Vocabulary for the monologue on education

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Vocabulary compulsory for use:

1) (to) avoid plagiarism– not to practice taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own;

2) (to) be a quick-learner – to be gifted in learning;

3) (to) ban bullying / corporal punishment at school – to prohibit the use of force, coercion, or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate / punishment of a physical nature, such as caning, flogging, or beating (officially or legally);

4) (to) choose among private and state education– to pick out whether to go to the institution sponsored by the government or pay for your education;

5) (to) choose the (adj.) pace of learning – to pick out the definite speed of getting knowledge;

6) (to) complete the curriculum– to get the credits on all subjects of the course;

7) (to) criticize the approach / method– to form and express a judgement of some technique of learning;

8) (to) do one’s best– to do all one can;

9) (to) drop out of school / college / university– to leave the institution without finishing;

10) (NOT to) encourage truancy– to take measures in case a student miss classes with any serious excuse;

11) (to) evaluate academic achievements – to assess the results of studies at university;

12) (to) get a place at university– to become a student at the university;

13) (to) get back to basics– to return to the simple and most important things;

14) (to) hand in an essay/an assignment –to give the essay / task to the teacher to check it;

15) (to) have a well-stocked library – to have the library with all necessary books;

16) (to) make (no) progress– to advance;

17) (to) monitor progress– to check the progress;

18) (to) possess state-of-the-art equipment – to have modern tools, devices;

19) (to)graduate from university/from high school (US, Australian English) – to complete the course at university;

20) (to) live in the hall of residence– to dwell in the residential block in or attached to a university, college, etc.;

21) (to) make a university loan – to borrow money to pay for higher education;

22) (to) make the grade- succeed; reach the desired standard;

23) (to) organize panel discussions– to arrange the discussion of the problem in a small group;

24) (to) pay back the past – to return university loans after graduating from the university;

25) (to) pay off / repay a university loan – to return money taken to pay for higher education;

26) (to) pick on smb- repeatedly single (someone) out for criticism or unkind treatment in a way perceived to be unfair;

27) (to) practice continuous assessment –to evaluate a pupil's progress throughout a course of study, as distinct from by examination;

28) (to) provide compulsory education– to give the opportunity to get the course of obligatory education;

29) (to) put / get your thinking cap on -to think seriously about smth;

30) (to) revise the material for an exam / a test– to repeat the the material to pass the exam / to get the highest mark for the test;

31) (to) sit for smb’s exam- to take an examination in a formal setting or situation;

32) (to) teach deprived children – to teach kids who have no parents or their parents are too busy (poor people);

33) (to) take / retake an exam / course / test – to try to pass an exam / course / test;

34) The degree is worth the paper it is written on.- If the degree (education) is worth the paper it is written/printed on, it is valuable.

35) (to) use Digital Resources for distance learning – to use e-materials for studying in which lectures are broadcast or lessons are conducted by correspondence, without the student needing to attend a school or college.

BASIC vocabulary:

1) academic achievements;

2) approach (n);

3) attend school/a course (v. col.);

4) attendance (n);

5) ban bullying / corporal punishment;

6) campus (n);

7) cheating (n);

8) compulsory education;

9) continuous assessment;

10) cooperative/competitive environment;

11) course (n); coursework (n);

12) credit (n); credit book (n);

13) criticise the approach;

14) curriculum (n);

15) department;

16) Digital Resources for distance learning;

17) do homework/coursework/your best/an exam (v. col.);

18) drop out of school (v. col.);

19) easy-going teacher;

20) encourage the attendance (at);

21) equality (n);

22) fail an exam/a course (v. col.);

23) formal/informal learning;

24) friendly teachers;

25) get a good grade/a good result/a place at university/a degree/permission (v. col.);

26) go to school/college/a seminar (v. col.);

27) grade (n); a teaching method (n); a scientific method(n);

28) graduate from university/from high school (US, Australian English) (v. col.);

29) hall of residence (n);

30) hand in an essay/an assignment (v. col.);

31) higher education (n);

32) leave elementary (primary, secondary) school (v. col.);

33) make presentations/progress/mistakes (v. col.);

34) method (n);

35) mixed-sex/single-sex school;

36) monitor progress (v. col.);

37) motivation (n);

38) pace of learning;

39) pass an exam/a course (v. col.);

40) pedagogy/pedagogics (n);

41) pick on (phrv);

42) plagiarism (n);

43) private education;

44) punctual professor;

45) revise for an exam/a subject/a test (v. col.);

46) self-correction (n);

47) self-teaching (n);

48) sit for an exam (v. col.);

49) state-of-the-art (adj);

50) strict academic;

51) state (public) education;

52) statistics (n);

53) study a subject/a language (v. col.);

54) take/retake an exam/a course (v. col.);

55) thesis (n), pl. – theses;

56) timetable (n);

57) truancy (n);

58) tuition (n);

59) tutorial (n);

60) unique (adj);

61) vacation;

62) well-prepared tutor;

63) well-stocked library.

ADVANCED Vocabulary:

1) back to basics;

2) copycat

3) deprived children;

4) Don’t/Never tell tales out of school

5) ‘Finals’

6) give references;

7) insight (n);

8) make the grade;

9) panel discussion (n);

10) paperless resources;

11) pay back the past;

12) put/get your thinking cap on;

13) quick learner;

14) pass with flying colours;

15) play hooky/to skip class;

16) pull an all nighter;

17) teacher’s pet;

18) The degree is worth the paper it is written on.

19) tuition fee (n);

20) university loan;

21) well-rounded education;

22) work one's way through college;

23) You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

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