Unit 1. Education Vocabulary.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 351.

Unit 3.5

126. be available for (of a person) - free to see or talk to people ⇒ The director was not available for comment.

127. be delighted with sth / to do sth – be very pleased

128. CV = curriculum vitae /kəˌrɪkjələm ˈviːtaɪ/ - резюме

129. convenient (time)

130. cover(ing) letter

131. counsellor /ˈkaʊnsələ/ - a person who has been trained to advise people with problems, especially personal problems

132. degree – диплом; ученая степень

study for/take/(BrE) do/complete a law degree/a degree in physics

133. gain (knowledge, experience) - to gradually get more of sth

134. highly motivated graduate

135. profile - a description of sb/sth that gives useful information ⇒ a job/employee profile

136. trainee /treɪˈniː/ - a junior employee who is being taught how to do a job

137. working knowledge - if you have a working knowledge of sth, you can use it at a basic level

138. work placement - a job, often as part of a course of study, where you get some experience of a particular kind of work ⇒The third year is spent on placement in selected companies.

Enroll at the uni

To be admitted

Admission to the university

Attend classes

Attendance

Entrance exams

Compulsory/obligatory

Comprehensive

Co-educational

Russian, English, Japanese

Assignment

To end up/graduate with a distinction

To do a degree in law

Extension

To meet deadline

To hand in paper on time

Intellect

Intelligible

Intellectual

Strengths and weaknesses

To hold the floor

To interrupt

To hand over to others

To cram before the exam

Tertiary education

To apply to university

To sit an exam

To take an exam

To pass an exam

To scan

To skim

To survey

Primary school

Secondary school