Education Flashcards
Education System
2 play-school /nursery school 5 infant school or junio school 12 Comprehensive school Grammar school (competitive entry) 18 College, polytechnic or university
Saltarse clases
To skip classes / lectures
Universidad publica o privada
State or private University
Superdotado
(noun) gifted children
Aplicado
(adj) straight A student
Ser aceptado en una universidad (formal)
To secure a place at ….
Educational institution with a very good reputation (very formal)
seats of learning
e.g. She secured a place at one of the country’s most prestigious seats of learning
Subjects which all the students on the course have to do
Core subjects
specific books which students must study
set texts
Su atención divaga
His attention occasionally wanders
Su concentración es variable
His concentration wavers
Hacer novillos
To play truant
Empezar las vacaciones
We break up on 18 December and go back on 8 January
Not completing a course
To drop out
To practise and improve your skills or your knowledge of something usually something you learned in the past but have partly forgotten
To brush up on
empollar
To mug up on (informal)
Aprobar raspado
To scrape though
(informal) learning as much as you can
To swotting up
Practising and improving your skills or you knowledge of something
To polish up
To read a lot about a particular subject in order to learn about it
To read up on
To read small parts of a book or magazine
To dip into
To read aloud
To read out
Write
To write out To note down To jot down (quick to remember) To scribble down To make out ( all the necessary information on an official document) To fill in To fill out
To male it less critical or offensive
To tone it down
Aparecer
crop up
To mention briefly
To touch on
To give all the details or explain clearly
To set … out
Jealousy (noun)
The green-eyed monster
Suddenly
at one fell swoop
To have eaten me out of house and home (informal)
To eat all the food there is in my house
To make my hair stand on end
Frighten me very much
In the twinkling of an eye
In an instant
A search that has no hope of success
a wild goose chase
e.g. The police were sent on a wild-goose chase looking for the money that the criminals had already spent.
People unlucky in love
The film is a classic love story about star-crossed lovers
There are always difficulties to face in romantic relationships
The course of true love never did run smooth
Caused problems for himself (by doing something that he thought would help him or that would hurt other people)
The price minister was hoist with his own petard when …
