The document discusses the importance and benefits of education and learning foreign languages. It provides several reasons why education is important, such as learning job skills, social skills, becoming well-rounded, and preparing for life in society. Foreign language learning opens doors to new opportunities, makes people more open-minded, and boosts brain power. Learning other languages allows people to better understand different cultures and ways of thinking. The document emphasizes that foreign language skills are valuable for work, travel, and gaining new perspectives on the world.
3. EDUCATION
The Purpose Of Education
The primary purpose of education should be :
- to have fun
- to learn job skills
- to learn social skills
- to prepare for tests
- to become well-rounded
- to increase IQ
- to learn how to learn
- to make friends
- to become open-minded
- to prepare for living in society
4. EDUCATION
Answer the questions
How important do you think education is?
What is a good education?
In which country do you think you can
receive the best education?
What do you think of the idea of lifelong
education?
5. Exams
• Pass exams
• Fail (the test)
• Get low high marks(grades)
• Take an exam
• Cram
• Cheat
• Get ahead
6. Exams
1 Pass an exam a To take the exam and receive a passing grade
2 Take an exam b To participate in an exam or test,
answering (or trying to answer) the
questions
3 Fail (the exam) c To be unsuccessful
4 Get low high marks
(grades)
d To receive a letter or number that shows
the quality of a student’s work
5 Cram e To study hard the night before a test
6 Get ahead f To become more successful than other
people
7 Cheat g To behave in a dishonest way to get an
advantage
7. Cram – study hard the night before
a test
She’d crammed
for the test until
4 a.m.
8. Get ahead – to become more
successful than other people
If you want to
get ahead,
you need a
good
education!
9. Cheat – to behave in a dishonest way
to get an advantage
10. Cheat – to behave in a dishonest way
to get an advantage
11. SCHOOL - Phrasal Verbs
Get through
Put out
Get on
Get down to
Hand in
Work out
to delay
12. EducationSchool
• IDIOM -
an expression that cannot be understood
from the meanings of its separate words
but that has a separate meaning of its
own
15. EducationSchool Idioms
• Play hooky
• Eager beaver
someone who works
very hard and
enthusiastically
not to go to school
when you should
16. EducationSchool Idioms
• Learn by heart
• Teacher's pet
the teacher's
favorite student
learned in such a way
that you can say it from
memory
17. EducationSchool Idioms
School of hard
knocks
Teach someone
a lesson
Work fingers to
the bone
You nailed it!
to show what should not be
done, to punish someone
the experience of learning
from work and daily life
to work very hard
19. Answer the questions
Why do you think there are so many
different languages in the world?
How do you think the world would be
different if there was only one language?
What three languages would you really like
to speak, and why?
FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS
20. Why do people usually learn foreign languages?
Think of as many reasons as possible.
Answer the question
21. EDUCATION
FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS
❝No man should travel until he has
learned the language of the country
he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily
makes himself a great baby - so
helpless and so ridiculous.❞
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝If you talk to a man in a
language he understands, that
goes to his head. If you talk to
him in his own language, that
goes to his heart.❞
‒Nelson Mandela
❝Language is the road map of
a culture. It tells you where its
people come from and where
they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown
❝Learn everything you can,
anytime you can, from
anyone you can; there will
always come a time when
you will be grateful you
did.❞
‒Sarah Caldwell
❝ Knowledge of
languages is the
doorway to wisdom.❞
--Roger Bacon
❝A different language is a
different vision of life.❞
‒Federico Fellini
23. FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS
Answer the questions
What do you think of the English learning
methods shown in the presentation?
Do you think English should become an
official language in our country?
How important is learning English in our
country?
25. Answer the questions
What benefits of learning languages does
the writer mention?
What is the greatest benefit according to the
writer?
How does learning a language make
you more open-minded?
FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS
26. FOREIGN LANGUAGES OPEN THE DOORS
“Perhaps of all the creations of man language is
the most astonishing”
- Giles Lytton Strachey