An online article
- Match the words with pictures.
- Order the activities of a typical school day in exercise 1. Add three more activities to the list.
- start school
- go to sleep
- have lunch
- have a break
- go to school
- wake up
- pack my bag
- go home
- get dressed
- get up
Subskill: Predicting from the title and the pictures
Look at photos and the title of a text before you read. This can help you understand what is in the text.
- Look at the pictures in Chapter 2.3 and read the title of the article. Answer the questions.
- What day and time is it in the pictures?
- Why are the students at home?
- What daily routine activities do you think the students do? What don’t they do?
- Read and listen to the article. What daily routine activities do the students do?
- Read the article again. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
- An online school has lessons at fixed times.
- Students see the whiteboard on their computer.
- They can communicate with the teacher.
- Students work on the computer all day.
- They see their classmates outside school.
- Online students study different subjects from students in other schools.
- Complete the sentences.
- Jack starts school at .
- Abi has her first lesson at .
- In the morning, they have .
- They have lunch, and then they .
- Jack learns about .
- They see friends in .
- Word work Match the definitions to the words in bold in the text.
- numbers or letters that show how good schoolwork is
- things you learn at school, e.g. maths or English
- a place where you can borrow or read books
- start to use a computer
- students in your class
- visits with other students
- Complete the sentences with words from exercise 7.
- We sometimes go on () to museums or other places of interest.
- There’s a big () at my school with lots of books.
- Our teacher gives us () from one to ten for our homework.
- The first thing we in do in computer classes is () .
- I often walk to school with one of my () .
- We have science () every Friday morning.
CRITICAL THINKING
- Understand Think about online and traditional schools. Find at least two things that are the same and two things that are different.
- Evaluate Which of these things is an advantage of an online school? Which is a disadvantage?
- Create Think of three advantages of a traditional school.









