Упр.2 Тест Unit 4 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс

Read the text and fill in the gaps (1—6) with the phrases (a—f) to complete it.

• a) any real skills
• b) should it develop
• c) the only subject taught
• d) in most countries
• e) the purpose of schooling is
• f) have an average of 50 students

Educating Teenagers

Nowadays secondary education is the component of formal education (1) ______ in most countries. The number of secondary school students has grown from 40 to 400 million worldwide over the past 50 years. In developing countries class sizes have become really big. In Sudan, secondary school classes (2) ______ have an average of 50 students. In the Dominican Republic, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, the average is more than 40. This expansion affects the quality of teaching. Each year, almost a third of the pupils have to repeat a grade in Latin America. All agree that secondary education must change and develop. But in what direction (3) ______ should it develop? To answer the question people are to understand what (4) ______ the purpose of schooling is. Teaching cannot continue to be purely academic when you are dealing with students who do not intend to enter university. In other words, academic disciplines can no longer be (5) ______ the only subject taught. Schools must know how to interest students in the world around them. We must develop skills that will help them fulfill their potential as future citizens including a critical spirit, initiative, the ability to organize projects and to communicate. By making school curricula more work-oriented, we will avoid having young people enter the job market without (6) ______ any real skills.