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English this is English like a native
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shall we
typically in the UK children begin
attending school at the tender age of 3
or 4 where they attend nursery nursery
then from the age of 4 to 11 they start
attending full-time school and this
stage is called primary school primary
school then the hard work kicks in and
children from the age of 11 to 16 at 10
secondary school secondary school in the
States this is known as high school we
do sometimes say high school here but
it's less common
once secondary school is over and the
exams are all finished these young
adults may decide to go on to a sixth
form college try saying that when you're
tired 6 or 6
we just say 6 for 6 from college is not
compulsory but it's necessary if
students want to go on to a university
course in the future we also have some
schools referred to as special schools
and these are schools that meet the
requirements of students who have
learning or physical disabilities some
schools in the UK prefer to split the
genders and so one school might focus
solely on educating girls no boys
allowed no boys allowed
whereas other schools might focus solely
on educating boys
so no girls allowed whereas other
schools are happy to educate boys and
girls altogether if you go to a single
gender school then you refer to it as an
all-boys school or an all-girls school I
went to an all-girls school what about
you some people might ask you whether
you went to a state school or a private
school state school is school provided
by the government so it's paid for by
the taxpayer basically it's free school
but not free because you pay
for it with your taxes and private
school is school that's paid for
privately by the parents of the children
that attend that school confusingly
private school can also be known as
public school it's very confusing so if
you went to a private school and
somebody asks you if you went to a
public school you can say yes English is
very odd in the UK in primary and
secondary school it is compulsory that
means you have to do it it is compulsory
to wear a school uniform now every
school has a different uniform each
school will have its own colors and its
own emblem or logo which will appear
potentially on their Blazers or their
jumpers but practically all school
uniforms will consist of the following a
white shirt usually long-sleeved a tie a
pair of trousers for the boys or girls a
skirt for the girls pinafores are quite
popular in primary school and then you
must wear smart shoes some girls like to
pull their socks all the way up to their
knees these are called knee-high socks
then most quality reforms are completed
with a cardigan a jumper or a blazer can
you remember your school uniform when I
was at school my school uniform was
bottle green Oh
I have to wear bottle green every day
for five years I hated it
what color is your school uniform
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primary and secondary schools in the UK
follow a curriculum this means no matter
which school you go to there are certain
core subjects which you will study and
these subjects are English this could be
separated into English language and
English literature maths science history
geography another foreign language like
Spanish French German design and
technology art music physical education
which is normally shortened to PE
computing and citizenship religious
education or religious studies which can
be shortened to re or RS personally my
favourite subjects were PE and English
what are your favourite subject now the
rules are usually pretty obvious it's
things like don't set the school on fire
don't swear at the teachers don't flick
food at the dinner ladies but if you do
decide to break the rules then it's
likely you're going to be punished
punishment or school will vary depending
on the severity of the incident if
you've just been a little bit naughty
like talking in class when you should be
listening then you're likely to get a
telling-off this means that you will be
shouted at or that the teacher will have
a word with you and tell you that your
behavior is not appropriate if you
continue to behave badly after telling
off then you risk getting a letter sent
home to your parents who will then be
notified about how naughty you've been
so that means they'll probably tell you
off as well
in some cases when you're naughty the
teacher will remove you from the class
so you'll have to go and sit outside the
Headmaster's office or go and sit in the
corridor to think about what you've done
if you bring in a forbidden item let's
say a mobile phone and you're caught
with that forbidden item
then you risk having the item
confiscated confiscated means they will
take it away and store it into the end
of the day when you can go and collect
it but you'll probably get another
telling off and you might even get a
letter sent home to remind your parents
that certain items are not allowed in
school
the most common punishment handed out
for bad behavior is a detention a
detention is a period of time where you
are kept in school after the main day
has finished so if you finish school at
3:30 but you were so naughty in your
science class that you have been given a
detention it will mean you have to stay
at school potentially until 4:30 during
a detention you're normally given work
to do so it's a very boring time to
spend on your own or with the other
naughty children at school severe cases
of bad behavior or repeat offenders do
risk being excluded excluded this means
they'll be taken out of school
altogether for a certain amount of time
maybe a week maybe a month and if you're
really really bad
perhaps if you commit a crime like you
damaged the school property or you are
violent or aggressive towards teachers
or other students then you would be
expelled expelled that is when you are
kicked out of that school forever then
you have to be very very naughty to be
expelled and now is confession time what
is the worst thing you have ever done at
school were you caught and what was your
punishment I'll let you into a little
secret when I was at school one day I
was very naughty
one of my friends offered me a cigarette
behind the bike shed and so I took the
cigarette I put it to my mouth I took a
drag
and at that moment the teacher walked
around the corner caught me and put me
in detention the worst thing was it was
my first day at school but I learned my
lesson
from then on I didn't touch another
cigarette and I was very good every
single day of school well kind of at
least I didn't get caught doing anything
else students here will attend school
from Monday to Friday and the average
school day will begin around 8:45 in the
morning perhaps some of them starting at
8:55 or 9:00 a.m. and they will go all
the way through until around 3:15 or
3:30 in the afternoon during that school
day they then have three breaks on
average they'll have a lunch break right
in the middle of the day which is
usually between 40 minutes or an hour
and then they'll have two shorter breaks
a mid-morning break and an afternoon
break every school day will start with
registration Anna English yes miss
normally schools will be open for an
hour before classes begin and some of
them even hold special clubs known as
breakfast clubs for parents drop off the
children earlier so that they can go to
work and then they'll be activity clubs
held after school which are non
compulsory and they normally consist of
sporting activities or artistic
activities like dance or drama these
kinds of activities are called
extracurricular activities when I was at
school I went to an after-school Club
every single day hockey netball
trampolining cross-country running and
football I was very busy
in my opinion the best part of school
with lunch time and break time there's
one big divide at lunch time you're
either a school dinners kind of person
or a packed lunch kind of person if you
had school dinners then that means you
eat the meal provided by the school it's
hot it's kind of fresh and depending on
the school it might be quite tasty
normally you have to pay a little bit of
money towards it so you have to make
sure you take dinner money in order to
pay for your school dinner if you're a
packed lunch kind of person that means
you make your lunch at home and take it
in to school with you in order to take
your lunch into school you'll have to
have a very fancy a lunchbox and you can
choose from lots of different designs
the only problem with this of course is
that you're always going to have a cold
lunch and usually the sandwiches get
quite boring after a while
lunch time varies depending on the
school sometimes it's 40 minutes or 50
minutes or even an hour if you're lucky
besides lunch times you'll have to break
times a mid-morning break and an
afternoon break both of these breaks are
around 15 minutes long and they're
designed so that you can have some
snacks some refreshments and nip to the
toilet if you really need to although
it's probably best to wait until you're
in the middle of class and then you can
get yourself out of class by pretending
that you need the toilet I never did
that lunch times are supervised by
dinner ladies and dinner ladies will
make your food serve you and clean up
after you and tell you off if you're
being naughty and throwing food across
the room interestingly there isn't a
term for a man in the role of a dinner
lady we wouldn't say dinner man however
we do have a general term which is more
widely used now which is lunch times
supervisor
we have reached the end of our lesson
just don't forget to give us a thumbs up
on the way after the classroom otherwise
class dismissed
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