Listening Vocabulary
Studying at college/university:
Accommodation – a place to live, work, stay, etc. in.
Sentence – There are three categories of accommodation – standard, executive and deluxe.
Homestay – a type of holiday or visit in which you stay in the home of a person you do not know.
Sentence – My daughter had a homestay in America.
Primary – of or for the teaching of young children, especially those between five and eleven years old.
Sentence – A primary school is the first school everybody goes to.
Primary – of or for the teaching of young children, especially those between five and eleven years old.
Sentence – A primary school is the first school everybody goes to.
Intermediate – A school for children that serves grades between primary school and high school. These grades vary from anywhere from grade 4 to grade 8.
Sentence – Several students were moved from the beginners’ class into the intermediate one.
Commencement – the beginning of something.
Sentence – At the commencement of training, each trainee should be provided with a training plan which includes details of holiday allocation.
Dissertation – a long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done in order to receive a degree at college or university.
Sentence – A Research Dissertation which is late may result in your being unable to graduate for a further year.
Leaflet – a piece of paper that gives you information or advertises something.
Sentence – Pick up a free leaflet from your local post office.
School Reunion – a meeting of former classmates, often organized at or near their former high school or college by one or more class members.
Sentence – After 17 years of marriage, he left his wife for an old flame he ran into at a high school reunion.
Feedback – information or statements of opinion about something, such as a new product, that can tell you if it is successful or liked.
Sentence – We got a lot of positive feedback about the programme.
Tasks – a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or with difficulty.
Sentence – List your tasks in order of priority .
Outcome – a result or effect of an action, situation, etc.
Sentence – The outcome depends on conditions as well as how events unfold.
Advanced – highly developed or difficult.
Sentence – I was out of my depth in the advanced class, so I moved to the intermediate class.
Introductory – coming before something else.
Sentence – They volunteer to teach introductory courses.
Resources Room – Resource room is a separate setting, either a classroom or a smaller designated room, where a special education program can be delivered to a student with a disability, individually or in a small group.
Sentence – There is a state of art Resources Room in our university.
Staff – the group of people who work for an organization.
Sentence – New staff are trained to work without direct supervision.
Higher Education – education at a college or university where subjects are studied at an advanced level.
Sentence – Some believe that the extension of higher education has leveled down university standards.
Guidelines – information intended to advise people on how something should be done or what something should be.
Sentence – The government has drawn up guidelines on the treatment of the mentally ill.
Post-Secondary – the education level that follows the successful completion of secondary education, often referred to as high school.
Sentence – Students who complete a post-secondary degree in a health-care field receive priority hiring when they graduate.
Faculty – a group of departments in a college that specialize in a particular subject or group of subjects.
Sentence – The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose.