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10 VOCABULARY EXTENSION
1 Complete the words to make sentences to react to 4 Complete the sentences with the phrases in Exercise
news. 3 in the correct form.

0. I’m glad to hear it. 0. Steve: I’m not going to university because I want
1. What w________ they t________ of next? to enter the job market. My objective is to start
2. They can’t d________ t________ . earning money soon.
3. They’ve g________ to be j________ . 1. Anne: I can’t ________ before university, so I’m
4. That’s the b________ n________ I’ve heard in not travelling, I’m working.
a________. 2. Kimberly: I hope to get into university, but I
5. It’s a________ time they did s________ about have to ________ first. Let’s hope I pass it!
it. 3. Nicholas: I’m not going to college. It’s very
expensive and I don’t want to ________ with
2 Complete the sentences with the words in the list.
the bank.
There are three extra options.
4. Fiona: I’d like to study at Cambridge University.
sailed through | a gap year | a bachelor’s degree | If I get in, my parents said I don’t need to worry
fully qualified | a gapped year | postgrad | about money as they will ________ .
dissertation | a doctor’s | a master’s degree | certified 5. Ronita: The problem is university education isn’t
free in this country. After graduating, you will
0. Most teenagers in my school go on to university have to spend many years ________ from a
to study for a bachelor’s degree. bank.
1. Henry’s just graduated. But he wants to go back 6. Alan: I’m not taking a gap year. I’m going to
and study as a __________. ________ and take a degree in law.
2. She ________ all her school exams and went to
5 Complete the text with words from Exercises 1–4. You
university a year early.
are given the second letter.
3. What are the benefits of taking ________
before you go to university? I graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree
4. After my bachelor’s, I’d like to do a ________ . a year ago. I’m now doing a 1 _a________ degree in
5. You have to take a four year practical course business administration. I hope I’ll be able to get a
and pass a final exam to become ________ . return on my investment. In the future, I will need to
2
6. Jenifer wrote her ________ on the effects of _a________ a lot of money to pay off my
3
social media on human behaviour. It’s was a _o________ . Nowadays, unless you have rich
fascinating paper. parents, you have to get into 4 _e________ if you go
into higher education. I am going to write my
3 Match the words to make phrases. 5
_i________ on why all corporations should have
0. pay a. to university graduate work experience programmes. Once I’ve
1. sit b. a gap year finished this, I plan to work. I don’t think I can afford
2. go straight c. an exam to do a 6 _o________ course. I need work experience
3. pay off d. money to become fully 7 _u________ for the type of jobs I
4. afford e. debt aim to be doing in ten years’ time.
5. get into f. tuition fees
6. earn g. a loan

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10 VOCABULARY EXTENSION
Answer Key

1 4

1. will, think 1. afford a gap year

2. do that 2. sit an exam
3. got, joking 3. get into debt
4. best news, ages 4. pay the tuition fees
5. about, something 5. paying off a loan
6. go straight to university
2

1. postgrad
2. sailed through 5
3. a gap year
1. master’s
4. a master’s degree
2. earn
5. fully qualified
3. loan
6. dissertation
4. debt
5. dissertation
3 6. postgrad
7. qualified
1. c
2. a
3. g
4. b
5. e
6. d

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