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curriculum
subject
aims
choose
go to
major / major
math
science
change
focus on
design / design
classes
student
university
career
higher education
attend = go to
enrol
register
graduate
take (a test / exam)
examine (v)
examiner (n, person)
exam (n, thing) / examination (n, thing)
memorising
major
graduation
graduate
enrol
qualifications
study
learn
dream
ability
class
ambition
To Get A Job
- test scores
- abilities
- awards = EG best student in your class; highest score on the exam; honour roll etc.
- work experience
- quality of the university you graduated from
- volunteer experience
- major
- connections (to other people who do / influence the hiring)
- references
Exercise 2
Once you have completed and corrected the gap fill exercise, rearrange selected sentences in order to make a complete essay. You will need to decide how information is best grouped into paragraphs. You may wish to add some linking words and phrases to improve the cohesion of the essay.
Model answer: many other combinations are possible. This answer uses seven of the fifteen sentences. There are eight sentences that are not used, but the information in these sentences is found in other sentences that are used.
The chart shows 11 reasons why first year students from overseas chose a particular university. The survey of 1,000 first year overseas students was carried out at universities in the UK. The various factors can be divided into two groups, namely those related to teaching and non-teaching related.
The top three reasons are Language of tuition, Quality of teachers, Up-to-date teaching facilities, at 95%, 90% and 90% respectively. While around 95 percent of the students gave the language of tuition as the main reason for choosing a university, only 30 percent selected modern teaching methods. Good language support at 20% is the factor which influences students least when making a choice about which university to attend.
Eighty percent of the sample mentioned the cost of accommodation as a reason for choosing a university as opposed to 75 percent for the cost of tuition.
Model Completed Answer
Reasons for Choosing a University
The chart shows 11 reasons why first year students from overseas chose a particular university.
The survey of 1,000 first year overseas students was carried out at universities in the UK. The top three reasons are language of tuition, quality of teachers, up-to-date teaching facilities, respectively. Language of tuition comes top of the survey at 95%. Another important reason is teaching facilities. About 90% of students mentioned this as a reason. The third top reason was the quality of the staff. This also accounted for 90% of student choices. The reputation of the university was also a crucial factor. About 70% of the respondents picked this as a reason for their choice of school. Non-teaching related reasons were also important. Cost was a major factor. More than three-quarters of the students said that cost of tuition was an important reason for choosing a college. A similar number picked a college based on accommodation costs. The friendliness of a university was given as a reason by two-thirds of students. Some factors were relatively
unimportant. These included good language support, at only 20% of students, and
modern teaching methods, at 30%.
In conclusion, the reasons for choosing a particular university can be divided into teaching-related reasons and non-teaching reasons, but the most important factors are language, the quality of the staff and facilities, and cost.
(224 words)
Original
At almost / around / about / approximately 95 percent of the sample, Language of tuition is the main B. reason behind students choosing university.
Altered So Works Grammatically
At almost / around / about / approximately 95 percent of the sample, Language of tuition is the main reason given by students choosing / reason give for choosing university.
Original
Language of tuition is top of the survey J. with approximately 95%.
Original
Language of tuition is top of the survey J. with approximately 95%.
Altered So Works Grammatically
The top of the survey J. with approximately 95% is given as Language of tuition.
Using "is given as" With A Number
In our class, the biggest number is given as 10,000 trillion.
= Using the Passive to focus on the object instead of the subject.
In our class, people say the biggest number they can think of is 10,000 trillion.
= Using the Active to say who did the action (I.E. said something)
Using "is given as" With A Thing
Using "is given as" With A Number
In our class, the biggest number is given as 10,000 trillion.
= Using the Passive to focus on the object instead of the subject.
In our class, people say the biggest number they can think of is 10,000 trillion.
= Using the Active to say who did the action (I.E. said something)
Using "is given as" With A Thing
For most people, chocolate is given as their favourite flavour of ice cream.
= Using the Passive to focus on the object instead of the subject.
Most people say that their favourite flavour of ice cream is chocolate.
= Using the Active to say who did the action (I.E. said something)Tuesday, 12 May 2015
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Word Choice
Continual and continuous are both used to describe things that continue without stopping.
Use continuous to describe things that go on without a break.
E.G. I had six continuous hours of meetings.
E.G. A continuous line of trees.
Use continual to describe things which happen repeatedly.
E.G. his continual attempts to intervene.
Use continual when the thing that is happening is annoying or bad.
E.G. She was fed up with the continual arguments.
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