Students can bring information together about the current content on ''school life and education with different types of schools in the world; regular and extracurricular activities at different types of schools; school anxiety and stress; national days and celebrations'' through skimming, scanning and detailed reading.

Hilltop Boarding School

Hilltop Boarding School is an upper secondary school in the countryside. About 400 students study and live here. Students sleep in dormitories and eat three meals a day in the canteen. Lessons start at 8.30 a.m. and finish at 3.30 p.m. After lessons, students can join clubs: the chess club, the coding club and the photography club. At weekends, students can play tennis or basketball on the school courts. Students go home to their families during the holidays.

Ken (Osaka, Japan): I go to a lower secondary school. We wear a school uniform. Lessons start at 8.40 a.m. After lunch, we clean our classrooms and the corridors together. After school, I go to the basketball club from Monday to Friday. We sometimes have practice on Saturdays too.

Olivia (Toronto, Canada): I go to a lower secondary school too, but we don't wear uniforms. Our school day starts at 8.45 a.m. and finishes at 3.15 p.m. Our school has cleaners, so students don't clean the classrooms. I'm in the coding club, and it meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school.

Text 1 – School survey: What makes you anxious? (Grade 10, 250 students)

Text 2 – The school counsellor's tips

1. Make a weekly study plan. Good time management reduces stress.
2. Practise your presentation in front of a mirror or a friend first.
3. Don't be a perfectionist. Small mistakes are normal.
4. Sleep at least eight hours before an exam.

Text 3 – A message from Emir

"I have a presentation in my Literature class next Monday, and I'm really anxious. I'm also worried because I always want everything to be perfect. I usually study until 2 a.m. before exams."