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Hi Nessie
Where I live, those would be called "periods", and periods of time that last longer than an hour are often called "blocks" (high school and middle school).
- She has French during first period, math during second period, etc.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Aug 14, 2008 19:43 pm what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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| In my country, school time often lasts for about 4 and a half hours. That four and a half hours is devided into 5 ... (breaks are not included) Trouble is, I can't find the correct word to fill in the blank. Should it be "session", or "period", or what else? |
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Aug 14, 2008 22:50 pm what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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I would opt for "period" too, in BrE; or simply "lesson".
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:54 am what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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| Periods. We say of divisions in the school day that they are "periods". |
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:27 am what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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Thanks a lot, everybody :)
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Hi Nessie
Where I live, those would be called "periods", and periods of time that last longer than an hour are often called "blocks" (high school and middle school).
- She has French during first period, math during second period, etc.
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Hi Amy, so you mean if the period lasts longer than 1 hour, we must call it a "block", and in the US, blocks in highschool and middle school often last longer than 1 hour? How exactly long are they?
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Hi Ralf :)
I don't know, but here we start school at 6:45am. During the first 15 minutes we do something call "lesson and homework checking", which is supposed to be the period of time when students check each other to see whether they all do the homework, or that they have all learnt the old lessons, or that they have prepared the new lessons. However, that's just the theory. In antual fact, during that 15 minutes, most students stay in their class to chat or review lessons while a group of students (which can be called (literally translated) "red flag") go from class to class to check if the students of those classes have cleant the floor, taken out the garbage, or if they wear decent uniform). (Stupid ritual, isn't it? :lol: ) Then the class start at 7am. As I said, there are usually 5 periods (each lasts 45 minutes), 4 breaks (3 of which lasts 10 minutes, the other lasts 20 minutes). School ends at 11:35am.
Sorry for all this, just wanna let you know detailedly :D
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Aug 15, 2008 17:46 pm what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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Hi Nessie,
I will never ever say again that my school time was hard. It clearly wasn't! Apart from the school uniform I can't see much resemblance :D
Where do you live?
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Aug 15, 2008 18:26 pm what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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I think a "period" would usually be a specific length of time (e.g. 45 minutes).
Longer lessons would be formed by "double periods"; thus "double Chemistry" might = a 90 minute lesson.
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| #9 (permalink) Fri Aug 15, 2008 18:38 pm what's the most suitable word to fill in the blank? |
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Hi Nessie
I'm not really sure how many schools in the US might use the word 'block'. At my niece's high school, a 'block' is 82 minutes long.
I'd say a 'period' would generally be between 45 and 50 minutes long.
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| Ralf wrote: |
Hi Nessie,
I will never ever say again that my school time was hard. It clearly wasn't! |
:lol: I'm sure it wasn't, Ralf. Because we don't just study in the morning or afternoon: we study in both the morning and the afternoon :lol: , though the curricula are not the same (usually 7 periods a day for high school students - 5 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. And, tutorial classes (which is very important here) isn't counted :lol: ) By the way, there are a lot more funny (if not ridiculous) things about education here (esp in rural schools like mine), which will take me a week to tell, so if you're interested, I suggest you come here in person :lol: :lol:
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| Apart from the school uniform I can't see much resemblance :D |
As for this resemblance, last year my school's uniform changed from 'áo dài' to shirts and trousers (after 10 years of 'áo dài' as the traditional uniform). And for some reasons only God knows, this year it changes again from shirts and trousers to 'áo dài' :lol: :lol: (this wise uniform changing costs the students quite a lot :evil: )
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| Where do you live? |
I suppose you've got the answer from the 'áo dài', haven't you? :P
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Hi Nessie
I'm not really sure how many schools in the US might use the word 'block'. At my niece's high school, a 'block' is 82 minutes long.
I'd say a 'period' would generally be between 45 and 50 minutes long. |
Thanks, Amy. It seems that educational system varies from country to country :P
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I think a "period" would usually be a specific length of time (e.g. 45 minutes).
Longer lessons would be formed by "double periods"; thus "double Chemistry" might = a 90 minute lesson. |
Thanks, MrP :) I think I'm quite used to these 'double periods'. They are very popular in Vietnamese high schools. Of the 5 periods each morning, we aften have two double periods and one singular period :)
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| As for this resemblance, last year my school's uniform changed from 'áo dài' to shirts and trousers (after 10 years of 'áo dài' as the traditional uniform). And for some reasons only God knows, this year it changes again from shirts and trousers to 'áo dài' :lol: |
Nice uniforms in Vietnam :wink:
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Thanks, Ralf :)
I hope someday you can come to visit Vietnam (you see, apart from some diehard shortcomings, it is quite a lovely country and there're lots of interesting things to discover :)
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