Second Language Learning
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 604.
Idioms
Make up five sentences using the words above.
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Here are some commonly used idioms about education and learning. Have you heard any of them in class before? These are the meanings of the idioms to help you to decide which idiom fits in each sentence. Can you think of any more education idioms?
- Bookworm - a person who is always studying.
- Copycat - a person who copies the words or actions of another.
- to live and learn - to learn as you grow older and gain experience.
- teacher's pet - the teacher's favourite student.
- to pass with flying colours - to pass with a very high grade.
- to go back to basics - to return to the beginning.
- to cover a lot of ground - to go through a lot of information in class.
- to pull an all nighter - to study throughout the night.
Choose the correct idiom to complete the sentence:
1. Eleanor is a ___, her piece for Art lesson looks exactly like mine.
2. Michael ___! He got the best grade in his class!
3. We have ___ in class today, so make sure you go through your notes when you get home.
4. Amy is definitely the ___. Mrs Brown gives her the best grades even when her work isn't very good.
5. I think we should ___ as none of you are using the past simple correctly today.
6. I'm a ___. I love reading about history and politics.
7. I should never have quit my degree. Oh well, we ___.
8. I'm so exhausted, I ___ studying for this test.
5 . Translate the following extracts taken from the article ‘Building a global university brand' into English.
These are unnerving times for higher education worldwide.
After a four-decade rise in global demand, universities are grappling with powerful forces colliding at once: reduced government support, rising public skepticism about the value of a degree, increased institutional competition and the emergence of disruptive technology.
By 2020, about 200 million young people worldwide will have degrees -- 40 per cent of them elite and middle class students from China and India -- according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). By 2025, the number of those travelling abroad for a degree could double from today's estimate of 4.3 million students.
In response, universities are eager to raise their global profile to ensure their long-term financial viability and create a sustainable business model. Public institutions that once relied on government funding and tuition hikes for revenue now are turning to social media, online learning and new credentials to make their mark with international students.
Technology is being actively promoted through curriculum reform and funding policies around the world as the way to facilitate equity and globalize education opportunities. With the use of technology in middle-income countries, including many North African and Asian countries on the rise, it is expected that better education opportunities through globalization, leading to improved economies, are bound to follow. But the truth of all this depends upon whose values globalization is based.
1.In the following text, some words have been taken out.
To complete the text, choose the appropriate word on the left to each space
| STUDYING ABROAD | |
| else someone local should must enjoying Every on their another While about chance | More and more young people are 1.__________ the advantage of living in 2.________ country and are deciding to study abroad. They realise it's the best way to learn 3.__________ the customs and the way of life of other people. Student exchanges give teenagers the 4.___________ to live somewhere 5.________ for a school year. 6._________ they are living abroad, they will eat new food, experience new traditions and learn the way people 7.__________ own age live from day to day. Students stay with carefully chosen host families and attend a 8.___________ school. 9.___________ student on the exchange programme has 10.____________ who directly supports them the whole time they are abroad. To qualify as an exchange student, you 11.___________ be aged between 15 and 18 years and be good at a foreign language. |
2.Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.
| There has been much debate in recent times about when young people should take up a second language. This has been especially fuelled in recent times by the increasing 1.___________ placed on the English language. It is now commonplace to see parents providing a substantial amount of 2.__________ on additional tuition on language lessons to give their children every 3.___________ edge. In the past decade, language institutes have sprung up innumerous centres, all claiming to provide rapid 4._______________ in English. There has been a push by many parents to expose their children to English in their formative years. This, many claim, will make the language more 5._____________ and ensure that all pronunciation errors can be avoided. There is some evidence which points to youngsters who have been raised in bilingual families, where the language spoken at home is different to the one that they 6.__________ with in their external environment. While these children can switch between two languages with greater 7._____________, it remains to be seen whether this is 8._____________ when learning additional languages. | IMPORTANT FUNDING COMPETITION ADVANCED INSTINCT CONVERSATION EASY ADVANTAGE |