Replace the italicized parts using your functional vocabulary

Explain the meaning of the following phrases.

Fill in the gaps with the right particle or preposition where necessary.

Match the words with their definitions.

Use appropriate language from the box above to make generalisations about the following.

Make the following into statements about generalisations using the language in the box above.

E x a m p l e: – School-leavers/tendency/to go on for higher education.

– School-leavers nowadays have a tendency to go on for higher education.

1. Very intelligent children/inclined/bored at school.

2. In/majority/classes conventional schools don’t benefit from renouncing discipline.

3. Children always/not to like (to do) non-school reading.

4. There/tendency/truancy/be on the increase at conventional schools.

5. Many young people/believe that having a university degree will help them obtain a higher salary on their first job.

1. Root causes of dropping out.

2. Most common end-of-term entertainments at your university.

3. The quality of research facilities at your university.

4. Prospects of getting a good job after graduating from a university.

self-check test 4

1) an applicant	a) someone who uses strength or power to hurt or frighten other people
2) an apprentice	b) a person who has a similar function or position in another place or organization
3) a counterpart	c) a young person who works with another person to learn his skill
4) a truant	d) someone who has left school or college before finishing studies
5) a drop-out	e) someone who formally asks to be given sth (a job, or a place at a college)
6) a bully	f) a pupil who stays away from school when he/she should be there

1. Many parents don’t approve … the quality of education a state school system provides because it holds … the most gifted pupils.

2. If he is determined to drop … … the university he will do it regardless … what his parents say.

3. Public school-leavers account … about half the entrants to Oxford and Cambridge.

4. They made him redundant but he wouldn’t go … the dole.

5. The reform that is being carried … now is aimed … tailoring the country’s school system … the needs of the XXI century.

1. literacy and numeracy;

2. to be up to scratch;

3. to overrate a subject;

4. optional games;

5. to be geared to (meet) the needs.

1. Though the boarding school was one of the most fashionable in the country the children felt miserable and oppressed there.

2. She has acquired four of the six course completion certificates needed for her degree at the Open University.

3. Since last year he has been unemployed and received money from the government.

4. British independent schools are trying to bury the image of institutions that are preoccupied with the classics alone. They have not abandoned Latin and Greek though but have introduced quite a number of modern subjects.

5. They say that success begets success and failure begets failure.

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