Education & Work

Education & Work

• Introduction
• What is education?
• What is upbringing?
• Education in the UK
• Task 1: Vocabulary - Mind map
• Task 2: Reading comprehension - Gap-filling
• Job Hunting
• Task 1: Listening comprehension - Multiple choice
• Discussion
• Task 1: Reading and writing
• Task 2: Speaking
• 
• Caption: A woman who is multitasking

Introduction

• What is education?
• Both the process of teaching and learning in an academic institution --school and/or university-- and the knowledge resulting from it. Education allows people to work in different positions in the future.
• - To educate sby
• 
• Caption: Children at school

Introduction

• What is upbringing?
• The way children are raised, looked after and taught how to behave and make moral decisions. The process of bringing up a child is assumed to occur at home and carried out by mainly parents or family.
• - To bring up sby or to bring sby up
• 
• Caption: Grandmother and granddaughter

Education in the UK

• Task 1
• Go through the mind map on the right for about three minutes and try to retain as much information as possible. Don't overlook the explanatory notes about some of the balloons.
• The School System in the UK [1]

Education in the UK

• Task 2
• Read the text on the right and fill in the gaps with the suitable words. Use the information in the previous task to do it. Rely on your memory only, don't look at the mind map.
• The School System in the UK [2]

Job hunting

• The job hunting process (Embed)
• Caption: Watch the video clip above twice, make notes of the details given and do the test on the right with the help of the information you jotted down.
• Some Tips for a Successful Job Hunt

Discussion

• Task 1
• Read the two statements below and add one more you think of that you are interested in discussing with your classmate.
• 1) All pupils and students should wear uniforms at school.
• 2) Women still find it more difficult than men to combine work and family life
• 3) Yours? _____________________________________________________________
• 4) Your classmate's? _________________________________________________
• Task 2
• Talk about the two statements given and the other two your classmate and you have written down.