English · Chapter 13 · Lesson 22 · Themed review
Work and school
Where people work, where people learn, and what they do in both.
Practise this lesson
19-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Worth knowing
work and job mean the same thing but behave differently
and both mean the thing you do for money. The grammar is completely different.
is countable. It takes a, and it has a plural.
- I have .
- She has two .
is uncountable. It never takes a, and it has no plural.
- I have to do.
- There is a lot of .
Never say a work or works when you mean employment. (Works exists, but it means a factory or an artist's creations, which is not what you meant.)
go to work, go to school
These phrases have no the:
- go to
- go to
- go to
- go to (British English)
The missing the changes the meaning. means you are a student. means you are walking to that building, perhaps to collect a child.
The same is true of hospital. In British English, "he is in hospital" means he is a patient. "He is in the hospital" means he is inside the building, maybe visiting.
American English keeps the in the hospital sentence, so this rule is British.
learn, study and teach
is to get knowledge. is the work you do to learn. is to give knowledge to someone else.
- I am English. (the activity)
- I am English. (the result)
- She English. (she is the teacher)
Many languages use one word for learn and teach. English does not, and mixing them up changes who is doing what.
paper
is the material, and it is uncountable. is a newspaper or a piece of academic writing.