March 12-18, 2007
TO SIR, WITH LOVE: AUSTRALIAN PLAN HAS STUDENTS MARKING TEACHERS
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1. Who is it proposed will evaluate a teacher in the future?
A. his parents
B. his students
C. he and his family
D. the federal government

2. What would the proposed assessments be used for?
A. to decide who will get a higher salary
B. to promote teachers to administration
C. to hire teachers for prestigious schools
D. to dismiss unpopular teachers from their job

3. Under the proposal, who will get the blame if students donŐt learn much?
A. school
B. parents
C. students
D. teachers

4. How do teacher unions feel about this proposal?

A. They support it.
B. They are against it.
C. They havenŐt decided yet.
D. They donŐt care one way or the other.

5. What objection do parents have against this proposal?
A. Only a few good teachers deserve to be evaluated.
B. All teachers are lazy and are getting paid too much.
C. Some teachers work hard but their students learn little.
D. It is not the teachersŐ fault if the students have bad textbooks.


Synonyms: Which of the following words or phrases replace the ones from the passage best?
6. pupil
A. desk
B. advisor
C. student
D. board member

7. assessment
  A. record
B. evaluation
C. reprimand
D. reorganisation

8. academic
A. scholarly
B. subversive
C. photogenic
D. philanthropic

9. peer
A. director
B. outsider
C. customer
D. colleague

10. bitterly
A. teasingly
B. extremely
C. unanimously
D. unreasonably

 

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