Education vocabulary

NOUNS

Fees, grant, state school, boarding school, uniform, discipline, results, extracurricular activities, primary, secondary, timetable, subjects, compulsory education, nursery school, certificate, degree, vocational training studies, break time, canteen, entrance exams, single-sex school, distance learning, face-to-face classes, intensive course, teacher's pet, swot, bully

ADJECTIVES

strict, lenient, friendly, encouraging, inspiring, useful, useless,  

VERBS

enroll, register, take an exam, sit an exam, fail, pass, attend class, get detention, be expelled, learn things by heart, play truant or skip class, do/take a course, graduate from university, to swot or cram for an exam, be good at, bully

PHRASAL VERBS

drop out, take up, carry on, get on with, hand in

Education: UK vs Spain

2nd Intermediate - Education systems

Education in the UK




What's a public school in the UK?

Education in the US
Compare the two systems

2nd Intermediate - Private vs State education

Careful! In the UK public schools are PRIVATE SCHOOLS!



TRUE OR FALSE

1. Parents worry about money when choosing a school
2. Private schools have fewer students per class
3. Students with special needs receive more attention
4. The curriculum of many schools includes technology
5. All private schools have sport facilities
6. 30% of students in each school receive financial aid

Answers: 1T, 2T, 3F, 4T, 6F, 6F

Watch a debate about this topic (also in the US)

Do you agree with all these people?

2nd Intermediate - A public school in China

Watch the video and decide if the following statements are true or false:

Wellington College

1. Wellington college has been working for years
2. Most pupils are foreigners
3. Parents must pay more than 15,000 euros a year
4. The Chinese state system is strict
5. Some Chinese students have been allowed to enroll in the sixth form
6. Britain is a desired destination for Chinese university students
7. Student visas in Britain have always been hard to get
8. Chinese life has been based on hard work and little leisure time

 Answers written in white. Select this line to see them: 1F, 2T, 3F, 4T, 5T, 6T, 7F, 8T

Boarding schools

Auxiliary verbs

Present simple	Do/does	He doesn’t live here
Present continuous	Am/ is/ are	He is studying
Past simple	Did	Did you call him?
Past continuous	Was were	I wasn’t listening
Present perfect	Have/has	I’ve known him for a year
Past perfect	Had	She had already been here
Future	Will	Will you come to class with me?
Conditional	Would/would have	We would go with you if we could
Modals -permission and possibility -ability -obligation and prohibition -logical deduction -suggestion	Can, could, may, might Can, could must, have to, need, can’t Must, can’t Should, ought to	You can call me some time I could read when I was 3 You must do your homework You can’t copy in the exam We should watch films in English

Find exercises in the grammar section on the right.