Tài liệu "Focus on IELTS Academic Skills Unit11,12".
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1 Topic vocabulary overview
Module F (Focus on IELTS Units 11 and 12) was
about education and learning both in and out of the
workplace
Complete these extracts with words or phrases from
the boxes Use each word or phrase once only There
are some extra words in each box that you don’t
need to use
Listening Section 3: Foundation English Course
class curriculum Department lectures
self-access centre seminars thesis tutorials
undergraduate
Student: Can you tell me a bit about what the
Foundation course involves?
Tutor: Well, the course is run by the 1
of English as a Foreign Language in the
university It’s to help you develop the
language skills you'll need to cope with your
undergraduate course later on — for example,
listening and note-taking practice to prepare you
for the 2 , and speaking activities to
help you take an active part in 3 -
taking part in a group discussion — as well as in
one-to-one 4
Student: And how is the course organised?
Tutor: Well, in the morning you have an English
5 Then in the afternoon you work
on your own in the 6 We
have all sorts of materials there so you ca can
choose what’s best for you
Speaking Part 3: Changes in education
And in my university the 9 haven’t all come straight from school — lots of them have had some sort of job after leaving school, like me, before coming to university
And in the 10 ~ Of Engineering, where I study, quite a lot of the university staff - the 11 and even the top 12 have had experience in industry, they haven’t just worked in universities all their lives,
Reading: The effect of environment on learning
brain cells learning capacity mental nerve fibres stimulation
Learning appears to be very much influenced by environment For example, when rats are kept in conditions where they have high levels of
13 we, their 14
appears to increase Tests cartied out to assess ss their 15 activity (e.g through setting them
a series of increasingly difficult puzzles to solve) show that this is also greater In addition, scientists claim that the 16 of the cells in these rats’ brains are longer
campus Faculty full-time lecturers part-time
professors semester subjects undergraduates
Examiner: In what ways is education changing in
your country?
Candidate: Well, one big change is that the
curriculum is changing for secondary schools — it
includes a much wider range of 7
now ~ things like information technology, for
example And then the universities are becoming
more flexible For example, they take both
8 „ and Students, so it
means you can study and work at the same time
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2 Word formation: adjective endings
a Complete the adjectives in the list below by adding the correct suffix
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benefic _ _
domin _ ludicr _ substant
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effici _
overwhehn _ _ _