# Student

## Student + verb

* students are taught
* students graduate
* **students drop out**
* students are bullied

## Adjective + student

* an angry student
* a bright / brilliant student
* a hard-working student
* a lazy student
* **your fellow students**
* a former student
* a full-time / part-time student

## Common expressions

* students do (French)
* students adapt to (university) life
* students find accommodation
* students have debts
* students discounts

## Exercise

### Verb + student

1. Our students are ***taught*** through lectures, seminars and individual tutorials.
2. I hated school because I was ***bullied*** by some of the other students.
3. About 90% of our students ***graduate*** from university with degrees. Unfortunately, the other 10% ***drop*** out after their first year.

### Adjective + student

1. Eva is a ***brilliant / bright*** student - she should get a first-class degree.
2. Hundreds of ***angry*** students held demonstrations in the university square to protest about the cuts in education.
3. Greg is a very hard-working student. He's also extremely popular with his ***fellow*** students.
4. I *retired from teaching* many years ago, but still get cards from my ***former*** students.
5. I'm a ***full-time*** student at the moment, but I'm thinking of *going part-time* because I'm finding it difficult to pay for the course, my food and accommodation.
6. Colin’s a very ***lazy*** student - he's never handed in an essay on time!

### Common expressions:

1. Some students have difficulty adapting to college life away from home. - b
2. Students get a 10% discount on all books in the store. - a
3. It's difficult for students to find somewhere nice to live in some cities. - e
4. In the UK, some students have huge debts by the time they graduate from university. - c
5. Most of the students at my college are doing business courses. - d

## Note

**Note these types of student:**

* *The college library has facilities for disabled students.*
* *The university has a large number of overseas students. Many of them are from China.*
* *There are a number of mature students living on campus. Some have children.*