A (summer) break diploma to be legally required curriculum
Task 5. Watch Video 14.1 and Video 14.2 leads. Compare the content of the leads paying attention to the way each clip:
A) reports on the opening of a school year;
B) reveals the variety of new subjects to be taught in schools across England.
Task 6. Watch Video 14.1 in full. Sum up its idea in two sentences.
Task 7. Watch Video 14.1 again to restore the missing words and word combinations.
To school
2. governments new 1-2
3. It will allow struggling teenagers 1-2
4. and those who excelled, 1-2
5. Edd Balls is (post?)
6. Sean Fenton is (post?)
7. But it will be a particular
8. that they will 1-2
9. 1 financial skills like 2 3 4 and 5
10) of being able to 1-3 in the kitchen.
11) are described as 1 2 world languages
12) in an effort to 1-2
13) If employers do really 1-3
14) to encourage up to 90 per cent of students 1-4
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Task 8. Identify some grammatical structures used in Video 14.1. The sentences in question open and end up with the following words.
1. Teenagers diploma courses.
Cookery.
3. A new school with it.
4. One which the government stretched.
5. Education Secretary agree.
6. The introduction of common sense.
7. But theres concern little.
Task 9. Make a list of the following groups of lexical units you came across in Video 14.1 (e.g. terms; phrasal verbs; intensifying words; clichés).
Task 10. Study the realia below and watch Video 14.2 in full. Recap its idea in one sentence.
A-Level GCSE grammar school 6th Form
Task 11. Which of the two clips (Video 14.1 or Video 14.2) is more informative? Why? Prove your point.
Task 12. Watch Video 14.2 for details. Fill in the gaps in the sentences below and make lexical, morphological and stylistic analysis of the material.
1. The first day back at school can be 1-2 3
2. 1 if its at a new school, 2 3 with a 4-5 of teaching too.
3. 1 year many students 2-3 4-5
4. Theyll be the first 1-4 education until they are 17, 5-9 a new curriculum and new qualifications too.
5. The new school timetable has been modernised and revised 1 more 2 to 3 like balancing credit cards and mortgages.
6. I 1 say it 2-3 more beneficial. I 4 , 5 with finances, 6 for 7 6-formers, 8 . For 9-13 , finance definitely go more and more 14-16 . And to be able 17-19 and not to 20-22 for the rest of your life, its quite useful, 23 .
7. Yeah, with 1-3 , everyones 4 talking about it. So, I think, may be we 5-9 .
8. For 1-13 , there are new specialist diplomas, 14-15
8. I think I would be 1 worried about it. 2 3 obviously (I dont know) as diplomas are 4 seen as 5-6 lower than A-level. 7 , higher universities 8 not see it as good a qualification as an 9 .
9. 1 hope the pilot programme will 2-4 arent a 3-7
10. 1-4 5 for students with a good basis in vocational experience as well as 6 . The danger is its untried. We dont know if 7-10 work. 11-15 being 16-18 system 17-20 are retained for the 21-23 and the diploma becomes seen as the 24 for those 25-28
11. These young people will 1-4 the scope of the whole industry. 5 , 6 , they will be able to make an 7-8 9-10 whats right for them, and their talents and 11 that 12-14 of the industry.
12. Those studying for them have also given them 1-3
13. 1-4 5 .
14. 1 now the government must hope 2-8 the new curriculum 9-11 12-13
Task 13. Make a list of special terms, clichés, phrasal verbs and idioms of Video 14.2.
Task 14. Watch Video 14.3 and say what its idea is.
Task 15. Watch Video 14.3 again. What do the realia in the box mean?