Unit 1 Education Is the Key

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Unit 1 Education Is the Key
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Photos of Some World famous university

• Cambridge University

at Cambridge, England, one of the oldest
English-language universities in the world.
Originating in the early 12th cent. Cambridge was
organized into residential colleges, like those
of Oxford, by the end of the 13th cent.
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Oxford University Museum
one of the oldest English-language universities
in the world. The university was a leading center
of learning throughout the Middle Ages. It has
maintained an outstanding reputation, especially
in the classics, theology, and political science.
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University of Sydney
The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is
the oldest University in Australia, and it is
located in Sydney. It is one of Australia's
Group of Eight" leading universities and remains
one of the country's largest educational
institutions. In 2004, the University of Sydney
reported an enrolment of 47,296 students and
employed 2,451 academics.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, mainly in New York City
founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King
George II first college in New York City, fifth
oldest in the United States one of the eight Ivy
League institutions.
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Columbia University Campus tree lights
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University of VictoriaCanadaThe University of
Victoria (usually known as UVic) is located on
southern Vancouver Island in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. It is a medium-sized
university, with approximately 18,000 students,
as of 2004.
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Established in 1636 by vote of the Great and
General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Harvard was named after its first benefactor,
John Harvard, of Charlestown, Massachusetts
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Boston University is a non-sectarian
private university located in Boston
Massachusetts. It was founded in 1839 in Vermont
as a Methodist seminary, then
transferred to New Hampshire in 1847,
and finally moved to Boston in 1867.

The university, with over 2,000

faculty and nearly 30,000

students, represents the 4th

largest private university in

the nation.
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Vocabulary

• commitment thing one has promised to do,
• I am overworked at the moment. I have taken on
  too many commitment
• undertake make oneself responsible for
• She undertakes the organization of the whole
  scheme. Undertake a mission, a project, task

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• innovation making changes new technique and
  idea
• excel in/ at be exceptionally good at
• She excels in learning foreign languages.
• cosmopolitan containing people from all over the
  world
• Shanghai is a cosmopolitan city.
• stimulating making sb. or sth. more active or
  alert. arouse sb. or sth
• enrollment number of people enrolled
• Our college has an enrollment of more than 5000
  students.

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• Directions
• You are going to hear some people talking about
  universities in some English-speaking countries.
  Supply the missing information.

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Key to Task A

• 1. Oxford
• commitment
• academic record
• 2. oldest
• largest
• reputation
• research
• science

• 3. first
• Australia
• 150 years
• excels
• 4. excellence
• 17,000
• location

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• 5. largest
• 1883
• situated
• 26,000
• 6. 1636
• enrollment
• 18,500
• schools

• 7. awards
• degrees
• 20,000
• 8. located
• 135
• third

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Task B

• Directions
• Listen to a passage about the online higher
  education in the U.S. Supply the missing words.

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Key

• online
• computers
• academic
• Bachelors
• social
• educational
• progress
• problem solving

• online
• reading
• like
• travel
• time
• Professors
• communication
• e-mail
• traditional

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Part II. Educational Systems

• Task A.
• Work on the pre-listening questionsand
  familiarize with the vocabulary

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• Comprehensive school
• large secondary school at which children of all
  abilities are taught.
• Grammar school
• type of secondary school provides academic
  (contrasted with technically) courses.

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• GCSE examination General Certificate Secondary
  Education examination
• A level advanced level
• O level ordinary level
• sophomore second year students
• provincial of province
• school board school authorities
• diploma certificate awarded for passing an
  examination, completing a course study

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Key to Task B
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Key to Task C

• 1. GCSE
• 2. students / higher education
• 3. student / second year / high school / college
• 4. general exam / school certificate
• 5. sit in University Entrance Examination
• 6. Bachelors degree / 3-4 years /
• Masters degree / another year or 2
• Doctorate degree / a further 3-7 years

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Part III Remarks on modern education

• Training Focus Identify Major Viewpoints and
  Supporting Details
• The size and the location of the worlds deserts
  are always changing. Over millions of years, as
  climates alter and mountains rise, new dry and
  wet areas emerge. But within the last hundred
  years, deserts have been increasing at a
  frightening speed. This is partly because of
  natural changes, but those most responsible for
  creating deserts are men.
• (Statement)

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• In the nineteenth century some people living in
  the English colonies in Australia introduced
  rabbits into that continent from England. Today
  there are millions of rabbits that eat every
  plant in sight. The great desert that lies in the
  center of Australia is growing, partly due to the
  rabbit.
• (supporting details example)

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• Men can make deserts, but they can also prevent
  them from getting bigger. (statement) Algeria is
  planting a green belt of trees along the edge of
  the Sahara Desert to stop the sand. In China,
  too, windbreaks are being built in the northwest
  to keep the desert from growing.
• (Supporting details examples)

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Vocabulary

• snob a person who respects and likes only people
  who are of a high social class, and/or a person
  who has extremely high standards who is not
  satisfied by the things that ordinary people
  like
• ????????
• He's a frightful snob - if you haven't been to
  the right school he probably won't even speak to
  you.

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• craftsman?????????
• decent proper socially acceptable
• ????????
• I only associate with good decent fellows.
• ???????????
• promotion advancement in rank or position
• ??,??
• The job offers excellent promotion
  prospects.humble of low rank or position
• (??,???)???,???
• He is of humble birth.??????

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• colleague one of a group of people who work
  together.reject to refuse to accept, consider,
  or use
• oblige to force someone to do something, or to
  make it necessary for someone to do something
• The law obliges companies to pay decent wages to
  their employees.

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Key to Task A

• 1. a kind of snob value
• 2. have a piece of paper
• 3. obtain a certificate or a diploma first
• 4. relatively unimportant
• 5. get a degree
• 6. proper education
• 7. allow people to become expert / oblige them to
  follow a set course of instruction

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Task BListen again and read the statements in
Task A and then decide which ones are major
points and which are supporting ideas and facts.
Write the statement numbers in the right place.

• Major Viewpoints
• Statement Numbers
• 1, 4, 7

• Supporting Ideas and Facts
• Statement Numbers
• 2, 3, 5, 6

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Part IV. Short Talks on Listening Skills.
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Listen and fill in the missing information

• communicative ability
• extended
• continuously
• specific readiness
• constantly setting up
• constantly testing
• what he has heard in reality

• out of his expectation
• get the message
• familiarity
• knowledge
• the setting
• already
• take in
• pre-listening preparation

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• give some thought to
• related materials
• vocabulary work
• fully orientated
• active thinking
• ahead of

• logical intelligent
• know generally
• exactly
• next utterance