Long Listening · Section 3

School and University

When I was younger, I went to school from Monday to Friday. I didn't have any classes on Saturdays or Sundays.

Level: B1 · 28 sentences

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  1. When I was younger, I went to school from Monday to Friday.
  2. I didn't have any classes on Saturdays or Sundays.
  3. My parents took me to school every day by car.
  4. I lived very far away from my school so I couldn't walk there.
  5. When I arrived, I went into the classroom to wait for the lesson to start.
  6. My classroom was medium-sized.
  7. It had three windows, one door, one whiteboard with whiteboard pens and there were a lot of desks and chairs in the classroom.
  8. When the teacher arrived we started the lesson.
  9. We had three or four lessons and then it was break time.
  10. We went to the playground to chat with our friends walk around and rest a little.
  11. After the break we had some more lessons and school finished at 3pm.
  12. I had to take a lot of tests and exams at school.
  13. I didn't like to do tests or exams because I didn't like studying.
  14. My favourite subjects were physics and biology.
  15. I had to do a lot of homework every afternoon.
  16. I took two or three hours to do my homework at the weekends and one hour from Monday to Friday.
  17. My favourite homework to do was English, literature, because I thought it was easier than the other subjects.
  18. When I finished high school, I went to university and that was totally different.
  19. I loved my courses that I was taking.
  20. It wasn't like high school because I didn't like all my subjects in high school.
  21. I had lessons in the evenings.
  22. Some people have their lessons in the mornings and other people have them in the afternoons or evenings.
  23. I had six hours of lessons per day.
  24. In my university classes there was a whiteboard, a projector to show videos and photographs and we sat on benches, not on normal chairs.
  25. At university I didn't have homework.
  26. I had tasks and projects.
  27. I enjoyed going to my university classes and studying the subjects because it was what I'm interested in.
  28. When you are at school you can't choose what to study so there are some subjects that you don't like like PE or maths but at university you don't have a lot of subjects that you don't like so they are more interesting if you have enjoyed this video please like it and subscribe thank you I'll see you in my next video