Answer the questions

1-Which jobs do you think people can do with the degrees in the article?

What kind of companies could they work for?

Could they be self-employed?

2-Which degree in the article do you think would be he most useful in your country?

Which would be the least useful?

3-Which degree would be the most fun or interesting for you?

Which would you do well at?

Choose the correct word.

My brother was always the ambitious one in the family and he really wanted to 1) get
into/get onto university. His dreams was to 2) make/do a degree in physics because he
wanted to become a scientist. He studied hard at school and he managed to 3) get/go
a place at a top university – St Andrews!
University was hard but he enjoyed it. He had to 4) take/write a lot of essays but he
was a good student. He always 5) did/took a lot of notes during his classes and he
only 6) handed/put an essay in late once because he had a broken leg and was in
hospital! Because of his hard work, he 7) got/made good marks for all his courses and
he never 8) failed/ lost an exam. He was an A+ student. And what about me? Well,
that’s a different story…