节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-07-23
难易度:Low
关键字:advantage, admission, advising department, higher education, tuition
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And you're joining us for the second day of our lesson titled Why Community
College?
We've started looking at this idea of going to community college and how it can
be a good thing.
There are great reasons to go to a community college.
Carolyn, would you ever recommend that someone go to a community college, and
why?
Well, actually I think that community colleges can be really good,
especially for people who are international students or they want to improve
some of their skills before going to an actual college.
I know that the school that I went to had a lot of international students,
and they had to pay full tuition for classes that just helped them to learn
English so that they could finish their other classes.
But if you go to a community college to improve your English to prepare for real
college classes or more advanced college classes for a bachelor's degree, it
could be really helpful.
OK. That's a great point.
Price is definitely something you want to consider when you're thinking about
going to a university,
especially if you're an international student transferring to a university or
going to a university in the West.
Community colleges could be a good option for you.
OK. Let's get started with today's lesson - Why Community College?
Why Community College?
There are several advantages to attending a community college.
First, the tuition is lower than a four-year university, especially if you're a
resident.
Residents pay the in-county or in-state tuition rate.
Second, the credits are mostly transferrable to a four-year university.
You transfer in as a sophomore or junior.
Last, smaller class sizes mean students have more chances to talk with their
professors.
After admission, Michelle, along with most other international students, took
tests in English, reading and math.
OK. We'll learn more about what happened after Michelle's admission later.
But first, let's talk about some advantages to going to a community college.
There are several advantages to attending a community college.
And of course there are advantages to learning with Studio Classroom - you get
to learn words like "advantage." This is from our Word Bank.
An advantage is the way that something is better.
It's a pro or a benefit to doing something, an advantage.
That's right.
It is a good thing, a good quality about something.
And there are many advantages to going to community college as we will learn
about in our lesson today.
There are also many advantages to learning English.
Maybe you want to go abroad and talk to people who speak English.
Learning English has many, many good things that you can use it for.
That's right.
So these are some advantages.
Of course, the opposite is a disadvantage.
D-I-S, and then advantage.
A disadvantage is something that isn't good about what you're doing.
It's not helpful.
So of course there are advantages and disadvantages to almost everything in
life.
With every coin, there are two sides, right?
So here we're talking about the advantage of going to a community college, or
the advantages.
How do we continue, Carolyn?
Well, we list several different advantages.
First, the tuition is lower than a four-year university, especially if you are a
resident.
So if you are a resident, that means that you live there.
And if you are a resident, it's very cheap, or less expensive, to pay for a
community college than a four-year university.
That's right.
The tuition is lower, so you don't pay as much.
Well, we continue learning.
Residents pay the in-county or in-state tuition rate.
OK. So these are the people that live there in the county or in the state.
And it is a little bit cheaper for them.
That's right.
Second, the credits are mostly transferrable to a four-year university.
So most of the credits, maybe not all of them, can be transferred from your
community college to a four-year university to count toward your bachelor's
degree.
That's right.
Now when I was a junior at my university, I made some friends with some transfer
students.
They were students who had just transferred to my university.
And sometimes some of their credits didn't transfer.
They didn't count in a four-year university.
So again, you have to look at which university you are going to, and it really
depends which community college you go to as well.
That's right.
But we find out that you can transfer in as a sophomore or junior.
So if you transfer in as a sophomore or junior, that means that you are at the
second or third year in the bachelor's program.
You don't start at the very beginning.
That's right.
Now let's take a look at some of those words.
If you're at a university, a four-year university, the first year is called
freshman.
The second year is sophomore.
Third year is junior.
And what's the fourth year, Carolyn?
The fourth year is your senior year.
That's right, senior year.
Now in the United States, actually high schools go by the same system because
there are four-year high schools.
Freshman, sophomore, junior, and you could say I'm a senior in high school.
I'm going on to university next year.
That's right.
And continuing in the article, she lists one more reason:
Last, smaller class sizes mean students have more chances to talk with their
professors.
So if you have a smaller class, there are fewer students, which means that you
can talk to your professors more often,
and maybe get some more information from them that you wouldn't be able to if
you went to a large university.
That's true.
That is one great advantage.
This is often called a student/teacher ratio.
You can take the numbers of... of the amount of students, and then compare to
the amount of teachers.
So that way you can see how many teachers there are per student.
If it's not very many students per teacher, you have a greater chance of talking
with your professors and getting help one-on-one.
That's right.
So it's always an advantage to go to a smaller school if you want to have that
personal interaction with your professors and be able to talk to them.
Well, we find out that after admission, Michelle, along with most other
international students, took tests in English, reading and math.
So they had to take tests after their admission.
All right. Well, let's take a look at that key word.
It is "admission." And this just talks about getting into a university or a
school.
It refers to getting into that higher education.
If you want to go to community college, of course, you need to have admission.
The school will admit you, A-D-M-I-T, you into their university.
That's right.
So there is an admission process.
You have to apply to go to school there.
And then if you are accepted, then you receive a letter of admission or an
admission letter saying that Congratulations! You are now a student at our
school!
So after admission, Michelle and many other international students had to take
tests in English, reading and math.
Yes. Well, I like most of these subjects.
I'm not very good at math.
Maybe I would have to take another math test to get in to pass and have
admission into my next school.
But I do like English.
I hope you do, too.
And I know that you are improving, you're doing a great job here at Studio
Classroom and learning with us.
Right now it's time for us to do something a little different and watch a video.
And then we'll join Michelle in the Language Lab.
(Music).
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.