2011年2月17日星期四

Reading 3 HW

1. website address
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/business/global/18teach.html?_r=1&hpw
2. summary
This new is about India's public education. Indian is begining to recognize the important of education. It introduces a India elementary school. The school was provided money from a very rich India person. He thinks education is very important. Indian goverment give a lot of students free lunch but it isn't enough. But if India still attach importance to education. We will see a much better country-India in the future.
3. vocabulary
Private:belonging to some particular person.
revolutionary:of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change
approach :to come near or nearer to
commonplace:ordinary; undistinguished or uninteresting; without individuality
4. interesting sentence

Private Effort to Improve India’s Public Education

That might seem commonplace in American or European schools. But such activities are revolutionary in India, where public school students have long been drilled on memorizing facts and regurgitating them in stressful year-end exams that many children fail.

5. questions

I think education is the countries' future, do you agree?

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