AIMS: Education words and collocations • The past simple • Quantifiers • Analysing and describing a bar chart for Task 1

1. Look at the pictures. Complete the sentences by putting the letters of the bold words in the correct order.

1. At school, you have (s a l c s e s) for different subjects, such as maths, science and history.

2. The (e t r e a h c) will answer any questions you may have.

3. Sometimes at the end of the year, students take an (m e a x) to check what they have learnt.

4. Some students go on to university, where they will learn through seminars and (c t u r s e l e)

5. Sometimes a university student gives a (s e i n r t a p n e t o) to other students.

2. When you learn new vocabulary, try to learn which words usually go together (or collocate). Put the verbs in the box next to the nouns in the table. (You can use each verb more than once, and each noun can have more than one verb.)

Complete the text with verbs from the table.

Mustafa: I have just finished school. I (1) all my exams so I am really happy! I'm going to go to university. I want to (2) Engineering. I have to (3) an entrance exam for my English because I want to study in Australia. The course sounds really good. It's at a really good university and has a mixture of assessments; I'll need to (4) essays, (5) . presentations and (6) exams. I will also get some work experience! It's a lot of work but I think I will (7) a really good qualification.

3. The notes show what the class of 2009 did after they left school. Because the information refers to a time in the past, we must use past tense verbs to describe it. Complete the sentences below with the correct past tense forms of the verbs in brackets and the correct numbers from the notes:

1. girls (go) to university after leaving school.

2. girl (start) college.

3. boys and girls (start) work straight after school.

4. school leavers (continue) studying after leaving school.

5. Only school leavers (not go) to university or college.

6. school leavers (decide) to go to college.

4. We can also use comparative forms to compare items. Look at the information below:

As much / many + noun + as (to show a quantity is the same): St James School had as many boys as girls in 2008.

Not as much / many + noun + as + noun (to show that a quantity is less): Percival School didn't have as many girls as St James School.

More + noun + than + noun (to show one quantity is larger than another): Percival School had more boys than girls.

Less / fewer + noun + than + noun (to show one quantity is smaller than another): Percival School had fewer boys than St James School (Note: fewer is used for countable nouns, and less for uncountable nouns.)

Complete the sentences about Roysters and Bilsing schools using the words in brackets and the expressions above.

1. Roysters School had (girls / boys) in 2008.

2. Bilsing School had (boys / girls).

3. Roysters School had (boys / girls)

4. Bilsing School had (students) Roysters School

5. Roysters School had (students) Bilsing School