Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

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

Work in pairs and answer the questions. Use a dictionary to help you if you need to.

Answer

  1. Depending on what students study, assignments might involve doing research and then writing up the research, making something and then talking about it to the group, or just writing an essay. You can do an assignment; hand in or submit (maybe electronically) an assignment; you can write or complete an assignment. Tutors then have to mark or grade assignments.
  2. You might struggle because you’re having to work part-time and just don’t have enough time to study, or because you’re just not suited to the course, or because you don’t have as much experience of the subject or the type of study as other students. The opposite is: It’s going really well or even I’m finding it quite easy.
  3. They say things like: ‘You’re doing really well’, ‘You’ve got real potential. You could go far’, ‘This is amazing work!’, ‘It’s good, but I know you can do even better.’ Other adjectives for describing tutors: amazing, supportive, very knowledgeable, or (negatively) my tutor’s not very helpful, not very supportive, etc.
  4. To help you see what you did well, and what you could do better, so that next time you can learn from this and perform better. You usually get feedback when you get your assignments / homework back. It may be written or oral. You may also get feedback during tutorials.
  5. The most common forms of assessment are coursework or exams, either regularly through the course or at the end. Other forms or assessment include practical projects, presentations, performance (e.g. music or dance), portfolios (e.g. art), collaborative/ group projects, oral questioning.
  6. IT, using particular kinds of software or programmes, first aid, customer relations, accounting, product information, etc. 
  7. Doing well and getting good grades / finding it really interesting / having supportive encouraging tutors / needing to do well for your career.