While you read : 23 minutes - Ask students to look through the passage and read in silence - Help students read the passage - Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words which appear
Trang 1Unit 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
The 19 th period
Date : 18/9
Grade 12
Theme: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
Unit 4
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students should know school education system in England
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about school education system
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing school education system
- New words: Words related to school education system
3 Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and
passage comprehension
II Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and
notebook
IV Procedure:
Teacher s activities’s activities Students activities’s activities Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss some questions about the
picture:
- Who are they?
- What are they doing?
- Do you think they are English
students?
Before you read : (7 minutes)
- Ask students to read the facts below and
decide whether the statements about
schools in Vietnam are true (T) or false
(F) Then compare their results with their
partners’s activities
Facts about schools
1 Children start Grade 1 when they are 6
years old
2 Schooling is compulsory from the age
of 6 to 16
3 The school year generally begins in
September and ends in late May
4 The students do not have any
examinations when they finish secondary
school
5 A school year consists of two terms
While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the passage
and read in silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new
words which appear in the passage
Task 1 : (3 minutes)
- Open the book
- Listen to the teacher
- Answer the questions
- Listen to the teacher and open the book – Unit 1, part A:
reading
- Look at the book, listen to the teacher and work in pairs to decide whether the statements about schools in Vietnam are true (T) or false (F) Then compare their results with their partners’s activities
1 T
2 F
3 T
4 F
5 T
- Listen to the teacher then read the passages
- Ask some new words if necessary
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passage which have the following
meanings.- Let students work individual or
in groups
- Help students if necessary
Keys:
1- state schools
2- primary education
3- secondary education
4- compulsory
5- General Certificate of Secondary
Education (GCSE)
6- Curriculum
Task 2: (4 minutes)
- Ask students to answer the following
questions
- Ask students look through the passages
then try to answer the questions in right
way
- Let them work in pairs
- Help students if necessary
(the answers in the passage)
Walk round the classroom and correct
mistakes
Keys:
1 from the age of 5
2 3 terms
3 the state school and the independent‘independent’ ’s activities
or public school systems‘independent’ ’s activities
4 yes
5 There are 3 core subjects (English,
Maths and Science)
6 When Ss finish the secondary school,
they can take an examination called the
General Certificate of Secondary
Education
After you read : (8 minutes)
Ask Ss to work in groups Tell the others
one of the most difficult school subjects
you are studying and what you would like
your friends and your teacher to do to help
you learn that subject more effectively
Home work: (2 minutes)
- Ask students to do Reading exercise of
Unit 1 in workbook and prepare Part B :
Speaking at home
- Keep the book open
- Listen to the teacher then do task 1
- Ask the teacher if necessary
- work individual or in group
- Write down in the notebook
- Listen to the teacher
- Try to answer the questions
- Practice with a partner then write them down in the note books
- Ask the teacher if necessary
- Listen to the teacher and make
a brief note about school education system in England
- Listen to the teacher
- Try to talk about school education system in England
- The students who are called to stand up to talk loudly are intelligent ones
Work in groups Tell the others
one of the most difficult school subjects you are studying and what you would like your friends and your teacher to do
to help you learn that subject more effectively
- Listen to the teacher and write down homework
Trang 3The 20 th Period
Date 19/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Speaking
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students should know school education system in Vietnam
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn about school education system
- Language: Talking about the school education system in Vietnam
- New words: words related to school education system
3 Skills: talking about school education system
II Method: integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids: Board, chalks, textbook and notebook
IV Procedure:
Teacher s activities’s activities Students activities’s activities Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to keep book close
- Write on the board names of school
education system in Vietnam:
University, nursery, primary school,
college, kindergarten, secondary
school Then ask Ss to put them in
order
- Ask students to repeat
Tell Ss to understand more about
school education system in Vietnam
(We learn Unit 1, part- speaking)
Pre-speaking : (12 minutes)
- Keep books close
- Listen to the teacher
- Look at the board and try to remember names of ten subjects
Trang 4Task 1
- Ask Ss to work in pairs Study the
table below then ask and answer the
questions about the school education
system in Vietnam
- Let them work in pairs
- Listen to students and correct
mistakes
Example:
A: When do the children in Vietnam
go to primary school?
B: When they are 6 years old
A: How long does the primary
education last?
B: 5 years
While-speaking : (15 minutes)
Task 2
- Teacher introduces the task “Work in
groups Talk about the school
education system in Vietnam, using
the information from Task 1”
- Guide students how to practise
- Ask students to work in pairs
- Help the students with new
structures
- Walk around and help them
- Call some student to stand up and
report before the class
- Correct their mistakes
Post-speaking : (10 minutes)
Task 3
-Teacher introduces the task “Work in
groups Talk about the similarities and
differences between the school system
in Vietnam and in England”
- Let them work in groups
- Ask some students to stand up and
tell loudly
- Walk round and help them
- Listen and correct mistakes
- Work in pairs
- Practice asking and answering the questions about the school education system in Vietnam using the information in the table
Example:
A: When do the children in Vietnam go to primary school?
B: When they are 6 years old
A: How long does the primary education last?
B: 5 years
- Listen to the teacher
- Do task 2
- Work in groups
- The students are called stand up and tell loudly
Example:
In Vietnam, children can go to Nursery school when they are 1 to
2 and go to Kindergarten when they are from 2 to 5
- Work in groups Talk about the similarities and differences between the school system in Vietnam and
in England
Example:
There are some differences between the school systems in Vietnam an England Children in Vietnam start primary school at the age of 6 and finis this level at 10 while those in England study at primary school from the age of 5 to 10 Schooling
is compulsory for Vietnamese children until the age of 1 but, in England, compulsory education ends when children are 16 There is also a difference about the subjects studied at schools
On the other hand, Vietnam and England school systems have some similarities Students in both countries have to follow the national curriculum set by the
Trang 5Homework: (3 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about
similarities and differences between
the school system in Vietnam and in
England
- Ask students to prepare Part
C-Listening and do homework
government After finishing secondary schools they all have to take the national examination known as GCSE
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework
The 21 st Period
Date 20/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Listening
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students should know about someone’s activitiess background.
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students talk about someone’s activitiess background
- Language
- New words: Words related to someone’s activitiess education
3 Skill: Listening for gist and for specific information
II Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and
notebook
IV Procedures:
Teacher s activities’s activities Students activities’s activities Notes
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Ask Ss some questions about their
studies at school
1 What school subjects are you good
at?
2 Which ones do you enjoy most/least
in your class? Explain why
Pre-listening: (9 minutes)
- Ask Ss to look at “Listen and repeat”
- Read and ask students to listen
- Let students listen again and repeat
- Write some words on board and ask
students to read them aloud
- Let they work in pairs
- Listen and correct mistakes
While-listening: (20 minutes)
Task 1 (10 minutes):
- Ask students to read the questions
quickly
- Guide students the requests of the
task
- Let students listen twice
- Write on board from 1 to 6 and call
- Listen to the teacher
- Answer the questions:
- Work in pairs
- Listen and understand the meanings of those words
- Read the questions quickly
- Listen to the listening script
- Answer the questions
Answer:
1 Jenny/ Gavin
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answers
- Let them listen again and correct
Task 2 (10 minutes):
- Teacher introduces the task “Listen
again and answer the questions”
1 When did Gavin think he listed to
the teacher well?
2 How did Gavin find the exams?
3 Why couldn’s activitiest Gavin pass the exams
easily?
4 Why did Gavin say he didn’s activitiest think
his school days were the best time of
his life?
- Read or turn on the tape script again
once or twice
- Help students give the correct answers
Post-listening: (10 minutes)
- Teacher introduces the task “Work in
pairs Talk about the results of your
current exams at school and what you
will do to prepare for the next exams”
- Go round and help students
- Correct mistakes
Homework: (2minutes)
- Ask students to rewrite a passage
about their school days in secondary
school
- Ask students to prepare the part
Writing at home
2 Gavin
3 Jenny
4
5 Jenny/ Gavin 6
- Look at the task 2 and listen to the teacher
- Read the questions and try to understand them
- Listen to the tape script
- Give correct answers:
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’s activitiest like that So school days weren’s activitiest the best days of his life
- Work in pairs Talk about the results of your current exams at school and what you will do to prepare for the next exams
E.g I didn’s activitiest do well in the last exam period I was content with
my math, physics and chemistry results but my English result wasn’s activitiest very good I made too many mistakes so I barely passed it
I think I have to spend more time studying English to get higher grade in the coming exam
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework
The 22 nd Period
Date 21/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Writing
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students learn how to understand the school education
system in Vietnam
2 Knowledge:
Trang 7- General knowledge: Students will be able to write the school education system
in Vietnam
- Language
- New words: Words relating to school education systems
3 Skill :
II Method: Integrated mainly communicative
III Teaching aids: Textbook, board markers
IV Procedure:
Teacher s activities’s activities Students activities’s activities Notes
Warm-up :(3 minutes)
- Ask students some questions about school
education systems in Vietnam
1 How many levels of educations are there
in your school system?
2 How long does it take to complete each
level?
3 How many classes are there in each level?
4 When do children start Grade I?
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: “write a
paragraph on the formal school education
system in Vietnam”
Pre-writing: (15 minutes)
- Teacher introduces the task: In about 150
words, write a paragraph on the formal school
education system in Vietnam, using the information
given in Speaking Tasks on page 47 You may
follow the suggestions below:
- Levels of education:
primary (5 years; start from the age of 6)
lower secondary (4 years)
upper secondary (3 years)
- Compulsory education: 9 years (primary & lower
secondary)
- The academic year: 35 weeks (9 months, from
September to May)
- School terms: 2 terms: term 1 (Sept - Dec.), term 2
(Jan - May)
- Time of the national examination for GCSE (early
June)
- Guide Ss to write
1 Topic Sentence
2 Supporting Details
3 Closing Sentence
- Walk round the class to give Ss assistance
While-writing: (20 minutes)
- Ask Ss to write
- Call on some Ss to read out their writing in
front of the class
- Ask Ss to exchange their writings for peer
correction
- Correct mistakes
Suggested answer
The formal school system in Vietnam consists of two
levels of education, primary and secondary
education The children start Grade/ Year 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
- Work in pairs, discuss and find out the answers
1- 3 2- Primary: 5 years/
Lower secondary- 4 years/ upper secondary - 3 years
- Understand the aim of the lesson
- Study the task carefully
- Work in pairs to give outlines
1
Topic Sentence
The formal school system in Vietnam consists of two levels of education, primary and secondary education.
2
Supporting Details
3
Closing Sentence
- Use main ideas in the outline
to write a paragraph on the formal school education system
in Vietnam
- Exchange their writings for peer correction
Trang 8eleven 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 exam to universities or colleges
they have to take the national examination for
GCSE which takes place at the end of Mayor
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.
Post- writing: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss to read the paragraph again
- Give remarks on the writing
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Rewrite the paragraph at home
- Prepare the section D (The Language focus
part of Unit 4)
- Correct mistakes
- Read the paragraph again
- Correct mistakes
- Rewrite the paragraph at home
- Prepare the section D (The Language focus part of Unit 4)
The 23 rd period
Date : 22/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Language Focus
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students know how to pronounce and mark the stress in
three-syllable words
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn some information to fill in a form
- Language:
- New words: Words related to a form
3 Skills:
- Pronunciation: Stress in three-syllable words
- Grammar: Passive voice
II Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids: Text books,
IV Procedures:
Teacher s activities’s activities Students activities’s activities Notes
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Write some three-syllable words on
the board, and then pronounce those
words aloud
- Pay attention to its stress
- Ask Ss to read after
1 algebra
2 carefully
3 politics
4 physical
- Listen to teacher
- Read aloud
- Pay attention to its stress
- Understand the aim of the new lesson
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6 compulsory
7 September
-How do we pronounce these words?
- Read again these words and lead to the
lesson
- Today, we learn how to pronounce
three-syllable words
I Pronunciation
a Give Ss some rules of word stress in
three-syllable words
- Help students how to pronounce those
words correctly by reading first as model
b Practice:
- Read the words first: clearly, correctly
- Listen and correct their pronunciation if it’s activitiess
needed
- Let students read the sentences and work in
groups
- Listen and remark each group
II Grammar:
a) Review some grammar structures: Passive
voice
S + to be + past participle
- Give some examples
- Ask Ss to make sentences with the
structures
b Practice:
* Exercise 1: (10m’s activities)
- Introduce the task: Fill each blank with the
simple present passive form of the verb in
brackets
- Guide Ss to do
- Ask Ss to fill each blank with the simple
present passive form of the verb in brackets
- Correct mistakes
* Exercise 2: (10m’s activities)
- Introduce the task: Rewrite the following
sentences using the passive voice
- Guide Ss to do
- Ask Ss to rewrite the following sentences
using the passive voice
- Correct mistakes
- Listen and repeat from 2-3 times
- Some of them stand and read words aloud
- Practise in groups
- Some groups compare with their results and read the words in sentences aloud
- The answers can be various
- Listen and give more questions
in pairs
- Read the sentences in chorus aloud
- Understand the task
- Fill each blank with the simple present passive form of the verb in brackets
Answers:
1 is separated
2 is set - must be followed
3 is made up
4 is paid
5 are selected
- Understand the task
- Rewrite the following sentences using the passive voice
Answers: Exercise 2
1 this school was built in 1997
2 This dictionary was published in 1870
3 A surprise party is going to be organized by the students in my class tomorrow morning
4 The kitchen is being painted now.
5 “Romeo and Juliet” was written by Shakespeare in 1605
6 Shakespeare’s activitiess tragedies have been translated into many languages.
7 A new primary school has just been
Trang 10Exercise 3 (10m’s activities)
- Introduce the task: Fill in the spaces of
the following passage with the correct
tense in passive voice of the verbs in
brackets
- Guide Ss to do
- Ask Ss to fill in the spaces of the
following passage with the correct
tense in passive voice of the verbs in
brackets
- Correct mistakes
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Assign homework
- Do exercise ‘independent’part E-language focus in
work book
- Prepare Unit 5: Higher education
built in my village.
8 English will be spoken at the conference
9 The floor hasn't been cleaned (by Jane) yet.
10 The house will be repainted …
Exercise 3
1 Was built 2 were sold
3 has been made 4 can be bought
5 are used 6 can be used
7 is stored 8 are done
9 must be told 10.can be done
- Do exercise ‘independent’part E-language focus’s activities in work book
- Prepare Unit 5: Higher education
The 24 th period
Date: 2
Grade 12
Theme: HIGHER EDUCATION
Unit 5
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students should know about their first impressions of
university life
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about higher education
- Language: verbs in past tense
- New words: Words related to higher education
3 Skills: • Vocabulary comprehension matching
• Passage comprehension
• Arranging the sequence of an event
II Method: Integrated, mainly communicative