I would say "set children on a scientific path" .

Hi Ana, In the UK, we have summer holidays also, as in the vacations that people go on in the summer or just the time off that they have in the summer, especially for students and teachers. In the UK we don't have so many religious holidays, other than Christmas and Easter. The days off we all get at those times (and at certain other times of the year, usually Mondays) are called bank holidays, as traditionally banks and other services are closed on those days. Students and teachers also have Easter and Christmas holidays, which are usually the two weeks off around those times. As far as I know, there is no equivalent of "puente" in the UK. When you personally do not have to work, that's called a "day off". Hope this helps, David

The sentence should be: "In eight weeks the reading age of all children was improved by six months". In schools, when they test a child's reading skills they often measure this in years and months. For example a child may be six years old but have a reading age of four years (i.e. their reading skills are at the level of an average four-year-old child). If the reading age of all children was improved by six months, then this would suggest that their reading age would have increased 6 months from their previous reading age.

A counterweight balances the weights on the other side of the clock mechanism (rather like when you try to balance kitchen scales to get an accurate measure of flour or sugar, etc.). This helps to keep the clock accurate. The stack (or pile) of old pennies (1/240th of an old British pound) provides the balance.

I'm not sure about individual comedians but this may be interesting for you: http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/blog/ronnie-barker-rhyming-slang-sermon/

The invention of television and the telephone thanks to my fellow Scots, John Logie Baird and Alexander Graham Bell, respectively. Also penicillin (Alexander Fleming).

That was the most optimistic statistic I could find. I think it included everyone who still remembered some of their school French and could order a pain-au-chocolat on the ferry to Calais.