Education Vocabulary
for the Blog
Public/Private
- /Pr-eye-vit/; private school (Catholic school)
- Public school; state school
- I only know about state schools
- I don’t know much about private schools.
- I prefer private school
- Discipline (corporal punishment)
- More on you – more involved in your education; you get more individual attention; the student/teacher ratio
- There are good and bad teachers in both public and private schools.
- Atmosphere; environment (condusive to learning)
- The quality of the teachers/curriculum/program…
- If you have A problem (NOT any…)
- And tell him what the problem is
- Xfathers – PARENTS (are involved in the PTA – Parent Teacher Association)
- Protest; complain
- (you have to take) an entrance exam
Uniforms
- Why does/did your (child’s) school require uniforms?
- Not wearing a uniform allows children to express themselves/their individuality
- Wearing uniforms keep students from judging each other based on what they wear
- Parts of a uniform: shirt, trousers, tie, loafers ; blouse, skirt, knee high socks, loafers
- I had to wear / I wore a uniform
- I didn’t have to think about what to wear for school (each day).
- You can buy them secondhand because uniforms are expensive.
- How much do uniforms cost?
- How much did your mother pay each year for your uniforms?
- I never WORE a uniform when I was a child
- I don’t really understand the point of uniforms / I don’t understand why it’s an issue
- If you wear a uniform, everyone is wearing the same thing. It keeps children from focusing on their (social or economic) differences
- If everyone were a little more mature (about the situation)…
- To put (something) on
Home Economics (“Home Ec”)
- Cooking, baking, sewing, mending (domestic chores/tasks)
- Housework (dusting, vacuuming, sweeping the floor (broom), doing the laundry/washing the clothes, hanging the clothes out to dry – or drying them in the dryer, washing the dishes, polishing the furniture)
- I disagree (not I’m!!)
- With cooking and housework, use “skill” not “subject”…
Physical Education
- Physical education (class); PE; Phys Ed; Gym (class)
- Basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer/football, tag football, relays, mile run, ultimate frisbee, dodgeball, track and field (sprint, long distance, hurdles)
- Driver’s Ed(ucation), Health Class (Sex ed, CPR/First Aid training, nutrition)
- Do you think PE should be optional?
- DoING sport
- There are a lot of obese people / people who are obese (overweight, morbidly obese)
- To be an athletic person
- It’s impossible TO do all the things that he wants…
- We can do track. / We can run track.
- At school (NOT at THE school)
- To be good at (sports)
Shorter Summer Holidays
- Holiday = Vacation (Amer. English)
- The holidays are too long.
- Pupils need more time to rest after the stress of the school year.
- Students should spend more time studying and have less free time.
- Pupils /p-you-pils/ - students
- Year-round school
- Semesters (Fall and spring) – long summer break
- Trimesters (split into three parts with a break in between)
- Quarters (typically, 4)
Single-Sex/Co-Ed Class
- Better concentration; less distracting; fewer distractions
- Putting children in co-ed classes prepares them for the real world.
- Students get a better education and are able to focus more in single sex classes.
- All girls school, all boys school, co-ed schools, catholic schools
- I don’t agree with the/that statement.
- It doesn’t matter if there are boys or not, it’s still a class and you’re there to learn.
- Some people think that if you mix boys and girls in class, they will pay less attention.
- I don’t agree with this view/perspective/opinion.
- I think boys and girls would study better in different rooms.
- Girls don’t need the boys to be in the room for them to be distracting. Girls will talk about boys even more when they’re not there.
- I think girls are better students than boys. Having them in the same class might hurt their progress.
- I (prefer) think it’s better when students study in a mixed class.
