Classroom Activities: Subjects--Foreign Languages
Figure 1.--Prep school children achiece a reasonable competency in Ftench by the time they leave school. These boys are doing a class exercize uing their French work books. They are working in their form room. The school dud not have a French room.
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Students at prep schools have foreign language classes from the first year. There are also usually beginning lessons in the pre-prep. The language stidies is almost alwaysFrench. A few larger schools offer other labnguages, usually for advanced students. Children in state schools were not introduced to foreign language as early, although the Goverment has now decided that every child in England will start learning a modern foreign language in primary school from the age of 7 years. The program is panned to be implemented by 2010. French has been part of the prep school program from an early stage. Latin was at first much more important, but has declined as part of the school program since World War II. Learning activities include classrrom extercizes, both written and oral, and work books. Some schools hire French nationals and a few have language labortories. Some schools stahe all-French days in the dining room. Some schools have a designated French room enlivened with colorful posters. Usually the work is done in the form regular rooms. There are usually optional trips planned to France for the children to pratcice their French a little.
