English
Education and Career Choices
The notions of the Education and Career Choices chapter in English for 3AS, one by one: what the syllabus asks for, the method, the common mistakes and the kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC.
- 1 Vocabulary — education systems & professional career choices Pre-teach vocabulary via title/anticipation before listening/reading
- 2 2nd conditional — hypothesizing about study/career choices Test: is the condition realistic (1st) or hypothetical (2nd)? choose the tense pair accordingly
- 3 Expressing wish and desire — I wish / I'd like 'I wish' + past simple for a present wish that is not true; 'I'd like' for a polite desire
- 4 Warnings with 'unless' 'unless' = 'if...not' — rewrite the unless-clause as a negative if-clause to check meaning
- 5 Obligation & advice for study/career choices — must/have to/should
- 6 Reading strategy — identifying word meaning from context (education passages) Use context clues (surrounding sentence) before a dictionary reflex
- 7 Word formation — adjective suffixes -ive/-al
- 8 Collocations about school/education Learn collocations as chunks (higher education, primary school)
- 9 Comparatives of long & short adjectives (education systems) Fix one comparison axis (duration, cost, structure) before comparing two systems
- 10 Quantity with most/all/few (comparing education systems) Sort the noun (countable/uncountable) first, then pick the matching quantifier
- 11 Comparing & contrasting — similar to / like / unlike similar to/like + noun phrase; unlike + noun phrase — never a full clause directly after 'unlike'
- 12 Present passive voice (descriptive/procedural text) Passive = be + past participle; keep tense on 'be', not on the main verb
- 13 Sequencing devices — first, then, next, finally Read a procedural passage sequencer by sequencer before summarizing
- 14 Noun formation with -ing and -tion/-ation Identify the verb root, then test which suffix (-ing vs -tion/-ation) the sentence needs
- 15 Production — checklist of recommendations Checklist: one imperative/recommendation per line, concise
- 16 Production — composing & reciting a wish poem Anchor each line on 'I wish' + a hoped-for state; keep lines short and rhythmic
- 17 Production — descriptive letter (school/ideal school) One paragraph per idea; open the letter with the standard greeting/closing formula
- 18 Production — summarizing a talk/lecture Reconstitute the talk's main points in order before drafting the summary
- 19 Reading strategy — diagram interpretation & paragraphing ideas Read the diagram's labels/arrows first, then match each to a sentence in the passage
- 20 Reading strategy — identifying logical relationships between sentences Spot the connector or the implicit link (cause, contrast, addition) joining two consecutive sentences
- 21 Production — expository article on causes & effects of exam stress Separate causes and effects into distinct paragraphs