4. Vocabulary Development

A. Complete the table below using a dictionary. The first one has been done for you.

Noun (for person, device)	Noun (for idea)	Verb	Adjective
entrant entrance	entry	enter	entered entering
	education
examiner
		study
			graduated
teacher

B. Choose the following most suitable words to fill the gaps in the sentences below.

1. education educator educated educational educative educated(v)

1. Those who receive training are lesser than those who receive ______________.

2. Young people need to be ______________ in new ways to be employable.

3. The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among ______________ and researchers.

4. The boy came from a good home, was well ______________ and had every advantage.

5. The ______________ process needs to begin early in a child’s life.

6. The American ______________ system is in need of reform.

2. entered(v) entrance entrant entry

1. Voice over Professors flew in especially from Prague to supervise the ______________ examinations and emphasise the benefits of studying in their country.

2. Eighty percent of the children in the program had ______________ university with good grades.

3. Certainly, Coleman and no other was the route of ______________ into the College and into the army veterinary service.

4. The winning ______________ will receive a scholarship to the famous college of art and a year’s supply of artist’s materials.

3. exam examined(v) examiners examination exams

1. Class composition and ______________ results are monitored.

2. Students will be ______________ on all aspects of English literature and history.

3. Students who, in the opinion of the ______________, do not reach the required standard must take the exam again.

4. Evening and weekend study, writing reports and taking ______________ can all prove quite stressful.

5. In summary, the research aims at a detailed ______________ of the policy-making process.

4. study(v) studies(n) students studied studious

1. Many students will decide to continue their ______________.

2. They thought he should ______________ to be a doctor.

3. She spoke with ______________ politeness.

4. Francis didn’t bother with clothes or make-up. She was an extremely serious and ______________ young girl.

5. Seventy percent of the university’s business ______________ have job offers by graduation.

C. Fill in the blanks with the proper words in the correct form.

a) learn, study, teach

Note: both ‘learn’ and ‘study’ mean ‘to get knowledge’, but while ‘study’ is used mainly when we mean the process itself, ‘learn’ as a rule means the result of the process of studying, i. e. ‘to know smth. as a result of studying’; ‘study’ has an additional meaning, i. e. ‘to examine smth. carefully;

‘teach’ is opposite in meaning to these two words as it means not ‘to get’ but ‘to give knowledge, instruction’.

1. Mother thought it necessary to ____________ Gerry something useful.

2. Leslie thought Gerry should ____________ to sail and shoot and offered to ____________ him.

3. ‘The most important thing for him is to ____________ literature,’ said Larry.

4. We ____________ our first foreign language at school.

5. Even as a boy Gerry dreamt of ____________ biology.

6. She has a very good memory and can easily ____________ several pages by heart.

7. What subjects do you ____________ in the third year?

8. She was a good teacher and the child ____________ quickly.

9. She ____________ his face carefully before answering his question.

b) learn, find out, discover

Note: ‘learn’ may also mean ‘to be informed’ or ‘to receive information’ about smth.; in this meaning it is very close to the words ‘discover’ and ‘find out’; ‘learn’ denotes getting information without any or much effort;

‘discover’ suggests that the new information is surprising, unexpected;

‘find out’ means ‘to get information by search or inquiry’, i. e. ‘making an effort to get it’.

1. Mother was surprised to ____________ that each member of the family had a different idea of education for Gerry.

2. I was sorry to ____________ that our hockey team again lost the game.

3. Give her a ring to ____________ if she is at home.

4. I’ve just ____________ that he had passed all his exams.

5. For a long time we tried to____________ something about his past, but failed.

6. When Bell’s rivals ____________ about his invention, they tried to claim their own rights to it.

7. Suddenly I ____________ that I had left my notebook with her address in it behind.