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You're learning with nine to five English. Business English for the workplace.
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Hi Tim here with another nine-to-five english lesson. In today's
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lesson we're going to learn how to talk about your education. Your education is
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an important part of your background and there are lots of situations where you
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might talk about where you went to school and what you studied. A job
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interview is an obvious one but you might also talk about your education in
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casual conversation. The first thing you might mention is where you went to
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school. More specifically people might be interested in which university you
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attended. And there are several ways we can tell them about that. Firstly you
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might just use that verb "attend" Similarly you could say you "went to" or
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"graduated from" a certain University. Another way to talk about your
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university is to say that you're an alum of a certain school. Alum is short for
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alumnus which is a word that means a person who attended a school. So for
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example I might say I'm an alum of Columbia University. Let's try practicing
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some of this language. We're going to give you some examples.
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After each example try repeating it yourself. Ready? Let's give it a go!
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I graduated from Yale in 2008.
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For my undergrad I went to the London School of Economics.
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I attended a small Technical College in Colorado.
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I'm an alum of Washington University.
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Ok we've practiced some different ways of talking about our University.
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But another important aspect of your education is what you studied. In English
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we call your area of study your major. This word can be used in a few different
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ways. So for example if you studied biology you could say that your major
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was biology but you can also say that you were a biology major so the noun
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means both an area of study and a person who studies that area. We can also use
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major as a verb such as I majored in biology after you tell someone your
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major you might also mention an area of focus for example within business you
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might have focused on finance or you might mention your minor which is like
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your secondary area of study and just as we say we majored in a subject we can
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say we minored in a subject there's another much simpler way to talk about
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your major and that's just to say something like I studied biology of
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course that's not the only course you took but people understand that was your
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major now there's one more way to tell people what you studied and that's by
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saying you have a degree in a certain field your degree might be a master's
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degree or a bachelor's degree and you can use the short form of these
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such as an MA or a BS which means Bachelors of Science and is used for
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degrees in technical fields such as engineering or computers let's practice
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some of these expressions for talking about your major
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once again you can repeat the examples after you hear them I studied
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international business with a focus on finance
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I majored in French with a minor in political science
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I started out as a science major but switched to education
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I have a Bachelor of mechanical engineering
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so we've learned some different ways of talking about your University and your
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major but how did these expressions sound in a real conversation let's
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listen to a short dialogue between Tanja and Jose tanya is asking Jose about his
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education so did you go to university around here yeah I graduated from Iowa
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State University in 2010 oh yeah great school what did you study
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I majored in business with a minor in statistics as you just heard Jose says
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he graduated from Iowa State University and when asked about what he studied he
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says he majored in business he also adds that he had a minor in statistics now
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it's your turn to practice will repeat the dialogue but this time will be bout
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the second speakers words you will have to say those parts yourself remember
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to start by saying that you graduated from Iowa State University then you can
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say that you majored in business and minored in statistics so did you go to
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university around here
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oh yeah great school what did you study
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you
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all right we've learned some great ways to talk about your education including
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what university you attended and what you studied be sure to tune in next time
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when we learn how to talk about your career until then so long and happy
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learning
