EDUCATION
Formal, informal, non-formal
Who:
Educated # illiterate, teacher, educator, student, learner, a graduate, a dropt-out, university drop-outs
Action:
learn, get educated, get a degree/ a diploma/ a certificate/ a qualification, graduate from, complete your studies with flying colors, quit school, take an exam, and fail exam #to pass an exam, to fight illiteracy, marginalize, integrate, be deprive from, get dismissed from school
Where:
Public school, private school, institution, university, co-educational schools, single-sex schools
How:
Programme, subjects, courses, lessons, evening classes, literacy classes, newspapers, television, theatre
Objective:
Betterment of people’s lives, enhancement of self esteem, ability to learn new things which will help them expand their knowledge, ability to cope with the majority of the society. Literacy provides people with the option of becoming members of a self-confident and informed populace that can understand issues, represent themselves, take responsibility for self-improvement and family health, and better participate in civic affairs. These are among the more priceless payoffs of literacy.
EXERCISES:
- Match the following words to form collocations:
- Take a. education
- Fail b. university
- Get c. values
- School d. classes
- Fight e. school
- Single-sex f. illiteracy
- Literacy g. drop-out
- Graduate from h. a qualification
- vocational i. an exam
- universal j. a test