Correct the errors in the sentences, written by former students.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 485.

Choose the best word from the box to fill each gap.

• truant • excel • tertiary • grounding • incentive • qualified • mature students • academic

• upper second • special needs education • academics • comprehensive schooling

1. Good quality, merit-based, equitable, efficient … education and research are essential parts of the knowledge economy.

2. He … as a teacher three years ago.

3. All applicants should have a thorough … in computer skills.

4. The girl often played … and wrote her own sick notes.

5. … is an ideal many countries are aspiring to.

6. The major driving force for anyone who wants to upgrade their skills is to … and ascend through the ranks.

7. The system is failing most disastrously among less … children.

8. George had an added … of being within reach of PhD.

9. … for people with some disability though expensive is still of paramount importance for no one to be left out.

10. The results were later analyzed and commented on by six …, all affiliated with major Japanese universities.

11. It's not unknown for … to show more diligence and higher academic results as they are usually more motivated than their younger classmates.

12. She got an … in politics from Surrey University.

Ex. The university conferred on him the honorary diploma of Doctor of Laws.

The university conferred on him the honorary diploma degree of Doctor of Laws.

1. I studied in a common school but it was very good.

2. My cousin was suspended from school at the age of 15 for joyriding so he managed to complete his secondary education only when he was 27.

3. She was supposed to be speaking about academic mobility but she kept wandering off the theme.

4. I only discovered the optimum way of learning new lexis by the method of attempts and errors.

5. If you don't want to revise the same mistake first of all recognize it.

6. Our university undertakes continual assessment of the students' achievements in addition to examination results.

7. The professor asked to hand in our finished compositions by 30 October.

8. His doctoral dissertation on the pragmatic aspects of communication was about 100 000 words long.

9. My mother received humanitarian education.

6. Choose the correct alternative from each of the pairs in italics below.

1. Our Russian literature professor has always tried to imbue/impart us with a love of classics.

2. His parents managed to instill/insert a lasting sense of pride in him.

3. The headmaster rebuffed/refuted all the claims about violation of egalitarian access to schooling in his institution.

4. The dean gave a speech in which he extorted/extolled the merits of sport.

5. Stop trying to evade/evoke the issue, and answer the question you've been asked.

6. The headmaster has decided to assert/adopt a tough stance on bullying.

7. Julia's commitment stems from/ generates her desire to have a go at an MA.