EDUCATION

• 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)