Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Most students look forward to the summer. Not only is the weather good, but classes are over. Summer offers a break from school and a chance to relax.
But not if you decide to do summer school. Crazy as it may sound, plenty of people choose to take classes in the summer. They might want to try to graduate early, or catch up on a class they missed during the regular year. Students who fail a class are sometimes forced to do summer school.
Amy is a teacher. Find out if she’ll be in the classroom this summer, as she and Jason discuss summer school.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Amy: I’m pretty excited. I’m not teaching summer school this year.
Jason: Oh, really? Well, I can imagine that would make for a more enjoyable summer. But, I don’t know, summer school’s gotta be pretty cool, right?
Amy: You know, in some ways it’s not that bad. You kind of figure you can have a little bit more of a laid back attitude. Everyone’s there during their summer. You can’t be too strict. You get to kinda treat it like half school, half vacation.
Jason: But the pace is a little faster, right? It’s kind of intense. You have to do a lot in a short period of time.
Amy: Yeah. Usually 10 weeks is squeezed into four weeks, or something like that. So it is, it’s longer days. And sometimes I guess students have to take summer school classes to kind of catch up with things that they’ve maybe missed during the year. Or the classic is, like, you fail a class during the regular year, and then you have to take it again. So that’s not fun for anybody.
Jason: The one time I took it I had a lot of fun.
Amy: Oh really?
Jason: It was because my favorite professor was leaving after that summer. So I took one more class from him, and there were only five people in the class.
Amy: Nice.
Jason: And he came over to our house for dinner and stuff, so it was really fun.
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Discussion
Amy is a teacher, and she often teaches during the summer. But this year, she is not teaching summer school. She is taking the summer off.
Even though she is happy to have the summer off, Amy doesn’t mind teaching summer school. She likes the laid back atmosphere of summer classes. However, as Jason points out, the pace is usually fast in summer school, because you have to get a lot done in a short amount of time.
Sometimes students are forced to take summer school if they fail a class during the regular year. But other times, students choose to take summer classes. Jason had a great experience taking a summer class from a professor he really liked.
Have you ever done summer school? What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of taking classes during the summer?
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