Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7 - How's your course going? for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Match the questions (1-8) with the answers (a-h). Check you understand the words and phrases in bold.

Answer

  1. b (If you get training in something, you’re taught how to do a particular job or activity. Employers may send you on a training course, e.g. accounting / using Excel / First Aid, etc.) 
  2. c (If you’re struggling, you’re trying your best to do something you find very difficult, but you aren’t doing well. A module is one of the separate units of study that forms part of a course.) 
  3. f (If you have a workshop, you meet to learn about a particular subject, usually by talking about it and doing related activities or roleplays. If a course is practical, it’s useful and helps you do your actual job. It’s not just theoretical.) 
  4. g (If you’re very keen, you’re very interested in something and enjoy doing it. If you lose motivation, the enthusiasm and interest that you had to begin with disappears. If you make progress, you get better; you develop and improve.)
  5. e (If your tutors are encouraging, they give you hope and confidence. Feedback is comments from your tutors / teachers on how well you’ve done something. Good feedback will help you to do the task better next time around.) 
  6. h (If a course is demanding, you need to spend a lot of time and energy working on it. It takes a lot out of you. Assignments are work you have to do as part of your course or as part of your job. A seminar is a class at university or at college where students and the tutor discuss topics together.)
  7. d (If something is good for my CV, it is good experience for when you apply for a new job, or it shows an aspect of your character that employees might be interested in. Ask what other kinds of things might be good for the CV. If a course is (not) relevant, it is not really connected with anything you do in your job.)
  8. a (The overall mark for a course is the total score as a whole, including coursework – work students have to do during the course – and the final exam – the last exam you take. In some cases, you have to pass the final exam to pass the course.)