First degree courses in the UK

The UK has an excellent reputation for higher education and research. It offers a lot of opportunities to both national and international students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Degrees
The degrees vary according to the practice of each university.
First degrees after leaving school are often called undergraduate. Arts, social science and pure science degrees normally last 3 or 4 years because they are designed to follow a very specialized school-leaving qualification. Traditionally university graduates will be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Science, Engineering, Medicine etc.
Later they may continue to take graduate or postgraduate courses. There is a another higher educational qualification in the UK, known as the Higher National Diploma or HND. It lasts a year less than a degree course – either two full-time or three years as a sandwich course.
HNDs are vocational (or job related), so a student will not find them in purely academic subjects as history or philosophy. They are available in, for example, science subjects, engineering, business studies, hospitality and tourism management.

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Misspelled Words

Misspelled Words

Having difficulty spelling certain words? Spelling book is the place for you to master your knowledge of English spelling, and never repeat those mistakes again!


You can choose a word wich spelling you want to remember, look through its definition and then try to make up a sentence with it. Using Ginger you will find out if your spelling or understanding of the word is right.n

The American education system

Complete the paragraph with the words : it , the former,  that (3),  this, they, the latter, who, which (2) such as.


The American education system requires that students complete 12 years of primary and secondary education before they attend university or college. …(1) may be accomplished either at public schools, or at private schools. …(2) are usually supported and financed by state and municipal governments, while …(3) are operated privately.

Numerous American colleges, schools and universities offer programs …(4) lead to a variety of degrees. …(5) include an associate degree …(6) is given upon completion of a 2-year programme and a bachelor’s degree …(7) normally requires at least four years of full-time college-level coursework. For those college graduates …(8) want to advance their careers higher education institutions offer advanced degrees …(9) a master’s degree or doctorate (also known as PhD) degree.

The master’s degree typically requires two years of full-time graduate school coursework to complete. Unlike students pursuing a bachelor’s degree, students in a master’s degree program will complete courses … (10) are highly focused in their field of study (major) so the students must have already decided on the major before applying to a master’s degree program.

The PhD degree is even more focused and specialized than the master’s degree. Some students will complete a master’s degree before applying to a doctorate degree prog-ram, but …(11) is not always necessary. Completion of a doctorate degree typically takes between three and six years but a student with a master’s degree may take less time to complete his PhD if …(12) is in the same field

Way To Success

Studying at university makes very different demands on you compared with school. In higher education the focus is on you: you're given much more responsibility for your studies, you will be expected to study on your own much more than you may have been used to as well as the scope of study is much wider than you have been used to.
To help you achieve better results in your studies do some self exploratory work.
Your task is to come to understanding of your learning strong and weak points and of your own way of learning.

• Search the site http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm 
• Take the test on multiple intelligence http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php 
• Report in a written form the results of the tests 

QUESTIONS TO GUIDE YOU:

1. What is multiple intelligence? 
2. What types of multiple intelligence are defined? 
3. What personality type/types do you belong to? 
4. Have you learnt new things about yourself? 
5. Why is it important to be aware of your personality type? 
6. How will this affect you and your studies? 
7. Which of the practical suggestions do you find the most useful/possible to follow?

My day

1.  Every morning from Monday to Saturday, I get up at 6 o'clock. After breakfast, I go to school by bicycle. It takes me about 20 minutes from my house to my school. Usually, I study at school until 11:30 a.m. I return home at noon to have lunch with my family. In the afternoon I attend English and computer courses. I always get home just in time for dinner at 7:30 p.m. After dinner, while my parents are watching television in the living-room, I read books or prepare for school in my own room.
2. I am free at weekends. On Sunday mornings, I get up later than usual. Then I often go shopping downtown with my friends. Sometimes we go for a picnic in the countryside. On rainy Sundays, I stay at home reading books and listening to music.
3. I am quite happy with my daily activities.

 

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My daily activities

Daily Activities at Work

Daily Activities at Home

Определите, является ли утверждение “The author is happy to prepare the homework with the parents” верным (‘true’, ‘false’, ‘not in text’).

Укажите, какой части текста (1, 2, 3) соответствует следующая информация: In evenings the author reads books.

British English vs American English

Some students ask questions about differences between between the British accent and North American accent. Watch a video and compare.

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Are you sure this water is pure?
The bar is quite far, we need a car.
The first year you learn a lot of words by heart.
There were four more birds this morning.
Last week I cut my ass on some glass in the bath, so I asked for plaster.
My new secretary is so stupid! She had to look up "inventory" in the dictionary!

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100 most common English words

Can you guess what the most common words in English are? The video below gives a list of them according to WiKipedia.

Comment what word do you use most common