Mark stresses in the following words.

1). System, expensive, education, private, majority, population, infant, intelligence, proportion, junior, ability, examination, secondary, compulsory, qualification, mandatory, prestigious, tuition.

2). Rest-of-world, headquarter, best-known, shipbuilding, state-sector, limestone, state-run, coastline, twenty-four, citizenship, south-east, membership, north-east, schoolchildren.

3). To educate – education, to increase – increase, geography – geographical, to decrease – decrease, exam – examination, to finance – finance, responsible – responsibility, to report – report, industry – industrial, to import – import, agriculture – agricultural,

Grammar exercises

Write the following adjectives in the comparative and superlative degree.

1) high, cool, long, warm

2) big, wet, hot, thin

3) large, close

4) heavy, busy, dry, easy

5) popular, expensive, considerable, pleasant

6) good, bad, much, many, little, old

Use the correct form of the adjectives given in brackets.

1. Great Britain is the ninth (large) island in the world, and the (large) European island.

2. Great Britain is the fourth (populous) country in Europe.

3. The efficiency of education in Britain is much (high) than in many other countries.

4. The (big) the plan of an enterprise the (big) the profit it gets.

5. Economic historians are in agreement that onset of the Industrial Revolution is (important) event in the history of humanity.

6. The economу of GB is one of (large) national economу in the world.

7. Americans have (high) income per hour worked.

8. Oxford is as (famous) as Cambridge. But Oxford is (old) than Cambridge. It is one of the (old) and (prestigious) universities in the world.

9. The Tower is one of (ancient) buildings of London. It is visited as (often) as St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Form Participle I of the following verbs.

To divide, to begin, to go, to study, to take, to want, to pay, to enter, to leave, to fall, to rise, to perform.

Make the following sentences negative and interrogative. Ask special questions about the words in italics.

1. The students are translating the text.

2. The students were translating the text when the tutor came into the classroom.

3. At 10 o’clock the students will be translating the text.

Complete the following sentences using Continuous Tenses.

1. Great Britain (to give) economic assistance to developing countries.

2. We (to stay) in London for about a week.

3. All members of his party are sure he (to appointed) as a Prime Minister.

Open the brackets using the Active or the Passive Voice.

1. Britain’s schools (to divide) into state and private.

2. British children (to begin) to go to school at the age of 5.

3. Private schools in England (to pay) charges for.

4. The Government (to introduce) universal state education in 1870.

5. The majority of children (to teach) in state-sector schools.

6. Cambridge and Oxford (to attend) by graduates of grammar schools.

7. Compulsory education in Scotland first (to legislate) in 1496.

8. The fees for Scottish students (to abolish) in 2001.

9. Knowing foreign languages (to give) greater priority.

Insert articles where necessary.

1. Schools in … England are supported from … public funds paid to … local education authorities.

2. … highest academic degree is … Doctor of Philosophy.

3. … primary school may be divided into two parts: … infants and … juniors.

4. … essential part of the curriculum of all British schools is English and mathematics.

5. In … USA … last two years of elementary and … first year of secondary school are combined into … junior high school.

Insert prepositions.

A. 1.The general pattern … education … the USA is an eight-year elementary school, followed … a four-year high school.

2. The school year is nine months … length, beginning … September and continuing … the first of June, … a vacation … a week or two … Christmas time.

3. … Great Britain most children start school … 5 … a primary school.

2. … Britain comprehensive schools differ … town … town and even … the town.

3. I’m not sure that only people … this area can join … our local library.

B. Let's outline the basic features … public education … Britain. Firstly, there are wide variations … one part of the country and another. … most educational purposes England and Wales are treated as one unit, though the system … Wales is a little different … that of England. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own education systems.

Secondly, education … Britain is class divided and selective. The first division is … those who pay and those who do not pay. The majority of schools in Britain are supported … public funds and the education is free. They are maintained school. But there is also a considerable number … public schools. Parents have to pay fees to send their children … these schools.

Ask all possible questions.

1. A year ago there were more than thirty colleges in the Cambridge University.

2. It usually takes four years to meet the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree.

3. My son has just decided to leave school at 16.

Use the proper degree of comparison.

1. Cambridge is the second (old) university city in Britain.

2. In the old times the students life was (strict) than today.

3. The state colleges and universities charge a fee for tuition or registration. This fee is (high) for those who come from outside the state.

4. The (high) academic degree is the Doctor of Philosophy.

5. The elementary schools tend to be small. The high schools are generally (large) and accommodate pupils from four or five elementary schools.

Vocabulary and Comprehension Exercises

Give English equivalents.

Разделенный по классовому признаку, ходить в школу, изучать, сдавать экзамены, платная школа, закончит школу, вводить всестороннее государственное образование, обязательное образование, по способностям, несмотря на, отбирать учеников, разделенный по классовому признаку, платить за обучение, отменять, контролировать (администрировать).

Give Russian equivalents.

Infant schools; junior schools; secondary schools; grammar schools; modern schools; comprehensive schools; fee paying; academic ability; comparable results; compulsory education; tuition fees; graduate endowment charges.