- Types
- Nursery school
- Secondary school / high school (in American system)
- three terms
- At school, there are teachers and lessons
- At university, there are lecturers and lectures and undergraduates.
- high level training course
- Intermediate or higher trining cycle
- interships (prácticas en empresas) / work placement
- Special needs
- A coeducation
- A two-tier education ( two levels)
- People
- the headmaster
- The head of the department
- A supply teacher
- a classmate
- The peers
- colleagues
- spaces
- The classromm
- the playground
- a break
- Methods
- Individual tutorials
- one-to-one teaching
- special needs edcuation
- literacy and numeracy
- A good grounding in literature
- Lifelong education
- to sign up for a course (matricularse)
- We break up on the 21st December and go back on the eigth January.
- Assignments
- A presentation
- a first draft
- to polish up the ideas
- to jot down
- to note down
- to write down
- to scribble down
- To carry out / conduct / do a research
- To fill in / out a form
- to turn over (the page)
- To hand in the homework
- the deadline to submit a assignment
- To hand out the worksheet
- Not to miss out any of the questions
- To fall behind with your homework
- To catch up with the rest of the class
- To erase the blackboard / to rub out
- Eight time tables
- Extra-classes
- Punctuality
- Hours per week
- Study
- to learn by heart- memorise
- To cram (empollar)
- To bury oneself in it
- To learn inside out
- Behaviour
- To play up in class
- bullying
- to tell on sb ( chivarse)
- To skip class / a course // to skive off school
- To drop out
- On the brink of being expelled
- To be thrown out
- To leave school
- Change
- A couple of false starts
- To change track
- To choose a different track
- To go off the track
- Exams and certifications
- This come up in the exam
- to revise / to cram
- To mess up an exam / an assessment
- to go blank
- To scrape through his exams
- A questionnaire
- To obtain a qualification / grades /marks
- A junior certificate
- State examinations
- A master degree
- Money
- To pay back a study loan
- To be on a grant
- to have a bank grant credit
- to have a scholarship
- Hidden curriculum
- A student residence
- homesickness
- Others
- the efforts will pay off in the end
- Women are two years ahead of men.
- To put you on the spot
- To be off the hook (genial: a party for instance. Quedarse tranquilo porque no te toca contestar, out of danger)
- To be on the hook (estar en peligro)
