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1. Students of elementary and junior high school needn’t take an exam to enter the high school.

The Japanese school year starts in April and ends in March.

Japanese students have to study on Saturdays too.

Students mustn’t drive to school.

When students arrive at school, they must take off their shoes and put on school shoes.

One high school class lasts 40 minutes.

In Japan teachers stay in one classroom and students are the ones who move from class to class.

Japanese students’ timetable consists of core subjects and optional courses.

Japanese students have a lot of extra-curriculum activities.

In Japan high school students get the opportunity to take full-time job.

High school students have a duty to clean the entire school building after classes.

Schools in the USA

School usually means the same in American English as in British English, but sometimes it can also mean "university". If a parent says "I work during the mornings when the children are at school", it means that the children are young and are probably at elementary school. But "My youngest son is always at school now" almost certainly means that he has started university in another city.

Many Americans send their children to a nursery school, or to day care or pre-school at an early age. At 5 children go to kindergarten. As in Britain US schools are divided into primary and secondary, but these words are rarely used. It is more common to talk about elementary school, junior high school and high school and the grade, or year group, students are in. Elementary schools teach children from kindergarten till the end of sixth grade. Grades seven and eight are taken at junior high school, and the ninth to the twelfth grades at high school.

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In American English "school" is a

Schools in the USA

School usually means the same in American English as in British English, but sometimes it can also mean "university". If a parent says "I work during the mornings when the children are at school", it means that the children are young and are probably at elementary school. But "My youngest son is always at school now" almost certainly means that he has started university in another city.

Many Americans send their children to a nursery school, or to day care or pre-school at an early age. At 5 children go to kindergarten. As in Britain US schools are divided into primary and secondary, but these words are rarely used. It is more common to talk about elementary school, junior high school and high school and the grade, or year group, students are in. Elementary schools teach children from kindergarten till the end of sixth grade. Grades seven and eight are taken at junior high school, and the ninth to the twelfth grades at high school.

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As a rule "to be always at school" means

Schools in the USA

School usually means the same in American English as in British English, but sometimes it can also mean "university". If a parent says "I work during the mornings when the children are at school", it means that the children are young and are probably at elementary school. But "My youngest son is always at school now" almost certainly means that he has started university in another city.

Many Americans send their children to a nursery school, or to day care or pre-school at an early age. At 5 children go to kindergarten. As in Britain US schools are divided into primary and secondary, but these words are rarely used. It is more common to talk about elementary school, junior high school and high school and the grade, or year group, students are in. Elementary schools teach children from kindergarten till the end of sixth grade. Grades seven and eight are taken at junior high school, and the ninth to the twelfth grades at high school.

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Before five children

Schools in the USA

School usually means the same in American English as in British English, but sometimes it can also mean "university". If a parent says "I work during the mornings when the children are at school", it means that the children are young and are probably at elementary school. But "My youngest son is always at school now" almost certainly means that he has started university in another city.

Many Americans send their children to a nursery school, or to day care or pre-school at an early age. At 5 children go to kindergarten. As in Britain US schools are divided into primary and secondary, but these words are rarely used. It is more common to talk about elementary school, junior high school and high school and the grade, or year group, students are in. Elementary schools teach children from kindergarten till the end of sixth grade. Grades seven and eight are taken at junior high school, and the ninth to the twelfth grades at high school.

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The word "grade" is closest in meaning to

Schools in the USA

School usually means the same in American English as in British English, but sometimes it can also mean "university". If a parent says "I work during the mornings when the children are at school", it means that the children are young and are probably at elementary school. But "My youngest son is always at school now" almost certainly means that he has started university in another city.

Many Americans send their children to a nursery school, or to day care or pre-school at an early age. At 5 children go to kindergarten. As in Britain US schools are divided into primary and secondary, but these words are rarely used. It is more common to talk about elementary school, junior high school and high school and the grade, or year group, students are in. Elementary schools teach children from kindergarten till the end of sixth grade. Grades seven and eight are taken at junior high school, and the ninth to the twelfth grades at high school.

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Grade "four" corresponds to

Read the text below. For each gap choose the correct answer.

Exams or continuous assessment?

How do you feel when you       [write, make, sit, give]an exam? Do you always          [manage, succeed, achieve, pass]in getting all your ideas down on paper, or do you sometimes feel that you are        [doing, having, taking, making] a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who       [sail, go, move, drive] through exams, most secondary school            [colleagues, prefects, classmates, pupils] find them very stressful.

Many teachers are                [recognizable, knowledgeable, aware, intelligent] of the problems their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With continuous assessment, students are given various              [efforts, tasks, achievements, results]to do throughout the year. All their marks are added together to produce a total mark at the        [end, finish, edge, stop] of the year. Students have to      [take, get, make, do]more responsibility for their education because they cannot rely on doing well on just one day. Also, they have more time to          [consider, imagine, think, examine]over their work, meaning that they are able to do their best.