Listening exercise on school uniforms
In this English listening exercise we hear DNews talk about school uniforms and their importance.
Parents, students, and school officials have been fighting for-and against school uniforms for years now. So as the school year begins, Anthony of DNews seeks an answer once and for all: do school uniforms really help students learn?
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Listen to DNews talk about school uniforms and their importance, and answer the questions in the following listening exercise. Write your answers in the comments box at the bottom of the page, and we will reply with the answers shortly!
Questions:
1. And here in the US more public schools than ever are adopting mandatory uniform ____ for students.
2. School boards and educators hope that uniforms will ____ violence and bullying.
3, The district was full of gang violence, ____ problems, low attendance and sexual assault.
4. And after putting everybody in uniforms for a year, the ____ crime rate in the school system dropped 90%.
5. ..it followed students from different districts and backgrounds from the 8th grade all the way ____ college...
6. First off, there was no change in bullying and ____.
7. Uniforms can actually ____ their own kind of issues.
8. A lot of schools in England are actually trying to ____ ____ from the tradition of uniforms.
9. ... so much pressure is ____ ____ them about how they look, and uniforms actually relieve them of some of it.
10. Why do we ____ with the whole "uniforms are beneficial" thing?
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