Student life: courses and exams

Discussion p.2

1. nursery school /kindergarten/play school TERM = a school for children who are between three and five years old SYN kindergarten

2. state school TERM =1) British English a British school which receives money from the government and provides free education → public school; 2) American English informal a college or university that receives money from the US state it is in, to help pay its costs

3. private schoolTERM = a school that is not supported by government money, where education must be paid for by the children’s parents → public school, state school

4. co-educational school TERM = having male and female students being taught together in the same school or college rather than separately

5. single-sex school TERM = English a school etc for either males or females, but not for both together

6. grammar school TERM = a school in Britain for children over the age of 11 who have to pass a special examination to go there → comprehensive school

7. comprehensive school TERM = a state school in Britain for children over the age of 11 of different abilities

8. elementary school TERM = a school in the US where basic subjects are taught for the first six years of a child’s education

9. primary school TERM = British English a school for children between 5 and 11 years old in England

10. home-schooling TERM = to teach children at home instead of sending them to school

11. to skip school COL= informal to not do something that you usually do or that you should do SYN miss

12. to play truant COL = British English to stay away from school without permission

13. to cheat = to behave in a dishonest way in order to get what you want

14. plagiarism TERM = when someone uses another person’s words, ideas, or work and pretends they are their own

15. to determine = to find out the facts about something SYN establish

16. a gap year TERM = a year between leaving school and starting university that is usually spent travelling or working

17. tuition fee TERM = British English the money you pay for being taught

18. entrance exams TERM = an exam that you take to be accepted into a school, university, etc

19. to guarantee = to promise to do something or to promise that something will happen

Student life: courses and exams

1. to register for (a course) PREP = to put information, especially your name, into an official list or record

2. to sign up for a course PHR = to put your name on a list for something because you want to take part in it

3. to complete a course COL = to finish doing or making something, especially when it has taken a long time

4. to submit sth in a final form SYN to write up PREP/PHR = to write something in a complete or final form using notes that you have made

5. to be expelled from sth SYN to throw sb out of PREP/PHR = to make someone leave a place, school, or organization, especially because they have done something that is against the rules

6. to read up on sth PHR = to read a lot about something because you will need to know about it

7. to brush up on sth PHR = to practice and improve your skills or your knowledge of something that you learned in the past

8. to come up in (an exam) PHR = if a problem or difficulty comes up, it appears or starts to affect you SYN arise

9. to mug up on sth PHR= informal to try to learn something in a short time, especially for an examination

10. to polish sth up (skills/areas) PHR = to improve a skill or an ability by practicing it

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