номер 3, страница 97 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Вербицкая, Маккинли

Dialog of Cultures One.

Track one.

One. Frank.

Well, the first thing which I think is strange for many people outside Britain, is that we had to wear a shirt and a tie every day. Even when I was five years old, I had to wear them. I think about fifty percent of schools in Britain still have school uniform. Personally, I hated it. It was really uncomfortable to wear.

Two. Kirsty.

The timetable is the same every day in most schools. In my school, the first lesson started at quarter past nine and we finished at about half past three. We didn't go to school on Saturday though, a good thing too.

Three. Joe.

At the beginning of secondary school, when I was eleven or twelve, we used to have lots of different subjects. English, maths, French, science, computing, art, music, loads of different things. But in the last two years, we had just three subjects and you could choose what you wanted to study. So I chose English, geography, and German. I found geography really interesting. And then you take A-level exams in your three subjects at the end of secondary school. A-levels are really important if you want to go to university later.

Four. Rob.

Actually, the subject I hated the most was sport. We call it games or P. E. That's physical education. We used to have one class a week in the gym and team sports outside on one afternoon a week. We used to play rugby and cricket. The girls did aerobics or played netball. That's a kind of polite version of basketball. For me, rugby was the worst. Every Wednesday afternoon for five years. It always used to rain. Cricket was more fun. I used to spend two hours every week just looking at the trees and clouds. Ha. The ball only came near me, oh, every few weeks.

Five. Naomi.

If a class was badly behaved, the teacher often used to give us lines. You had to write the same sentence over and over again. Something like, I must not talk in Mr. Brown's physics class. You had to write it fifty or a hundred times. Sometimes we had detention as well. That meant you had to stay in school after classes. That was terrible.