Chapter 10 Postsecondary Education: Admission

Pre-listening Warm-up Questions –What is postsecondary education? –Look at the picture. What are they doing? Do you think this a an important examination? How do you know? What will happen if they fail? –What is the most important examination you take?

Pre-listening Vocabulary and Key Concepts Read through the sentences and figure out what words would fit in the blanks. Then check your answers by listening to a dictation of the full sentences. (See the sentences in the textbook on page )

Pre-listening Predictions Using the pictures in your textbook and the vocabulary exercises as a starting point, write 3 questions that you think you can get answers in the lecture. (Answers vary)

Pre-listening Note-taking Preparation 1. Structuring Listening –We’ve learned how to structure your notes by using letters and numbers to make the notes clearer and easer to use. Practice structuring your notes as you listen to your a portion of this lecture. (See Exe. on page 93)

Pre-listening 2. Acronyms Acronyms are abbreviations in which the first letters of the words in a phrase are used as a shortcut way to speak or write about the phrase, e.g. ESL is an acronym for English as a Second Language. It is often used in both spoken and written language. In this lecture you will hear some abbreviated forms of tests and degrees (see page 104). When you take notes, use the abbreviations.

Listening A. In the first listening, you get down the main subtopics of the lecture. Listen for the four subtopics. ST1: facts and figures ST2: various admission requirements ST3: the differences between community colleges and four-year colleges ST4: the makeup of student body B. In the second listening, write down necessary relevant information. Remember to use acronyms where it is necessary.

Post-listening Answer the following questions. 1.How many public and private four-year and two-year colleges are there in the United States? ( 4,182) 2.How many students do these individual colleges and universities have? (from less than 100 to more than 50,000) 3.What’s the range of tuition at one of the college? (from less than $5,000 to as much as30 or 40 thousand dollars) 4.What two kinds of academic records will most undergraduate colleges or universities ask applicants to submit? (high school transcripts of grades and test results from a standardize exam such as the SAT) 5.What are two examples of the names of standardized tests that graduate students may have to take before being admitted to a graduate program? (GRE, GMAT or LSAT)

Post-listening 6.What are two examples of nonacademic factors that a U.S. college or university might consider before admitting a student? (extracurricular activities, ethnic background, work experience, etc.) 7.What are three ways that community colleges are generally different from senior colleges and universities? (a. admission requirements are much more lenient; b. it’s cheaper; c. it can lead to an Associate of Arts degree ) 8.What are some of the purposes that people attend community colleges? (to take one or two courses that particularly interests them; to take full-time class and plan to transfer to a four-year college or university upon successful completion of two years at a community college) 9.What percentage of high school graduates in 2002 were enrolled in college the following October? (65.2%) 10.What percentage of full-time college students were employed in 2002? (42.6%)

Oral Activities A. Group discussion. –How many colleges and universities are there in China? –What kinds of university does our university belong to? –What are colleges and universities in China located---in major cities or small towns? –Approximately how many students are there in these schools? –What percentage of high school graduates go on to a university? –Does China take an elitist or nonelitist approach to higher education? What might be some of the social, political, and economic reasons for an elitist educational system? –What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two different approaches to education---elitist and nonelitist? B. Impromptu speech: The Person I Admire Most

Homework 1.Write a summary about postsecondary education in the U.S. Your summary should include (a) the sizes, kinds, and locations of American universities and colleges; (b) comparasion and contrast between junior colleges and four-year universities. 2.Log on to get more information about tuition and fees, admission requirements, the information about SAT administration, hints about applying to colleges, and information on loans and scholarships.