Unit 4: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM - READING
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, cassette player, chalks, textbook and notebook
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
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’.
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)
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
2- primary education
3- secondary education
4- compulsory
- 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