U.S. System of Education - English Vocabulary with JenniferESL - By Lumos Learning
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| 00:01 | language notes topic to U . S . System of | |
| 00:05 | education . Education is a common topic of conversation . | |
| 00:16 | If you're going to talk with Americans about going to | |
| 00:20 | school or being a student , it will certainly help | |
| 00:24 | to have an understanding of the U . S . | |
| 00:27 | System of education . I'd like to give you an | |
| 00:30 | overview of the system . Then you'll have an idea | |
| 00:35 | about the kind of educational experience one can have in | |
| 00:39 | the US by the end . You might also then | |
| 00:43 | find it easier to talk about the educational system in | |
| 00:48 | your own country . Here in the U . S | |
| 00:52 | . Ones , school experience might begin as a baby | |
| 00:56 | at a place called Daycare . Yeah , Daycare is | |
| 01:05 | a popular choice among working parents , so Children stay | |
| 01:09 | at daycare . The parents go to work in the | |
| 01:13 | U . S . A good day care not only | |
| 01:16 | takes care of very young Children , but also begins | |
| 01:21 | to provide what we call an early childhood education . | |
| 01:26 | Once a child is three or four , he or | |
| 01:29 | she can go to preschool . Preschool in the U | |
| 01:38 | . S . Is not mandatory . It's not required | |
| 01:44 | . Preschool programs might be five days a week or | |
| 01:47 | just a few days a week . Once a child | |
| 01:51 | turns five . The child can attend kindergarten . Yeah | |
| 01:57 | , yeah , yeah . These are names of the | |
| 02:06 | programs . A child in preschool is called a preschooler | |
| 02:12 | . A child in kindergarten is called a kindergartner . | |
| 02:16 | Kindergarten is also not mandatory . The law varies from | |
| 02:22 | state to state . So in some states , kindergarten | |
| 02:25 | is mandatory and other states it's not . I do | |
| 02:30 | believe , though , that school districts must offer a | |
| 02:34 | kindergarten program so that there is that choice . Some | |
| 02:38 | kindergarten programs are half day programs morning or afternoon . | |
| 02:45 | Some kindergarten programs are full day programs . After kindergarten | |
| 02:51 | , a child goes to first grade in the U | |
| 02:55 | . S . We have 12 grades from school district | |
| 03:00 | to School district . The organization of these grades is | |
| 03:05 | different . They group them together in different ways . | |
| 03:09 | In general , it all begins with elementary school . | |
| 03:17 | Yeah , Yeah . Sometimes call primary school . You | |
| 03:26 | might also hear grade school . Elementary school is for | |
| 03:31 | the lower grades . You might find grades kindergarten through | |
| 03:35 | third or kindergarten through fifth at an elementary school for | |
| 03:41 | the middle grades . Children go to middle school . | |
| 03:46 | Yeah . Yeah . So a middle school might have | |
| 03:53 | four through eight or fifth through eighth grades again . | |
| 03:58 | It varies from school district to School district . After | |
| 04:03 | a middle school comes high school again , you might | |
| 04:15 | find some differences . But in general , in the | |
| 04:19 | US , we think of high school as a four | |
| 04:22 | year program that's ninth , 10th , 11th and 12th | |
| 04:27 | grades . We can say ninth , 10th , 11th | |
| 04:31 | and 12 . But we also have special ways to | |
| 04:35 | refer to those last four years . We can say | |
| 04:39 | freshman year , sophomore year , junior year and senior | |
| 04:45 | year . So if someone is a sophomore in high | |
| 04:49 | school , they have two more years to go . | |
| 04:52 | A sophomore is in 10th grade . When one finishes | |
| 04:59 | high school , we say he or she graduates from | |
| 05:03 | high school . When you graduate from high school , | |
| 05:06 | you receive a high school diploma in the US it | |
| 05:11 | is not mandatory to graduate from high school . The | |
| 05:15 | law varies from state to state , but in general | |
| 05:19 | a child must attend school until about the age of | |
| 05:22 | 16 . That's 10th grade . After high school . | |
| 05:27 | Many choose to go to college . Yeah , that's | |
| 05:34 | because many professions require a higher education . Higher education | |
| 05:40 | refers to anything after high school . High school provides | |
| 05:45 | secondary education , college , higher education . When we | |
| 05:52 | say a person is in college that means the person | |
| 05:56 | attends either a college or a university in the U | |
| 06:08 | . S . Colleges and universities both have four year | |
| 06:12 | programs . When someone finishes this undergraduate program , this | |
| 06:18 | person can receive their first degree . It's a bachelor's | |
| 06:23 | degree . It could be a bachelor of arts or | |
| 06:26 | a bachelor of science . B A B s in | |
| 06:31 | college . We have four years . We can talk | |
| 06:34 | about those four years the same way we talk about | |
| 06:38 | those last four years in secondary school . High school | |
| 06:44 | , freshman year , sophomore year , junior year senior | |
| 06:49 | here . So we have to be specific . When | |
| 06:52 | we say someone is a senior , Do you mean | |
| 06:55 | a senior in high school or a senior in college | |
| 06:59 | ? A freshman in college has three more years before | |
| 07:03 | graduation . I should note that outside the U . | |
| 07:09 | S , there is sometimes an understanding that going to | |
| 07:13 | a university is somehow more prestigious than going to a | |
| 07:17 | college . In fact , in the U . S | |
| 07:20 | . We have prestigious universities and prestigious colleges . They | |
| 07:25 | both offer undergraduate programs , four year programs . When | |
| 07:31 | a person finishes college , he or she can study | |
| 07:35 | further and attend graduate school . A person in graduate | |
| 07:43 | school is a graduate student in contrast , a person | |
| 07:47 | in college is an undergraduate student in graduate school . | |
| 07:54 | One can pursue a master's degree that's a master of | |
| 07:58 | arts or a master of science , Emma or M | |
| 08:02 | s . If one goes to a business school and | |
| 08:06 | studies business , the person can receive an M . | |
| 08:09 | B A . That's master of business administration . If | |
| 08:14 | one chooses to study even further , the person can | |
| 08:18 | receive the highest degree possible . That's a PhD PhD | |
| 08:27 | stands for Doctor of Philosophy . When a person holds | |
| 08:31 | a PhD , we can address this person as a | |
| 08:35 | doctor . I know I presented a lot of information | |
| 08:41 | in a short amount of time , but hopefully you | |
| 08:44 | have that overview of the system of education here in | |
| 08:48 | the US Maybe now you'll also feel confident when you | |
| 08:53 | talk about the educational system in your country . Thanks | |
| 08:57 | for watching and happy studies . Yeah , yeah , | |
| 09:14 | um , and that please visit my website today at | |
| 09:19 | www dot English with jennifer dot com . You'll find | |
| 09:23 | study tips , interactive exercises , including practice for this | |
| 09:28 | lesson , vocabulary videos and more . Um |
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