Education

To Catch On to Phrasal Verbs, It Helps to Hook Up With an English Teacher

AA:
I’m Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster –
English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about
phrasal verbs.
RS: The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition.  
AA:
Phrasal verbs, also known as two-word verbs, have a reputation for
being tough for English [...]


Studying in the US: Where To Live?

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
March
Madness is the name for the busy championship season in American college
basketball. But March also means another kind of madness — the nervous wait for
admissions letters from colleges and universities.
This week in our Foreign Student Series, we jump ahead
to the subject of where to live. Housing policies differ [...]


Studying in the US: Helping Foreign Students Feel at Home

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Being
a new student in school can be a little scary. Being a new student in a new
country can be even scarier.
A
college or university’s international student office is a good place to start
getting to know the school and the country. This week in our Foreign Student
Series, we talk [...]