Unit 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM The 19 th period Unit 4: Reading A. Objectives: - Students should know school education system in England - 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 - Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage comprehension B. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative C. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook D. Procedure: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I.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? II. Presentation ( 35 min ) 1. Pre - reading: - 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’. 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. 2.While - reading : - 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 : Find words or phrases in the reading passage which have the following meanings.- Let students work individual or in groups - Help students if necessary Keys: 1- state schools - 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’. 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T - Listen to the teacher then read the passages - Ask some new words if necessary - 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 2- primary education 3- secondary education 4- compulsory 5- General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) 6- Curriculum * Task 2: - 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 3. Post- reading: 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. III. Consolidation & Home work: (5 minutes) - Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 1 in workbook and prepare Part B : Speaking at home - 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 Keys: 1. from the age of 5 2. 3 terms 3. the state school and the independent or‘ ’ public school systems‘ ’ 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 - Listen to the teacher and write down homework Good bye ! The 20 th Period Unit 4: Speaking A. Objectives: - Students should know school education system in Vietnam - 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 - Talking about school education system B. Method: integrated, mainly communicative C. Teaching aids: Board, chalks, textbook and notebook D. Procedure: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I. 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) II. Presentation ( 35 min ) 1. Pre-speaking : * Task 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. 2. While-speaking : * 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 3. Post-speaking : * 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 - Keep books close - Listen to the teacher - Look at the board and try to remember names of ten subjects - 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 - Ask some students to stand up and tell loudly - Walk round and help them - Listen and correct mistakes III.Consolidation & Homework: (5 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 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 government. After finishing secondary schools they all have to take the national examination known as GCSE - Listen to the teacher - Write down the homework Good bye ! The 21 st Period Unit 4 Listening A. Objectives: - Students should know about someone’s background. - General knowledge: Students talk about someone’s background. - Language - New words: Words related to someone’s education. - Listening for gist and for specific information B. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative C. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook D. Procedures: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I. Warm-up: (5 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. II. Presentation ( 35 min ) 1. Pre-listening: - 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 - Listen to the teacher - Answer the questions: - Work in pairs - Listen and understand the meanings of those words. 2.While-listening: * Task 1: - 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 some students to come and write their answers. - Let them listen again and correct. * Task 2: - 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’t Gavin pass the exams easily? 4. Why did Gavin say he didn’t 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 3. Post-listening: - 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 III.Consolidation & Homework: (5 minutes) - Ask students to rewrite a passage about their school days in secondary school. - Ask students to prepare the part Writing at home - Read the questions quickly. - Listen to the listening script. - Answer the questions. Answer: 1. Jenny/ Gavin 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’t like that. So school days weren’t 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’t do well in the last exam period. I was content with my math, physics and chemistry results but my English result wasn’t 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 Good bye ! The 22 nd Period GIVE The students written tests’ The 23 rd Period Unit : Writing A. Objectives: - Students learn how to understand the school education system in Vietnam - General knowledge: Students will be able to write the school education system in Vietnam - Language - New words: Words relating to school education systems B. Method: Integrated mainly communicative C. Teaching aids: Textbook, board markers D. Procedure: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I.Warm-up :(5 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. II. Presentation ( 35 min ) 1. Pre-writing: - 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. 2. While-writing: - 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 - 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 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 eleven 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. 3. Post- writing: - Ask Ss to read the paragraph again. - Give remarks on the writing III.Consolidation & Homework: (5 minutes) - Rewrite the paragraph at home. - Prepare the section D (The Language focus part of Unit 4). - Use main ideas in the outline to write a paragraph on the formal school education system in Vietnam - Exchange their writings for peer correction - Correct mistakes. - Read the paragraph again - Correct mistakes - Rewrite the paragraph at home. - Prepare the section D (The Language focus part of Unit 4). Good bye ! The 24 th period Unit 4: Language Focus A. Objectives: - Students know how to pronounce and mark the stress in three-syllable words. - General knowledge: Students learn some information to fill in a form - Language: - New words: Words related to a form - Pronunciation: Stress in three-syllable words - Grammar: Passive voice B. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative C. Teaching aids: Text books, D. Procedures: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I. Warm-up: ( 5 min ) - Write some three-syllable words on the board, and - Listen to teacher - Read aloud then pronounce those words aloud. - Pay attention to its stress. - Ask Ss to read after 1. algebra 2. carefully 3. politics 4. physical 5. computing 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. II. Presentation ( 35 min ) A. 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 needed - Let students read the sentences and work in groups - Listen and remark each group B. 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: - 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: - 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. - Pay attention to its stress. - Understand the aim of the new lesson. - 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 Exercise 3. 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. III.Consolidation & Homework: (5 minutes) - Assign homework - Do exercise ‘part E-language focus in work book. - Prepare Unit 5: Higher education 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 tragedies have been translated into many languages. 7. A new primary school has just been 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 ‘part E-language focus’ in work book. - Prepare Unit 5: Higher education Good bye ! . school at the age of 6 and finis this level - Ask some students to stand up and tell loudly - Walk round and help them - Listen and correct mistakes III.Consolidation. in pairs - Listen and correct mistakes - Listen to the teacher - Answer the questions: - Work in pairs - Listen and understand the meanings of those words.