Back To School
Back To School
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Back to school Daniel I quite like going back to school in September as Im usually bored by the end of the holidays. We live in a tiny village and my friends from school all live a few miles away sometimes I cycle over to see them and sometimes my mum gives me a lift in the car, but there are still three or four days a week during the holidays when Ive got no one to hang out with. nother good thing about going back this year is that Ive chosen the sub!ects Im going to study for "#S$ and from now on I wont have to do some of the sub!ects I didnt like, such as chemistry. John "oing back to work in September will be good. I feel Ive had a good break and am looking forward to seeing the kids again. %y friends with office !obs are very envious of my holidays they get about five weeks off a year while teachers, of course, get about three times that. I teach &ear 'wo( si) and seven year*olds, which is a really nice age. 'heyre sweet kids not like some of the awful teenagers my colleagues have in their classes. Mark I dont like the end of the summer holidays. &ou have si) weeks of freedom and then its back to homework, boring teachers and having to get up at seven in the morning. I cant even sit ne)t to my mates in class the teachers separate us because they say we mess around too much. 'he only good thing is the school sport, because I miss playing football during the summer. Helen Its difficult to believe how quickly the summers go by. When I was a kid the si)*week holidays seemed like forever when school finished in +uly you never thought about September because it seemed too far away. Its not like that now. s a head teacher I obviously have a lot of school issues to think about before September arrives I cant !ust switch off for si) weeks.
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Exercise 1 Answer the questions below. 1. ,n how many days of the week does -aniel not see any of his school friends during the summer holidays. 2. Why are +ohns friends, who have office !obs, envious of him. 3. Why dont %arks teachers let him sit ne)t to his friends in class. 4. When /elen was a child, why did she never use to think about September at the beginning of the summer holidays. 5. -aniel mentions two good things about going back to school in September what are they. 6. /ow old are the children +ohn teaches. 7. What time does %ark have to get up to go to school. 8. What are the words +ohn uses to describe the children he teaches and the teenagers his colleagues teach. Exercise 2 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), or if the text doesnt say (D). 1. -aniel says he didnt like studying chemistry. 2. %ark is a teacher. 3. +ohn has more than five weeks holiday a year. 4. /elen has longer holidays than +ohn. 5. -aniel doesnt have brothers or sisters. 6. +ohn teaches teenagers. 7. -aniel doesnt live in a big city. 8. %ark en!oys all sports. 9. /elen never thinks about her !ob during the summer holidays. 10. -aniels mother drives a car.
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Exercise 1 1. 'hree or four 2. 2ecause he has much longer holidays 3about 4three times the five weeks they have5. 3. 2ecause they say he and his mates mess around too much. 4. 2ecause it seemed too far away. 5. /e wont be bored any more 3because hell see his friends more often5, and he wont have to study some of the sub!ects he didnt like. 6. Si) and seven 7. Seven oclock 8. 4Sweet and 4awful respectively