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68 Read the three stories the conference participants told about schools in Australia, Great Britain and the United States. Find out what is common in them.

Education in Australia is compulsory between the ages of 6 and 15. Most children (about 70 per cent) study in state schools where education is free.

Most Australians live in cities along the eastern and southeastern coasts. But there are also many remote inland towns on the continent. How are children educated there?

They learn at home. In several states of Australia there are Schools of the Air. How do children attending the Schools of the Air get a classroom experience? With the help of computers and the Internet. They get class lessons every day and also some time for personal lessons where they can talk to their teacher. The School of the Air sends them their lessons by computer. So the pupils do their tasks and send them by e-mail. The pupils of the School of the Air work just as hard as the pupils of the ordinary state school do.

The School of the Air is only for school children from ages 4 to 13. For secondary school education they have to go to boarding schools.

In Great Britain there are different types of secondary schools. Most of them are state schools where education is free. But some parents choose to pay for private education. Private (or public) schools in England and Wales are very expensive and they are attended by about 5 per cent of the school population.

The education in public schools is of high quality, the discipline is very strict. Most of private schools are either for boys or for girls.

Public schools are famous not only for their perfect education but also for the right friends and contacts which are useful for a successful future.

In some British schools uniforms are worn by all the pupils, in others the children can wear what they want to. Some public schools in Britain, such as Eton, have uniforms based on what was worn over a hundred years ago.

Some private schools are very famous, such as Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Winchester.

Harrow school is famous as the place where Winston Churchill was educated, as well as six other Prime Ministers of Great Britain, the poet Lord Byron and many other prominent people.

About 90 per cent of all children in the USA attend state or public schools where education is free. In other words, 43 million pupils and students go to public schools and another 6 million are in private schools.

In private schools parents have to pay for their children’s education. Most of the private schools have religious education, too.

The relations between students and teachers in state schools are democratic and friendly. In American public schools students wear whatever they want.

Students can choose the subjects they want to study. They often take part in non-academic activities such as sports, drama clubs, school newspaper or radio.

Americans think that each person should achieve all that he or she can.

But some Americans believe that the quality of education is going down. They think that the number of basic subjects is few, students watch too much TV and do too little homework.

68 Прочитайте три рассказа, которые участники конференции рассказали о школах в Австралии, Великобритании и США. Выясните, что в них общего.

Ответ:

What is common in them is that all three countries have a system of state (public) schools where education is free for the majority of children, and also a system of private schools where parents have to pay for their children's education.

Общим для них является то, что во всех трех странах существует система государственных (публичных) школ, где образование для большинства детей бесплатное, а также система частных школ, где родители должны платить за образование своих детей.

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