AT SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY (15) ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE (ELEMENTARY)

ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE (ELEMENTARY)

AT SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY (15)

A	Subjects
B	Useful things
C	Expressions A maths teacher teaches maths. Her students study maths. Children go to school and students go to university. At school children learn to read and write. Students can do an (English) course in many schools and universities. At the end of a course, you often take / do an exam. You hope to pass your exams. You don’t want to fail your exams. If you pass your final exams at university, you get a degree. Common mistakes After school, students do homework [NOT make homework or do homeworks]. (See Units 40 and 41 for more expressions with do and make.)

Exercises

15.1	Match the subject on the left with what you study on the right. 1 maths a animals and plants 2 physics b sport 3 history c 25y + 32x = 51z 4 geography d E = mc2 5 PE e H2O 6 English f the countries of the world 7 chemistry g the 15th century 8 biology h computers 9 ICT i spelling
15.2	Look at the picture for 30 seconds. Then cover it. How many of the ten objects can you remember? Write them down in English.
15.3	Which of the things in B on the opposite page are in the room where you study English? Write them here. In the room where I study English I can see ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________
15.4	Choose a verb from C opposite to fill the gaps below. Put the verb in the correct form. Ethan does well at school. He finds it easy to 1 ____learn____ and he always 2 ___________ his homework. He usually 3 ___________  all his exams. He will 4 ___________ his final school exams soon. If he 5 ___________, he will 6 ___________  to university next year. If he 7 ___________, he will be very sad. Ethan really wants to 8 ___________ geography at university. He would also like to 9 ___________  a special geology course. His sister is already at university. Next year she will 10 ___________  her degree and then she will try to find a job.
15.5	Which are/were your three favourite subjects? Which subjects (if any) do / did you not like? Tip Draw two columns on a piece of paper. In one column write five words from the opposite page which you want to learn. In the second column put a drawing (or a translation or a definition). Cover the first column and look at the second column. Can you remember the English words?

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