hey everybody welcome to this a1 english listening practice video you can use this video to practice your listening and comprehension as i speak before we start remember to subscribe to the channel click on the bell and follow us on instagram you ready so today i'm gonna talk about education this is an essential topic because education is an important part of our lives most people get some kind of education education is different in different countries but today we'll talk about education in the u. s so first let's talk about the different levels of education in the u. s the first level of education is preschool in the u.
s kids go to preschool when they're four years old but not everyone goes to preschool some people don't go i went to preschool when i was four i didn't like it because i was very shy i didn't like playing with other kids when i was young in preschool children play a lot but they also learn after preschool children go to kindergarten usually kids start kindergarten when they're 5 years old in kindergarten children start learning more things for example they learn to read write and make art they also learn how to be good students i remember that when i was in kindergarten we had discipline if we did something bad we got in trouble i never got in trouble because i was a good student so after kindergarten you go to elementary school in the u. s most elementary schools include 1st second third fourth fifth and sixth grade but some elementary schools don't include sixth grade in each year of elementary school you only have one teacher you have the same teacher all year in my opinion elementary school isn't that difficult in the us of course you get homework but it's not too much in elementary school you learn many things like math science history and english at this level you spend about 6 hours at school then after elementary school you go to middle school or junior high i say middle school but both of these names are correct middle school usually includes 7th and 8th grade at this level students have many teachers like six or seven i had six different classes each year in middle school each class was one hour long i didn't like middle school it's much harder than elementary school you get more homework and you have more tests then after middle school you go to high school in the u. s high school includes 9th 10th 11th and 12th grade this is the most important time for students in the u.
s if you want to go to college then it's important to do well in high school high school can be difficult but it depends on your teachers some teachers give a lot of homework and some teachers don't and some teachers are good at teaching and some teachers aren't i had some good teachers in high school but i also had some bad teachers so after high school some people go to college and some people don't of course there are different levels of university and you can earn different degrees there okay so lastly let's look at a few important vocabulary words related to education first let's talk about the word grades we use the word grades to talk about how well you did in a class or on a test in the us these grades are a b c d and f an a grade is the best and an f grade is the worst okay the next word is recess in the u.
