III. After you read

1. Do the true-or-false test according to the information from the text

1. Postsecondary education is synonymous to higher education and begins after 12 years of primary and secondary education.

2. Any university today deals with all fields of study.

3. Colleges do research to advance human knowledge.

4. School in American English is a catch-all term for any place of education.

5. Public institutions do not depend on students’ fees.

6. Two-year colleges award Associate degrees.

2. Complete the flow chart with the words from the box; use it to describe different types of institutions

Institutions of higher

learning

4. Tick the boxes to indicate what different schools offer

School	Undergraduate study	Graduate study	Professional degree	research
University
College

5. Chose variant a. Or b. To complete the statements

1. Students at conservatories study

a. conservation

b. music

2. Students at seminaries master

a. semination

b. theology

3. Students at military academies train to be

a. officers

b. militants and academists

4. Students at fine art schools major in

a. the art of painting

b. the art of imposing fines

6. Find at least 5 words and word combinations in the text to name an institution where one can get higher education.

7 (A) Complete collocations with the given words. School, university, college

1. ____________ degree

2. four-year__________

3. _________ professor

4. Law______________

5. Community________

6. High______________

7. _________ graduates

8. Liberal art__________

(b) Use the collocations from (a) to fill in the gaps.

1. In 1986 32% of Saudi Arabian ……………………… were women.

2. She applied to a ……………………..to major in literature.

3. Eighty-five percent of ………… students in the program go on to post-secondary education.

4. After two years in a …………………..she made up her mind to go to a ……………………

5. Phil gave up his job, and he's going back to ………………. next year.

6. Despite her mediocre performance at school she is after a ………………………

7. …………………………honor their alma mater.

8 (A) Consider the synonyms; match words with their definitions.

1. Study	a. to choose and sign up for a course at school, college, university etc
2. Learn	b. to study something as your main subject at a college or university
3. Train	c. to spend time reading, going to classes etc in order to master a subject
4. Take	d. to gain knowledge of a subject or skill, by experience, by studying it, or by being taught
5. Major in	e. to learn the second most important subject at a college or university
6. Minor in	f. to learn the skills and get practical experience that you need in order to do a job

(b) Fill in the gaps with the appropriate synonyms. Suggest ALL the possible answers.

1. I'm planning to ………… computer science, but I still might …………….. in English.

2. Dad thinks I should ………….. to be a doctor, but I'm not interested in medicine.

3. All freshmen have to …………… at least one composition course.

4. Diane ………………… psychology at the University of Washington.

5. The student will …………… from experience about the importance of planning.

6. Stephen is currently ………………. at Exeter University.

7. Dad taught us a Sanskrit prayer, and we had to …………. it off by heart and say it every day.

8. Julie is ………………. to be a nurse.