Lexicon
Educational institution
- Kindergarten/pre-school
- Primary school
- Secondary school
- Tertiary school/university
- Post-graduate school
School Subjects
- Math
- Chemistry
- Language
- Natural science
- Cookery
- Literature
- Geography
- Handicraft
- Science
- Religious studies
- Art
- Physics
- History
- Music
- Biology
- Information technology (IT)
- Physical education (PE)
Key vocabulary
- Scholarship (n.) -an amount of money given by a school, college, university, or other organization to pay for the studies
- Student loan (n.) -an agreement by which a student at a college or university borrows money from a bank to pay for their education and then pays the money back after they finish studying and start working
- Incentive course (n.) – a particular course which focuses on a certain subject in a short period
- Gap year = a year between leaving school and starting university that is usually spent travelling or working
- Transcript of record (n.) – Transcript of Records is an official document from your university indicating all the courses you have previously passed until your exchange period
- Prerequisite (n.) – a thing that is required as a prior condition for something else to happen or exist.
- Credit hour (n.) – used as measure if enough hours have been made for graduation
- Transfer credits (n.) – is the acceptance of prior learning represented in course units or credits applied and articulated on a student’s academic transcript
- Dropping a class (n.) -for most colleges and universities, there is a two week add/drop window at the beginning of each semester when you can make schedule changes without a penalty
- Withdrawing (n.) – once the add/drop period has closed, the only way to get out of a class is to withdraw
- Literate (adj.) – (of a person) able to read and write
- Illiterate (adj.) – (of a person) unable to read and write
- The literacy rate (n.) – is the percentage of people in a certain sample of population or country that have the ability to read and write
- BA (n.) – Bachelor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- BSc (n.) – Bachelor of Sciences
- MA (n.) – Masters of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- MSc (n.) – Masters of Sciences
- PHD (n.) – Doctor of Philosophy
- Field trip (n.) – visits to an outside area of the normal classroom and made by a teacher and students for purposes of firsthand observation
- Report card (n.) – a teacher’s written statement about a student’s performance at school
- Elective classes (n.) – the classes that a student can take which are not compulsory to complete the graduation or degree
- Freshman (n.) – a first-year student at a university, college, or high school
- Sophomore (n.) – a second-year college or high school student
- Junior (n.) – a person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else
- Senior (n.) – a person who is a specified number of years older than someone else
- A mature student (n.) – a student who is older than average and who has usually returned to education after a period at work
Expression
- To pick up – to learn a new skill or start a habit
- Get the knack of -to learn how to do something competently or well after a certain period of practice or development
- To get the hang of -to learn to handle something with some skill, through practice or diligence
- To not have the foggiest idea – not know or understand something at all
- To be clueless – having no knowledge of something, or of things in general
- To play truant – to stay away from classes without permission
- To learn something by heart– to memorize it
- Cut class – not to go classes
- Hit the book – to begin to study hard
- Eager beaver– someone who works hard and is enthusiastic
- Flunk out to fail a course– to fail and leave a school