What do pupils learn in the rural school?
When do pupils go to boat schools?
What do you need in the school of the future?
What do pupils learn in the rural school?
When do pupils go to boat schools?
What do you need in the school of the future?
Read the text and check your answers from the previous exercise.
In Croatia many pupils go to school every morning. They come back home in the afternoon. Some pupils have to go to school in the afternoon. They bring books and notebooks. In the classrooms they sit in their desks in pairs.
In the city of Minas in Uruguay (South America) there is a rural school with only 12 pupils. They are 4 to 11 years old. They learn how to cook, plant vegetables or how to milk cows.
There are often floods in Bangladesh (South Asia). That is why they have boat schools. Every boat school has got a laptop, internet connection and a small library. When there is a flood, boat schools start working.
In this American school pupils don’t use books or notebooks. They use computers instead. They do maths on their computers, too. Teachers use smart boards for their lessons. And the lockers? They are digital, too.
Are the sentences true or false? Select the right answer.
There are only 12 pupils in the rural school.
Boat schools work all the time.
There aren't laptops in boat schools.
In America, pupils do maths on their computers.
Read the text and select the picture that maches it.
Do you want to know more about boat schools? Watch the YouTube video and select True or False.
Children can’t go to schools because of the floods.
Floating school works as a school bus and a school house.
There is just one kind of boat house.
Groups of children are small.
The children learn Bengali, English, math and drawing.
Solar power runs computers.
There aren’t any books.