Чем отличаются школы в США от школ в России. Развитие навыков устной речи.

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Schools  in the USA

Speaking about schools  in the USA I’d like to say that boys and girls start school when they are 6 years old. Most children attend public elementary and secondary schools. The parents do not have to pay for their children’s education in such schools. If a child goes to a private school, his parents pay the school for the child’s education.

Secondary education is compulsory in the USA between the age of 6 and 18. So most students are 18 years old when they graduate from secondary school. At elementary school a student spends 5 or 8 years in different types of schools. High schools provide secondary education.

    Today about half of the high school graduates go on to colleges and universities. Some of them are free and a student at a state university does not have to pay very much if his parents live in that state. Private colleges and universities are expensive, however. Almost half of the college students in the United States work while they are studying. When a student’s family is not rich, he has to earn money for the part of his college expenses.

 

 

Schools  in Russia

The Russian children usually start to go to school when they are seven years old. First the children learn at the elementary school. They visit the elementary school for four years. The children get there the elementary education. It means they learn to count, to read and to write. In the most schools the children also learn a foreign language beginning from the second form.

The fifth form means the beginning of the secondary education. The children learn different subjects, for example Biology, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Informatics. In Russia the nine-year basic incomplete secondary education is compulsory. After that the children have to decide what they will do from now forth. On the one hand, they can continue their schooling and get the complete eleven-year secondary education. On the other hand, they can enter a college giving them the complete secondary education and trade training. After graduating from college the young people became financially independent and can start to work.

 

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- Will you tell how many types of schools there are in America?

 

-Which schools do most students attend?

 

-Which schools are larger: public or private?

 

- It’s interesting to know about home schools!

 

- Please, when do children begin their education?

 

- What subjects do the students study?

 

- Could you tell us when your school day begins?

 

-What is your first lesson, I wonder?

 

- I’d like to know what a “Homeroom period” is!

 

- Where do you have lunch?

 

- How long does your each class last?

 

- What do you do after school, please?

 

-What is a Diversity club?