READING

In 1994, a group of education researchers started an organisation called the

Collaborative for Academie, Social and Emotional Learning, also known as CASEL.
This organisation wanted to teach social and emotional learning skills to school students
in the United States.
The researchers believed that in order to be successful in life, children need a lot more
than academic training.in their opinion, teachers should not only prepare children for
exams. Instead, they should also teach students how to get along with other people, even
though they don´t always see eye to eye.
They felt that if students learned how to manage their emotions and deal with conflicts,
they would be less likely to get involved in bullying and violence at school. In addition,
they would be much more likely to become positive and considerate adults.
Although many people supported CASEL, if faced a number of difficulties. Many
school focus on preparing their students for tests and not on non-academic subjects like
sport and music. According to these schools, there simply isn’t enough money to
finance social and emotional learning programmes.
Despite these challenges, some schools in the US are implementing different kinds of
CASEL programmes. One of these is called the Caring Schools Community. This tries
to encourage a sense of belonging within the school by putting younger students with
older ones.
Yet, although there are people who believe that CASEL programmes are extremely
beneficial, there are many who are not convinced that they actually work. Perhaps, if
there had been more research into the results of these kinds of programmes, more
schools would have adopted them. Supporters of CASEL will have to make sure this
research is done if they truly want to change the face of education in the US.

GRAMMAR
4 Choose the correct answer.
Many places in the US have started neighbourhood watch programme in which
volunteers walk or drive around the neighbourhood at night. When they see/ saw/had
seen something suspicious, they call/ would call/ would have called the police. For
example, a volunteer in Syracuse, New York prevented a car theft. If he wouldn´t
drive/ hadn´t driven/ drove past the car park, he won’t notice/ wouldn´t have
noticed/ hadn´t noticed the strangers hanging around. Neighbourhood watch
programmes also improve the quality of life in community. How will you feel/ did you
feel/ would you feel in the house next to you had/ will have/ had had a garden full of
rubbish? In the town the volunteers solved the problem. Neighbourhood watch
programmes would succeed/ will succeed/ succeeded/ if neighbours will watch out/
watched out/ watch out for each other. Many people feel if they hadn´t started/
wouldn´t start/ didn´t start a neighbourhood watch programme, the quality of life in
their communities would not improve/ don´t improve/ wouldn´t have improved.