EDUCATION

EDUCATION: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS

1.1. For questions 1 -10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

GET THE GIRLS TO SCHOOL

The (0) education of girls is the surest way of	EDUCATE
reducing (1) ………… . So why are ninety million primary school age girls not in school? It is because	POOR
they contribute (2) ………… to the family by looking after younger children, or working in the fields. But these girls face a life of backbreaking work, with	ECONOMY
children who die of (3) ………… diseased, subordination to a husband and his family, and an early death. And the uneducated woman transmits to her children the same doomed life. But it does not have to be like this. Educational campaigns have	PREVENT
meant that (4) ………… is almost unknown in	LITERATE
Southern India, and the infant (5) ………… rate there	MORTAL
is (6) ………… the lowest in the developing world. And in Africa and South Asia, where women do most of the farming, education is allowing them to learn	CONSEQUENCE
how to improve (7) ………… farming practices and at	EFFICIENT
the same time is raising awareness of the (8) ………… needs of the land. While to rural families it might	ECOLOGY
seem an unavoidable (9) ………… to keep girls working at home, it is in both the national and international interests – as well as in the interest of the	NEED
girls themselves – to (10) ………… the short-term difficulties and provide these girls with the education they need.	COME

1.2. For questions 1-12, read this short article about ‘alternative schools’ and put the words in brackets into the correct form.

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