How to Talk About Your Education Basic English Grammar
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this week we are talking about your
education this week’s topic is your
education so we’re going to talk about
your studies so this means what topic
you studied this could be in university
in college in high school or other
programs we’re going to talk about your
your University so how to explain the
school you attended we’re going to talk
about your continuing education and then
we’re going to talk about a couple
related phrases that you can use to talk
about plans so like study abroad plans
or
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introduce the three parts for today’s
lesson first we’re going to talk about
your study topic and the level of your
studies so today I’m gonna introduce
present tense expressions and a lot of
past tense expressions so maybe some of
you have finished your studies some of
you are still in school so I hope you
can find just the right expression to
use to talk about your situation if you
have a question please send it in the
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Marco and Carrie ill and on Facebook
Shuaib and bull do and Juan hi okay so
this will be first second topic will be
your school I’ll talk about schools and
study abroad locations third I’ll talk
about continuing education and
non-degree programs I’ll explain
non-degree programs later for now let’s
get started with study topic and study
level so when you are in university or
in college university in college have
the same meaning we tend to use college
more in
USA University perhaps a little more in
British English but you can choose
whichever you prefer I tend to use
university more these days I think so
when you’re in university or college you
have to choose a major so your major is
your main topic of study so it’s the
focus of your study that’s like the like
the the goal that you have the one topic
you want to focus on then you can choose
another topic that’s like your second
focus this is your minor so your major
topic and your minor topic some people
choose to have two majors or maybe two
minors so you can express your studies
with these two expressions so we use
this actually as a noun major like I
just said and as a verb so I majored
majored this means the topic of my study
was but we use the preposition in here
so I majored in like economics for
example I majored in economics this
means economics was the topic of my
study I majored in economics then to
talk about my secondary studies my like
my not main topic my like sub topic I
use minor again with an IDI ending i
minored minored in something i minored
in I don’t know like art for example I
don’t know what this person say but I
majored in economics i minored in art so
you can explain your studies if you have
finished your studies this is a past
tense expression I majored in and I
minored in something if you are still in
school if you’re particularly in
university and you want to talk about
your studies now use my major is so here
we’re using major as an now
my major is economics my minor is art
for example so try to try to choose the
one that’s best for you so the question
here that people ask about study topics
if you want to ask someone you can say
what’s your major if you’re a university
student and you want to ask a classmate
or someone you meet on campus about
their studies you ask what’s your major
what’s your major what’s your major is a
present tense sentence a present tense
question if you want to make a past
tense question what was your major what
was your major so nice some of you are
sending examples so I majored in
mathematics perfect major a couple math
majors okay great
Victor we are going to talk about the
place where you got your major yes that
will be part two for today’s lesson
Julio says I majored in engineering
perfect nice others I’m studying
microbiology yeah good so Android Thanks
Android has another idea I’m studying
I’m studying so here instead of major
you can say I’m studying so here we have
a present progressive studying this is
my activity now I’m studying
microbiology nice one okay Marco says I
majored in biotechnology oh it went away
by marca okay you deleted it fair enough
my major is mathematics
I majored in programming Wow we have
lots of mathematics and programming
majors that’s interesting okay someone
says my major is English very cool okay
um
I majored in accounting Erik is writing
I majored in filmmaking great too great
okay nice ones you guys so a lot of you
perfect
my major is computer science nice
you guys sounds great okay so let’s talk
now about your degree so the next group
of expressions down here are about
degrees oh sorry I forgot one point one
more point some of you I know choose to
double major I mentioned it you have to
like focuses of study so if you have two
main topics you can use the expression
double major we use this in the same way
as we did here I double majored in like
economics and communication for example
a double majored in art and history for
example so if you want to express two
majors this is how you do it I double
majored in economics and communications
but I want to focus next on explaining
your degree explaining your degree so
degree is this key word here degree your
degree is the like the recognition like
the certificate the piece of paper you
get when you finish your studies so
that’s the thing that explains to other
people you have like a certain level of
knowledge in that topic your degree so
if you have completed a bachelor’s
degree so a bachelor’s degree is like
the base degree at a four-year
university in the USA so most
universities in the in the USA are four
years it requires four years to complete
education when you finish those four
years of study you focus on a topic you
focus on your major you finished those
four years you receive a bachelor’s
degree so this bachelors is the name of
your degree bachelor’s degree four years
equals a bachelor’s degree we use the
preposition in again here a bachelor’s
degree in economics a bachelor’s degree
in art history a bachelor’s degree in
biotechnology whatever that might be so
if you have completed four years of
study you explain that level of degree
with bachelors
my bachelor’s degree so here apostrophe
s my bachelor’s degree or I have a
bachelor’s degree in something so this
is a present tense statement actually I
have meaning I am finished with my
studies someone says I have a degree in
journalism very nice okay great
I have a bachelor’s I have a bachelor’s
degree in law so a bachelor’s and don’t
forget this apostrophe s nice a
bachelor’s degree in law perfect okay
sometimes if my major is sleeping all
right I’m good at that too I have a
master degree in English great okay the
easy is on to the next one the next
level after bachelors is masters masters
masters so again that apostrophe s a
master’s degree is the next level so you
finished four years study to get a
bachelor’s degree in a lot of cases a
bachelor’s degree is required to
continue to the next level master’s
degree is typically I feel like two
years of study two years of like very
specialized study in a topic so if you
complete a master’s degree you have
probably a bachelor’s and a master’s so
someone wrote I have a master’s degree
in English for example perfect nicely
done okay someone says I double majored
in English and psychology Abdul at
Facebook nice others I have a bachelor’s
degree in navigation nice a bachelor’s
degree in industrial engineering great
what is your major Alisha my major was
Japanese language actually I majored in
Japanese and I minored in cross-cultural
business communication
that’s true okay I have a bachelor’s
degree in mechanical engineering a
master’s degree in electronics great and
don’t forget a couple Spelling points
for some of you guys in the chat there
make sure this bachelors bachelor
apostrophe s master apostrophe s so it’s
may be hard to see there but bachelor’s
master’s degree Andre I don’t have a
master’s is that correct yes I don’t
have a master’s degrees perfect no
problem great someone says can you
please explain again major your major is
your focus of study your main topic of
study at university okay good
what’s the difference between a
bachelor’s and a major so I just
mentioned this a bachelor’s degree we
receive after four years of study after
this four years of study we continue
studying extra studies for two years to
receive a master’s degree the final
level here is PhD PhD a PhD is like at
the top level of study so you finish
four years bachelor another two years to
receive a master’s degree and then
usually three more years of study to
receive a PhD so like a doctor that’s
your title if you have a PhD your title
is doctor I have a PhD in philosophy I
have a PhD in medicine for example so we
can list all of the levels of our
studies here okay someone says can you
explain minored again so major is your
primary topic of study minor is your
secondary topic of study so like main
study substudy
okay good I have a bachelor’s degree in
mathematics
fantastic okay great sounds good you
guys thanks we have to take a quick
break now though so we’re going to take
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stuff for you guys this week so today’s
topic is about education so I want to
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I want to share this free thing that we
have this week I want to focus on this
one this is the education it says back
to school here really but for those of
you who are studying now I know many of
you are studying now these are some
expressions you can use in school so
these could be instructions from your
teacher
or things you can say to your classmate
like this one please lend me your
notebook or let me borrow your notebook
for example some other ones especially
for those of you studying English these
expressions once again please or slowly
please this is something I use with you
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these are some school and some subject
related questions some of you mentioned
you studied mathematics so if you want
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extra phrases about school and education
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okay good so that is our first part for
today’s lesson lots of stuff
let’s continue on to the next part
welcome to everyone who has joined us
Wow there are lots of people watching
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learners can find the video okay we’re
going to continue to the second part
some of you asked about this your school
next we’re going to talk about the place
where you received your degree so here I
have a simple past tense and a simple
present tense pattern that we can use
for this part so past tense if you are
finished with your studies you can use I
went to university or College name so I
went to kth or I went to sing while
university or I went to you Tokyo if you
are studying now you can use i go to i
go to i go to kth I go to Sigma so go or
went we use these two to talk about our
schools so I go to if you’re studying
now I went to if you have finished your
studies so the question here if you want
to ask someone about their studies is
where did you go
to school where did you go to school so
here we use go as well where did you go
to school I went to university I go to
university so this is again a past tense
question where did you say where did you
go to school this part past tense if you
know the other person is still studying
just change this to present tense where
do you go to school
where do you go so I went to you took
you for example another way to express
is with this one so this is another past
tense one this is an important one I see
many people make mistakes with this bird
I graduated so first use this as a verb
not graduation I graduated I graduated
and then please use from I graduated
from your university or your college
name
I graduated from you Tokyo I graduated
from kth I graduated from your
University and graduated from graduated
from good I went to MDU University nice
great okay mmm
others some people are typing I went to
college okay I graduated from UC a
nicaragua interesting I don’t know
that’s cool um I graduated from
University god this cine in Argentina ah
the cinema cinema University cool I went
to God’s University what is that meta
please tell us more in triple oracle
okay nice grammar the nice grammar good
okay let’s continue on so I graduated
from or I went to I graduated from or I
went to university great I graduated
from national university of Nuevo Leon
ha see
says can we say where do you go to
school yes where do you where do you go
to school is a present tense question so
you can ask someone you know is studying
where do you go to school I graduated
from Vikram University I went to the
National University of Mexico I saw that
Julio he tweeted it
ok good great nice examples guys ok
let’s continue then so if you want to
give more information I graduated from
university or college name you can
include this information in the next
sentence
I graduated from whatever university
with with a degree in subject so for
example with a bachelor’s degree in
economics or with a master’s degree in
computer engineering or with a PhD in
medicine so you can put all of this
together it sounds really natural to
share all that information at one time
so I graduated from you Tokyo with a
degree I’m sorry with a master’s degree
in architecture for example so put all
of that information make one long
sentence and share it in one go sounds
great try to try to do that some of you
guys made some really nice sentences
about your majors and your degrees and
you shared about the place you graduated
from so you should be able to put the
two together so I graduated from
University with a master’s degree in art
history so share lots of information at
one time nice it will take some time
before you see that message look great
send them through I have to continue on
because we’re running out of time
I’m a little bit so try to send a nice
long example sentencing for now I’m
going to continue to the next point I
know some of you are going to or have
finished studying in another country so
to express that let’s use past tense so
I studied I studied past tense studied I
studied abroad for a time period so here
your time period can be anything just
the time of your of your study program I
studied abroad for two weeks I studied
abroad for a year I studied abroad for
six months so you can use this and you
can share the university name or you can
share the country name I’ll share that
in a minute so I studied abroad for six
months at someone said like you CA
Nicaragua for example I studied abroad
for six months at some location I
studied abroad for five weeks at your
University so you can share your study
abroad experiences with this pattern
I studied again this is past tense I’m
going to explain about your education
plans that’s our last point for today so
past tense for now I studied abroad
studied oh nice you guys have some nice
examples coming in I graduated from
Union o’the University with a post-grad
in marketing a post-grad mmm interesting
okay I graduated from college with a
master’s degree in mathematics nice nice
so making those nice long examples with
lots and lots of information great um
others my major my major was mathematics
kingi my major was mathematics is
correct
great I graduated from UNAM with a
bachelor’s degree in engineering
nice one julio okay nice guys great
someone says I studied abroad for two
years good I studied English abroad for
three years says Marco nice great I said
Spanish for five years at cada Bobo
University Wow okay
I graduated from Kabul University with a
master’s degree in agriculture wow you
guys have studied some really
interesting topics people have very like
varied topics of study it’s interesting
okay
I studied abroad for three years at
Berlin University very nice I studied
abroad for one year at a university
great great excellent examples you guys
um sounds good we could survive I think
so
okay fantastic fantastic so let’s finish
the last one for this section if it’s
not study but maybe you did some work
experience so I did an internship I did
so past tense again past tense did you
could say I had as well I did an
internship and so we’re using an here
because internship begins with this
vowel sound and internship I did an
internship in the country I did an
internship in Japan that’s true
I did an internship in I did an
internship in Brazil for example so you
can use the country or maybe you want to
share the company or the city that you
did your internship in I did an
internship in so these two are a little
different I studied abroad in or at and
I did an internship in a place okay it’s
getting a little bit late so ah someone
says what’s an internship great question
thank you Angie Angie and internship if
I write here yeah internship means work
experience a work experience so work
experience usually oh I shouldn’t say
that sometimes internships are not paid
so you receive no money you go to a
company or an organization just to
experience the working environment
so you visit a company you’re interested
in for example and you try to learn the
parts of the job you’re interested in
doing this is called an internship an
internship
ok good hope that helps you good good
good
I did an internship in Pakistan nice
yeah sometimes internships have no face
sometimes they are paid internships it
depends I did an internship in Algeria
nice guys okay cool you have lots of
interesting experiences for sure ok
let’s continue let’s see what time is it
it is 26 minutes fast oh my god
ok I’ll do I guess one more really quick
break and then we’ll finish the last
parts pretty short it’s a lot of text
but it’s true so I want to change gears
a little bit so I showed you guys this
free thing education related vocabulary
words yeah ok um but I know many of you
are using or studying English for
business for work reasons so a business
English and your interview this is a
situation where you might talk about
your education you might use these
phrases and swap it what do you mean
yeah I know I was purposely showing the
best thing so he’s the business English
PDF so there are some office phrases
here but I wanted to focus on this part
on the back so these are some things you
can use in business meetings but it’s
hard to see sorry guys these are some
expressions for the office so I was
thinking that this is another case sorry
it’s really hard to see you guys so
you’ll have to have to trust me on this
but this is something I thought it would
be good to pair with today’s lesson
because I know a lot of you are
interested in like job interviews
using English for work so these might
fit together kind of nicely so if you
would like to find this and see it a
little bit clearly there’s some stuff on
here about meetings there’s some stuff
vocabulary about different job positions
in organizations and there’s also just
some kind of motivational work-related
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okay so with that let’s finish off
today’s lesson I mentioned today we’re
going to finish with continuing
education and non-degree programs so
what does this mean so continuing
continuing education means like your
plans for the future education or maybe
you’ve finished your studies but you
want to learn something else I also have
here non-degree programs non-degree
program so at the beginning of today’s
lesson we talked about bachelor’s
degrees master’s degrees a PhD so those
are degrees so it’s like an official
like official certification from a
university however a non-degree program
does not give you a degree but maybe you
get some special certification so we’re
going to talk about a few phrases for
that first continuing education so these
are some expressions you can use to
explain your continuing education or
your plans for your continuing education
if you are a researcher so a lot of you
said like you you’re studying
mathematics or computer science if
you’re a researcher you can use the
progressive I’m researching I’m
researching before your topic so I’m
researching
people’s use of social media something
like that I don’t know
so I’m researching plus your topic so
here I’m researching plus your topic
maybe you can include your what you hope
to learn so I want to learn more about
something I’m researching this topic
something else I want to take a course
or I want to take classes about I want
to take a course so when you’re
pronouncing this this too and take I
want to take a course we connect these
together not I wanted to take a course
we don’t say it like that I want to take
a course I want to take a class I want
to take classes about topic I want to
take a class about music or I want to
take a course about art history I want
to take a course in engineering so if
you have plans to study something else
you can express with this what’s the
difference between course and class
course is like a full program of study
so for example like 12 weeks of study
with like a lesson every week or every
two lessons a week for example that’s of
course a class is like maybe just one
time or maybe two times something like
that so a class is one individual like
lecture session or and then a course is
like a long program of study that’s the
difference here of course in class
though I suppose you may find that some
schools have kind of different
like plans for courses and the classes
but generally that’s the difference okay
um let’s go to another pattern if you
are planning to do an internship you can
say I so here I either ID means I would
I would I would that’s what this means
I’d like to do an internship in I’d like
to do an internship in here we’ve used
in you can use a country or a city or in
industry here I’d like to do an
internship in Morocco I’d like to do an
internship in Sweden or I’d like to do
an internship in a specific like
electronics industry I’d like to do an
internship in communications so you can
use an industry name there as well
okay finally if you’re thinking if
you’re thinking about getting a degree
another degree for example you’ve
finished your bachelor’s degree you want
to continue to a higher level
sorry you can you can use this I’m
thinking about getting I’m thinking
about getting a masters or a PhD in just
as we did here PhD in something I’m
thinking about getting a master’s in
architecture I’m thinking about getting
a PhD in philosophy I’m thinking about
getting a PhD in communications so
thinking about getting this becomes very
very short very reduced thinking about
getting I’m thinking about getting a PhD
good okay let’s finish today lastly with
non degree things quickly because I’m
late I talk too much
so non degree programs if you missed my
explanation about non degree programs
please rewind with this
videos likely it’s being recorded so I
have a certification so there are two
key words here certification I have a
certification in your topic I have a
certification in first aid I have a
certification in editing that’s true I
have a certification in digital media
I don’t know depending on your program
so I have a certification in your topic
next I’m this is essentially the same
thing
I’m topic of study certified certified
so I’m first aid certified for example
these two sentences really mean the same
thing you can choose I’m
something-something certified finally
same thing
I’m a certified plus your job title I’m
a certified accountant I’m a certified
teacher I’m a certified diving
instructor it’s a very interesting
example I’m inspector any dive
instructor nothing okay so certified and
certification are two key words you can
use to talk about non degree programs I
have a certification in or I’m a
certified chapter so those are some
quick introductions to non degree
programs
I have a certification in cell culture
Marco you’re very interesting example
sentences great
I’m Oh Victor says I’m I’m a certified
electrician would be the correct
sentence I’m a certified electrician I’m
certified in construction engineering
nice guys great examples everyone I’m a
certified CCNA what is a CCNA
I have a certification in computer
science I’m a certified pilot are you
really one I have a certification in
industry in industry security what is
that is it a certification the same as
bachelors no it is not a bachelor’s a
bachelor’s is a degree you receive from
a university a certification is not
related to a degree all right I have to
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