Topic Activator: Education - Vocabulary Practice 2

Suggest words and expressions:

the activities of people who are trying to get something that other people also want

• admission

• competition

• registrar

Suggest words and expressions:

the permanent exclusion of a student from a school because of their bad behaviour

• dropout

• completion

• expulsion

Suggest words and expressions:

to allow a person to join an educational institution

• to admit

• to matriculate

• to accept

• to apply for

Complete the phrase:

to suspend...

• an application

• a course

• a pupil (from school)

Complete the phrase:

associate...

• student

• professor

• for places

Complete the phrase:

to break up...

• for the Christmas holidays

• for places

• admission to a college

Fill the gap in the sentence with preposition or adverbial particle:

She got ….. Edinburgh University.

• from
• into

• to
• in

Fill the gap in the sentence with preposition or adverbial particle:

I enrolled ….. my one-year course after fifteen years as an art dealer.

• in

• on

• for

• at

Fill the gap in the sentence with preposition or adverbial particle:

The principal expelled John ….. stealing.

• for

• out of

• of

• in

Fill the gap in the sentence with preposition or adverbial particle:

Some students may choose to live ….. campus, in rented accommodation outside the university.