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ADVANCED READING AND USE OF ENGLISH  | PART 6 | 3
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Complete the sentences with an adjective and preposition. Use one word from each box. 
astonished capable famous furious involved keen opposed worried
about by for in of on to with
1. Only a handful of schools are truly 
their excellent standards of behaviour 
and achievement.
2. Many school pupils are 
much better behaviour than they actually display.
3. If students feel that they are 
making decisions that affect their lives at 
the school, behaviour generally improves.
4. Many people are 
school uniforms, but others believe they improve 
standards of behaviour.
5. There’s no need to be 
behaviour in schools – it’s no worse than
50 years ago.
6. The parents were 
their daughter for always forgetting to pass on 
important messages to them from her teacher.
7. The school inspectors were 
the improvement in behaviour since their last 
visit and couldn’t believe how much progress had been made. 
8. The head teacher was very 
pointing out to anyone who would listen the 
link between bad behaviour in schools and academic achievement.
Look at the sentence below. Then try to correct the mistake.
The further education sector is much bigger as opposed to the university sector in the UK.
Get it right!
D Joao Rodrigues
When one analyses school results these days, 
it’s always a good idea to dig a little deeper 
than perhaps schools or the government 
would want. On the surface, all appears to be 
well, as overall pass rates continue to rise. 
Nevertheless, the breakdown for how different 
social classes perform shows the opposite to 
be true for less affluent students. Behavioural 
difficulties in schools are evident in students 
from every strata of society, but clearly 
they affect this group more than others. 
Therefore, financial assistance needs to be 
made available for schools to better support 
these vulnerable learners and to help them 
eradicate the underlying problem. Schools 
simply don’t have the resources to do this 
these days. I think it’s no coincidence that, as 
government provision has declined, levels of 
misconduct have done the contrary. Teachers 
are generally devoted to their students yet 
unfairly receive much of the blame when their 
charges misbehave.

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