Free Advanced Phrases Exercise: Schools and Schooling

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

When I was at school, I used to truant and go down to the amusement arcade and play pinball.
If a pupil has done something really bad, his or her teacher sends them to see the .
Twenty years ago, teachers could still give naughty students six . Now they aren't even allowed to touch their students.
In the United States they have Elementary School but in the UK we go to School from seven to eleven.
I remember in my French lessons there was one student who all the other kids really hated because he was the teacher's .
Most children can go home at night after school, but children at schools have to stay there all night as well.
Many people believe that school uniforms are helpful to income families who can't afford to pay for their children's changing fashions.
It was decided that the pupil in question should be permanently for persistently threatening behaviour towards teachers and other pupils.
Our teachers always give us mountains of homework to do in the so it doesn't really feel like a holiday at all.
As a punishment for writing rude words on the school desks, Tom had to detention four times a week for a month.
In the UK, all children must attend school between the ages of seven and sixteen.
During the last World Cup, several classes were cancelled because it was thought that most of the pupils would off lessons anyway.

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