Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 - Unit 4: School education system (Writing)

Unit 4: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM - WRITING
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students learn how to understand the school education system in
Vietnam
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students will be able to write the school education system in
Vietnam
- Language
- New words: Words relating to school education systems
3. Skill:
II. Method: Integrated mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Textbook, board markers
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm-up: (3 minutes)
- Ask students some questions about school education - Work in pairs, discuss and find out
systems in Vietnam.
the answers.
1. How many levels of educations are there in your school 1- 3
system?
2- Primary: 5 years/
2. How long does it take to complete each level?
Lower secondary- 4 years/ upper
3. How many classes are there in each level?
secondary - 3 years
4. When do children start Grade I?
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: “write a paragraph on the
formal school education system in Vietnam”
- Understand the aim of the lesson.
Pre-writing: (15 minutes)

- 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.
While-writing: (20 minutes)
- Ask Ss to write
- Call on some Ss to read out their writing in front of the

- 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
- Use main ideas in the outline to
write a paragraph on the formal


class.
- Ask Ss to exchange their writings for peer 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.
Post- writing: (5 minutes)

- Ask Ss to read the paragraph again.
- Give remarks on the writing
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Rewrite the paragraph at home.
- Prepare the section D (The Language focus part of Unit
4).

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).