Стр.37 Unit 3 ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 11 класс

Vocabulary: School and education

1. Match a word from box A with a word from box B to make collocations about school.

   A: do, follow, get, get into, work, lose, pass, pay, play, show

   B: attention, exams, hard, interest, interest, rules, suspended, trouble, truant, well

2. Complete the story with a collocation from A in the correct form.

   Jim Yelland 1) ______ interest in school when he was about 11 or 12. At primary school he was a good student. He 2) ______ attention in class and always did his homework. He was 3) ______ well and getting good marks, but his parents never 4) ______ interest in his efforts and eventually he stopped trying.

   In secondary school he gave up altogether. He didn’t 5) ______ the rules, and he 6) ______ into trouble again and again. He 7) ______ truant from school for two or three days at a time. Eventually, he 8) ______ suspended from school for a month.

   But one person really seemed to care. Mr Goodall, the English teacher, went to visit Jim at home. They talked and Mr Goodall persuaded Jim to try again. This year Jim has 9) ______ hard and he has 10) ______ his end-of-year exams.

3. Choose the correct option.
   1. Most children go to state schools run by the government.
   2. Private schools are often very expensive.
   3. Vocational courses teach learners useful skills that they can use at work.
   4. Some schools have an open day when parents can visit.
   5. The school year is divided into three terms. Each one lasts about three months.
   6. Most schoolchildren in England wear a uniform.
   7. Hand your homework in by the deadline.
   8. Some adults attend evening classes to learn new skills.

Phrasal verbs

1. Replace the words in bold in each sentence with a phrasal verb from the box in the correct form.

   break up, get marked down, give back, hand in, hand out, take up

   1. I submitted my homework a few days late.
   2. Mr De Lay took ages to return our tests.
   3. Jane distributed the photocopies.
   4. Dad started to learn Chinese two years ago, but he didn’t study hard.
   5. Our school closed for Easter very early last year.
   6. I lost points in the test for my poor spelling.

Synonyms

1. Make pairs of words with similar meanings.

   adolescents, age group, head, peers, teenagers, siblings, brothers and sisters, helper, principal, assistant

2. Choose the best word to complete each of these opinions.
   1. Children are most influenced by their ______.
   2. The ______ of the school should always be a woman.
   3. ______ groups should do their homework together.
   4. Teachers ought to have ______ to help them in class.

Quick chat

• Do you agree or disagree with any of the opinions above? Why?
• Why do you think some children play truant?