Unit 3. Education
WARM-UP

• What is happening in the three pictures?
• Are there any differences/similarities between the types of education shown in the photographs?
• How do you think the people in the photographs feel?
• Have you ever experienced any of the situations shown?
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DEVELOP YOUR READING SKILLS
WORDPERFECT
Read these sentences and then use the words in bold to complete the sentences below.
Key.1 essay
2 qualifications
3 assessed
4 public school
5 state school
6 illiterate
7 nursery (school) / kindergarten
8 skills
9 graduate
10 degree
- Qualifications are exam results which prove you have reached a certain level.
- I'm going to get a job as soon as I graduate from university.
- The qualification you get when you graduate from university is called a degree.
- In Britain, a public school is a private, fee-paying school.
- In the USA, a public school is a state school, which is run by the government and is free to attend.
- She went to nursery (school)/kindergarten when she was two years old.
- We're not taking exams this year at school; all our work is assessed.
- I'd like you all to write an essay entitled 'Deception in Hamlet.'
- If you are illiterate, you don't know how to read and write.
- Your skills are the things that you can do well.
- I've got to write an _____________ this weekend on the causes of the First World War.
- Apart from a GCSE in English, do you have any other _____________?
- 35% of this course is examined, and the rest is _____________ throughout the year.
- Because Jeffrey had been a boarder at an expensive _____________, he adapted to prison life remarkably easily.
- I personally believe that the _____________ system is much fairer, as every pupil, irrespective of how much money their parents have, receives the same quality of education.
- There are far too many _____________ adults today; something must be done about it.
- Almost all children round here go to a _____________ until they're five years old.
- He's got some very impressive qualifications, but do you think he's got the necessary _____________ for the job?
- As long as I don't completely mess up my university final exams, I should _____________ from Warwick next July.
- I think Helen's got an honours _____________ in German Literature from Hull University.
EXAM PRACTICE - READING PART 3
Exam know-how
When you do Reading Part 3:
• Quickly read the text first to get a general idea about what it is about. Ignore any unknown words at this stage.
• Sometimes sentences have been removed from the text, and sometimes paragraphs. For sentences, make sure that the sentence you think is the answer fits LOGICALLY and GRAMMATICALLY in terms of what comes before and what comes after. Look for any linking expressions that might help you. Leave the most difficult sentences until last.