Упр.6 Unit 4 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс
6. Read the text “Private Schools in the UK” and mark the statements after it as true (T), false (F) or not stated (NS).
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6. Read the text “Private Schools in the UK” and mark the statements after it as true (T), false (F) or not stated (NS).
Private Schools in the UK
The school system in the UK can proudly call itself one of the most complicated in Europe. Not only it is not the same across the kingdom but also the number of changes that have taken place in the last 50 years have made it equally confusing for a British person and for a foreigner.
Let’s start from the beginning. There are two types of schools in the UK: state schools where education is free and private schools where you have to pay. The only thing is that private schools in Britain are called... public. Why? A long time ago when education was a privilege of the rich, the only schools where poor people could go were funded by charities (organizations that collect money for people in need). As it was public money, the schools for the poor were called public schools. Logical, isn’t it? However, in the course of history many public schools became very successful and turned into expensive private schools but the conservative British continued to call them public schools. Until recently public schools were either all-boys or all-girls. Public schools can be full boarding (pupils live there all academic year except for holidays), day (pupils go home every day) and mixed (some pupils go home every weekend and some stay).
If you want to become a public school pupil, the first you need to have is money as some public schools charge up to 20,000 pounds a year. There are some grants for bright pupils as well but the places are few and the competition is very strong. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that only six percent of the people in the UK can afford it. The other important criterion is that you have to belong to the right class as the class system in Britain is still very important. Mostly, public education is a privilege of the upper middle and upper classes.
1) The school system is different in different parts of the country.
2) Nowadays education in Britain is the privilege of the rich.
3) Now public schools are schools for poor people in Britain.
4) The first public school in Britain was founded in 1572.
5) All public schools in Britain are single-sex schools.
6) Public education is mostly education for the privileged.