1. Unit 4
Education: School

2. Topic
Some people think that single sex schools are better for students than co-ed schools. To what extent do you agree with this opinion?

3. Getting Ready to write Do you agree or disagree with the statements?
Boys learn faster than girls
Girls are better at language than boys
Boys and girls should study at separate high schools

4. Model 1
Single-sex to produce better students because there are high schools help fewer distractions in these kinds of schools than in co-educational schools. Nowadays, students are learning more than ever before, and while they are trying to understand all this new knowledge, they do not need distractions.

5. If boys and girls are studying together, they may become focused on each other and not concentrate on the lesson. For example, a male student might be more interested in impressing a female peer than listening to the teacher; similarly, female students might get into arguments over popular boys, or spend their time discussing the boys in their class instead of listening to the teacher. If high schools are single sex, these kinds of distractions can be reduced.

6. Key vocabulary Verb Noun Adjective Peer Distract Focus Concentrate
Get into an argument
reduce
Co-educational
Single-sex
knowledge

7. Comfortable interact opportunity advantage knowledge single-sex peer get into an argument
Distract concentrate focus co-educational

8. Which word refers to a person that you know, and are equal to
Which word is opposite to “increase”?______
Which word means to talk with other people?
___________
What do loud noises do to you when you are reading?______________
What do we do if we start an angry conversation?_______
Which word means that you feel safe and happy?
__________
g. Which two verbs are related to thinking carefully about one thing?___________

9. Which word describes a school that has females and males?___________
How can we describe a “boys only” school?______
What do we learn?________
Which word means a positive effect of something?__________
Which word describes a chance to do something?______________

10. Please turn off your MP3 player, the music is a ____________
Yesterday, Ruth and Sally________ a terrible
_____ so they are not talking to each other today.
My mother really wanted me to go to a _____school but I really think it is better to have both males and females together in a _______ school.
I can’t______ on this question because I’m thinking about something else.
She needs to________ on her studies and not be so easily about something else.

11. We are not really friends, we are just______.
They_____ the answer to the questions, so they passed the test.
I feel_____ when I am with good friends.
At school you have the ______ to learn many new things.
People need to learn to ______ with their____
at school.
One______ of co-ed schools is that students learn social skills.
We need to _____on correct English grammar.

12. Language Focus --Paragraph structure
Model 1
Single-sex high schools help to produce better students because there are fewer distractions in these kinds of schools than in co-educational schools. Nowadays, students are learning more than ever before, and while they are trying to understand all this new knowledge, they do not need distractions. (If boys and girls study together,) they may become more focused on each other.

13. And not concentrate on the lesson
And not concentrate on the lesson. For example, (a male student might be more interested in impressing a female peer than listening to the teacher; similarly, female students might get into arguments over popular boys, or spend their time discussing the boys in their class instead of listening to the teacher. )If high schools are single sex, these kinds of distractions can be reduced.