Correct the errors in the sentences, written by former students.

Ex. The university conferred on him the honorary diploma of Doctor of Laws.

The university conferred on him the honorary diploma degree of Doctor of Laws.

1. I studied in a common school but it was very good.

2. My cousin was suspended from school at the age of 15 for joyriding so he managed to complete his secondary education only when he was 27.

3. She was supposed to be speaking about academic mobility but she kept wandering off the theme.

4. I only discovered the optimum way of learning new lexis by the method of attempts and errors.

5. If you don’t want to revise the same mistake first of all recognize it.

6. Our university undertakes continual assessment of the students’ achievements in addition to examination results.

7. The professor asked to hand in our finished compositions by 30 October.

8. His doctoral dissertation on the pragmatic aspects of communication was about 100 000 words long.

9. My mother received humanitarian education.

6. Choose the correct alternative from each of the pairs in italics below.

1. Our Russian literature professor has always tried to imbue/impartus with a love of classics.

2. His parents managed to instill/insert a lasting sense of pride in him.

3. The headmaster rebuffed/refuted all the claims about violation of egalitarian access to schooling in his institution.

4. The dean gave a speech in which he extorted/extolled the merits of sport.

5. Stop trying to evade/evoke the issue, and answer the question you’ve been asked.

6. The headmaster has decided to assert/adopt a tough stance on bullying.

7. Julia’s commitment stems from/ generates her desire to have a go at an MA.

8. Trying to distract/distort him from his dissertation is a vain attempt.

7. Use the words from the box to form a word that fits in the same numbered space in the text.

People have always sought knowledge. Some societies have made a classic example of …(1)… knowledge through a …(2)… trial and error approach, others, like the United States, demonstrated a mesmerizing ability to learn extremely fast, while not a few, like Germany, benefited from starting late, …(3)… the long-drawn-out process that Britain went through. Recent decades however have witnessed an …(4)… growth of knowledge diffusion. Over the last 30 years Japan, Singapore, South Korea and now China - because of their energy, exertions and progress facilitating ability to grasp at every innovation and put it to good use - have rocketed …(5)…. The society itself is a good deal different from the society of the late 20th century when the …(6)… majority of people worked with their hands. Today the fastest-growing groups of the workforce in every developed economy are “knowledge workers” – people whose jobs require formal and advanced …(7)…. The term “knowledge economy” embellishes without fail every academic writing on the links between economy and education. Yet those reiterating it quite often underestimate or even ignore its …(8)… for human values and human behaviour. Meanwhile new society will be characterized by: borderlessness (because knowledge travels even more effortlessly than money), …(9)… mobility (available to everyone through easily acquired formal education), the potential for failure as well as success (anyone can acquire the “means of production”, ie, the knowledge required or the jobs, but not everyone can win). The synergy of these characteristics multiplied by yet another factor - the advance of information technology, allowing knowledge to spread near-instantly and be accessible to everyone - makes the knowledge society a highly …(10)… one given the ease and speed at which information travels.

(1) ACCUMULATOR (2) CONSUMER (3) LEAP (4) PRECEDENT (5) SKY (6) WHELM (7) SCHOOL (8) IMPLY (9) UP (10) COMPETE

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² 8. Listen to the commentary and tick the statements coinciding with the commentator’s point of view.

1. From Archilochus’s Fragment 103 it’s not clear whether the fox or hedgehog was wiser.

2. Fragment 103 is a metaphor for modern life as we need more specialists.

3. Western society views the generalist today as a necessity.

4. The message of the Oxford classicist was that you need to study many subjects to think critically.

5. It’s better to know more about less than less about more.

6. Specialists are more dangerous to society than generalists.

7. Technology is not a friend to general education.

8. The generalist fox, or liberal arts major, is a “jack-of-all-trades, master of none”.

9. Studying many subjects, such as in a liberal arts curriculum, broadens one’s view of the world and creates better citizens.

10. Educating society for tomorrow is more difficult than it was in the past.

9. State the commentator’s viewpoint in one sentence.

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