HOMEWORK

10 Education

Complete the crossword about education.

1, 2

4, 5

10

Across

1 education leads to low achievement and high dropout rates. (4)

4 education is provided by the government of a country. (5)
8 Primary education for children of 5-11 years is called education in the US. (10)
9 If you go to college, you are doing a education course. (7)
10 education takes place between the age of 11 and 18. (9)

Down

2 You have to pay for education. (7)

3 There is free education for all three- and four-year-olds in the UK. (7)
5 The education is the way that education is organised in a country. (6)
6 education is training that provides the skills needed for a particular job. (10)
7 Education is changes that a government makes to an education system. (6)

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 Teacher’s Notes for Homework 10:

Education

Objectives: To learn education-related vocabulary

Dictionary skills: Finding the Collocation box for education and locating required collocations
Tasks: Crossword puzzle

Procedure

Students complete the crossword and then check their answers or look up clues they didn’t know in
the Collocation box for education.

Time:  15 minutes
Answers: Across: 1 poor (4)
4 state (5)
8 elementary (10)
9 further (7)
10 secondary (9)
Down: 2 private (7)
3 nursery (7)
5 system (6)
6 vocational (10)
7 reform (6)

Suggested follow-up activity: Students write a description of the education system in their country.
They use vocabulary from the Collocation box to help them. Suggest they structure it as follows:

•  a description

•  the good things about the education system

•  any criticisms or bad things about the education system

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