SPACE

DEER CLUB
WEEK 13
EDUCATION
 ARE THESE WORDS UNKNOWN TO YOU?
All education systems may ultimately be judged in terms of equality of opportunity. This is often
referred to in the debates over selective versus comprehensive schooling. The main issue is whether
everyone has the same opportunities for educational achievement or whether elitism of one sort or
another is inherent in the system.
League tables for schools and colleges may actually help unintentionally to perpetuate inequalities,
while claiming to promote the raising of standards. Inevitably, league tables divide educational
institutions into good and bad, success and failure, resulting in a two-tier system, or at least that is how
the public perceives it. The ability of better-off parents and well-endowed schools to push children
towards the institutions at the top of the league may, in the long term, have the effect of reducing
opportunity for the poorer kids or for children from home environments that do not provide the push
and motivation to excel. Financial support of different kinds can help to make educational opportunity
more equal. There are, for example, scholarships or bursaries that make it possible for less privileged
youngsters to afford tertiary education. Student loans allow undergraduates to pay for their tutors
service and living expenses while they are studying. But few would claim that real equality of
opportunity has been achieved.
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2D
CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
3M
4A
5B
6K
7P
8C
9E
10F
11O
12I
13L
14G
15N
16J
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• Do you think selective or comprehensive schooling have an impact

on our future generation?
• Have you ever been motivated by league tables? How does it work?
• Does a two-tier system make students excel or lead to inequality?
• Have you ever got scholarships or bursary? Why/Why not?
• Does the government allow banks offer student loans in your
country? Is it a good idea?
- Do you need to learn all
these words for the next
lesson?!
- Yes! I do apologize.
It was you who
stole my food!
The truth is your
girlfriend likes me
more.
God knows where
my brains are.
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Harry lost his mobile yesterday.
It was Harry who lost his mobile.
It was his mobile that Harry lost.
It was yesterday that Harry lost his mobile.

Try to do it yourself!

The cat stole my food last time.

It was the cat who stole my food.
It was my food that the cat stole.
It was last time that the cat stole my food.

It is/was … that …
P.S. :When a plural subject is the focus, we use a plural verb but It + be remains singular:

It’s the parents who were protesting most.

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Kate blew her student loan partying at university.
What Kate blew partying at university was her student loan.
Try to do it yourself!
They like smoked salmon for lunch.
What they like for lunch is smoked salmon.

What…is/was …

P.S.: If we use What to refer to the predicate of the sentence, we use do/did .
What Kate did partying at university was blow her student loan.
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I’d like some strong coffee.
All I want is some strong coffee.
He just smiled and walked off.
All he did was smile and walk off.

All … is/was…

P.S.: After want and would like we must add for:

I just want you to tell the truth.
All I want is for you to tell the truth.
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It was Tom who broke the window.
Who broke the window was Tom.
It wasn’t Mike who broke the window.
What George did was work extremely hard.
It is my grandmother I miss the most.
Who I miss the most is my grandmother.
It is his laziness that irritates me.
What really irritates me is his laziness.
It’s her mother that Kate takes after.
Who Kate takes after is her mother.
What I love is the way she smiles at me.