UNIT 4. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM. SPEAKING. Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: • Get some knowledge of the education system. • Talk about the school education in Vietnam. Teaching aids: pictures, handouts, pieces of paper. PROCEDURE. Stages Activities Timing. 1.Warm-up Game; match up (see Appendix). • Arrange Ss to work in pairs. • Show pictures of schools and ask Ss to match the schools with their names. • Call on SS to give the answers and give feedback. 1. Pre-school (nursery school and kindergarten). 2. Primary school. 3. Lower secondary school. 4. Upper secondary school. Lead-in : You will practice speaking about the school education system in Vietnam. 3 mins. 2. pre- reading Pre-teaching vocabulary • Elicit the Vietnamese meaning of the following words from Ss. 1. Nursery school(n): nha tre. 2. Kindergarten (n): truong mau giao. 3. Primary school (n) : truong cap mot. 4. Lower secondary school (n): truong cap hai. 5. Upper secondary school(n): truong cap ba. Checking: Show the pictures of the schools and ask Ss to say what kind of the school is. 7 mins. 3. While- reading Activity 1: Questions and answers (task 1, p. 47). • Let Ss work in pairs to ask and answer the questions about the school education system in Vietnam based on the table on page 47. • Work with a student to model. 1 • Call some pairs to act out the conversations. • Give feedback and comments. Example: A; When do the children in Vietnam go to primary school? B: When they are 6 years old. A; How long is the primary education? 5 years, from grade 1 to 5. Activity 2 (Task 2, p. 47) • Break the class into groups of four or five. • Tell them to talk about the school education system in Vietnam, using the information from Task 1. • Move around the class to control and give help if necessary. • Invite groups’ ideas. • Give feedback on what Ss have done and make comments. Suggested ideas: There are four levels of education in Vietnam- pre-school primary school, lower secondary school and upper secondary school. Children often go to pre-school when they are one year old, which is optional. Primary and lower secondary education are compulsory in Vietnam. Children start to go to primary school at the age of six and generally move to lower secondary school until the age of fourteen when they finish lower secondary school until the age of fourteen when they finish lower secondary school and then they have to take an examination to go to upper secondary school… 4. Post- writing Writing about the similarities and differences: • Divide the class into six groups. • Give each group a poster and a board marker. • Assign three groups to write the similarities between the school system in Vietnam and England and the other three groups to write about the different • Have Ss stick the posters on the board. • Call on some groups to report their results to the class. • Give feedback and comments. 14 mins 5. Home- work Writing Ask Ss to write a short paragraph about the school education system in Vietnam. 1 min. 2 . UNIT 4. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM. SPEAKING. Aims: By the end of the lesson, students