Pastoral care and counselling at universities – move no1 – start here!

By Rosamund Place | June 20, 2012

Exercise 1, after an initial hearing
Here you can hear of the experience of four university students who needed some form of pastoral care and / or counselling while at university.

You may need to know that

  1. The university in the south that Clare went to was Bristol University.
  2. The male student mentioned is called Philip.
  3. The person who went to Durham is called Veronica.
  4. Fiona did a course at Leeds University.

 

Can you listen to this account and identify the students involved?

Vocabulary

You may wish to do one or both of the following exercises:

Ex 2

Ex 3

1. [Multiple choice]

Whose parents fell ill during his / her time at university?

Answers for Quiz [1].

  • 1. Fiona’s
  • 2. Veronica’s
    (correct)
  • 3. The lad from Cambridge’s
  • 4. Clare’s

2. [Multiple choice]

Who mentioned low self-esteem as a symptom?

Answers for Quiz [2].

  • 1. The student who’d gone to Cambridge. (correct)
  • 2. Clare
  • 3. The student who’d gone to Durham (or was it Sunderland?)
  • 4. The student studying at Leeds.

3. [Multiple choice]

Whose friends helped?

Answers for Quiz [3].

  • 1. Veronica’s
  • 2. Fiona’s
  • 3. The lad from Cambridge’s
  • 4. Clare’s (correct)
  • 5. Fiona’s and Clare’s

4. [Multiple choice]

Who had difficulty revising during the vacations?

Answers for Quiz [4].

  • 1. Philip
  • 2. Clare
  • 3. Veronica (correct)
  • 4. Fiona

5. [Multiple choice]

Who said he / she was too proud to ask for help?

Answers for Quiz [5].

  • 1. Veronica
  • 2. Philip (correct)
  • 3. Clare
  • 4. Fiona

6. [Multiple choice]

Who was prescribed medication and then sent to the counselling services?

Answers for Quiz [6].

  • 1. Clare
  • 2. Fiona
    (correct)
  • 3. Veronica
  • 4. Philip

7. [Multiple choice]

Who considered (s)he had chosen the wrong sort of university?

Answers for Quiz [7].

  • 1. The student who’d gone to Leeds.
  • 2. The student who’d gone to some northern university, either Sunderland or Durham.
  • 3. The Bristol student
  • 4. The student who’d gone to Cambridge. (correct)

8. [Multiple choice]

Who was sent to the university counselling services but was put off by the waiting list?

Answers for Quiz [8].

  • 1. Clare (correct)
  • 2. Fiona
  • 3. The student at Cambridge
  • 4. Veronica

9. [Multiple choice]

Who didn’t deal with the problem until it was too late?

Answers for Quiz [9].

  • 1. Clare & Fiona
  • 2. Just Philip
  • 3. Fiona and the Cambridge student whose name we don’t hear.
  • 4. Veronica & Philip
  • 5. Clare and Philip (correct)
  • 6. Fiona and Veronica
  • 7. Just Clare
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