Upward Bound: First year. Воробьева М.Г - 33 стр.

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B: And then comes the real thing, three years of High School.
That’s the ___, the ___ and ___ ___.
A: And that takes you up to what age? Sixteen or ..?
B: Seventeen, eighteen. It’s quite common to finish High School
with your Diploma at age _____.
A: And how many subjects do you take for your Diploma?
B: Well that depends on what type of Diploma you’re doing.
There are really two types - there’s an _____ _____, which
would prepare you for ___, and there’s a ______, which is
more ________. Both types of Diploma have their ___
subjects, you know, like in the academic Diploma you have
to _____. But then in both cases again the student has some
choice, so in addition there are what’s called _____.
A: ‘Electives’ means you can choose the subject ...?
B: Exactly. exactly. So in the United States you could _____
driving, for example, and learn to drive at High School. Or
typing is another ___ that you can learn in High School,
and that will ______ your Diploma.
Listen to the dialogue and check your answers.
Ex. 6. Read the following short situations. Choose one of them
and make it part of a longer story of somebody’s life at
school/college/university.
1. My education has been rather do-it-yourself. To this day
and cannot recite the alphabet or the multiplication table.
2. He got a bad mark in a handwriting test in write very neatly
and his teacher gave him a bad mark.
3. At school he was brilliant at subjects he cared about, and
had no energy to spare for the others. He always cared
about history and literature.
4. My father didn’t have any great learning. He left school at
twelve to go to work. But he had a good brain.
5. He had had only six months of college.
6. Our youngest son i in his senior yea at Oberlin College in
Ohio. He is majoring in English and his studies include
American writers.
7. David’s new school is a few minutes’ walk away, built specially
for the new development, and with lots of playing fields.

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