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SCHOOLUNIFORMS
UNIFORMS
SCHOOL

School uniforms are different for every school and are different colours. Boys usually wear
dark trousers and girls usually wear skirts. Both boys and girls wear a light-coloured shirt,
sometimes a jacket and a tie in the school’s colours.
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In Europe, the country with the most schools where students wear uniforms is the UK. In the
USA, students didn’t use to wear uniforms. But in the 1990s many schools asked their students
to start wearing them. This wasn’t very popular with students. But many people say that
uniforms help students feel part of a team and be proud of their school. What do you think?

I hate my uniform. I always run home and
change my clothes. I like my jeans and
T-shirts. They are more comfortable.
I don’t want to wear the same
I don’t want to wear the same I like my school
clothes as 800 other students.
clothes as 800 other students. uniform. It’s dark blue
I just want to be different.
I just want to be different. and I think I look nice
Also, I don’t think uniforms
Also, I don’t think uniforms in it. Uniforms used to be
help us become better
help us become better very boring in the past but
people.
people. mine’s not too bad. Wearing a
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the weekend and look cool!
Darren (UK)
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In Serbia, students didn’t use to wear
2. When did many schools in the USA ask
2. When did many schools in the USA ask school uniforms. The boys usually wore
their students to start wearing uniforms? white shirts, black or grey trousers and black
their students to start wearing uniforms?
3. What does Jessica do when she gets shoes at school. The girls usually wore white
3. What does Jessica do when she gets
home from school? blouses, black skirts, white socks and black
home from school?
4. How does wearing a uniform help
4. How does wearing a uniform help shoes. Nowadays, only students in some
Darren in the morning?
Darren in the morning? private schools wear school uniforms.
5. Who hates wearing a uniform? Do you wear a uniform at school? If not,
5. Who hates wearing a uniform?
would you like to wear one? Why? / Why not?
6. Who thinks that uniforms are better
6. Who thinks that uniforms are better
than they used to be?
than they used to be?
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