Watch video episode THE GRID and choose the best variant to finish the sentences.

1. The Grid will

a. be used exclusively for medical purposes.

b. help to create global network.

c. enable to combine images collected in the UK.

With the help of the Grid

a. you will be able to communicate with each other.

b. you will be able to harness the power of your computer.

c. computers in Asia will work faster.

Vocabulary Extension

Match the halves.

1. Adult and further education generally refers to education undertaken by adults of all ages after leaving full-time study, and often after years or even decades of intervening occupation. 2. Until the end of the 20th century, vocational education focused on specific trades such as automobile mechanics, plumbing, welding, or carpentry. 3. Associate Degree is designed to prepare the student for a career in their chosen area of study. However, this degree can also be transferred toward a Bachelor's degree either at the time of completion or in the future. 4. Performances are graded according to a percentage mark and also according to high distinction, distinction, credit, pass and fail grading scale which is basically equivalent to an A–F letter grade scale, or the European number scale. 5. The Master's degree programs offered online is targeted towards the working professional. 6. A grading rubric in the USA is a scoring tool for standardised evaluation according to specified criteria, making grading simpler and more transparent. 7. How much education does the individual need and how much additional studying is one willing or able to do? To be a physician, for example, requires not only a college degree but also a number of years of additional schooling and training in order to practice.

a. It doesn’t include degree courses taken at college or university directly after leaving high school, which come under higher education. b. However, as the 21st-century labor market becomes more specialized and economies demand higher levels of skill, it has diversified and now exists in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology. c. All universities use basically the same nomenclature for their grades of pass for honours degrees. These are first class, second class (in two divisions) or third class honours. d. The person who chooses to upgrade his education can benefit from flexibility in scheduling, time-savings, and additional advantages that online learning affords. e. To be a medical assistant, on the other hand, may require only two years of college or technical training. Many jobs require only a high school diploma. f. While in the UK the exam rubric is an instruction on an exam paper or in a textbook as to how a task must be done. g. In general, this degree will require a minimum of 60 semester credit hours of completed classes.

Style Extra

Nominalisation (a noun group instead of one or more verb or adjective group) is typical of formal, scientific and academic English. It makes it easier to be impersonal and achieve higher condensation of information.

19. Use suggested nouns and noun groups to render the information given in the sentences. Add a statement logically connected.

Ex. The abilities to read and count are skills no one can afford to do without (literacy and numeracy).

No one can afford to do without literacy and numeracy, though in the modern knowledge-based society these skills do not suffice any longer.

1. Some people think we should return to an emphasis on the traditional basic skills:Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic (the three Rs).

2. Nowadays, many countries pay special attention to education for all ages (lifelong/continuing education).

3. According to Columbia professor Leta Hollingworth specializing in education, kids who score over 160 on IQ tests are often isolated from the society because they are so different from the pupils of the same age - more mini-adults than kids (education professor/socially isolated/ difference/peers).

4. Though the highly gifted are assumed to eventually find their way as they're smart, being gifted requires special attitude and conditions provided by the society that enables it (giftedness/opportune social context).

5. Like a muscle which is not exercised, talent which is not developed can’t grow into intelligence (dormant talent).

6.Strange as it may seem by the most generous calculation, the world spends 10 times as much to bring low-achieving students to mere proficiency as we do to nurture those with the greatest potential (10-fold funding/ proficiency level).

7. Dropping out of high school today has the same negative consequences to the position of the individual in the society as smoking has to your physical health (detriment/societal health).

8.It indicates that it is highly possible that your children will drop out of high school and start the cycle anew (indicator/high probability/vicious circle).

Transition signals are absolutely essential for the coherence of the text (both written and oral). They ease the movement from one paragraph to the next one, making the sequence of ideas smooth and logical. Choose the transition signal from the list provided to fill in each blank. Use each only once.