A1 English Listening Practice - Education — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey everybody welcome to this a1
2. 0:03english listening practice video you can
3. 0:06use this video
4. 0:07to practice your listening and
5. 0:09comprehension
6. 0:10as i speak before we start
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10. 0:21so today i'm gonna talk about education
11. 0:25this is an essential topic because
12. 0:28education is an important part of our
13. 0:31lives
14. 0:32most people get some kind of education
15. 0:36education is different in different
16. 0:39countries
17. 0:40but today we'll talk about education
18. 0:44in the u.s so first let's talk about the
19. 0:48different
20. 0:48levels of education in the u.s
21. 0:52the first level of education is
22. 0:54preschool
23. 0:55in the u.s kids go to preschool
24. 0:58when they're four years old but not
25. 1:02everyone goes to preschool some people
26. 1:05don't go i went to preschool when i was
27. 1:08four
28. 1:09i didn't like it because i was very shy
29. 1:13i didn't like playing with other kids
30. 1:16when i was young in preschool children
31. 1:19play a lot but they also learn
32. 1:23after preschool children go to
33. 1:25kindergarten
34. 1:27usually kids start kindergarten when
35. 1:30they're
36. 1:305 years old in kindergarten children
37. 1:33start learning more things for example
38. 1:37they learn to read write and make art
39. 1:40they also learn how to be good students
40. 1:44i remember that when i was in
41. 1:46kindergarten
42. 1:47we had discipline if we did something
43. 1:50bad
44. 1:51we got in trouble i never got in trouble
45. 1:55because i was a good student so
46. 1:58after kindergarten you go to elementary
47. 2:01school
48. 2:02in the u.s most elementary schools
49. 2:05include 1st second third
50. 2:08fourth fifth and sixth grade
51. 2:11but some elementary schools don't
52. 2:14include
53. 2:14sixth grade in each year of elementary
54. 2:18school
55. 2:18you only have one teacher you have
56. 2:22the same teacher all year in my opinion
57. 2:26elementary school isn't that difficult
58. 2:29in the us of course you get homework
59. 2:33but it's not too much in elementary
60. 2:36school
61. 2:37you learn many things like math
62. 2:40science history and english
63. 2:43at this level you spend about 6 hours
64. 2:47at school then after elementary school
65. 2:51you go to middle school or junior high
66. 2:54i say middle school but both of these
67. 2:57names
68. 2:58are correct middle school usually
69. 3:01includes
70. 3:017th and 8th grade at this level
71. 3:05students have many teachers like six
72. 3:08or seven i had six different classes
73. 3:12each year in middle school each class
74. 3:15was one hour long i didn't like middle
75. 3:18school
76. 3:19it's much harder than elementary school
77. 3:22you get more homework and you have more
78. 3:25tests
79. 3:26then after middle school you go to high
80. 3:29school
81. 3:30in the u.s high school includes 9th
82. 3:3410th 11th and 12th grade
83. 3:37this is the most important time for
84. 3:40students
85. 3:40in the u.s if you want to go to college
86. 3:44then it's important to do well in high
87. 3:47school
88. 3:48high school can be difficult but it
89. 3:51depends on your teachers
90. 3:53some teachers give a lot of homework and
91. 3:56some teachers
92. 3:57don't and some teachers are good at
93. 4:00teaching
94. 4:01and some teachers aren't i had some good
95. 4:04teachers in high school
96. 4:06but i also had some bad teachers
97. 4:09so after high school some people go to
98. 4:12college
99. 4:13and some people don't of course there
100. 4:16are
101. 4:16different levels of university and you
102. 4:20can
103. 4:20earn different degrees there okay
104. 4:23so lastly let's look at a few important
105. 4:27vocabulary words
106. 4:29related to education first let's talk
107. 4:32about the word
108. 4:34grades we use the word grades
109. 4:37to talk about how well you did in a
110. 4:40class
111. 4:41or on a test in the us
112. 4:44these grades are a b
113. 4:47c d and f an a
114. 4:51grade is the best and an f
115. 4:54grade is the worst okay the next word
116. 4:58is recess in the u.s
117. 5:01recess is the short break that
118. 5:04elementary school students have during
119. 5:07their school day
120. 5:09during recess students play
121. 5:12talk or eat a snack this break
122. 5:16is usually 20 or 30 minutes
123. 5:19okay the last phrase you should learn is
124. 5:22bachelor's degree a bachelor's degree
125. 5:26is the degree you get after four years
126. 5:29of university it's lower than a master's
127. 5:33degree
128. 5:34alright that's all for today leave a
129. 5:37comment
130. 5:38and tell me about your education and
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135. 5:50next time
136. 5:53[Music]