What was your old school like? Read the four short interviews with Austrian pupils for an English youth magazine. Did they like their old schools? How was your old school different to this one? My old school was in a small village, and it was only ten minutes from my home. I could easily get there in ten minutes. There weren’t many pupils, only about 100. It was a new type of secondary school. It was OK. This school’s ten times bigger than my old school and it’s a modern building. I go to school by train, which is terribly slow. It takes me an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon, but I still think my new school’s cool. And my classmates are cool too. (Felix, 15) What was your first school like? I was already eight years old when I came to Austria. First I went to a really modern primary school with laptops for every pupil. There were twenty-four pupils in my class, and our teacher was a young woman. She wasn’t very strict. School was boring. It was the same every day. We were at school from eight to half past twelve from Monday to Friday. In the afternoons I often had German lessons, but they were difficult. I wasn’t good at German and always wrote extremely slowly to get the endings of the words right. (Ayse, 15) What was your old school like? It was great! It was an old-fashioned secondary school, but with extra sports lessons. We were in the classroom in the morning, but in the afternoons we were always in the gym or on the football field. I like sports. We were allowed to warm up for 10 minutes at the beginning. Often we just ran around. While some of us were screaming at each other really loudly to let our frustration out, others were quietly walking around or chatting. Everything was allowed. My favourite sport is football – I was the goalkeeper for the school team. I was very happy at that school. (Martin, 14) What was your former school like? Well, I was at an academic secondary school for four years. The subjects were mostly interesting and on the whole I found school pretty easy and my marks were very good. But I’m a practical person, and so my parents and I looked for a school that also teaches you practical skills. I like the cooking lessons very much. They’ re fun! (Jessica, 14) Look at the short interviews and underline all adjectives you can find. Which adjectives were used to describe schools? Make a list and compare your lists in class. Look at the expressions for talking about schools. Match them with their opposites in the boxes. 1 modern 2 the same every day 3 difficult 4 great 5 interesting 7 Reading a 1 2 3 4 b 8 Vocabulary Talking about schools old-fashioned terrible boring different every day easy old-fashioned Language skills Extras Explore 1 People in your life 15 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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