Homework is an (0) …B… part of school life in most countries around the world. However, there is still considerable debate among teachers about (1) …… homework has a significant educational value. On the one side are those who (2) …… that it takes too much time away from other (3) …… useful activities. On the other are those who see homework as reinforcing school lessons so that concepts will not be forgotten. (4) …… is often neglected in this debate is the role of parental involvement and (5) …… or not the child’s home provides support for effective homework. Middle-class families regularly spend time helping with homework by providing facilities and being interested. These are the same facilities that can (6) …… other educational experiences like overseas holidays and weekend museum visits. Parents in low-income families often don’t have the time to make homework a priority or aren’t able to afford a computer or additional textbooks. (7) …… money they have goes on the basic necessities of life – accommodation, food, clothing and heating. Their children are more (8) …… to spend weekends doing part-time jobs or playing in the street. However, the (9) …… that only middle-class parents support their children’s education is quite obviously wrong. Not (10) …… well-to-do parents give the support they should, and some parents living in the most impoverished circumstances (11) …… find the time and energy to involve themselves in their children’s homework. In general, (12) …… the family’s economic status is a major factor in determining the value of homework.

Task 1. Open the brackets using the proper form of the verb.

1. How efficient it would be for the Customs House if document processing (to computerize).

2. In case she (not to answer) my telephone call, I’ll text to her.

3. But for his laziness, he (to make) his project on the current world economy on time.

4. If only I (can/to help) her prepare for the examinations then.

5. If you had any customs training, it (may) be possible to use you up here.

6. Had his father known it, he (not to let) him quit the Academy.

7. If he (to be) Secretary at the time of the strike, the money would never have been borrowed.

8. I’ll come back home early unless I (to detain) at the Academy.

9. Suppose you (to expel) from the University, what would you do?

10. If he (not to) so absent-minded, he wouldn’t have left his tablet in the reading room yesterday.

11. I(to finish) my term paper on time provided I find all the necessary materials.

12. She (not to believe) it if she had not seen it with her own eyes.

13. If he (not to realize) that there was something strange about the guy’s behavior, he would not have called the airport canine enforcement team.

14. If it were not for canine enforcement teams, the number of drug seizures by customs officers (to be) that big.

15. If only I (to know) how to make a foreign trade contract.

16. Were she in Moscow, she certainly (would call) you.

Joan collected small statues of birds. 1) True 2) False✔️ 3) Not stated

Joan had a well-paid job. 1) True 2) False ✔️ 3) Not stated

The shop assistant showed Joan several wooden owls.

1) True 2) False ✔️ 3) Not stated

The wooden owl improved Joan’s mood. 1) True ✔️ 2) False 3) Not stated

Joan joined the pottery class because of her friends’ advice. 1) True 2) False ✔️3) Not stated

Joan successfully participated in Art exhibitions. 1) True ✔️ 2) False 3) Not stated

There was an image of the owl on every Joan’s works. 1) True✔️ 2) False 3) Not stated

The wooden owl disappeared after Joan’s death. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated✔️