Conversación en inglés 2.10: Educación – Education

…luego pasamos a las universidades inglesas, muchas de las cuales tienen una bien merecida buena reputación a nivel mundial, como Oxford y Cambridge. Hablamos de los diferentes estudios que la gente hace en las universidades, incluyendo postgrados.

Acabamos la conversación con algunas estadísticas y hablamos de cómo han cambiado las cosas desde que íbamos a la universidad, y cómo pensamos que van a ser en un futuro.

En la clase de hoy tras la conversación, vamos a enseñaros vocabulario nuevo y maneras diferentes de hablar de educación y estudios en inglés.

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Fragmento de la transcripción de la conversación

MARK: Hi, my name’s Mark and I’m sitting here with Tom. Hi Tom!
TOM: Hello Mark! Today we’re sitting in Ciudadella Park, again, in Barcelona, surrounded[1] by the noisy parrots[2] that you might be able to hear all around us…
MARK: Again…
TOM: Again. Uh…I think they’re fighting[3] over something. Today we’re gonna talk all about education. Now, education in this sense…uhh…the, the sense that we’re gonna talk about is “the process by which a society deliberately[4] transmits its accumulated knowledge[5], skills[6] and values from one generation to another”. So let’s talk a little bit about the history of education first. Uh…how, how were people first educated?
MARK: By imitation. In pre…prehistoric societies the, the younger generation would watch what the adults did and copy; so for example, hunting[7], fire making[8], things like that, like literally ‘watch and learn[9]’…
TOM: Yeah, so it’s kind of specialist skills taught orally[10] as well, wasn’t it? So they didn’t write anything down[11], and then at about three thousand five hundred B.C. so over five thousand yewers…years ago when writing was invented, it meant that they could record stories[12] and beliefs[13] and poetry[14] and so on and…and customs[15] and pass them on[16] in a written way. Uh… some of the earliest universities; do you know what they are?
MARK: Uhh….
TOM: You do cos I told you! [Tom laughs]

Sobre la Conversación en inglés…

We begin this English podcast with a look at the history of education through the ages from pre-literate societies (before the invention of writing), until modern times.

We then give an overview of school in England, and talk specifically about the different types of school in England, the difference between private and government schools, and talk about the cost of sending your children to the best (and most expensive) schools in England – like Eton college.

The conversation then moves onto English universities, many of which have a well deserved world-wide reputation: like Oxford & Cambridge universities. We discuss the different qualifications people do at university, including postgraduate qualifications.

We finish the conversation with a look at some statistics and the way things have changed since we went to university, and how we think things are looking for the future.

In today’s language class following the conversation, we’re going to teach you some new vocabulary and different ways to talk about your education and qualifications in English.