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EDUCATIONFOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

Lyceum P.Movila, 2015 Nelly Chechuy

EDUCATION

True education creates mature people

EDUCATION

The Purpose Of EducationThe primary purpose of education should be :

- to have fun

- to learn job skills

- to learn social skills

- to prepare for tests

- to become well-rounded

- to increase IQ

- to learn how to learn

- to make friends

- to become open-minded

- to prepare for living in society

EDUCATION

Answer the questions

How important do you think education is?

What is a good education?

In which country do you think you can

receive the best education?

What do you think of the idea of lifelong

education?

Exams• Pass exams

• Fail (the test)

• Get low\ high marks(grades)

• Take an exam

• Cram

• Cheat

• Get ahead

Exams1 Pass an exam a To take the exam and receive a passing grade

2 Take an exam b To participate in an exam or test,

answering (or trying to answer) the

questions

3 Fail (the exam) c To be unsuccessful

4 Get low\ high marks

(grades)

d To receive a letter or number that shows

the quality of a student’s work

5 Cram e To study hard the night before a test

6 Get ahead f To become more successful than other

people

7 Cheat g To behave in a dishonest way to get an

advantage

Cram – study hard the night before

a test

She’d crammed

for the test until

4 a.m.

Get ahead – to become more

successful than other people

If you want to

get ahead,

you need a

good

education!

Cheat – to behave in a dishonest way

to get an advantage

Cheat – to behave in a dishonest way

to get an advantage

SCHOOL - Phrasal Verbs

Get through

Put out

Get on

Get down to

Hand in

Work out

to delay

Education\School

• IDIOM -

an expression that cannot be understood

from the meanings of its separate words

but that has a separate meaning of its

own

Education\School Idioms

As easy as ABC

As easy as a pie

A piece of cake

very easy

Education\School Idioms

• Copycat

• Bookworm a person who

likes reading

someone

who cheats

Education\School Idioms

• Play hooky

• Eager beaver

someone who works

very hard and

enthusiastically

not to go to school

when you should

Education\School Idioms

• Learn by heart

• Teacher's pet

the teacher's

favorite student

learned in such a way

that you can say it from

memory

Education\School Idioms

School of hard

knocks

Teach someone

a lesson

Work fingers to

the bone

You nailed it!

to show what should not be

done, to punish someone

the experience of learning

from work and daily life

to work very hard

Answer the questions

Why do you think there are so many different languages in the world?

How do you think the world would be different if there was only one language?

What three languages would you really like to speak, and why?

FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

Why do people usually learn foreign languages?

Think of as many reasons as possible.

Answer the question

EDUCATION

FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

❝No man should travel until he has

learned the language of the country

he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily

makes himself a great baby - so

helpless and so ridiculous.❞

- Ralph Waldo Emerson❝If you talk to a man in a

language he understands, that

goes to his head. If you talk to

him in his own language, that

goes to his heart.❞

‒Nelson Mandela

❝Language is the road map of

a culture. It tells you where its

people come from and where

they are going.❞

‒Rita Mae Brown

❝Learn everything you can,

anytime you can, from

anyone you can; there will

always come a time when

you will be grateful you

did.❞

‒Sarah Caldwell

❝ Knowledge of

languages is the

doorway to wisdom.❞

--Roger Bacon

❝A different language is a

different vision of life.❞

‒Federico Fellini

FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

Answer the questions

What do you think of the English learning

methods shown in the presentation?

Do you think English should become an

official language in our country?

How important is learning English in our

country?

FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

“Boost Your Brain Power”

Answer the questions

What benefits of learning languages does

the writer mention?

What is the greatest benefit according to the

writer?

How does learning a language make

you more open-minded?

FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

“Perhaps of all the creations of man language is

the most astonishing”

- Giles Lytton Strachey

inspire

EDUCATIONFOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS

EDUCATIONFOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS