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 onestopenglish.com 2002 

 This page may be photocopied for use in class 



 

Notes for the teacher 

 

Aim 

The aim of these vocabulary activities is to introduce between ten and twenty 

useful vocabulary items for the level, with an emphasis on checking the meaning 

and using the words and phrases. The students should be able to use the 

language actively once they have completed the tasks. 

 

Each vocabulary worksheet can be used as a lesson in itself. It provides practice 



in speaking, reading and writing as well as introducing vocabulary. However, the 

worksheets are designed to be flexible. The first two exercises can be used as a 

lead-in to a lesson on the topic area, introducing vocabulary before going on to a 

listening or reading from the class coursebook. The final speaking activity can be 

used as a follow up to a lesson on the topic area. The writing task makes a 

natural homework activity. 

 

The tasks are designed to help students match words to meaning, and to use 



and personalise vocabulary. However, it is always a good idea to think about 

which words your students will find difficult. If you have a monolingual class it is 

easy to predict this, and think of check questions to make sure they understand 

the words.  



 

Teacher’s notes – Education_ Upper-Intermediate 

 



Ask the students to look at the different types of educational establishments, and 

match them to the sort of person who might attend them. 

 

Answers 

•  A co-educational secondary school = A thirteen year old girl and a 

fourteen year old boy 

•  A primary school for infants and juniors = A five-year-old and a nine-year-

old 

•  A sixth-form college = A seventeen-year-old who hopes to go on to higher 



education 

•  A nursery school = A three-year-old 

•  A further education college offering evening classes = A thirty six year old 

office worker who wants to get better at computer skills 

•  A university = A twenty-year-old who wants to be a doctor 

•  A public school = A fifteen-year-old whose parents want to pay for his/her 

education 

 

 



 

 

 

 



 onestopenglish.com 2002 

 This page may be photocopied for use in class 

Ask the students to work in pairs and categorise the phrases. 



 

Answers 

a state secondary school: play truant (hooky), do homework, pay attention, 

take the register 



a university: pay course fees, get a grant, graduate with honours in Chemistry, 

have a weekly tutorial, attend a lecture, give a seminar on William Shakespeare, 

take a degree 

 

both: take an exam, cram for end-of-term exams 

 

 

a.  study really hard = cram 



b.  get a degree = graduate 

c.  a one-to-one talk = tutorial 

d.  government money to help you pay for the course = grant 

e.  not go to school even though you’re not ill = play truant 

 



Put the students in pairs to decide which verb does not collocate in each 



sentence. 

 

Answers 

a) make 

b) make 


c) made 

d) taking up 

e) end up 

 



Ask the students to rewrite the sentences using the expressions. 

 

Answers 

a.  Starting a new job is difficult because you have to learn the ropes. 

b.  He was a quick learner. 

c.  We had to learn all the words of the song off by heart before the concert. 

d.  The child, who ran in the school corridor, fell over and banged his head. He 

has learnt his/her lesson. 

e.  When my grandfather was at school he had to learn by rote. 

 



Ask the students to read the passage and fill in the gaps with the names of the 



educational establishments mentioned in exercise 1 

 


 

 

 



 onestopenglish.com 2002 

 This page may be photocopied for use in class 



 

 

Answers 

The school system in England.  

 

Pre-school education is provided by state or private nursery schools. Children as 



young as two are often left by their parents while they go to work. Children 

usually start primary school when they are five. Then they go on to a state 

secondary school, often called a comprehensive school. In the private sector, 

children often go to a prep school, before going on to public school when they 

are five or six. Many children often leave school at sixteen, after they take their 

GCSE exams, but some stay on to take their A level exams at school or sixth 

form college, before going on to university.  

 



Ask the students to prepare to talk about the school system in their country, and 

their own experience of education. Put them in pairs or threes to discuss. 

 



Ask the students to write about the school system in their country. You could set 



this for homework. 

 

 



These exercises were prepared using the CD ROM from the new 

Macmillan English Dictionary, which was designed to make making vocabulary 

lessons easy for teachers. You can find out more about the dictionary and the 

CD in 

www.onestopenglish.com



. You can also buy the dictionary from the site. 

 


 

 

 



 onestopenglish.com 2002 

 

This may be photocopied for use in class 



Education 

 

1 Look at the different types of educational establishments below. Match them 

to the sort of person who might attend them. 

 

A co-educational secondary school 



A primary school for infants and juniors 

A sixth-form college 

A nursery school 

A further education college offering evening classes 

A university 

A public school 

 

A five-year-old and a nine-year-old 



A thirty-six-year old office worker who wants to get better at computer skills 

A seventeen-year-old who hopes to go on to higher education 

A twenty-year-old who wants to be a doctor 

A thirteen-year-old girl and a fourteen-year-old boy 

A fifteen-year-old whose parents want to pay for his/her education 

A three-year-old 

 

Look at the phrases below. Which phrases would you expect to find 

mentioned in a state secondary school, which in a university, and which in 

both? 

 

•  pay course fees 



 

 

•  play truant   



 

•  take an exam  

 

 

•  get a grant   



•  cram for end-of-term exams 

 

 



 

•  graduate with honours in Chemistry 

•  have a weekly tutorial 

 

•  do homework 



 

 

•  attend a lecture 



 

 

•  pay attention 



•  give a seminar on William Shakespeare   

 

•  take a degree 



 

 

•  take the register 



 

 

 



Match some of the words above to the definitions below. 

 

a. 



study really hard 

b. 


get a degree 

c. 


a one-to-one talk 

d. 


government money to help you pay for the course 

e. 


not go to school, even though you’re not ill 

 

 



 

 

 



 onestopenglish.com 2002 

 

This may be photocopied for use in class 



Which verb does not collocate in each sentence? 

 

a.  I must work hard, because next Tuesday I have to ____________ an 



exam. 

 

i. Make 



ii. Sit 

iii. Take 

iv. Pass 

v. Do  


 

b.  I’m planning to ______________ a course in Computing. 

 

i. Take 


ii. Do 

iii. Enrol on 

iv. Make 

v. Begin 

 

c.  The teacher ______________ us a really difficult test on phrasal verbs. 



 

i. Gave 


ii. Set 

iii. Made 

 

 

d.  At the end of term students have to spend hours ____________ what they 



have learnt. 

 

i. Revising 



ii. Going over 

iii. Taking up 

iv. Studying 

 

e.  Schools ________________ for the summer holidays in July. 



 

i. Break up 

ii. End up 

iii. Close 

iv. Shut  

 

 



4 Look at these idiomatic expressions using learn. Rewrite the sentences 

below using the expressions. 

 

•  learn off by heart    



 

•  learn by rote   

•  learn the ropes 

     


•  learn (one’s) lesson  

•  a quick learner 



 

 

 



 onestopenglish.com 2002 

 

This may be photocopied for use in class 



 

a.  Starting a new job is difficult because you have to learn all the basic things 

that you don’t yet know. 

b.  He was able to pick up everything about the sport in no time at all. 

c.  We had to remember all the words of the song before the concert. 

d.  The child, who ran in the school corridor, fell over and banged his head. 

He now knows never to do that again. 

e.  When my grandfather was at school he had to memorise all the facts that 

the teacher told him. 

 

Read the passage below, filling in the gaps with the names of the 

educational establishments mentioned in exercise 1 

 

The school system in England 



 

Pre-school education is provided by state or private ______________. 

Children as young as two are often left by their parents while they go to work. 

Children usually start ________________ when they are five. Then they go 

on to a state ________________, often called a comprehensive school. In the 

private sector, children often go to a prep school, before going on to 

_________________ when they are five or six. Many children often leave 

school at sixteen, after they take their GCSE exams, but some stay on to take 

their A level exams at school or __________________, before going on to 

_________________.  

 

 



Prepare to talk about the school system in your country, and your own 

experience of education. Discuss it with your partner. 

 



Write about the school system in your country. 



 

 

 



Document Outline

  • Notes for the teacher
    • Aim
  • Teacher’s notes – Education_ Upper-Intermediate
    • Answers
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