UNIT 5: ILLITERACY- PART B: SPEAKING

• Provide poor children with transportation, books, money … • Send teachers to remote areas... Many students can’t buy all the required textbooks.. • Provide free textbooks for studen

WARM-UP: BRAINSTORMING

State the reasons of illiteracy:

-Many children live far from school.

-Their families are too poor to send them

to school.

-Lack of schools and teachers in remote

or mountainous areas.

-Students cannot buy all the required

books.

What are your suggested

solutions to these problems?

To solve these problems I think we should:

•Build more schools

• Provide poor children with

transportation, books, money …

• Send teachers to remote areas

TASK 1: WORK IN PAIRS. Match each problem in A with its appropriate solutions in B

1 Many students

can’t buy all the

required

textbooks.

• Provide free textbooks for students from

low-income families.

• Collect used textbooks for school libraries.

A B

2 Students

cheat in exams • Enforce strict school regulation

• Offer special tutoring lessons

3 Many

children live far

from school

• Provide transportation to schools

• Build new schools

A B

4 Many students

left the schools

before

completing it

• Offer special tutoring lessons

• Help them do their homework

5 Many students

have difficulty in

learning English

• Set up an English speaking club

• Provide cassettes and videos in

English

TASK 2: WORK IN GROUPS Talk

about your school problems and offer solutions Use the suggestions in Task 1

Example: A:- Many students cannot buy all the required books What do you think we should do to help them?

B:- I think we should ask the school head-master to provide free textbooks for

students from low-income families.

C:- We should collect used textbooks for

school libraries.

TASK 3: WORK IN GROUPS Think of

three or four problems your class is coping with Talk about them and offer the

solutions You may use the cues below:

• Large class size (Over 50 students in the class)

• Shortage of desks (3 students per desk)

• Hot in summer (no electric fans)

• Cold and dark in winter (broken windows,

no lights)

SUGGESTED CONVERSATION

A:- The main problem of our class is that it is

oversized There are over 50 students in our class What should we do to solve this problem?

B:- I think an ideal class size is 20-30 Ss , so the school should recruit more teachers and open new classes.

A:- Another problem is that there is a shortage of desks Three students have to sit on a desk What should we do?

B:- We should buy more desks or if there are new classes , the current number of desk should be

provided adequately.

• Write a paragraph about a school

problem and one or two solutions to it

• Do exercises in the workbook

• Prepare for the next lesson: Unit 5 – Listening