Vocabulary

1. Complete the sentences with the correct word. Use each word once only.

1) professor/teacher

When I was 12, my English … encouraged me to write stories.

Our … at university was more interested in his research than in teaching.

2) check/control

Before you hand in written work, you should … it carefully for mistakes.

The children in Mr. Adam's class are so naughty that he cannot … them.

3) career/course

Dr Jenkins ruined his … when he gave several patients the wrong drug. They sent him on a two-week … to learn how to use the new computer.

4) subject/lesson

Monday's French … was so boring I thought it would never end. I think physics is a difficult … to study at university level.

5) educate/train

I'm sure your company will … you to use the new equipment. Many people feel that schools do not … children very well these days.

6) degree/grade

I think this composition deserves a better …than C, don't you?

Although my … was in chemistry, the headmaster still let me teach biology.

2. Study the following phrasal verbs and find their definitions in the dictionary: to carry out, to get across, to get down, to go over, to hand in, to keep up, to pick up, to stay on, to turn up, to work out.

3. Match the phrasal verbs in italics in the sentences to the definitions a) – j) below.

1. The Principal handed in his resignation.

2. The students turned up late for class.

3. The teacher got her ideas across very well.

4. We worked out the answers very easily.

5. He stayed on at university another year.

6. I got down to work as soon as I arrived.

7. A taxi picked them up and took them to college.

8. She kept up with the other students.

9. We carried out a survey on staff attitudes.

10. He went over the exercise with his students.

arrived collected managed to understand stayed level with

e) performed f) examined g) gave to a person in charge

h) communicated i) started j) remained

D. Complete these sentences with the phrasal verbs from Exercise C in the correct form.

1) Haven't your notes … yet? Perhaps they are in your coat.

2) Are you … after class tonight or going home?

3) Who's going to … that experiment?

4) It is time I … marking the papers.

5) … your answers carefully.

6) I haven't … my homework yet. It is still in my bag.

7) I can't … all the latest technology.

8) Come and … your old coursework from my office.

9) He didn't really … his meaning … to the students.

10) We are trying to … the best way to meet students' needs.

E. Read these tips for exam success and match phrasal verbs from a) – h) with their definitions from 1) – 8).

Six tips for exam success

• Keep your reading up (a) during the term so that you have less to read just before the exam.

• Brush up on (b) some of the things you learnt a long time ago; they may possibly come up (c) in the exam.

• Don't just mug up (d) on the key points you need for the exam and hope that you'll scrape through (e) with little effort.

• On the other hand, don't try to do everything. Swatting up (f) on everything you have done all term means you will have to revise a lot of useless things too.

• Concentrate on polishing up (g) the most important areas and your best skills.

• Don't fool yourself that you'll pass the exam on the basis of what you've picked up (h) during the lectures and classes. You will need to revise!

1. continue to do something

2. practice and improve your skills or your knowledge of something, usually something you learned in the past but have partly forgotten

3. if a question or a subject comes up in an exam, that question is asked or questions about that subject are asked in the exam

4. quickly try to learn the main facts about a subject, especially before an exam

5. manage with a lot of difficulty to succeed in something

6. learning as much as you can about something, especially before exam

7. practicing and improving your skills or your knowledge of something

8. learnt by absorbing it rather than studying it

F. Choose phrasal verbs you have known to complete this letter.

Cambridge, 20 June Dear Auntie Meg, At last my first year exams are over. It's such a relief. I feel as if I've done nothing but (1) for them for ages. Although, I'd (2) with work quite well during the year, I still needed to (3) everything that we had covered, of course. Fortunately, everything that I hoped would (4) in the exam paper did. So I hope I've, done OK and haven't just (5). Now all I have to do is (6) one course assignment, which I need to hand in by the end of term. We don't (7) till the end of the month and so I won't be home till then. We don’t (8) until the end of September, so it’ll be a lovely long break. I look forward to seeing you soon. Love, Suzanna.