New words:
• Compulsory – принудительная
• Primary school – начальная школа
• ordinary – обычный
• comprise – включать
• curriculum – учебный план
• Secondary school – средняя школа
“My primary school”
My name is Aidar. I am 14 years old and now I am living in Astana, the
capital of Kazakhstan. I started school at the age of seven. It was an ordinary
school in Almaty where my family lived before. After four years of primary
school I went to secondary school .Primary and secondary schools comprise
eleven years of study. Nine years of classes are compulsory in our republic.
The primary school curriculum included such subjects as Kazakh, Maths
,Russian, Drawing, Physical training and Music. We had also Nature classes.
Our school was not an English school but we had English classes which
started in the second form.
Our school year began on the first of September and ended in May. It lasted
9 months .We had 4 holidays a year :winter ,spring, summer and autumn.
On the first of September we got acquainted with our teachers and had our
first lessons. Every lesson lasted fourty five minutes. Every we had 4 or 5
lessons. We usually had a lot of homework and it took us 2 hours to do it.If
we didn’t know how to do our homework we usually asked the teachers for
help.
Answer the questions:
1.What age did Aidar start school at?
2.When did he go to secondary school?
3.How many years of study do primary
and secondary schools comprise?
4.How many years of study are
compulsory in our republic?
5.What subjects does the primary school
curriculum include?
6.When does the school year begin and
end?
1. After years of primary school we went to secondary school.
a) six b) five c) four
2. Начальная школа
a) Primary school b) Secondary school c) Modern school
3. My favourite subjects Kazakh, Russian and English.
a) am b) is c) are
4. Our school year begins the first September.
a) on/of b) at/in c) by/for
5. The school year in our country ends in .
a) September b) June c) May
6. Pupils have holidays a year.
a) 4 b) 5 c) 3
7. Nine years of classes are in our country.
a) ordinary b) compulsory c) secondary
8. Every lesson lasts minutes.
a) thirty b) fifty five c) forty five
9. Учебный план
a) curriculum b) comprise c) compulsory
10. Primary and secondary schools together comprise years of study.
a) ten b) eleven c) twelve
Answers :
1 C
2 B
3 C
4 A
5C
6 A
7B
8 C
9 A
10B
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