meaning of each proverb, c) Make up a dialogue to illustrate one of the proverbs:
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. 2. Experience keeps a dear school but fools learn in no other. 3. Haste makes
waste. 4. Don't make a rod for your own back. 5. Don't tell tales out of school.
CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION
ENGLISH SCHOOLING
Topical Vocabulary
1. Types of schools: maintained (state), county, voluntary, nursery, primary, infant, junior, secondary, grammar, secondary mod-
ern, technical, comprehensive, all-through, two-tier, first, middle, upper, mixed (co-educational), single-sex, special, independent
(fee-paying, private), pre-preparatory, preparatory, public, sixth- form college, tertiary college.
2. Stages of education: compulsory, pre-school, primary, secondary, further, higher.
3. Education policy: administration, schooling, full-time education, part-time education, tripartite system, class-divided and
selective system of education, to sustain inequality of opportunity, to go comprehensive, the Department of Education and Science,
Local Education Authorities (LEAs), to be responsible for national education policy, to run a school, to prescribe curricula or
textbooks, the provision of schools, to provide maintained school education.
4. Management: Head Teacher (Master), Principal, Assistant Principal, Acting Head Teacher, staff, governing body, to have re -
sponsibility, to employ teachers, provide and maintain buildings, supply equipment, provide grants, appointment and dismissal of
staff.
5. Admission: to admit, to allocate, to apply for admission, selective procedure, intelligence tests, substitute for the abolished 1
l_dt .§xa.ms' to measure inborn abilities, to have a time limit, to coach for, catchment area, without any reference to a child's abili ty or
aptitude, to transfer (promote) from one class to another.
6. Curriculum: broad curriculum, academic course, non-academic course, vocational bias, foundation course, foundation sub-
jects, to meet special interests, common curriculum, simplified curriculum, education with a practical slant for lower-attaining pupils,
to be encouraged to do smth., the three R's, subject teaching, specialist teacher, to have set periods, remedial teaching.
7. Examinations: GCSE (exam); to sit for an exam; "A" level exam; Common Entrance Exam; to be set and marked by ... ; to
hand the papers out; examining board; grades, "pass" grade; resits and retakes; unsuccessful pupil; to repeat the year; to pass an
exam, to keep up with the group; to fall behind.
8. Punishment: corporal punishment, detention (after school or during the dinner hour), lines, exclusion from normal routine, ex-
clusion from privileges (loss of privilege), collection of litter, suspension from school, withdrawal from lessons, setting extra work,
putting "on report", telling the parents.
NIOTACUD EY
NURSERY SCHOOL (voluntary)
ROS
5
LU
PRIMARY SCHOOL (at least six years primary
P
6
M
education)
O
7
CS
8
RAE
9
10
11 Y
11
12
SECONDARY SCHOOL (at least five years
13
secondary education)