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
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
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
E D U C A T I O N K
D R E T U N R B U G
S C H O O L Y E A R
E C O U R S E G E A
X E L P U B L I C D
A N I E F O T N F E
M D D S Y R T E M O
O H A S Y S E T R S
N L Y S Y S T E M M
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.
Comments
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
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
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.
Comments
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
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
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
1
2
3
4
5
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.
Comments
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
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
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.
Comments
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
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
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.