Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extracurricular: Describes activities, programs, or subjects that are outside the regular, required curriculum or schedule of a school or educational institution. These activities are often optional and intended to supplement formal education.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Trường học có nhiều hoạt động ngoại khóa thú vị. (The school has many interesting extracurricular activities.)
  • Buổi nói chuyện về môi trường là một sự kiện ngoại khóa. (The talk about the environment is an extracurricular event.)
  • Giáo viên khuyến khích học sinh tham gia các lớp học ngoại khóa. (The teacher encourages students to participate in extracurricular classes.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in an educational context to distinguish optional, supplementary activities from compulsory, in-class studies.
• It can function attributively before a noun (e.g., ) and is rarely used predicatively.

Variants and Related Words

• Hoạt động ngoại khóa (n): Extracurricular activity. The most common compound phrase.
  • Cậu ấy tham gia ba hoạt động ngoại khóa. (He participates in three extracurricular activities.)

Synonyms

• Extracurricular: Outside the regular course of study.
• Supplementary: Providing additional support or education.
• Co-curricular: Often used interchangeably, though sometimes implying activities more directly related to enhancing the main curriculum.

Related Idioms

• There are no common idioms specifically using the word ngoại khóa. Its usage is direct and descriptive within the context of education.