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School and studying
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Learn words for studying, exams and coursework, such as revise, deadline, assignment and concentrate.
Choose the study word
Choose the best answer.
- I've got three exams next week, so I'm going to ___ every evening.
- If you hand in your essay after the ___, the teacher won't accept it.
- Which sentence means the student did NOT succeed?
- What does concentrate mean?
- Geography, chemistry and art are all school ___.
- During the lecture, Kofi wrote down all the main points. He ___.
- I kept checking my messages, so I was ___ and didn't finish my homework.
- Ana got 92% in the test. That's an excellent ___.
Complete the study sentences
Type one word in each gap. Use each word once and change the form if needed. Use: assignment, concentrate, deadline, fail, memorise, pass, term.
- If you don't study at all, you might ___ the exam.
- She studied really hard and ___ all her exams with high marks.
- Our history ___ is to write 1,000 words about an old building in our town.
- Please switch off the TV. I'm trying to ___.
- Actors have to ___ long pieces of text so that they can say them without reading.
- The ___ for applications is 30 June. Late forms will not be accepted.
- The autumn ___ starts in September and finishes just before the winter holidays.
Answer key
Choose the study word
- b) reviseBefore exams, you revise: you study again what you have learned.
- c) deadlineThe deadline is the time when work must be finished.
- a) She failed the exam.Fail means not succeed. Took the exam only says she did it, not the result.
- b) give all your attention to one thingWhen you concentrate, you give all your attention to one thing.
- c) subjectsSubjects are areas of knowledge that you study.
- a) took notesWriting down important information while you listen is taking notes.
- b) distractedDistracted means something else took your attention.
- c) gradeA grade is a letter or number that shows how good your work is.
Complete the study sentences
- failWithout study, you might not succeed, so you might fail.
- passedHigh marks show she succeeded, so she passed. The sentence is in the past.
- assignment / project / task / homeworkAn assignment is a piece of work a teacher gives you to do.
- concentrate / focusThe noise stops you from giving all your attention to your work, so you can't concentrate.
- memorise / memorize / learnMemorise means learn something so you can remember it exactly. The US spelling is memorize.
- deadline / closing dateThe deadline is the last date for something to be done.
- term / semesterA term is one part of the school year.