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Discuss The Differences, If Any, Between The Following: Education: Vocabulary

Christine attended a public junior school and state secondary school in England. Many of her friends left school at age 16 for jobs, but Christine wanted to attend university, so she stayed in sixth form. She received good grades on her A-level exams and was accepted to a university, where she studied English. She graduated in 1998 at age 21. After graduating, she took a part-time education course while working as a secretary to become a teacher.

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Discuss The Differences, If Any, Between The Following: Education: Vocabulary

Christine attended a public junior school and state secondary school in England. Many of her friends left school at age 16 for jobs, but Christine wanted to attend university, so she stayed in sixth form. She received good grades on her A-level exams and was accepted to a university, where she studied English. She graduated in 1998 at age 21. After graduating, she took a part-time education course while working as a secretary to become a teacher.

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Education : vocabulary

1.
Discuss the differences, if any, between the following

private school university student teacher


public school college pupil lecturer
state school school schoolboy/girl tutor
professor

kindergarten graduate
playgroup expel
junior school

2.
Now complete the passage below by filling the gaps with the correct forms of the
words below.

NOTE not all of these words are used; some words are used more than once.

attend attain continue do enhance get


go to graduate learn leave offer public
state study take go start get

Like most children in England, Christine ____________ school when she was five.
She _______________ to St John’s Junior School in Clapham, London, which was a
_________ school i.e. it was run by the government. Later she ____________ to a state
secondary school nearby.

A lot of her friends __________ school when they were sixteen and found jobs, but
Christine wanted to _________ university so she stayed on in the sixth form. She
____________ good grades in her ‘A’ level exams and was _____________ a place at
London University, where she ______________ English. She _______________ in
1998, when she was 21.

After _____________ university she found a secretarial job with a travel company.
However, she decided that she really wanted to be a teacher, so she __________ a
Bachelor of Education course part-time while she was working. She ____________ a lot
about teaching methodology and child psychology, which she found very interesting.
Answers

Like most children in England, Christine started school when she was five.
She went to St John’s Junior School in Clapham, London, which was a state school i.e. it
was run by the government. Later she went to a state secondary school nearby.

A lot of her friends left school when they were sixteen and found jobs, but Christine
wanted to go to university so she stayed on in the sixth form. She got good grades in her
‘A’ level exams and was offered a place at London University, where she studied
English. She graduated in 1998, when she was 21.

After leaving university she found a secretarial job with a travel company. However, she
decided that she really wanted to be a teacher, so she took a Bachelor of Education course
part-time while she was working. She learned a lot about teaching methodology and
child psychology, which she found very interesting.

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