EP1M2 units 1-7 2. TRANSLATIONS
- een bachelordiploma:
1. GENERALVOCABULARY - een bachelor in: a bachelor’s degree in
- het studietraject: study trajectory
- - de studietrajectbegeleider: study guidance councilor
school: pupils go to school - de studielast: course-load/study-load
- college: before university (+UK last 2 years go HS) - een uurrooster: schedule/timetable
- university: students go there for higher (UK: further) education - een schakelprogramma: conversion programme
- college of applied sciences: ‘hogeschool’ - een vrijstelling: an exemption (to be exempt)
- a lesson: 1 moment (lesuur) - de studiepunten: credits
- a class: series of lessons
- a course: ‘een vak’
- a degree programme/ degree course: what you study (e.g.
applied linguistics) 3. SYNONYMS FOR
- a major: main focus of your degree (e.g. Engels- Duits)
- to learn: 1st time seeing the material
- to study: going over the lesson again
- rich and successful: prosperous
- to revise: repeat before the exam
- state of not having smt: lack
- to cram: ‘blokken’ SCHOOL - continuing for a long period of time: persistently
- - generates great advantages: significant
composition: used for school work (50-100 words) & - obvious: apparent
- an essay: opinion based (e.g. for literature class) longer and more
serious than a composition (+100 words)
UNIVERSITY - important in making smt happen: instrumental
- a paper: research based (e.g. for linguistics class)
- very serious: dire
- an assignment: long essay, part of the course (+1000 words)
- that has never happened, been done/known before:
- unprecedented
a project: idem assignment but more focused on students topic/
material
- a dissertation: long, research-based work for degree/diploma
(+10000 words) 4. IDIOMS
- a thesis: very long, original, research-based work for higher
degree (+ 80000 words, at end of your studies) - to open doors - the dices are loaded against me
- to sit/take an exam: to do the exam - to beat the odds - dig in your heels
- to make an exam: creating the exam - to rear its head - par for the course
- to resit an exam: to take it a 2nd time - to overturn the odds - toe the line
- to pass: ‘slagen’ - to hit the books - have an inside track
- to fail: ‘buizen’ - pass with flying colours - start from scratch
- to do an exercise: to fill it in - learn the ropes - a level playing field
- to make an exercise: to develop it - you can’t teach an old dog new tricks - below par
- a diploma: what we all have from HS - learn by heart - give it your best shot
- a degree: what we aim for at university - draw a blank - it’s in the bag
- a certificate: to prove for e.g. a bridge programme - to burn the candles at both ends - wide off the mark
- pass the buck - (do smt) at the drop of a hat
- follow suit - not come up to scratch
- the luck of the draw - throw in the towel/sponge
- across the board
- when the chips are down
, EP1M2 units 92-96
1. LANGUAGE CHUNKS
- something is eligible for election
- the extent to which …
- something is by no means …
- to be derived from something
- in a similar vein
- put simply, …
- since the advent of …
LANGUAGE CHUNKS
&
IDIOMATICITY
2. LEXICAL ITEMS
- prevailing: most common at a particular time
- underpin: to form the basis of claims
- pervasiveness: the fact of existing in/the process of spreading gradually to affect all parts of a
place/thing
- elusive: difficult to define, find or achieve
- proponent: a person who supports an idea or course of action
- fossilization: the process of becoming fixed
- opaque: difficult to understand, not clear
- averse: opposed to doing something
- holistically: in a way that considers a whole thing or being to be more than a collection of parts
- ubiquity: everywhere or in several places at the same time, the fact that something is very
common
- een bachelordiploma:
1. GENERALVOCABULARY - een bachelor in: a bachelor’s degree in
- het studietraject: study trajectory
- - de studietrajectbegeleider: study guidance councilor
school: pupils go to school - de studielast: course-load/study-load
- college: before university (+UK last 2 years go HS) - een uurrooster: schedule/timetable
- university: students go there for higher (UK: further) education - een schakelprogramma: conversion programme
- college of applied sciences: ‘hogeschool’ - een vrijstelling: an exemption (to be exempt)
- a lesson: 1 moment (lesuur) - de studiepunten: credits
- a class: series of lessons
- a course: ‘een vak’
- a degree programme/ degree course: what you study (e.g.
applied linguistics) 3. SYNONYMS FOR
- a major: main focus of your degree (e.g. Engels- Duits)
- to learn: 1st time seeing the material
- to study: going over the lesson again
- rich and successful: prosperous
- to revise: repeat before the exam
- state of not having smt: lack
- to cram: ‘blokken’ SCHOOL - continuing for a long period of time: persistently
- - generates great advantages: significant
composition: used for school work (50-100 words) & - obvious: apparent
- an essay: opinion based (e.g. for literature class) longer and more
serious than a composition (+100 words)
UNIVERSITY - important in making smt happen: instrumental
- a paper: research based (e.g. for linguistics class)
- very serious: dire
- an assignment: long essay, part of the course (+1000 words)
- that has never happened, been done/known before:
- unprecedented
a project: idem assignment but more focused on students topic/
material
- a dissertation: long, research-based work for degree/diploma
(+10000 words) 4. IDIOMS
- a thesis: very long, original, research-based work for higher
degree (+ 80000 words, at end of your studies) - to open doors - the dices are loaded against me
- to sit/take an exam: to do the exam - to beat the odds - dig in your heels
- to make an exam: creating the exam - to rear its head - par for the course
- to resit an exam: to take it a 2nd time - to overturn the odds - toe the line
- to pass: ‘slagen’ - to hit the books - have an inside track
- to fail: ‘buizen’ - pass with flying colours - start from scratch
- to do an exercise: to fill it in - learn the ropes - a level playing field
- to make an exercise: to develop it - you can’t teach an old dog new tricks - below par
- a diploma: what we all have from HS - learn by heart - give it your best shot
- a degree: what we aim for at university - draw a blank - it’s in the bag
- a certificate: to prove for e.g. a bridge programme - to burn the candles at both ends - wide off the mark
- pass the buck - (do smt) at the drop of a hat
- follow suit - not come up to scratch
- the luck of the draw - throw in the towel/sponge
- across the board
- when the chips are down
, EP1M2 units 92-96
1. LANGUAGE CHUNKS
- something is eligible for election
- the extent to which …
- something is by no means …
- to be derived from something
- in a similar vein
- put simply, …
- since the advent of …
LANGUAGE CHUNKS
&
IDIOMATICITY
2. LEXICAL ITEMS
- prevailing: most common at a particular time
- underpin: to form the basis of claims
- pervasiveness: the fact of existing in/the process of spreading gradually to affect all parts of a
place/thing
- elusive: difficult to define, find or achieve
- proponent: a person who supports an idea or course of action
- fossilization: the process of becoming fixed
- opaque: difficult to understand, not clear
- averse: opposed to doing something
- holistically: in a way that considers a whole thing or being to be more than a collection of parts
- ubiquity: everywhere or in several places at the same time, the fact that something is very
common
