My good friend will go to the high school

Today is Friday. Many classmates went home early.
My good friend Michael will go to the high school next week. We have studied English for almost one year. He is a good student. He is a teacher's pet. He studied more diligently than me; so he often made fun of my vocabulary and pronunciation. His vocabulary is larger than mine, but my grammar is better than his. We all took a pronunciation class. Now, I think my pronunciation is better than his. But he said the teacher said his pronunciation was nearly as good as a native speaker's. I said the teacher was only encouraging him. We need to take more time to practise our English.