List of main concepts of the callers

Caller 1: benefitted her career in the slightest; wouldn’t recommend university to a young person; it isn’t worth the investment

Caller 2: university offers so much; meeting like-minded people; exploring something that interests you; higher education gets her vote

Caller 3: left school at 16; never got into debt like kids do nowadays; nothing prepares you more than just getting a job and doing it

Caller 4: opens up opportunities; some jobs are only open to graduates, opens up the world to you and meeting people from all sorts of backgrounds make you a more fully-rounded person

Caller 5: University made famous inventors and politicians; if you can’t see the value of a university education you shouldn’t be going anyway

VOCABULARY UNIT 11 SMART SKILLS

Enrol = iscriversi

Assess = valutare

Abolish = abolire

Truant = pigro

Imposing = imponente

MAIN CONCEPTS OF GIULIO REGENI’S TEXT

Giulio was abducted and murdered in Cairo, Egypt. He was a Cambridge graduate researching on Egypt’s independent trade unions. Not much later the discover of the body Egyptian police killed four men, belonging to a gang that kidnaps foreigners and steals their money, accused from Egypt responsible for abducting Giulio because police said they found on a man some items belonging to Regeni. Some witnesses, however, reported that the gang members had been executed and their corpse were later positioned inside the van. Giulio’s tutors at Cambridge had declined to collaborate with the inquest into his murder. On April 2016 it had been discovered that the victim was picked up by plainclothes police officers before his death. Surveillance footage form the subway station near Regeni’s apartment had been deleted and metadata from millions of phone calls were refused, because was against the Egyptian citizens rights. This fact became a case because it brought to surface that Egypt doesn’t respect human rights.