Under reforms to the national curriculum, all children in UK will learn a foreign language – whether Mandarin, Latin, Greek or a list of others – beginning at age seven, the Guardian reported.

Pupils will need to be able to speak in sentences, with correct pronunciation, and express simple ideas clearly in another language.

They will be expected to develop an understanding of the basic grammar of the language, and be acquainted with songs and poetry.

In other reforms, children will be encouraged to learn science by studying the natural environment, and schools will be expected to place less emphasis on teaching scientific method.

In math curriculum, children will be expected to do multiplication and division with large numbers without the use of pen and paper. Pupils in their final year of primary school will be introduced to algebra.

(China.org.cn June 12, 2012)

據(jù)英國(guó)《衛(wèi)報(bào)》報(bào)道，在全國(guó)課程改革的要求下，英國(guó)所有的學(xué)生將從7歲起學(xué)習(xí)一門外語(yǔ)，可以是漢語(yǔ)、拉丁語(yǔ)或希臘語(yǔ)。

小學(xué)生得能用外語(yǔ)說(shuō)完整的句子，并且發(fā)音正確，能清楚表達(dá)簡(jiǎn)單的觀點(diǎn)。

他們應(yīng)理解某種外語(yǔ)的基本語(yǔ)法，并熟悉歌曲、詩(shī)歌。

在其它改革方面，學(xué)校將淡化科學(xué)方法的傳授，應(yīng)鼓勵(lì)小孩子通過(guò)觀察自然來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)知識(shí)。

在數(shù)學(xué)課程方面，孩子們應(yīng)該不用紙筆便能做多位數(shù)乘除法。小學(xué)生在小學(xué)最后一年開(kāi)始學(xué)習(xí)幾何。