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Key Terms and Essential Vocabulary

ability level

academic year

adult/continuing education

Advanced Level examinations (AS)

AP courses

Associate of Arts (AA)

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Bachelor of Education (BE)

Bachelor of Science (BS)

boarding (residential) school

college campus

Common Entrance Examinations (CE)

community college

comprehensive (non-selective) school

compulsory school attendance laws

core subjects

day school

distance learning

elective subjects (electives)

elementary (grammar) school

fall/spring semester/term

four-year college

freshman (year)

full-time education/student

Further Education College (FE)

General Certificate of Education (GCE)

General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)

grade/ passing grades/ failing grades

grammar school

grant

high school

High School Diploma

independent school

infant school

junior (year)

junior school

kindergarten

liberal arts college (school)

Local Education Authority (LEA)

Master of Arts (MA)

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

merit-based/need-based financial aid

middle (junior) school

National Curriculum

New Universities (former Polytechnics)

nursery (school) education (for those who are under 5 years old)

nursery (school) education /day-care attendance

old universities/ancient foundations

Open University (OU)

Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Oxbridge)

parochial school/religious school

part-time education/student

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

plate-glass universities

preparatory school

primary education

private (independent) education

private (public) school

red-brick universities

scholarship

school leaving age

secondary education

secondary modern school

secular school/non-sectarian school

senior (year)

setting

sophomore (year)

state/public education

streaming

to assess smth/smb

to award degrees

to be available to

to be eligible for smth

to enjoy equal standing

to be financed by smb/smth

to cover expenses

to earn a degree

to enroll in college

to enter a course

to fall into categories

to have access to smth

to improve job-related skills

to issue a prospectus

to live on campus

to major in smth

to offer a course in smth

to opt out of smth

to overlap

to prescribe the curricula

to release from work

to study/read for a degree

to study by correspondence

to take out student loans

to upgrade to a level

tracking system

tuition fee

tutorial

Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)

Questions for discussion:

What types of UK schools do you know?
Is it better to educate your child in a private school?
What were the main advantages of the tripartite system of secondary education in England and Wales?
What are the pros and cons of comprehensive schools?
How many public examinations do British school-leavers have to take?
Does Scotland have the same system of school education? What public examinations on completion of the compulsory cycle of education are taken by Scottish school-leavers?
How are British school leavers admitted to universities and colleges? Is it difficult to obtain a place at the old universities (Oxbridge)? Is it expensive to study there?
What are the main educational opportunities in the USA? What do you know about the state and private sectors of US education?
Is schooling compulsory in the USA? What do you think is the best age to begin compulsory education?
What are the main tasks of primary education in the USA? Is there any difference between grammar schools in the UK and USA?
What are the main types of private schools in the USA?
What do you know about the most acute problems American schools face? What do you know about school shootings in the USA?
Why do many American school leavers want to receive college or university education? What are the main degrees awarded by US colleges and universities?
Is there any difference between public and private post-secondary educational establishments? Why do many young Americans go to community colleges after graduation from high school?
What forms of financial aid are available to American students?

FAMILY IN THE UK&USA

Study the topics: “The American Family” and “Family Life in Great Britain (Unit 5, pp. 78-97 in Discussion Guide: British and American Studies:Учеб. пособие/ Т.Н. Дубровская, Н.П. Звонак, О.А. Зинина и др. – Мн.: МГЛУ,2003.-120с.).

Key Terms and Essential Vocabulary:

adolescence

alimony

arranged marriage

average family

babysitting parent

best man/bridesmaid

birth control

birth status

blended family

breadwinner

caretaker

child-centered family/viewpoint

cohabitation

community roots

day-care centre/center

domestic partner

domestic violence

empty nest syndrome

enforced dependency

extended family

family abuse/violence

family allowance

family identity

family turmoil

family unit/household unit

father/mother-in-law

femininity

feminism

foster children/family

full-time homemaker

gender roles

generation gap

glass ceiling

godfather/godmother

housewife

illegitimacy

immediate family

in-law problems

juvenile delinquent

latch-key children

life expectancy

male/father, female/mother – dominated family

marital difficulties

marriage license

masculinity

maternal/paternal/parental leave

no-fault divorce

nuclear family

parental duties

pension entitlements

population decline

recreational facilities

retirement facilities

reversal of traditional gender roles

separate household

sibling rivalry

single-parent family

stepparents

the “me” generation

the average household

the generation of baby-boomers

to abuse physically

to be available for adoption

to be born into a family/to parents

to discriminate on the basis of sex

to be on welfare

to become a burden to one’s family

to discriminate on the basis of sex

to display emotions

to end in divorce

to endorse differences

to fashion family institutions

to gain a right

to grant independence

to handle the burden

to have a more active domestic role

to head a family

to highlight smth

to have the right to smth

to lessen the emotional distance/lessen the strain for smb

to maintain a good/high standard of living

to make good parents

to move in with smb

to offer flexible work hours

to poll smb

to provide the family income

to pursue a full-time job/career

to rear/raise children

to show appreciation and affection

to stay single

to strain a family/to be a strain to the family

to take priority in smth

to teach common practices and customs

traditional civilities

traditional family

trial marriage

unconventional/non-traditional family

widow/widower

Questions for discussion:

What types of families exist in the USA/UK? What is the society’s attitude to all these family types?
What functions do modern families serve?
Has a ‘traditional family’ undergone any changes in the USA/UK? What changes are taking place in the British family/American today?
Are the differences in everyday behaviour and domestic roles of men and women still visible in the USA/UK?
Is it possible to state that the reversal of traditional gender roles has taken place in the USA/UK?
Do you believe that mostly economic difficulties make people shun marriage and traditional family life?
How would you comment on the impact of baby boomers and immigrants on the present-day demographics?
How many working mothers do you know? Do they manage to juggle family life and work?
How do working mothers and fathers staying at home change the essence of family life?
Would you approve of fathers-homemakers? What would be the public opinion to them in your country?
Is the problem of home violence acute in the UK or USA?
Why do people abuse their family members?
What should be done to reduce the number of violence-hit families in modern world?
Does financial instability increase the degree of conflict in modern family households?
Do unemployment and job insecurity mostly lead to abuse of women and children? Are men also likely to experience domestic violence due to the impact of the recession?

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