5.4.2. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 3).

1. The ability to use your imagination today is characterized by increasing intellectualisation.

2. Our students get great pleasure from their studies.

3. She teaches in a school for children between the ages of 8 and 12, where she has worked for many years.

4. Exam results are used as indicators of student’ achievements.

5. The clever boy gained all the knowledge his teachers could give him.

6. If students are to develop critical abilities, and to see their work in a wider perspective, that too must be built into the course of study and not just expected to happen.

7. I have calculated that the money I would pay for being taught, rent and equipment for the five years of my degree would cost at least £54.500.

8. The Student’s Union is supported financially by an amount of money from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services.

9. The first head of Sunday School was Mr. Alfred Lowe and he remained the head of the school for just over nine years.

10. Mr. Malik had been brought up in Cheltenham and had attended a private school, although he was never precise about which one.

11. The Sixth Form at Little Rissington primary school are getting their report cards.

12. Poor marks at school may have a wide variety of causes.

13. Madame Chardin was a teacher with very strict ideas.

14. Children are learning to read long before they have any formal reading teaching.

15. I made copies of the information and gave to the person, who was in charge of all the schools in our area.

16. Apart from herself and John Biffen, all nineteen members of Mrs. Thatcher’s first cabinet were private school men.

17. Tim worked hard and got good marks.

18. There is a school in Ferry Hinksey Road, a type of school between primary and high school, I think, so that’s the only one I know.

5.4.3. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 4).

1. My main subject that I studied at university was economics.

2. The exams are at the end of the summer university half-year course.

3. Teachers often feel overworked during the periods of time that the school year is divided into.

4. Most first-year students live in the building on the land of a university.

5. I studied literature as my main subject at a college, but took a few science classes, too.

6. Few of our parents had any form of education at a university.

7. The government is committed to, continuing to fund all kinds of education for adults, who are not in full-time education.

8. Girls tend to become fully developed more quickly than boys, both physically and emotionally.

9. I try and work out at the special room that has equipment for doing physical exercise.

10. The University of Edinburgh is one of the largest educational institutions in Britain.

11. Professor McDonnell is a leading teacher in the field.

12. Sontag was once famously described as the most well-educated and intellectual woman in America.

13. He missed chemistry class three times last month.

14. The photographs are a strongly expressive reminder of the horrors of war.

15. John showed the high ability to learn from an early age.

16. The European Union offers grants to teachers for research on approved projects.

17. We’ve got exercises at school.

18. He possessed no university qualifications.

19. He has become sensible and started to behave like an adult since he left home.

20. Workers could eventually be replaced

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