparison with school students in other countries. However, in Finland, schools combine a short school day and extra after-school activities to develop individual interests and motivate the children. (3) ___ There is much less stress in Finnish schools than in Korean schools but that doesn’t mean that the teaching is unprofessional. Finnish teachers spend less time teaching but more time in professional development. They are highly educated and teaching is a well-respected and well-paid profession.

Alternatively, it could be an interest in what they are learning and a thirst for even more knowledge.

So, what can we learn from this brief look at two countries who are able to educate their children more effectively than we can? Firstly, children need a reason to learn. That may be pressure from parents, peers and society as a whole to succeed. (4) ___ Too often in our schools, we find children who are uninterested in the lessons and parents who are uninterested in their progress.

However, in most studies, two countries have a higher standard of education than others, even though the way they educate their children seems to be completely different.

Politicians and journalists would rather criticise teachers than praise them and, as a result, members of the teaching profession lack the respect they receive in other countries. (5) ___ The opposite should be true. As we can see, Finland and South Korea do share one great similarity. In both societies, people look up to teachers and recognise the importance of the job they are doing. So, let’s have more respect for teachers, students and education in general and, maybe, our children can be challenging those from South Korea and Finland in the future.

The idea is that they will work hard because they want to rather than because they are forced to.

The public are more aware of the length of teachers’ holidays than the enormous pressure they are under in the classroom.

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Read the text and choose the correct answer.

ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS'

On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the church called All Saints'. They were about to disperse, when a smart footstep, entering the porch and coming up the central passage, arrested their attention. Everybody looked. A young cavalry soldier in a red uniform strode up the aisle, with an embarrassment which was only the more marked by the determination upon his face to show none. A slight flush mounted his cheek but he never paused till he came close to the altar railing. Here for a moment he stood alone.

‘Tis a wedding!’ murmured some of the women, brightening. ‘Let's wait!’ The majority again sat down. There was a creaking of machinery with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower. The jack had struck half-past eleven. ‘Where's the woman?’ whispered some of the spectators. The young sergeant was as silent as he was still. The silence grew to be a noticeable thing as the minutes went on, and nobody else appeared, and not a soul moved.

The rattle of the quarter-jack again, its blows for three quarters, caused many of the congregation to start that artificial coughing which betrays a nervous suspense. But the soldier never moved. There he stood, upright as a column, his cap in his hand. The clock ticked on. The women threw off their nervousness, and giggling became more frequent. Then came a dead silence. Everyone was waiting for the end. The sergeant had not yet turned; every woman in the church was waiting to see his face, and he appeared to know it. At last he did turn, and stalked resolutely down the nave, braving them all.

Opposite the church was a paved square. The young man on leaving the door went to cross the square, when, in the middle, he met a woman. The expression of her face, which had been one of intense anxiety, sank at the sight of his nearly to terror. ‘Well?’ he said. ‘O, Frank – I made a mistake – I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said. I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened, for I thought it could be tomorrow as well.’ ‘Shall it be tomorrow, Frank?’ she asked. ‘Tomorrow! I don't go through that experience again for some time’.

‘But after all,’ she expostulated in a trembling voice, ‘the mistake was not such a terrible thing! Now, dear Frank, when shall it be?’ ‘Ah, when? God knows!’ he said, and turning from her walked rapidly away.

When the soldier entered the church,

he tried unsuccessfully to hide his emotions.

the women and girls were waiting for him.

the first thing everyone noticed was his uniform.

he soon stopped feeling embarrassed.