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NAME:   No.   CLASS:

DATE:   EVALUATION:
TEACHER:   E. E.

Group I
Reading

1 
Read the article by Quentin Fottrell carefully.
80% of students work at least part-time
Students are working hard, a new study finds, taking on
part-time and even sometimes full-time jobs to avoid racking
up more debt while in school.
Nearly four out of five USA students — including those
5 in high school, online college, or traditional college or university

— work while in school, a survey by Citigroup and Seventeen

magazine found, with the average working student putting in
19 hours a week during the school year.
“Having come of age during the Great Recession of 2008,
10 many of today’s students have experienced a financial wake-up

call,” says Linda Descano, a managing director at Citi. They saw

the havoc the recession wreaked on their parents’ lives, adds
Ann Shoket, editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine. “Students
are starting blogs and video production companies. They want
15 to start their careers before they leave college,” she says.

Another possible explanation: Parents are kicking in less money for college. Parents still pay for most of
the average family’s total college expenses. But their contribution, including from savings, income and loans,
averaged 37% in 2011, down from 47% the year before, according to the “How America Pays for College” survey
by student-loan company Sallie Mae. “Kids used to rely on the bank of mom and dad,” Descano says. “So many
20 families are trying to work themselves out of the financial impact of the Great Recession.”

The cost of tuition has risen dramatically in recent years for most educational institutions, studies show. The
cost of undergraduate tuition (including room and board) surged 42% in the past 10 years to $13,600 at public
institutions for the 2010-11 academic year; it rose 31% to $36,300 at private nonprofit institutions over the same
period, according to the USA Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.
25 David Greenberg, 27, worked 20-plus hours a week in a finance company while studying economics at New
York University. “I was fortunate enough to have had my parents pay for my very expensive education. I had to
work for my own spending money on food, entertainment and alcohol.” Ultimately, he says, it gave him an edge
on his peers after leaving college. “I saved up enough money during college to start my own education business
in 2010,” he says.
30 A majority of students (62%) have set a budget to keep track of their expenses, the Citigroup study found,
and 77% say they pay their own credit card bills. In fact, monthly cellphone bills are the only expense that parents
are significantly more likely to pay: 60% of students say their parents pay their cellphone bills. “In many cases,
students work to get spending money, not necessarily to pay college bills,” says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher at
student-marketing company Edvisors Network.
35 Some 77% of students, however, say that money played an important role in where they decided to apply
to college, and one-third say that money was the single most important factor in determining where they would
enroll, according to the Citigroup survey. “Taking more financial responsibility also means they take their education
more seriously,” Descano says.
www.marketwatch.com/story/nearly-4-out-of-5-students-work-2013-08-07 (abridged and adapted)

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2 
 ay if the sentences are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
S
  a) Every American student has a part or full-time job while studying at school or university.

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  b) Students are working only to pay for their studies or to start their own career as soon as possible.
  c) Parents are no longer the main economic beacon when it comes to paying for college,
because the costs involved have increased a lot in recent times.
  d) Many students have their cellphone bills paid by their parents.

3 
F
 ind expressions in the text which mean the same as the following.
a) Students depended on their parents to pay for their tuition.

b) Having a part-time job was an asset after university.

4 
E
 xplain the following expressions.
a) “… many of today’s students have experienced a financial wake-up call, …”

b) “… it gave him an edge on his peers after leaving college”

5 
T
 he text is written in AmE. Find three examples in the text and write down their corresponding
BrE words.

AmEnglish BrEnglish

Group II
Grammar

1 
F
 ill in the blanks using one of the following phrasal verbs.

look after | give in | look for | rely on | pay off | go back | give up

a) Some students cannot their college debt.

b) Joan studying because she couldn´t pay for her tuition.
Now she’s a job.
c) She’s children as a part time job.
d) He decided to to school and finish his university degree.
e) She finally and asked her parents for help.
f) The majority of students their parents.

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2 
Rephrase the following sentences beginning as indicated.
a) Marie studies Economics at the Sorbonne. She is working at a restaurant to earn extra money.
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Marie,
b) She goes out at night very rarely, because she feels very tired.
Seldom
c) I couldn’t find a part-time job.
I wish
d) We still depend on our parents.
It’s about time

3 
Write sentences using the adjectives/ adverbs or expressions given.
a) interested / interesting


b) harder and harder


c) exhausted / exausting

Group III
Writing

1 
Read the following ad carefully and choose
ONE of the options presented. Write about
100-130 words.
a) Write a covering letter answering the ad
to apply for the job.
b) Write down your resumé as asked for in
the ad.

http://www.littlepeoplesworkshop.ca/jobs.php

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