VOCABULARY. Questions for Reproduction

UNIT 8 EDUCATION

Questions for Reproduction

Discuss the following questions with your partner and use them as a plan when making up final monologue on the topic.

SPEAKING

WRITING

Write an essay to comment on one of the following quotations:

1. Henrik Tikkanen: “Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us”.

2. Changing Times magazine: “In an undeveloped countries, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air”.

3. Lucy Larcam: “He who plants a tree, plants a hope”.

1. Why should people care about the environment?
2. What stories have you read or heard recently about the environment?
3. Name environmental problems of our planet. What are the biggest one in the world? In your native city and region?
4. What would you do to save our environment?
5. Are you environmentally friendly? If yes, what do you do to help your planet?
6. What danger does your country have to the global environment?
7. Do you think your government cares more about its economy or the environment?
8. Which countries are leaders in caring about the environment?
9. What do you know about the history of how our environment came to be under threat?
10. Would you give money to or actively campaign for environmental causes?
11. What do you think of environmental groups like Greenpeace?
12. What is the quality of the environment in your country?
13. What kind of environmental policies does your country have/need?
14. How important is the natural environment to you in your daily life?
15. Do you think our environment is beyond repair?
16. Do you think international meetings on the environment are useful?
17. What do you think our grandkids will think of the way we treated the environment?
18. What do environmentalists or ecologists do? Why is their job rewarding?
19. If the environment could speak, what would it tell us?
20. What is our duty as protectors of the environment?

People:

a pupil

a student

a graduate

a trainee

a teacher

a lecturer

a head teacher

a professor

a dean

a deputy dean

a principle

a monitor

Places:

a nursery

a playgroup

a primary school

a secondary school

a high school

a comprehensive school

a grammar school

a college

a university

a private school

an independent school

a public school

a state school

a boarding school

Subjects:

Art

Maths

English

History

Music

Physics

Chemistry

Literature

Politics

Geography

Biology

Philosophy

Technology

Economics

Law

Medicine

Sociology

Information Technology

Collocations:

to be at school

to go to high school

to start primary school

to study subject at university

to train to be a manager

to become a teacher

to get a job

to do a vocational course

to stay on at school

to apply for a place at university

to take a gap year

to get a degree

to finish the course/a semester/a term

to learn traditional arts/languages

to do well at school

to do homework

to attend lectures/seminars

to write an essay/dictation

to do research

to find out information

to revise for an exam

to get a place at university

to take tests/exams/an entrance exam/A-level exams

to pass tests/final exams (finals)

to fail end of year exams

to leave school

to graduate from university

to pay for smb’s training/studies

to cost a lot of money

to support smb financially

to give a grant to study

to make a good impression

to play an important role

to make an effort

to share the same opinion/tastes

to move to a special boarding house/a hostel/ a student accommodation

to obey smb without questions

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