Every child in Great Britain between the age of five and fifteen must (23)_________school.

There (24)_________ three main types of educational institutions: primary (elementary) schools, secondary schools and universities.

State schools are free, and attendance is compulsory. Morning school begins at nine o’clock and lasts until half past four. School is open five days a week.

(25)_________ Saturdays and Sundays there are no lessons. There are holidays at Christmas,

Easter and in summer. In London as in all cities there are two grades of state schools for those (26)_________will go to work at fifteen: primary schools for boys and girls between the ages of five and eleven, and secondary schools for children from eleven to fifteen years.

The lessons are reading, writing, the English language, English literature, English history, geography, (27)________, nature study, drawing, painting, singing, woodwork and drill.

Every child in Great Britain between the age of five and fifteen must (23)_________school.