UNIT 4: EDUCATION SYSTEM (from period 18 to 22) pptx

Upper secondary school Whole class Conversation A: When do the children in Vietnam go to primary school?. Ss work in pairs Suggested ideas The formal school system in Vietnam consists

UNIT 4: EDUCATION SYSTEM (from period 18 to 22)

A – READING

 OBJECTIVES

Aims: School education system in England

Lexical items: Words / phrases related to education

Teaching aids: pictures in textbook

Skills: Reading for gist and for specific information

 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative

 PROCEDURE

WARM-UP

 Game: Word search

The words to find

Education, school year, free, begin, end, public,

system, grade, course, holiday, term, exam

 Ask Ss to look at the words and guess what

they are going to read

BEFORE YOU READ

 T can explain some new words

1 compulsory (a): obligatory, ≠ voluntary

2 certificate (n): an official document showing

that you have passed an examination

3 curriculum (n): plural curricula /-lə/ or

curriculums: the subjects that students learn at a

school, college etc

4 core (a): the most important or central part of

something

5 tuition fees: the money you pay for being taught

6 state school (n): trường công lập

7 primary education (n): primary education is for

children between 5 and 11 years old [=

elementary American English]

8 secondary education (n): secondary education is

for children between 11 and 18 years old

9 category (n): [countable] plural categories a

group of people or things that are all of the same

type

10 consist of something (phrasal verb): to be

formed from two or more things or people

WHILE YOU READ

 T asks Ss to read the text silently and do task 1

 T asks Ss to read the passage again and answer

the questions in task 2

 T asks Ss to compare the answers with their

Ss work in groups to find out 12 words

Whole class

Answers:

Task 1

1 state school

2 primary education

3 secondary education

4 compulsory

partners

 T walks round the class, offers ideas and

comments when Ss need help

 T calls on some Ss to write the answers on the

board

 T check with the class

 T asks Ss to read the passage and fill in each gap

with a suitable word

 T gets Ss to speak out the answers

 T gives feedback

AFTER YOU READ

Stop and correct

 T has Ss read the passage very carefully in about

5 minutes and then close their books

 T reads the paragraph 2 with the wrong

information and tells Ss to listen and shout

“STOP” when they realize the wrong

information

5 The General Certificate of Secondary Education

6 curriculum

Task 2

1 from the age of 5

2 There are three terms

3 The state school and the “independent”

or “public” school system

4 Yes

5 There are 3 core subjects

6 When Ss finish the secondary school, they have to take an examination called the GCSE

Gap – filling

Schooling is (1) … for all English children from the age of 5 to 16 The academic year in England runs from (2)

… to July and is (3) … into 3 terms (4)

…… term is from the beginning of September to mid-December Spring term

is from the beginning of January to mid-March and (5) … term from early April to mid-July Each term is separated by on-week (6) … called half term

1 three parallel …

2 the first is the private school …

3 paid by the people …

4 independent or special school system

5 paid by Ss

6 95 %

7 put into two levels

8 university education … Homework: Write a short paragraph about the most difficult school subjects they are facing with and solutions to the better study

of the subjects

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B – SPEAKING

 OBJECTIVES

Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get some knowledge of the education

system and talk about the school system in Vietnam

Lexical items: Words / phrases related to the school system in Vietnam

Teaching aids: handouts

Skills: Ss can talk about the school system in Vietnam

 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative

 PROCEDURE

WARM-UP

Game: Match up

 T shows pictures of schools and ask them to

match the school with their names

Ss work in pairs

6 Pre – school

7 Primary school

 T calls on Ss to give the answers and give feed

back

 T asks Ss to practise speaking about the school

education system in Vietnam

BEFORE YOU SPEAK

 T elicits the Vietnamese meaning of the

following words from Ss

1 nursery school (n): nhà trẻ

2 kindergarten (n): trường mẫu giáo

3 primary school (n): trường cấp 1

4 Lower secondary school (n): trường cấp 2

5 Upper secondary school (n): trường cấp 3

 T says the name of the school in their

neighborhood and gets Ss to say what level of

education it is

WHILE YOU SPEAK

 T lets Ss work in pairs to ask and answer about

the school system in Vietnam based on the table

on page 47

 T works with a student to model

 T calls some pairs to act out the conversations

 T gives feedback and comments

 T breaks the class into groups and tell them to

talk about the school education system in

Vietnam, using the information in task 1

 T moves around the class to control and give

help if necessary

AFTER YOU SPEAK

 T has Ss talk about the similarities and

differences between the school system in

Vietnam and in England

 T assigns homework

8 Lower secondary school

9 Upper secondary school

Whole class

Conversation

A: When do the children in Vietnam go to

primary school?

B: When they 6 years old

A: How long does the primary education

last?

B: 5 years

Homework: Ask Ss to write a short paragraph about the school education system in Vietnam

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C – LISTENING

 OBJECTIVES

Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to listen to people talking about school days Lexical items: Words / phrases related to school days

Teaching aids: pictures, a tape/CD, and handouts

 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative

 PROCEDURE

WARM-UP

Game: Scrambled words

 T delivers handouts with the following

1 thisoyr H _ _ _ _ _ Y

2 nfhcer F _ _ _ _ H

3 pisshyc P _ _ _ _ _ S

4 smciu M _ _ _ C

Ss work in groups

Answer:

1 history

2 French

3 physics

4 music

5 hesgnli E _ _ _ _ _ H

6 saatcmhmeit M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S

7 pggyoaerh G _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y

8 ymtrhceis C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y

 T tells Ss here are some school subjects and ask

them to work out what they are

BEFORE YOU LISTEN

 T explain some new words

1 tearaway (n): người hay bốc đồng

2 disruptive (a): gây rối

3 methodical (a): cẩn thận, có phương pháp

4 well-behaved (a) :cư xử đúng

5 struggle (n): cuộc đấu tranh

WHILE YOU LISTEN

 T: Listen to the conversation between Jenny and

Gavin Put a tick () to the question to which

the answer is “Yes”

 T plays the CD player twice for Ss to listen

 T asks them to listen and do task 1

 T goes over the answers with the class

 T lets Ss listen to the conversation again and do

task 2

 T asks Ss to compare the answers in pairs

 T call on Ss to write their answers on the board

 T checks the answers with the whole class

AFTER YOU LISTEN

 T has Ss talk about their school

1 How do you feel about your school? Do you like

it or not?

2 What things do you like and what things don’t

you like? (uniform? Subjects? Teachers?

Punishment/extra-curricular activities?)

3 What changes would you like to make?

 T assigns homework

5 English

6 mathematics

7 geography

8 chemistry

whole class

Task 1:

Question Jenny Gavin

4

6

Task 2:

1 When he enjoyed the subjects

2 He found it very difficult

3 Because they were difficult for him to

do in a short time

4 Because he went away to boarding school when he was quite young and he didn’t like that So school days weren’t the best days of his life

Ss work in pairs

Homework: Ask Ss to write about the results of their current exams at school and what they will do to prepare for the next exams

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D – WRITING

 OBJECTIVES

Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to describe school education system in

Vietnam

Lexical items: Words / phrases related to school system

Teaching aids: handouts

 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative

 PROCEDURE

WARM-UP

Game: words relates to school Ss work in groups

BEFORE YOU WRITE

 Ask Ss to work in pairs to talk about the

national education system in Vietnam, using the

information shown in the diagram

WHILE YOU WRITE

 Ask Ss to work in groups to write a paragraph

on the formal school education system in

Vietnam based on the diagram

 T walks around the class, helping Ss if they

have any problems with their writing and note

down the most common mistakes Ss make in

order to correct in front of the class

AFTER YOU WRITE

 Check how Ss have corrected their mistakes,

and then give marks to some of them

 T assigns homework

Ss work in pairs

Suggested ideas

The formal school system in Vietnam consists of two levels of education, primary and secondary education The children start Grade 1 at the age of 6 and they normally complete the primary education at the age

of 10 They move to lower secondary school to study in Grade 6 when they are

11 years old They will finish nine-year compulsory education when they complete Grade 9 at the age of 14 The children may

go to upper secondary schools if they pass all the subjects tested at the end of Grade 9 They will stay there until they complete Grade 12 at the age of 17 If they want to sit for the entrance examination to universities or colleges they have to take the national examination for GCSE which takes place at the end of May or beginning

of June The academic year in Vietnam runs from September to May and is divided into two terms The first term ends in January with a week holiday and the second term finishes in May before a long summer holiday comes

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E – LANGUAGE FOCUS

 OBJECTIVES

Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get some rules of the stress in three syllable

words and use the passive voice

Lexical items: Irregular verbs

Teaching aids: a tape/CD, and handouts

 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative

 PROCEDURE

PRONUNCIATION

 Listen and repeat the words on page 49

 Get Ss to practise reading the sentences

GRAMMAR

Passive Sentences

Passive voice verbs are used in writing much more

often than in speech, and they are used in some

types of writing much more often than in others

Passives are used more in journalism (newspapers,

magazines) than in fiction (novels, stories), but most

journalists and fiction writers use far more active

Whole class Exercise

1 People developed Concorde in the 1960s

2 They spent £ 1.5 billion on its development

3 They have built twenty planes altogether

4 People built the Houses of Parliament

in the nineteenth century

5 People produce Champagne in France

than passive sentences However, passives are very

common in all types of scientific and technical

writing Scientific articles often contain more

passive than active sentences You should not use

passive voice verbs unless you have a good reason

A Relationship between active and passive:

1 The object of the active verb is the subject of the

passive verb (“English” in the example sentences

below) Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed

by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in

passive voice

These are some common intransitive verbs: appear,

arrive, come, cry, die, go, happen, occur, rain,

sleep, stay, walk These verbs cannot be used in

passive voice

2 The passive verb always contains a form of the

auxiliary verb be The form of be in the passive

verb phrase corresponds to the form of the main

verb in the active verb phrase (see the underlined

words in the example sentences below) That is, if

the active main verb is simple present tense, then a

simple present tense form of be is used in the

passive verb phrase; if the active main verb is -ING,

then the -ING form of be is used in the passive verb

phrase; and so on

3 The main verb in a passive predicate verb phrase

is always the participle form of the verb

4 Some examples of active and passive sentences:

ACTIVE: They speak English

PASSIVE: English is spoken

ACTIVE: They spoke English

PASSIVE: English was spoken

ACTIVE: They will speak English

PASSIVE: English will be spoken

ACTIVE: They are going to speak English

PASSIVE: English is going to be spoken

ACTIVE: They are speaking English

PASSIVE: English is being spoken

ACTIVE: They were speaking English

PASSIVE: English was being spoken

ACTIVE: They have spoken English

PASSIVE: English has been spoken

ACTIVE: They had spoken English

6 The police fined her £ 300 for speeding

7 They pay school teachers about £ 25,000 a year

8 The postman deliver our post twice a day

9 People gave three teenagers an award for bravery yesterday

10 They make paper from wood

11 Someone killed resident Kennedy in Dallas

12 People grow coffee in Africa

13 Someone painted this picture

14 The Japanese developed Walkman cassette players

15 People knocked down the Berlin Wall

in 1989

16 They held the 2000 Olympic Games

in Australia

17 People make Roll-Royce cars in Britain

18 People have produced Coca-Cola for over 100 years

19 They will speak English at the conference

20 People grew Sugar cane in India thousands of years ago

21 They speak English here

22 They produce Nokia phones in Finland

23 They include service in the bill

24 We are redecorating our kitchen at the moment

25 Another company is taking over our company

26 The company employs about 1,000 people

27 We grow all our vegetables on the farm

28 They are pulling down that block of flats because it is unsafe

29 They deliver our newspapers before breakfast

30 Someone broke my glasses

31 Nobody asked him to come

32 Somebody left the lights on

33 Somebody told me about it yesterday

34 Nobody invited her to the party

35 Someone took us to the hospital

36 Nobody gave them any information

37 Did anybody find the missing child?

38 Did anything disturb you in the night?

39 They cut down trees

PASSIVE: English had been spoken

ACTIVE: They will have spoken English

PASSIVE: English will have been spoken

5 Perfect progressive verb forms are generally

used in active voice only That is, these are good

English sentences:

ACTIVE: They have been speaking English

ACTIVE: They had been speaking English

ACTIVE: They will have been speaking English

But sentences like these are rarely used:

PASSIVE: English has been being spoken

PASSIVE: English had been being spoken

PASSIVE: English will have been being spoken

B Most passive sentences do not contain an

agent; all active sentences contain an agent

1 An agent is the subject of the active verb In the

example sentences above, the agent is “they” in all

the active sentences; the passive sentences do not

contain an agent

2 When a passive sentence contains an agent, it is

in a prepositional phrase following the verb For

example:

English is spoken by them

In the following sentences, the noun “teachers” is

the agent in both sentences “Teachers” is also the

subject of the active verb, but “exams” is the subject

of the passive verb

ACTIVE: Teachers prepare exams

PASSIVE: Exams are prepared by teachers

C You should not use passive voice unless you

have a good reason

Here are some good reasons for using passive voice:

1 Passive voice is often used when the agent (the

doer of an action; the subject of an active verb) is

obvious, unknown, or unnecessary:

Oranges are grown in California

Toyotas are made in Japan

Her purse was stolen

2 Passive voice is often used when the agent is

known, but the speaker/writer doesn’t want to

40 People take them to the paper mill

41 People made the first paper in China

42 They invented paper nearly two thousand years ago

43 The Arabs brought the methods for making paper to Europe in the 18th century

44 Since the 19th century, people have used wood fro making the pulp

45 Bleaching paper to make it white has caused a lot of pollution

46 Pollution from paper mills has destroyed many lake and rivers

47 Since the 1980s, they have recycled more and more paper

48 The lava has destroyed thousands of homes

49 The Americans have evacuated the base

50 The base provided thousands of jobs

51 The volcano will effect the earth’s climate

52 The government has published the latest crime figures

53 Young people commit most crimes

54 Last year the courts sent more people

to prison

55 The press has predicted an increase

56 The figures will worry people

57 The media are going to attack the government

58 A special committee is studying the report

59 They will present their ideas next month

60 People would accept some big changes

61 An American company makes these computers

62 He wrote the program

63 Someone has left the disk in the disk drive

64 People should make backup copies

65 Children mustn’t use these machines

66 They are going to cut down forest

67 She asked the boys to be quiet

68 The police arrested the boy for setting fire to the factory

69 Graham Bell invented the telephone

70 People invented the telephone in

1876

71 My sister cleans the room every day

72 They are repairing my car

mention it:

She was given bad advice

A mistake has been made

3 Passive voice is often used when the agent is

very general such as people or somebody

English is spoken here

The door should be locked

4 Passive voice is often used when the

speaker/writer wants to emphasize a result:

Several thousand people were killed by the

earthquake

5 Passive voice is often used when the

speaker/writer wants to keep the same subject for

two or more verbs but this would not be possible if

both verbs were the same voice (active or passive)

For example, in a conversation about George, a

speaker would probably use sentence a below rather

than sentence b (both sentences are correct)

a George had several interviews before he was

b George had several interviews before a software

company hired him

73 Someone attacked that boy in the street last night

74 They were performing the play when

we arrived at the theatre last night

75 They have ordered some new equipment since the factory was rebuilt

76 They had arranged some plans before they chose the new manager

77 A passer-by took him home

78 We will receive the gifts on Monday

79 We didn’t send the reports last month

80 Did you send the reports last month?

81 They have posted the letters

82 Someone has locked the door

83 She made a mistake in the examination

84 People play football all over the world

85 Our country exports rice and sugar

86 We use ruler to draw a straight line

87 Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa

88 We write letters to our friends twice a month

89 When did people invent television?

90 Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse

91 When did people build that pyramid?

92 Teachers gave the students a lot of homework

93 I have to park my car over there

94 People held the 1998 World Cup in France

95 My father waters this flower every morning

96 John invited Fiona to the party last night

97 Her mother is preparing the dinner in the kitchen

98 We should clean our teeth twice a day

99 Our teacher has explained the English grammar

100 Some drunk drivers caused the accident in this city

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