Studying at school

1. Let’s talk about studying at school. What can you tell me about your school? My school is a three-storeyed building. It is quite big with a sport ground behind it.

On the ground floor there are classrooms for the primary-school pupils, workshops. There are all kinds of tools and machines in the workshops. The boys of our school have a woodwork room too.

If you enter the school and turn left you see a big light dining-room. It is always busy and noisy, but it is clean. Here pupils and their teachers have their lunch. There are blue curtains on the windows and beautiful pictures on the walls.

There is a gymnasium on the ground floor as well. Our physical training lessons are held there. Pupils like to go there even after the lessons, because it has a lot of sport equipment. Our school has many classrooms. The classrooms are light and spacious. There are three large windows in each classroom with flower pots on the window sills.

Each room has teacher's table, pupils desks, blackboard, tables and charts on the wall, maps and portraits. There are special classrooms for Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History, Geography, English, and Russian. On the first floor there is a big nice assemble hall. A lot of meetings, concerts, festivals are held there.

Our classroom is on the second floor. Its windows face the school-yard. Our form-mistress is a teacher of Russian language and literature. We respect her very much, she is a kind and knowledgeable teacher. She teaches us Russian and is so fond of her subject, that each of us cannot help liking too.

When I think about my school I don't remember its walls and desks; it is my teachers and school-mates who will be always with me. I am so thankful to our teachers for what they have done for us.

2. Do you agree that Belarusian secondary school provides a person with good knowledge? Why (not)? The main objective of the school is not only the development of physical and intellectual capabilities of schoolchildren, ethical and moral properties of a personality, but the formation of children's steady interest to studies. So I fully agree with this statement.

3. Ask me whether I liked school when I was a pupil. Did you like to go to school in the childhood? What was your favourite subject? Would you like to have an English exam when you were a pupil?

4. What ideas from Belarusian school can you advise a teacher from Great Britain to use in British school? I advise to learn a wide range of foreign languages and to pass final exams in each of them.

5. Today some young people think that having a good education is not very important. Do you agree with them? In my view only a good education can guarantee a good job in the future of a person. This means that the salary will also be good.