Задание 12 Юнит 2 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 6 класс
12 Have you read J.K. Rowling’s books about Harry Potter? Have you seen the films about Harry Potter? What do you know about Hogwarts — the school Harry Potter went to?
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12 Have you read J.K. Rowling’s books about Harry Potter? Have you seen the films about Harry Potter?
What do you know about Hogwarts — the school Harry Potter went to?
Read the text and answer the questions:
Do you agree that Hogwarts is not an ordinary school?
What makes Hogwarts different from ordinary schools?
What makes it similar to ordinary schools?
Life in Hogwarts
Hogwarts is not an ordinary school. It is a school of Magic! But as in many other schools in many countries, the school year there begins on September 1.
Magic starts when students arrive at King’s Cross station. It is a real railway station in London and hundreds of trains leave from its platforms every day. But have you ever seen platform 9%? There are no platforms with such numbers in any railway station. The train to Hogwarts goes from platform 9%! To get there future Hogwarts students have to go through… a wall!
Every Hogwarts student belongs to one of four Houses. As one of the characters says, ‘… your House will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your House, sleep in your House dormitory, and spend free time in your House common room.’
A magic hat called the Sorting Hat decides where a student belongs. There are no exams. There are no tests. The hat does all the work! The hat thinks and talks and sorts out. It scans a student’s knowledge, personality and abilities. All a student has to do is sit on a stool and put on a hat. Seems easy, but you can’t cheat the magic hat!
The academic year starts with a celebration. Students and teachers sit at a long table and enjoy lots of nice food and drinks. Classes begin on September 2 and go on until June. There are two terms in the academic year with two week holiday breaks in between. Like many schools in real life!
Exams are held the first week of June. Results come out the second week of June. There are celebrations at Halloween, Christmas, Easter and at the end of the academic year. At Christmas and Easter holidays most of the students and some of the teachers go home for a break. All teachers and students leave Hogwarts during the summer.
Vocabulary
knowledge
personality
ability
to scan
to cheat
dormitory