Education Vocabulary: English with Catalan Translations

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Basic Terms

Alike: similar

Though: encara que

Dropout rate: taxa d’abandonament

Figure: xifra

Constraints: problemes

Worldwide: arreu del món

Broad range: una àmplia varietat

Affordable: assequible

Tuition fees: pagament de la matrícula

Get into debt: endeutar-se

Loans: préstec

Foster skills: fomentar habilitats

Schedule: horari / timetable

Peer pressure: pressió de grup

To attend: assistir

Foster parents: pares d’acollida

Attendance: assistència

Take into: consideration, account

Get: a chance, a university degree, into debt, a taste, a university education

Drop out of: a class, a group, university

Offer a broad range of: choices, products, alternatives, classes, courses

Set: goals, a date, a time, their own schedule

Be faced with: problems, the social distractions, peer pressure

Derived Forms and Word Families

PROVIDE - provision

REQUIRE - requirement

TRADITION - traditional

QUALIFY - qualifications

MOTIVE - motivation

SUITABLE - unsuitability

SOCIAL - socialize

CERTAIN - uncertainty

INCREASE - increasingly

SURE - ensuring

RELY - reliable

EDUCATION - educational

School-Related Terms

core subjects: assignatures troncals

academic achievement: rendiment escolar

corporal punishment: càstig corporal

support teacher: professor de repàs

trainee teacher: professor en pràctiques

continuous assessment: avaluació contínua

employment-oriented courses: cursos d'orientació ocupacional

work placement: treball de pràctiques

teenage mothers: mare jove

playing truant: fer campana

Adjectives and Verbs — Short List

  1. effort - esforç
  2. mature - madur
  3. applies - aplica
  4. contributes - contribueix
  5. respect - respecte
  6. insolent - maleducat
  7. half-hearted - desanimat
  8. distracted - distret
  9. concentrate - concentrar-se
  10. participated - participar

Common School Nouns

  1. degree - grau
  2. loan - prèstec
  3. scholarship - beca
  4. detention - càstig
  5. teacher - professor
  6. mark - nota
  7. qualifications - títol
  8. prospects - perspectives
  9. evening
  10. further - més lluny / més extens
  11. revised - corregit
  12. grades - grau, curs
  13. retake - repetir
  14. prize
  15. mature - madur
  16. correspondence - comunicació per correu
  17. assignments - encàrrec, feina
  18. specialized - especialitzat

Phrasal Verbs and Expressions

  1. mark out: marcar
  2. made her mark: ha deixat empremta
  3. making a mark on: fer una marca en
  4. applies herself: aplicar-se
  5. applies equally: aplicar igualment
  6. applies for: sol·licitar
  7. dropped any: va deixar caure qualsevol
  8. dropped out: trencar amb l'establert / deixar-ho
  9. has dropped the: omet els (càrrecs)
  10. ruled his classes: classes dirigides
  11. ruled that: dictaminar (jutge)
  12. ruled out: descartat
  13. in support of: a favor de
  14. the support teacher: el professor de suport
  15. moral support: suport moral

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