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Reading Comprehension

NOW TEACHERS ARE ORDERED TO

SMILE AT THEIR PUPILS

A secondary school has ordered teachers to welcome children with a smile at the start of every lesson as part of a drive to hand more power to pupils. Staff have also been told to ensure they are not boring students by setting work that is too hard.

The move is the latest example of a Government initiative to give pupils a major say in many aspects of their schooling, but some critics say this is putting children in charge.

Yesterday the Mail revealed that 20 students at a Kent secondary school were given iPhones to provide instant feedback of teachers to senior staff. In another incident, a teacher being interviewed for a job by a student panel was asked to sing the Michael Jackson song ‘Bad’. She failed to get the job after refusing. Pupils on another interview panel voted in favour of a female candidate because she was the ‘prettiest’, although shewas not hired.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls admitted the approach used by some schools was ‘completely wrong’, ‘absurd’ and ‘ridiculous’. ‘The people who are in charge are the head teachers, the governors and the teachers,’ he said. ‘The idea that you would give out iPhones to secretly spy on teachers, that would be in my view, completely wrong’. ‘Any head teacher doing that needs to look hard at themselves and consider the way in which they are doing things’.

But far from dismissing the practice, he added: ‘Some schools do ask

teachers to get a report from the children about how lessons are going’.

Daily Mail, Tuesday, April 6th, 2010, p. 10

I. Answer the following questions using your own words but taking

into account the information

in the text. (2 points: 1 point each)

a.

What measures have teachers been forced to take in secondary ?

B Why have mobile phones been used in some schools?

II. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Identify the

part of the text that supports your answer by copying the exact passage on the answer sheet.

(1.5 point: 0.5 each)

a. Teachers have been told not to assign homework.

b. In Kent, iPhones were given to every student.

c. Some schools want their students to express their opinion about their classes

III. Find a synonym for each of the four words below from these six

options: (1 point: 0.25 each)

staff schooling feedback Incident panel governors

a. jury, committee

b. event, episode

c. employees

d. response, opinion

IV. Choose a, b, or c, in each question below. Only one choice is

correct. (1.5 points: 0.5 each)

1. A teacher was asked to sing ‘Bad’...

a. and got the job.

b. and never got the job.

c. and was then asked to refuse the job.

2. Ed Balls stated that...

a. students should have more power.

b. teachers should be secretly observed.

c. iPhones are not a good tool to provide feedback.

3. Some schools want students to...

a. give their opinion on lessons.

b. describe teachers.

c. report about the use of iPhones.

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Follow your dreams by Aina Clavell

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS BY AINA

 

In this picture you can see a man painting FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS and CANCELLED. I think that the painter of this image wanted to say that you should follow your dreams so that they come true but they do not allways come true.

BANKSY by Bryan Franco

BANKSY

 

When people think about which is the most dangerous weapon, they

say the atomic bombs,or the climate change(caused by humans

for changing) but,I think the human is the most dangerous «weapon» 

because the actions of the humanity are destroying the Earth.This 

urban work of Banksy captures the thinking I explained before.