intended to display their utter disrespect for me. They seemed to have no sense of decency, these children; everything they said or

did was coloured by an ugly viciousness, as if their minds were forever rooting after filth. "Why, oh why," I asked myself, "did

they behave like that? What was wrong with them?"

EXPLANATORY NOTES

1. R.A.F.: Royal Air Force.

2. old Man: here School Headmaster.

3. bleeding: vulg. bloody

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY

Vocabulary Notes

1. school л 1) an educational establishment for children, as a nursery school, primary school, secondary school, boarding

school, compulsory school age, e. g. The school leaving age has been raised to 16. Most schools in England take football

seriously. 2) (no article) the time when teaching is given; the process of being educated; lessons, e. g. He was very bright at

school. It was nearly time for school. He left school when he was fifteen. 3) all the pupils in an educational institution, e. g. The

school will have a holiday tomorrow. 4) any institution giving specialized instruction, either to children or to adults; a specialized

institution which forms part of a university, as a ballet school, law school, London School of Economics. 5) a group of persons

having the same ideas about a subject, as the Dutch school of painting.

Note: The English for «учиться в школе» is 'to go to school', 'to be at school' and not 'to study at school', e. g. He learnt to read before he went to

school. Mother and Mrs. Dames had been at school together.

schooling n education obtained at school, e. g. Schooling is compulsory in Russia.

scholar n a learned and erudite person, especially one who is learned in the classical languages and their literature, e. g. Dr.

Grant is a distinguished scholar.

scholarship Л a sum of money given by an individual, a collective body, or the state, to enable a person to study, e. g. He has

won a scholarship to Cambridge.

2. advantage n 1) smth. useful or helpful, smth. likely to bring success, esp. success in competition with another or others, e. g.

The advantages of a good education are great. The shallowness of the seas round the British Isles is in some ways an advantage, to

have (gain, win, give smb.) an advantage (over smb.) to have a better position or opportunity, e. g. He has an advantage over other

students, he is well-read, to have the advantage of to be in a better position because of smth., as to have the advantage of being

modern (being cheap, etc.), e. g. He has the advantage of being young. 2) benefit, profit; to take advantage of smth. to make good use

of smth., to profit by smth., as to take advantage of an opportunity (of smb.'s weakness, ignorance, absence, etc.), e. g. Jack took

advantage of the opportunity to speak to Gwendolen, to advantage in a way that shows its good points, as to be seen (heard, shown,

exhibited) to advantage, e. g. The picture is seen to (better) advantage from a distance, ant. disadvantage.

3. admit vt/i