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.