The Education Journey
Eight scenes from one student's route through the system.
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Eight different parts of one system. Each one has its own word.
Plain words for schools, universities and learning, in their correct forms.
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Eight things every education system has. Tick the ones you could name in English right now.
Eight words that name different things — and the two pairs people mix up.
These are not synonyms. Each one points at something specific, and using the wrong one describes a different thing:
The more precisely you name the part, the more your answer sounds like someone describing a real system rather than a general idea.
Eight scenes from one student's route through the system.
Eight different parts of one system. Each one has its own word.
Eight parts of the system. Which word names each one?
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Three sentences where the near-neighbour is the wrong word.
Chain 1
The situation: she spends her time studying history at university, and will receive a qualification in three years.
The sentence: History is her ___ .
Candidates: subject / degree
The word:
Because:
Chain 2
The situation: a room of two hundred students listening to one person speak for an hour.
Candidates: lecture / classroom
The word:
Because:
Chain 3
The situation: a three-thousand-word essay that has to reach the department by Friday.
The sentence: I have to ___ my assignment by Friday.
Candidates: hand in / pass
The verb:
Because:
A Speaking Part 1 answer about studying, with the institutional words removed.
Examiner: What are you studying at the moment?
I am studying for a in civil engineering at a university in my home city. My main this year is structural design, which I enjoy more than I expected to.
Most weeks I four or five lectures. The who teaches structural design is very good — he uses real bridges as examples instead of working through the textbook.
The hardest part is the written work. We have to an every three weeks, and they take much longer than the reading does.
We exams in June, and if everything goes well I will next summer. My sister is already a graduate of the same department, so there will be two of us.