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e) Muriel is said to pay less income tax than she should.
f) Until nowadays AIDS is supposed to be an incurable disease although
some patients suffering from it are known to have lived many years with
it.
g) This is the way she is supposed to look like after the facial surgery.
What do you know about public schools in UK? I guess after so many years
of dealing with English you’re believed to know much on this issue.
Anyway, there is some information ahead which possibly will draw your
attention. Read the text through and afterwards try to concentrate on three or
four points, which you haven’t known before. Start with “I didn’t know
that”…
PUBLIC SCHOOLS --- FOR WHOM?
About five per cent of children are educated privately in what is rather
confusingly called public schools. These are the schools for the privileged.
There are about 500 public schools in England and Whales, most of them
single-sex. About half of them are for girls.
The schools such as Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Winchester are famous for
their ability to lay the foundation of a successful future by giving their pupils
self-confidence, the right accent, a good academic background and, perhaps,
most important of all, the right friends and contacts. People who went to one
of the public schools never call themselves the school-leaves. They talk about
“the old school tie” and “ the old boy network”. They are just old boys and
old girls.
The fees are high and only very rich families can afford to pay so much.
Public schools educate the ruling class of England. One such school is
Gordonstoun, which the Prince of Wales, the elder son of the Queen, left in
1968. Harrow School is known as the place where Winston Churchill was
educated, as well as six other Prime Ministers of England, the poet Lord
Byron, the playwright Richard Sheridan and many other prominent people.
Public schools are free from state control; they are independent. Most of
them are boarding schools, in which the pupils spend most part of the terms.
The education is of very high standard and the discipline is strict enough.
These schools accept pupils from preparatory schools at about 11 or 13
years of age usually on the basis of an examination known as Common
Entrance. There are three sittings of Common Entrance every year: in
February, June and November. Scholarships are rarely awarded on the results
of Common Entrance. The fundamental requirements are extremely high, so
at 18 most public schools-leaves gain entry to universities.
Have you found any points, which you’d mention as unknown to you before?
Will you share this information with your classmates?
Do you have anything, sort of public schools in your country?
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