Unit 4. School education system

Pick out the activities which do not
belong to the others
• Attracting the waiter’s attention
• Doing exercises
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• Taking exams and tests
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• Listening toie
teachers
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• Writing
Ac lessons and essays
• Learning lessons
• Wearing the uniform
• Reading textbooks
• Taking part in extra activities
• Going to a wedding party

• Do you always work hard at school?
• How do you listen to the teachers?
• Do you write the lessons carefully?
• Do you like wearing school uniforms?
• What subjects are you good at?
• Do you pass the exams easily?
• Do you like your schooldays?


Tearaway (n)

ngươì bốc đồng, thiếu
irresponsible
trách nhiệm
person

Do you think you are a tearaway at school?

Disruptive (a)

gây
mất trật tự, thiếu tập
≠
attentive
trung

Who is the most disruptive student in our
class?

in an
Methodical (adj) done
cẩn thận,
có phương
orderly
logical
pháp
careful way
Who is the most methodical
student in our class?
Well- behaved (adj) Cư xử đúng mực
Do you think you are a well- behaved
student?


Struggle (n/v)


cuộc
a
hardchiến
fight đấu,
in which
đấu tranh
people try
to obtain or achieve something

struggle with/ against somebody, something

Do you have to struggle with English?
Boarding school (n) atrường
school nội
in which
trú students

live all weekdays and they
only come home at weekends

Do you like to study in a boarding school?


Tearaway (n)
Disruptive
(adj)
Methodical
(adj)
Well- behaved
(adj)
Struggle (n)

ngươì bốc đồng, thiếu
trách nhiệm
gây mất trật tự
cẩn thận, có phương pháp
cư xử đúng mực
cuộc chiến đấu, đấu tranh

trường nội trú
Boarding school (n)

Listen and repeat
Tearaway

Actually

term

Disruptiv
Welle
behaved
semester
Methodic
terms
al
Struggl
e


Task 1: Listen and tick the questions to which
the answer is ‘Yes’
Jenny Gavin
1 ‘Did you always work very hard ?
“Did you always listen carefully to
2 your teachers?”
3 “Did you always behave well?”
4 ‘Did you pass your exams easily?’
“Did you always write your
5 homework slowly and carefully?”

“Did you think schooldays were
6 the best days of your life?”

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Task 2: Listen again then find
missing words fill in the blanks
1.Gavin listened to the teachers certainly
when he got to the level when he was
doing
the __________ that he enjoyed.
subject

s
2. Jenny
found the exams quitestruggl
a _________.
3. Though Gavin worked hardehe found it
very difficult to answer question
all the long
_________ in a short time.

s
4. Gavin went away boarding
to ______________ when
he was quite young
and he didn’t like
school
that.


Task 3: Listen again and
answer the questions
1. When did Gavin think he listened 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?



1. When he enjoyed the subjects
2. He found the exams 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.)

1. How do you like your schooling?
2. What things do you like and what things
don’t you like? (subjects, teachers, uniform,
extra activities)
3. How are you getting on with your friends
and teachers?
4. How do you do your homework/ listen to the
teachers/ write your lessons/ pass the
exams?
5. What change would you like to make?
6. What will you do to prepare for the next
exams?


• Prepare writing lesson.



Why did Gavin say he didn’t
think his school days were the
best time of his life?
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.)

:2
You’ve just lost
half of your
points!

You are unlucky!


X

2

Lucky
number!


When did Gavin think
he listened to the
teacher well?

When he enjoyed
the subjects

20


Why couldn’t Gavin
theyear
exams
5.pass

A school
consists of two
easily?
Because they were
difficult for him to do in a
short time.


How did Gavin find the
exams?
He found the exams
very difficult.