Are you studying at the university? Or you planning to join the university or maybe you’re
just curious to find out about my two friends and what they spoke about at the university
on their first day? If you are interested then please stay with me in this lesson. I'm
your tutor for the day and my name is Michelle. Join me let's start
So there are two friends. My friends Billy and Jack. And what did they speak about on
the first day? Of course when you meet someone for the first time, at the school, at the
college, university. The conversation is very introductory and informal as well. So let's start.
Let's find out what do these words mean that
they used? Some strange words did you hear?
Freshman? Who's a freshman? Freshman is a person, whose studying in the first year of
university. I'll write it here for you first year. What about somebody, who's studying
in second year of university? That person is called a sophomore, yes a sophomore. This
word has three syllables, So-Pho-More. And who's the junior? The person, who's studying
in the third year of university. You must have guessed it, Senior is somebody who's
studying in the fourth or the fifth year of the university. Depending on the course fourth
or fifth year, let's continue the conversation between Billy and Jack.
Did you hear those words? New words? What did they say? Major. What is major? Major
as if what we know is something greater, but here it talks about the next level of graduate
school. So if you’re studying your graduation, you’re undergrad, once you complete it.
You enter into your majors after undergrad. And what is this minor? What are Billy and
Jack doing right now? They are minoring, yes when you’re studying in the undergraduate
university, you are minoring. It is lesser than major. Do you know there are different
words for majoring and minoring? Yes, so when you complete your majors, you enter into,
you enter into probably PHD or MPhil. But when you are majoring. What do you receive?
Which degree do you receive? You receive a master’s degree, so you've become a master
of your subject. Awesome, isn’t it? Master’s degree and minor is for Bachelor’s degree.
Yes, you’re expected to be a bachelor, when you study in the undergrad school. So major
and minor for you, when you complete your major or your master’s. You receive the
master’s degree and when you complete your minor school, you receive an undergrad or
bachelor’s degree.
Let's go ahead with their conversation. Keep, please stay the conversation is only getting
more interesting. Here, so let's start....
Did you hear some more new words? Yes School and Uni. What is Uni? It is short for university. And
school is another word that you can use for university or you can also call it an undergrad
school. Undergrad or maybe graduation school. As I told you undergrad school will be used
for minor and graduate school will be used for majors. Isn't it fun? You've learnt so
much to talk about at the university on the first day. But do you wanna know, what else
they spoke about? Let's see. Dormitory. How come they have used it, let's find out.
What now...What is a dormitory? So dormitory
is a sort of a building that offers you a set of rooms, which could be private or semi-private
rooms with combined or common bathroom facilities. And even common recreation that's what a dormitory
is, you find a lot of people, good number of people living together. Building with many
rooms, something like a hostel.
Commuting. Jack said, I'm commuting from home. What does that mean? This means he's travelling
to college every day from home. To travel. Let's find out what happened next?
Credits.....semester.... Semester is a period of 6 months or may be 15 to 18 weeks. Your whole academic
term is divided into two parts, the first part is the first semester and the second
part is the second semester divided into six months each, that's what a semester is. 6
months of a term. And what are credits that they were talking about? Credits add value
to the course or they tell academic institution how important your course is and what is the
value of your course. It also means the number of hours you spend studying that course. You'll
find it very much in the American education system. Value to your course.
Alright this is enough talking on the first day of college. It's time that Billy and Jack
head to their respective destinations. One goes home and the other goes to dormitory.
So let's just end the conversation with a nice sign off note.
That's how you sign off, when you meet someone for the first time
at the college or maybe another place. But they used a term here hangout. What does it
mean to hangout? Hangout means to spend time together with a person or maybe more than
a person maybe three, four people at different locations. That's what it means to spend time
together at different locations. Spend time together. So if you’re entering the university
have a great time. You'll be a freshman and if you’re already a sophomore. I hope you've
learnt some vocabulary to talk to that new classmate.
Have fun and I had great time teaching you. I hope you come back for more lessons on university
life. Coz now Billy and Jack are very close friends and very soon they are going to talk
about everything from professors to grades. If you wanna learn that, please come back.
I'll miss you till then. Bye, bye.