Question

3. Read the article. Choose the correct answer.
1 According to the article, one reason that children and their families choose home schooling is
because
A they live too far from a school.
B they don’t think the local school is effective.
C they feel schools don’t care properly for children.
2 What do we learn about Jenny and Hayley’s lessons?
A They don’t cover as many subjects as children in school.
B They don’t have lessons at fixed times of day.
C They don’t do all their lessons with their parents.
3 The girls’ mother explains that the girls stopped going to school after
A the family got together and discussed it.
B they became unhappy at their school.
C they moved far away from their school.
4 What does the girls’ mother say about their decision to leave school?
A It’s made the girls worry about missing exams.
B It’s been the wrong thing to do.
C It’s something the parents may change in the future.

5 Julia says one disadvantage of home schooling is that the girls don’t
A go on school trips.
B meet people their own age in the area.
C go away and mix with other people.

HOME SCHOOLING

Full-time education in the UK is compulsory from the age of five to sixteen, but this doesn’t
have to be in a school. Around 50,000 children are educated at home. This is called ‘home
schooling’.
Parents take their children out of school for different reasons, like illness and the need for
special care, or because the distance to the nearest school may be too far. Some children are
simply unhappy at school. Whatever the reason, they’re allowed to study at home, although
inspectors regularly check how they are getting on.
Hayley and Jenny haven’t been to school for two years but they haven’t neglected their
studies. Their mother worked out strict timetables for them, with hourly lessons for each day.
She’s responsible for teaching them Maths, English, History and French. Their father teaches
them Science and Geography. They study all the other school subjects online. ‘We have lessons
with Dad in the evenings and at weekends,’ explains Hayley.
The family’s home is in a remote part of Wales. ‘The girls were fine at school but they
spent so much time getting to school, they were too tired to learn,’ says their mother, Julia. ‘We
had a family conference and in the end we decided to try home schooling. So far, it’s been a big
success, but the girls know that if they want to go back to school at any time, we’ll let them. We
follow the normal school programme of lessons, and they will take all the normal school exams.’
There are disadvantages too, of course. ‘Social isolation is something I worry about,’ says
Julia. They both seem happy and well-adjusted, but they haven’t really got friends who live
locally. But in the summer holidays they go away on trips to summer camps, where they have no
trouble mixing with people and making friends.’

Answer 1

1.A
2.C
3.C
4.A
5.B
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