Education system
based on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVegMVtJsC4
Q?:
What do you like most about your school?
What are your favourite/least favourite subjects?
Which subjects are you good at?
What are the best and worst things about going to school?
What is a typical school day like for you?
What is the best way for you to learn?
What do you think about tests an exams?
How do you prepare for exams?
How important is it for you to have a good education?
Should PE be optional? Should students wear uniforms?
If you could change something about your school what it would be? Why?
Does your school have any problems with discipline?
What happens when students step out of line (překročit mez)?
Is discipline a problem in your school?
What do teachers do when pupils behave (chovat se) badly?
What are the different types of schools in the UK, the USA, the CR?
The school system in the UK
Children start at primary school when they are five . Before that , many children go to nursery school, e.g. between the ages of 2 and 4, but this is not compulsory . From 11 - 18, children go to secondary schools in the UK. Majority of schools in the UK (about 90%) are state schools, which means that they are paid for by the government, and education is free . The other 10 % are private schools, where parents have to pay. A few of these are boarding schools, where children study, eat and sleep. There are also some religious schools, where the teachers may be priests or nuns .Schoolchildren are usually called pupils and not students that refers only to people who are at university and the person who is in charge of a school is called the head teacher. The school year is devided into three terms. If you want to go to university, you have to take exams in your last year, and if your results are good enough, you get place. A person who has finished university and has a degree is called a graduate.
primary school základní škola
nursery school školka
secondary school střední škola
state school státní škola
private school soukromá škola
boarding schools internátní škola
religious schools církevní škola
schoolchildren školáci
pupil žák
student student
graduate absolvent
go to university jít na universitu
at university na univerzitě
result známka
education vzdělání
compulsory povinný
priest kněz
nun jeptiška
The school system in the USA
The school system in the US is divided into three levels, elementary school, middle school (sometimes called junior high school) and high school. In almost all schools at these levels, children are divided by age groups into grades. The youngest children begin with kindergarten (followed by first grade) and continue until twelfth grade, the final year of high school. The school year is divided into semesters. Higher education is often called college in the US.
kindergarten školka
elementary school základní škola
middle school střední škola
high school vysoká škola
univerzita univerzita
grade ročník, třída
semester semestr
college vysoká škola
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
Does your school have any problems with discipline?
What happens when students step out of line (překročit mez/vybočit z řady) ?
Is discipline a problem in your school?
What do teachers do when pupils behave (chovat se) badly?
What is bad behaviour?
Which of listed bad behviours below are serious or not-so-serious types of bad behaviour ?
Serious or not-so-serious types of bad behaviour
Playing truant (chodit za školu)
Smoking, swearing, hitting, kissing, running, stealing
Not doing homework, not answering teacher´s questions
Cheating in exams, copying from secret notes, copying from another pupil
Calling a teacher bad names, calling another pupil bad names, bullying (šikanování)
Not listening in lessons, not paying attention in lessons
Wearing unsuitable clothes for school
Attacking a teacher
Which of school punishments below can be used in Czech schools?
Physical/corporal punishments: like hitting a student, slapping across the face (fackovat), pulling hair (krákat), using a cane (rákoska), pinching (štípání)
Exclusion (vyloučení): a pupil is excluded from the school and cannot come back. The pupil has to find a new school or a different method of education (home tutor, special centre for difficult pupils).
Suspension (dočasné vyloučení): when a pupil is suspended they cannot enter the building or attend lessons until the school has a meeting about their case. Suspension can last from 1 to 45 days in a school term. The school usually gives work to do at home with a tutor (special teacher).
Detention (po škole): a pupil is detained. This means he or she is asked to stay at school at the end of the school day. The pupil must work for 30 minutes or an hour more before they are allowed to leave the school.
Lines (opisování textu za trest): a pupil has to write a sentence many times (100 x) on a sheet of paper: An example sentence: I must not shout in class. This punishment is sometimes given during detention too.
Reprimand (důtka) to express to someone your strong official disapproval of them:
be reprimanded by sb for doing sth - dostat důtku/napomenutí od koho za co
She was reprimanded by her teacher for biting another girl.
Case studyFreya MacDonald, a 15-year-old pupil from Scotland, made the news (novinka) in the UK when she refused to accept her school's punishment. Freya's family say that she was given detention many times for trivial things such as drinking fizzy drinks in class and coming into school through a fire door. After her secondary school gave her detention for the eleventh time, she went to a lawyer and took legal action against the school. The teenager said that it is not legal to keep a pupil in the school building if the student does not want to be there because Scottish law says that it is illegal to detain (zadržovat) children against their will.
School subjects školní předměty curiculum školní osnovy mark/grade známka get a poor mark in maths dostat špatnou známku z matiky mark sb down snížit známku
School idioms:
1. A for effort!- recognizing that someone tried hard to accomplish something although they might not have been successful. jednička za snahu
Example: "The cake didn't turn out like she had planned, but I give her an A for effort!"
2. Copycat- someone who copies the work (or mimics the actions) of others
Example: "Janie is a copycat- she was looking at my answers while we were taking the test!" opice, opičit se
3. Learn (something) by heart- to memorize something completely
Example: "I have played that song so many times that I have learned it by heart and don't even have to look at the music." učit se zpaměti
4. Pass with flying colours- to pass (a test) easily and with a high score
Example: "Todd must have studied a long time because he passed the test with flying colours." projít levou zadní
5. Play hooky- to skip school
Example: "My friends are playing hooky today so they can be first in line for concert tickets this afternoon." chodit za školu
6. Drop out of school- to stop attending school
Example: "Maurice had to drop out of school when his mother became ill so that he could help take care of her." nedodělat školu
7. Put your thinking cap on- to think in a serious manner
Example: "We're all going to have to put our thinking caps on to tackle(vypořádat se) this big problem."zapojit mozkové závity
8. Show of hands- raising hands to vote about something
Example: "By a show of hands, how many of you would prefer to have the test on Friday?" zvednout ruku
9. Teacher's pet- the teacher's favourite student
Example: "Jonathan is the teacher's pet- she always calls on him first." učitelův oblíbenec
10. Bookworm- someone who reads a lot
Example: "She is such a bookworm! She seems to have a new book every day!" knihomol