Enc 54

Warm up:
Be on call
I don’t earn any extra pay if I have to work for that week
The weather was funny this weekend = very strange

Benny is going back to school to study management to become Shen’s manager.

Different levels of education:

-Primary school (ages 5 to 11)
-Middle school / Junior high school (ages 11-12)
-High school / Secondary school / College (ages 12 to 18)
-College (US) /University (UK)

Different types of schools:

-higher education
-vocational school => an apprenticeship
-an undergraduate studies/student => the period of university before a student receives their first
degree (Bachelors)
-a graduate school/studies/student => a degree beyond a bachelor, for example a master’s degree
-a gap year => a student takes a break from formal education / time out

Vocabulary:
-take classes
-attend/give a lecture
-take an online course/distance learning class
-move into college/a university/a dorm
-student housing/dorm/dormitory
-medical school
-lecture
-a doctorate => the highest degree awarded by a university

Tests / Exams:
Get a good grade/mark on the exam / She passed the exam.
A student is cheating while taking an exam (she’s using a “cheat sheet”)
She got a bad grade / She failed/flunked her test
It’s a multiple choice test
It’s a report card
He’s doing an exam / He’s taking an exam/test

Past Perfect - HAD + Past Participle:

We use this to show that an event occurred before another event in the past.

- By the time he had signed up for class, he had spoken to the professor.
- He had (already) spoken to the professor by the time he signed up for the class.
- When he signed up for the class, he had already spoken to the professor.
- He had already spoken to the professor when he signed up for the class.
- He spoke/had spoken to the professor before he signed up for the class.
- Before he signed up for the class, he spoke/had spoken to the professor.
- After he had spoken to the professor, he signed up for the class.
- He signed up for the class after he had spoken to the professor.

- When I arrived home, my friends had already eaten dinner.

- My friends had already eaten dinner, by the time I arrived home
- Before he quit his job, he had found a new one.
- When Ramone heard the news he had left his house.

Verb + preposition (relative clause)

An action that was completed before another action in the past and uses verb + preposition forms in
relative clauses for example: Is that the man (who) she arrived with?

Sample answers:
-She’s the student (that/who) I work with.
-That’s the computer class (that/who) I signed up for.
-This is the building I work in.
-I like the classes that don’t have much homework.
-This is the flight your sister was on.
-This is the job I was hoping to get.
-I have to finish the project I’m working on.
-That’s the Italian restaurant I had dinner at.