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In the following transcript of Sir Ken Robinson’s talk, some words related to education
have been deleted. Find the correct missing word in the box below. In one case, the form
of the word needs to be changed.

In the next 30 years, according to UNESCO, more people worldwide will be

__1____through education than since the beginning of__2__. More people, and it's the
combination of all the things we've talked about - technology and its ___3_____ effect
on work, and ____4___and the huge explosion in population. Suddenly, degrees aren't
worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a
job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one,
frankly. (Laughter) But now kids with degrees are often heading home to carry on playing
video games, because you need an __5___where the previous job required a__6__, and
now you need a __7_for the other. It's a process of academic inflation. And it indicates
the whole structure of __8___is shifting beneath our feet. We need to radically
___9__our view of intelligence.
We know three things about intelligence. One, it's__10___. We think about the world
in all the ways that we experience it. We think visually, we think in__11____, we think
kinesthetically. We think in ___12___terms, we think in movement. Secondly,
intelligence is___13___. If you look at the interactions of a human brain, as we heard
yesterday from a number of presentations, intelligence is wonderfully ___14___. The
brain isn't divided into compartments. In fact, __15___- which I define as the process
of having original ideas that have value - more often than not comes about through
the interaction of different ___16___ways of seeing things.

interactive; BA; transformation; dynamic; PhD; sound; creativity; education; disciplinary;

rethink; graduate; history; MA; demography; abstract; diverse

Quoation from Sir Ken Robinson’s talk:

If you were to visit education, as an alien, and say "What's it for, public education?", I
think you'd have to conclude the whole purpose of public education throughout the
world is to produce university professors.
Some of the following conditional sentences contain a mistake. Identify and correct
the mistakes when necessary:

1. If the education bill is passed by both parliamentary houses then it becomes law.
2. Shall we start designing the course at the weekend if we had no other plans?
3. If you spill even something as innocuous as water on this paper, it stains.
4. When you press the ‘record’ button, the green light comes on.
5. If the museum will charge for entry, a lot of people won’t be able to use it.
6. Are you unhappy with any of our monitors, we will replace them immediately.
7. If the form has been correctly completed, the transfer will take only two days.
8. The organizers would respond positively to proposals if they are submitted by
10 June.
9. If you were to listen more carefully, you might understand a little more.
10. If he would have waited longer, we would have given him the result.
11. Even they contract the virus after they’ve had the vaccination, it’s likely to be
less serious.
12. Those concerned by the long-term effects of global warming believe that the
damage has been done, whether we take remedial steps now.