Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 12 Unit 4: School education system - Lesson 1

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

5- General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)

6- Curriculum

Task 2: (4 minutes)

- Ask students to answer the following questions

- Ask students look through the passages then try to answer the questions in right way

- Let them work in pairs

- Help students if necessary

(the answers in the passage)

Walk round the classroom and correct mistakes

Keys:

1. from the age of 5

2. 3 terms

3. the state school and the ‘independent’ or ‘public’ school systems

4. yes

5. There are 3 core subjects (English, Maths and Science)

6. When Ss finish the secondary school, they can take an examination called the General Certificate of Secondary Education

After you read: (8 minutes)

Ask Ss to work in groups. Tell the others one of the most difficult school subjects you are studying and what you would like your friends and your teacher to do to help you learn that subject more effectively.

Home work: (2 minutes)

- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 1 in workbook and prepare Part B: Speaking at home

- 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

- Listen to the teacher

- Try to answer the questions

- Practice with a partner then write them down in the note books

- Ask the teacher if necessary

- Listen to the teacher and make a brief note about school education system in England

- Listen to the teacher

- Try to talk about school education system in England

- The students who are called to stand up to talk loudly are intelligent ones

Work in groups. Tell the others one of the most difficult school subjects you are studying and what you would like your friends and your teacher to do to help you learn that subject more effectively.

- Listen to the teacher and write down homework