Maxsus ta’lim vazirligi nizomiy nomidagi Toshkent davlat pedagogika universiteti qoshidagi akademik litsey Nurmatov J. N, Kudratov K. X

EX 140 TRANSLATE INTO UZBEK AND LEARN BY HEART.

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   A few questions for Betty
   

Betty is a British schoolgirl. She came to Uzbekistan for a week with a group of schoolchildren not long ago. Here are a few questions which were asked in Friendship House in Tashkent.

“Hello, Betty! Could you answer a few questions for our listeners? Where do you come from?”

“I am from London, from a place called Hampstead, which is in the north-west of London. Hampstead is a very old place, it started as a little village, and it grew into a part of London. There is a big, big heath there, called Hampstead Heath, and it’s like a big wood with beautiful fields and wild flowers, and there are quite a few lakes and ponds, and enormous trees. You can just go and wander wherever you like.”

“Which school do you go to?”

“We go to Camden School. It’s a grammar school.”

“What exactly is a grammar school?”

“A grammar school leads to higher education. We used to have an exam when a child was 11 years old. But this has been abolished now. We don’t have this exam any more. Now we just have a test at the end of our primary school, which is the first school for children of 5 to 11.”

“When do you start school?”

“At five years of age, or four sometimes, if a child is good enough and his mother wishes. Before the children come to school, they can go to a kindergarten, which is a play group to prepare the children for school. There they learn to mix with the other children and play with them.”

“What kind of school can you go to after primary school?”

“After primary school we have to choose between a grammar school, a comprehensive school and a secondary modern school. There are also private schools.”

“How do they decide who goes to a grammar school?”

“From the results of tests that the children have from the age of eleven. For one year they have tests throughout the year, and the result decides whether they go to a grammar school, where the work is much quicker than in a secondary modern school or a comprehension school.”

“What kind of tests are those?”

“In these tests they have easy maths sums and mental arithmetic, which means they do things like this: add two pence, halfpenny and three shillings, and take away a shilling or something like that. And they have to do it in their heads. They also have English tests. They have to write an essay, or they have to understand a passage and answer questions on it.”

“What do you learn at school?”

“We have a large number of subjects in our school. We have got many languages. We have English, of course, and Latin, and we learn French, Russian, Ancient Greek, Spanish and German. In the 4^th year of our school we can choose which extra language we take. We have French as a compulsory subject, and Latin for two years. After that you can give up Latin if you find it very difficult, or if you don’t like it. We also have a large gymnasium. We have a large sports field next to our school, where we play hockey, net-ball, tennis, rounders, volley-ball (a new subject in our school). Our games teacher is young and very eager to introduce lots of new subjects in the school games curriculum.”