1. Education

2. Answer the following questions: 1. Please compare the educational systems of USA and UK. Which are the similarities and differences? 2. Should education be compulsory? Explain. 3. Higher education in Serbia? Tuition fees? 4. Continue schooling after completing secondary education or search for a job instead in Serbia? 5. Postgraduate studies guarantee a better job?

3. Collocations Verb + noun Noun/adjective/participle + noun  To achieve universal literacy  To promote individual welfare  To provide knowledge and skills  To enroll into university  To enter university  To seek employment  Endowments funding  Government funding  Economic prosperity  Long life education  State-certified private schools  Approved home school program

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5. Obligatory ____________________  obligatory (vs. optional) compulsory, mandatory, required, indispensable, necessary  Make a sentence about education using one of the synonyms Appropriate _____________________ suitable, proper, fitting, apt; relevant, pertinent, applicable, material, significant, right, convenient, favourable, timely, well judged, well timed, corresponding  Make a sentence about education using one of the synonyms

6. Look for  search, seek, try, attempt, quest, explore,inquire  Make a sentence about education using one of the synonyms Be fired  sack, plunder, displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, force out, give the sack, terminate, remove  Make a sentence about education using one of the synonyms

7. Wealthy (vs. poor)  affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy, rich, well-off Make a sentence about education using one of the synonyms Benefit  profit, gain  Make a sentence about education using one of the synonyms

8. Copy the following sentences first and then create sentences about Serbian education Use the following examples:

9. *refer to  Compulsory education … a period of education that is required of every person. *enjoy freedom to  Each state … develop a school system *be given substantial freedom to  Local communities … select teachers and administrators *enter University  Students … from age 18 onwards.

10. *be eligible to  Students … undertake a postgraduate degree. *be accountable to  A head teacher... a Governing Body. *cover … years  Elementary and secondary education … of education. *take place  Secondary education … in a variety of high schools.

11. *require young people to attend All states … school. *be guaranteed Every children … education. *be run by Schools … churches. *be carried out Education … at various levels, which are mainly divided into…

12. *be generally the responsibility of Educational policy … boards of education *receive a degree, … to earn credits. In order … an undergraduate student has … *be classified Undergraduate students … according to …