Today I arrived to school at 9.00. English was the first class. I had a test. The grammar part lasted for ten minutes and it was the easiest piece of the test. The reading part lasted for thirty minutes. The topic that was raised in the paper was the private education and its advantages regarding to the state education. I myself am studying in the private school now and realise how much effective it is. Though, they say in the text that the underprivileged students have less chances to apply for a private education and consequentially enter a prestigious university, I still believe that it all depend on a student. Even underprivileged students do have a chance to enter a prestigious university. Not once did I meet people from poor families, who pushed the limits and succeeded entering the place they wanted. Although, it probably costed them a fortune. I don't think that the private education must be obligatory because not all people can fork out, but the advantages are in the curricula: in the private school I can spend more time for the subjects I'm really into and save it by passing quickly the unnecessary ones. While in the state school no matter whether you passed or didn't pass the topic you have to stay in the classrooms and waste your time by waiting for the grass to grow. Let's get back to the matter at hand. To be honest I don't like the reading part in general. It's not because it's 'too much' complicated or useless. It's because I lose myself in the texts. I would rather do ten listening tests than one reading. The listening part lasted for thirty minutes as well. It had been split into 3 passages. The first passage was about the man's love story. He told to the interviewer about his spouse who he thought wouldn't become one. However, they needed some time to take a closer look to each other, pass through the main stages of love, finally get married and live a long happy life. The other passage of listening had waiter's jokes. Here is a couple of ones that I've remembered: Client: There's a dead fly in my soup. Waiter: Don't talk too loudly, everyone will want it. To be honest I didn't get this joke. What's between the lines of it? The other one is: Client: What's the dead fly doing in my soup? Waiter: Practising breaststroke. As if it should always be like this: Client: Why do I have a dead fly in my soup Waiter: The hot liquid must have killed it. And the stupidest one: Client: There's a dead fly swimming in my soup Waiter: Leave it, dead flies can't fly And the last audio was about farmer's problems and the fair trade scheme to help farmers to save up money for their livelihood. To put it in the nutshell, they set the minimum thread of price for lower than that it's not allowed to sell fruits and vegetables. This way farmers are always provided with the means of living. The speaking part was about language learning. I told to my examiner that although I'm good at English that's not my favorite foreign language. I wish I knew Italian as the native language because it's melodic and complicated. What appeals me in English is the variety of accents. When I started to learn the language I wished to gain the black American accent, because I considered it cool, fast and energetic. But as the time passed my taste has changed towards the posh British accent, because it sounds seductive and clear at the same time. I like the specific Australian vocabulary, not only the slang. Then I changed the subject to Italian and German. As I already mentioned I love Italian and in Italian I like dialects. It's great that people keep their identity, but compared to English, which transfers the accents, Italian dialects make the language difficult to learn as the dialectical words and expressions can be used in what we call the standard language and learners should figure it out.