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Exams
Pupils sit GCSE exams at age 16 or in Year 11. After that they can finish school and get a job. GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education. Preparation for the academic qualification usually takes two years and starts in Year 10. GCSE exams are taken in England, Wales and Northern Ireland but not in Scotland.
Pupils are expected to take around nine subjects. Compulsory subjects include English, Maths and Sciences: Biology, Physics, or Chemistry. Pupils also have to do Computing, P.E. and Citizenship. Optional subjects vary from school to school. In most cases, pupils can take at least one subject from the following four groups: Arts, Design and technology, Humanities and Modern foreign languages.
GCSE is given for each subject separately based on the results of the exams. In 2017, the British Ministry for Education introduced a new GCSE grading system. In place of traditional As, Bs, etc, came a numerical system from 9 to 1, where 9 – is a top grade possible.
Those who want to enter university stay on at school or attend college for a two-year A-Level course with A standing for ‘Advanced’. A-levels are studied between the ages of 16-18 in the sixth form and schoolchildren sit these exams in the last year of school – Year 13. They are the most popular route into UK higher education institutions. To enter one of the top UK universities you’ll usually need 3 or 4 good A-Level grades. Most pupils start by choosing four subjects in the first year of the sixth form and later drop one to be left with three A-level subjects. The choice of A-level subjects depends on which universities and which courses in universities children may go to after they finish school.
The number of pupils per class studying for A-levels is smaller, more attention is paid to class participation which means lots of preparation before each lesson and lots of revision. Written assignments are much longer and there is a lot of reading on the subject. In addition to academic study, students develop independent thinking, study skills, team cooperation, research and analysis.
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Lesson 9. Hobbies
Kate’s project:
Alot ofpeople have hobbies. Hobbies are interesting things that people like
doing in their spare time.
Myfather has a hobby. Hehas amodel railway set. Atiny electric train runs
through model villages and travels through tunnels and over mountains. My father
also enjoys sailing. Hehas areal sailboat that hetakes usout on. Heis teaching
mehow tosail. Mymother collected dolls when she was alittle girl. The dolls
wear costumes from different countries.
Ilike collecting things, too. Icollect comic books, fridge magnets and coins.
Itrade comic books with some ofmy friends and sometimes Ibuy comic books
atstores. Some ofthe very old comic books cost alot ofmoney. Ihave fridge
magnets from all over the world. Whenever my friends goabroad, they always
bring mea magnet asa souvenir from the country they visited. Myfridge iscov-
ered with magnets. Ihave magnets from Egypt, Bulgaria, China, Turkey, Canada,
Brazil and even Belarus. Idon’t have many coins yet, but Ihave avery old dime
from Canada and acoin with ahole init from Denmark.
Myfriend Alex likespainting. Hedoes oil painting. Hehas even sold some
ofhis paintings. Heis agood artist. Sometimes hegives his best works tofriends
onspecial occasions. There isone ofhis paintings inmy room. Myfriend Ann
sews. She likes making clothes for herself and her friends. Ilike wearing a red
dress made byAnn. Maybe Ann will become afashion designer, when she gets
older.
Sometimes people’s hobbies lead them totheir future careers. Choose anin-
teresting hobby for yourself and enjoy it!
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Lesson 7. What makes a house a home?
Learn Active Vocabulary
Listening+reading
Exercises in the Student Book
ex. 2-4 p. 29-30
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WEB-QUEST "Outstanding people"
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/ajax/filters.php
Step 2: Using the Internet, find the following facts about an outstanding person.
When and where was he/she born? What was his/her childhood like? How and where was he/she educated? Why is he/she famous? What did he or she invent and/or discover? With whom did he/she collaborate or work? What are some of his/her famous quotes? When did he/she die? If he or she is still alive, what is he or she currently doing? What other interesting facts did you discover about him/her?
Step 3: Using the information from the resume, create a flyer about your person. It should include a profile including a picture; a series of posts that follow a timeline of the person's life (the posts should include the facts from step; posts that include the occasional graphic, picture, and/or video)
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