UNIT 4: EDUCATION SYSTEM (from period 18 to 22) pptx

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.
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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.
than passive sentences. However, passives are very
common in all types of scientific and technical
writing. Scientific articles often contain more
passive than active sentences. You should not use
passive voice verbs unless you have a good reason.
A. Relationship between active and passive:
1. The object of the active verb is the subject of the
passive verb (“English” in the example sentences
below). Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed
by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in
passive voice.

These are some common intransitive verbs: appear,
arrive, come, cry, die, go, happen, occur, rain,
sleep, stay, walk. These verbs cannot be used in
passive voice.
2. The passive verb always contains a form of the
auxiliary verb be. The form of be in the passive
verb phrase corresponds to the form of the main
verb in the active verb phrase (see the underlined
words in the example sentences below). That is, if
the active main verb is simple present tense, then a
simple present tense form of be is used in the
passive verb phrase; if the active main verb is -ING,
then the -ING form of be is used in the passive verb
phrase; and so on.
3. The main verb in a passive predicate verb phrase
is always the participle form of the verb.
4. Some examples of active and passive sentences:
ACTIVE: They speak English.
PASSIVE: English is spoken.
ACTIVE: They spoke English.
PASSIVE: English was spoken.
ACTIVE: They will speak English.
PASSIVE: English will be spoken.
ACTIVE: They are going to speak English.
PASSIVE: English is going to be spoken.
ACTIVE: They are speaking English.
PASSIVE: English is being spoken.
ACTIVE: They were speaking English.
PASSIVE: English was being spoken.
ACTIVE: They have spoken English.

PASSIVE: English has been spoken.
ACTIVE: They had spoken English.
6. The police fined her £ 300 for
speeding.
7. They pay school teachers about £
25,000 a year.
8. The postman deliver our post twice a
day.
9. People gave three teenagers an award
for bravery yesterday.
10. They make paper from wood.
11. Someone killed resident Kennedy in
Dallas.
12. People grow coffee in Africa.
13. Someone painted this picture.
14. The Japanese developed Walkman
cassette players.
15. People knocked down the Berlin Wall
in 1989.
16. They held the 2000 Olympic Games
in Australia.
17. People make Roll-Royce cars in
Britain.
18. People have produced Coca-Cola for
over 100 years.
19. They will speak English at the
conference.
20. People grew Sugar cane in India
thousands of years ago.
21. They speak English here.

22. They produce Nokia phones in
Finland.
23. They include service in the bill.
24. We are redecorating our kitchen at
the moment.
25. Another company is taking over our
company.
26. The company employs about 1,000
people.
27. We grow all our vegetables on the
farm.
28. They are pulling down that block of
flats because it is unsafe.
29. They deliver our newspapers before
breakfast.
30. Someone broke my glasses.
31. Nobody asked him to come.
32. Somebody left the lights on.
33. Somebody told me about it yesterday.
34. Nobody invited her to the party.
35. Someone took us to the hospital.
36. Nobody gave them any information.
37. Did anybody find the missing child?
38. Did anything disturb you in the night?
39. They cut down trees.
PASSIVE: English had been spoken.
ACTIVE: They will have spoken English.
PASSIVE: English will have been spoken.
5. Perfect progressive verb forms are generally
used in active voice only. That is, these are good

English sentences:
ACTIVE: They have been speaking English.
ACTIVE: They had been speaking English.
ACTIVE: They will have been speaking English.
But sentences like these are rarely used:
PASSIVE: English has been being spoken.
PASSIVE: English had been being spoken.
PASSIVE: English will have been being spoken.
B. Most passive sentences do not contain an
agent; all active sentences contain an agent.
1. An agent is the subject of the active verb. In the
example sentences above, the agent is “they” in all
the active sentences; the passive sentences do not
contain an agent.
2. When a passive sentence contains an agent, it is
in a prepositional phrase following the verb. For
example:
English is spoken by them.
In the following sentences, the noun “teachers” is
the agent in both sentences. “Teachers” is also the
subject of the active verb, but “exams” is the subject
of the passive verb.
ACTIVE: Teachers prepare exams.
PASSIVE: Exams are prepared by teachers.
C. You should not use passive voice unless you
have a good reason.
Here are some good reasons for using passive voice:

1. Passive voice is often used when the agent (the
doer of an action; the subject of an active verb) is

obvious, unknown, or unnecessary:
Oranges are grown in California.
Toyotas are made in Japan.
Her purse was stolen.
2. Passive voice is often used when the agent is
known, but the speaker/writer doesn’t want to
40. People take them to the paper mill.
41. People made the first paper in China.
42. They invented paper nearly two
thousand years ago.
43. The Arabs brought the methods for
making paper to Europe in the 18
th

century.
44. Since the 19
th
century, people have
used wood fro making the pulp.
45. Bleaching paper to make it white has
caused a lot of pollution.
46. Pollution from paper mills has
destroyed many lake and rivers.
47. Since the 1980s, they have recycled
more and more paper.
48. The lava has destroyed thousands of
homes.
49. The Americans have evacuated the
base.
50. The base provided thousands of jobs.

51. The volcano will effect the earth’s
climate.
52. The government has published the
latest crime figures.
53. Young people commit most crimes.
54. Last year the courts sent more people
to prison.
55. The press has predicted an increase.
56. The figures will worry people.
57. The media are going to attack the
government.
58. A special committee is studying the
report.
59. They will present their ideas next
month.
60. People would accept some big
changes.
61. An American company makes these
computers.
62. He wrote the program.
63. Someone has left the disk in the disk
drive.
64. People should make backup copies.
65. Children mustn’t use these machines.
66. They are going to cut down forest.
67. She asked the boys to be quiet.
68. The police arrested the boy for setting
fire to the factory.
69. Graham Bell invented the telephone.
70. People invented the telephone in

1876.
71. My sister cleans the room every day.
72. They are repairing my car.
mention it:
She was given bad advice.
A mistake has been made.
3. Passive voice is often used when the agent is
very general such as people or somebody.
English is spoken here.
The door should be locked.
4. Passive voice is often used when the
speaker/writer wants to emphasize a result:
Several thousand people were killed by the
earthquake.
5. Passive voice is often used when the
speaker/writer wants to keep the same subject for
two or more verbs but this would not be possible if
both verbs were the same voice (active or passive).
For example, in a conversation about George, a
speaker would probably use sentence a below rather
than sentence b (both sentences are correct).
a. George had several interviews before he was
hired by a software company.

b. George had several interviews before a software
company hired him.

73. Someone attacked that boy in the
street last night.
74. They were performing the play when

we arrived at the theatre last night.
75. They have ordered some new
equipment since the factory was
rebuilt.
76. They had arranged some plans before
they chose the new manager.
77. A passer-by took him home.
78. We will receive the gifts on Monday.
79. We didn’t send the reports last month.

80. Did you send the reports last month?
81. They have posted the letters.
82. Someone has locked the door.
83. She made a mistake in the
examination.
84. People play football all over the
world.
85. Our country exports rice and sugar.
86. We use ruler to draw a straight line.
87. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona
Lisa.
88. We write letters to our friends twice a
month.
89. When did people invent television?
90. Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse.
91. When did people build that pyramid?
92. Teachers gave the students a lot of
homework.
93. I have to park my car over there.
94. People held the 1998 World Cup in

France.
95. My father waters this flower every
morning.
96. John invited Fiona to the party last
night.
97. Her mother is preparing the dinner in
the kitchen.
98. We should clean our teeth twice a
day.
99. Our teacher has explained the English
grammar.
100. Some drunk drivers caused the
accident in this city.

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