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Sprint 6.4: Education

Learner discusses education topics using the plain institutional vocabulary in correct forms.

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Name the Parts of Your Education

Eight things every education system has. Tick the ones you could name in English right now.

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Tick every one you could name without hesitating

Now read this

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The Words for Each Part of the System

Eight words that name different things — and the two pairs people mix up.

Each word names a different part

These are not synonyms. Each one points at something specific, and using the wrong one describes a different thing:

subject — what you study. History is my favourite subject.
degree — the qualification you get at the end. a degree in history
lecture — a talk to a large group. lecturer — the person who gives it.
assignment — written work you hand in by a deadline.
exam — the test. examine — the verb, and it usually means something else.
classroom — the room, in a school.
graduate — to finish a degree. graduation — the ceremony.

The more precisely you name the part, the more your answer sounds like someone describing a real system rather than a general idea.

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The Education Journey

Eight scenes from one student's route through the system.

Eight panels following a student through the education system — a classroom, a subject choice, a lecture, a lecturer, an assignment, an exam, a degree certificate, a graduation.

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Eight different parts of one system. Each one has its own word.

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Match Word to Definition

Eight parts of the system. Which word names each one?

NoteMatch each description to the word that names it. Two of them are very close — read those carefully.

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Terms

Definitions

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Which Part of the System

Three sentences where the near-neighbour is the wrong word.

Each chain describes a situation. Choose the word that names it, then say why. Keep the reason under ten words.

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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:

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Complete the Education Paragraph

A Speaking Part 1 answer about studying, with the institutional words removed.

Fill each gap with ONE word. Two gaps want a verb rather than a noun, and one wants the form of graduate that names a person.

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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.

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