April 15, 2014

School Subjects

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit NÂș 27 v.05

      Main Definitions

  1. subject 1 / discipline / area / field / subject field / study / bailiwick |n| a branch of knowledge.
  2. “Teacher should be well trained in their subject.”
  3. “My favourite subject is math.”
  4. subject 2 |n| an area of knowledge studied in a school, college, etc.
  5. Anthropology is the study of human beings.”



      More Relative

  1. major 1 |n| |US| main subject.
  2. “She’s a history major.”
  3. curriculum |pl: curricula or curriculums| / course of study / program / programme / syllabus |n| an integrated in course of academic studies.
  4. “Spanish is on the curriculum.”
  5. “He was admitted to a new program at the university:”


      Subjects Classification

      Arts

  1. art |n| a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.
  2. drama |n| the literary genre of works intended for the theater.
  3. draw |v| to depict or sketch (a form, figure, picture, etc.) in lines, as with a pencil or pen, esp without the use of colour; delineate.
  4. music |n| the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. 


     Sciences

  1. sciences |n| the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
  2. biology |n| the science that studies living organisms.
  3. chemistry |n| the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions.
  4. "Blackboard drawings from his high school chemistry class would even serve as evidence in a patent interference case."
  5. geography |n| study of the earth’s surface, includes people’s responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.
  6. geometry |n| the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogues.
  7. history |n| the study of past events.
  8. I.T. (information technology) / computer studies |n| It refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies.
  9. social studies / social science |n| the study of people in society.
  10. maths |n| a science (or group of sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement.
  11. physics |n| the science of matter and energy and their interactions.


      Other Subjects

  1. language |n| the system of communications used by a particular community or country.
  2. religion |n| the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.
  3. literature |n| pieces of writing that are valued as works of art, especially novels, plays and poems (in contrast to technical books and newspapers, magazines, etc.)