2019学年度外研版选修七Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year Period2Language points

Section 1 Background Readings for Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year

1. High School Red Cross Clubs

Are you a high school student interested in helping others and making your community a better place to live? Start or join an American Red Cross club at your school.

　Red Cross clubs are a team effort, where Red Cross units and youth work together to make their communities and the world a better place and where young people develop leadership skills. A Red Cross club is sponsored by a mentor, usually a teacher from your school or a leader in your community. If you do not have a club in your area, you may want to approach someone you think is the right person for the task and see if he or she will help you get started. The different types of clubs that you could from are listed below.

●School Clubs

Red Cross school clubs are school-based service group that help the Red Cross fulfill its humanitarian(人道主义者) mission. Working closely with the local Red Cross unit, club members participate in Red Cross service projects that impact their community and the world. Student members will discover many new opportunities for self-development and be encouraged to choose activities that will most effectively fulfill the community's greatest needs.

●Red Cross Service/ Project Clubs

A service or project club operates within another club and uses a title other than "Red Cross Club". Members complete service project for the Red Cross and for other service organizations.

●Clubs Not Affiliated with Schools

Many Red Cross clubs are sponsored by local Red Cross chapters. Like school clubs, members of these clubs develop leadership skills and participate in Red Cross service projects that impact their community and the world. 2. Secondary Schools in England and Wales

In the UK, there is a slightly different education system in Northern Ireland and Scotland, but the majorities of people live in England and Wales and have the system described below.

　State secondary schools are of two types: comprehensive schools and grammar schools. A town which has a "comprehensive" system has children from 11-16/18 going to the local school regardless of their academic ability. A town or rural area which still has the old "grammar" system has an exam at 11 (the 11-plus) to select the children with the highest academic ability to go to grammar schools. Those who don't go to grammar school go to secondary schools (which are still usually called comprehensive, even if the top 5-10% of children don't go there.) Some grammar schools are still single-sex schools.

Children have to go to school until they are 16 by law. At 16 they take their General Certificate of Secondary Education exams (GCSEs) in about 6-10 subjects. If they pass, they can stay on at school and do "A"-level exams (Advanced levels) when they are 18. This is for people who want to go to University or some other kind of tertiary education. These two years are known as the Sixth Form (6 one, and 6 two) and the students are called "sixth-formers". Typically students take three related subjects (eg. Physics/Chemistry/Biology or English/French/German). They have classes in these subjects, but also free study time when they are expected to do research and reading in the library and study rooms. They are treated more like university students than school students. They often have their own common room, with relaxed seating, music and coffee, tea and snacks facilities, and in many schools they either don't have to wear school uniform, or they wear a more informal version of it. Sixth-formers are also involved in the running of the school, with the Head Boy/ Girl and prefects, who manage some of the out-of-class events, such as societies, weekends away, dances and dinners. The sixth formers are also likely to make up the majority of players in the schools main sports teams for rugby, football, tennis, and hockey and so on. In the May/ June of their final year they take the exams in their three subjects, and, depending on their results, they go on to tertiary institutions. There is, however, no "prom (正式舞会)" at the end of the last year in school as in the USA.