Unit one Schools and schooling.0:01
You will hear four people speaking about their life at school.0:06
Listen and match the speakers with the statements in your workbook.0:10
There is one statement you don't need to use.0:13
I was a fairly good pupil at school.0:19
It was easy for me to learn and I was interested in the things my teachers told us in class.0:21
My usual marks were as and Bs, so my parents were proud of me.0:28
My favorite subject was geography.0:33
I wanted to know more about different countries of the world and the lifestyles there.0:36
My school years were happy indeed.0:44
I had lots of true friends and very good teachers.0:46
Many of them gave us classes not only in the subjects they taught, but but helped us with our everyday problems too.0:50
Some of them were more than teachers.0:57
They were real friends, always ready to explain what we didn't understand.0:59
I'm afraid I was not a very successful pupil at school.1:07
My marks in science were not bad, but I didn't like reading, hated learning poems by heart.1:11
So you can imagine my results in English literature were rather poor.1:17
But in the fifth year, a new teacher appeared in our school.1:22
Ms. Stevenson taught English literature.1:25
She loved her subject and knew so much about English writers, poets, their lives and works.1:28
I got interested in English literature, began to read more, and soon found out that lots of books were Fairly good.1:34
Speaker 4 My problem at school was exams.1:43
I was never good at them.1:47
Classwork was usually fine, but my examination marks were always rather poor.1:49
My parents decided to hire a private teacher and I had extra science lessons at home certainly helped.1:54
But even that preparation didn't change my marks at the exams very much.2:01
I got C in Physics, D in Chemistry and D in Biology.2:06
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