- •Education Unit 1. Learning for Life Key Vocabulary List
- •Education in Great Britain
- •Education beyond Sixteen
- •Alternative Teaching?
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Ex. 3. Study the following definitions and give the corresponding educational terms.
- •Ex. 4. Supply the best words in Parts a and b.
- •Education in Australia
- •Unit 2. Co-education Key Vocabulary List
- •Choose the School – not the Sex
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Harassment formative years flawed detriment tend fierce reinforce underachievement inequality implicit enhance
- •Students
- •Get the Girls to School
- •Key Vocabulary List
- •Public Exams in Great Britain
- •Should Examinations Be Replaced with Other Forms of Assessment?
- •How to Pass the Exams
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Addictive disorders Unit 1. Smoking, New Attitude Key Vocabulary List
- •Addictive Disorders
- •Tobacco – The Emerging Crisis in the Developing World
- •Smoking Role Models Girls must look at themselves for a cure
- •Cracking Down on Young Smokers
- •Burned-up Bosses Snuff out Prospects of Jobs for Smokers
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Unit 2. War on Drugs Key Vocabulary List
- •A War We Have to Win
- •We Need Better Ways to Deal with Drug Problems
- •How the Drug Problem Affects the Workplace
- •Dare to Say No (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Mass media Unit 1. Newspapers Key Vocabulary List
- •The Daily Staff
- •Press Council’s 16-point Code of Practice
- •Newspaper Headlines
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Janet Wins Battle of the Bras
- •Woman Wins Appeal over Struggle with Police Officer
- •Unit 2. Radio and Television Key Vocabulary List
- •Radio and Television in Britain
- •The Rating Battle
- •Soap Operas
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Writing
- •Unit 3. Tv or not tv Key Vocabulary List
- •Television: Advantages and Disadvantages
- •Watching with Mother
- •Tv “Damages Children’s English”
- •Children Watch Too Much Television
- •Tv Violence
- •Books, Plays and Films Should Be Censored
- •Going for the Big Break / Shouting at the Box
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •The arguments for censorship
- •The counter-arguments
- •Writing
- •Unit 4. The World of Advertising Key Vocabulary List
- •Advertisers Perform a Useful Service to the Community
- •Why is Television Advertising Capable of Manipulating People?
- •Children and Advertising
- •The Language of Advertising
- •1. Skim quickly through these advertisements. What do they have in common? What techniques do they use to attract the reader’s attention?
- •Skinny legs
- •Ashamed of prune lips?
- •Wrinkle Stick
- •2. With a partner choose two of the advertisements to read more closely. Answer these questions on style.
- •4. Work individually. For each statement, put a tick in the column which most accurately reflects your opinion.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Discussion
- •Here are some arguments for and against advertising
- •Writing
- •List of the books cited
Ex. 3. Study the following definitions and give the corresponding educational terms.
a first university degree;
a degree that you can study for after your bachelor’s degree;
school or college subjects that give students a general education and teach them to think, rather than those subjects that develop practical skills;
the subjects that students study at a particular school or college;
a lesson in which a small group of students discuss a subject with a tutor, especially at a university or college;
the work that teachers do when they teach a particular subject, especially to one person or a small group;
an amount of money that an organization gives to someone so that they can study at a particular school or university;
an amount of money that the government or an organization gives you for a specific purpose and does not ask you to pay back;
permission to become a student at a college or university;
lessons for adults, often held in the evening, that give them the opportunity to study a wide variety of subjects;
to stay away from school without permission;
a test in a particular subject given to children in schools in the UK;
control of an activity or process by official rules or by state (district);
a system in which students work at home with the help of television, computer or radio broadcasts and send work to their teachers by post or email.
Ex. 4. Supply the best words in Parts a and b.
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a) timetable b) schedule a) leave b) holiday a) pensioners b) boarders a) principal b) principle a) kindergarten b) nursery a) educate b) bring up a) gum b) rubber a) prospectus b) prospect a) programme b) syllabus a) a premium b) a prize a) experience b) experiment a) discovered b) invented a) convenience b) ease a) laboratory b) workshop a) gymnasium b) grammar school a) benches b) banks a) training b) drilling a) protocol b) sheet a) a reference b) a report a) admit b) receive |
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a) Certificate b) Diploma a) position b) place a) note b) mark a) practicable b) practical a) revision b) repetition a) technique b) technology a) scholars b) students a) mark b) degree a) conference b) lecture a) Particular b) Private a) marked b) noted a) diagram b) scheme a) science b) knowledge a) fail b) lose a) topic b) subject a) Gymnastics b) Exercise a) Physic b) Physics a) politics b) policy a) rise b) arise a) get b) enter |
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state terms
seminar degree private primary tutorial graduate
nursery school secondary lecture break up
compulsory
fees academic grant
When children are two or three years old, they sometimes go to a (1) … , where they learn simple games and songs. Their first real school is called a (2) … school. In Britain children start this school at the age of five. The (3) … year in Britain begins in September and is divided into three (4) … . Schools (5) … for the summer holiday in July. (6) … education begins at the age of about eleven, and most schools at this level are co-educational, which means boys and girls study together in the same classes. In Britain education is (7) … from five to 16 years of age, but many children choose to remain at school for another two or three years after 16 to take higher exams. Most children go to (8) … schools, which are maintained by the government or local education authorities, but some children go to (9) … schools, which can be very expensive. University courses normally last three years and then students (10) … , which means they receive their (11) … . At university, teaching is by (12) … (an individual lesson between a teacher and one or two students), (13) … (a class of students discussing a subject with a teacher), (14) … (when a teacher gives a prepared talk to a number of students) and of course private study. Most people who receive a university place are given a (15) … by the government to help pay their (16) … and living expenses.
Ex. 6. Read the following text and then choose the correct alternative below for each of the numbered gaps.