1. Unit 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Listening

2. Activities at school

3. Doing exercises Taking exams and tests Listening to teachers Writing lessons and essays Learning lessons Wearing the uniform Reading textbooks Taking part in extra activities Doing exercises Taking exams and tests Listening to teachers Writing lessons and essays Learning lessons Wearing the uniform Reading textbooks Taking part in extra activities Pick out the activities which do not belong to the others

4. before you listen: You are going to listen to the conversation between Jenny and Gavin about their past school days 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 uniform? What subjects are you good at? Do you pass the exams easily? Do you like your schooldays? SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM

5. Tearaway (n) Do you think you are a tearaway at school? irresponsible person VOCABULARY SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM

6. Disruptive (a) # attentive Who is the most disruptive student in our class?

7. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Methodical (a) done in an orderly, logical and careful way Who is the most methodical student in our class?

8. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM semester Well- behaved (a) Do you think you are a well- behaved student? Cư xử đúng mực

9. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Struggle (n/v) a hard fight in which people try to obtain or achieve st struggle with/ against sb, st struggle with/ against sb, st Do you have to struggle with English?

10. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Boarding school (n) Do you like to study in a boarding school? a school in which sts can live all weekdays and they only come home on the weekends

11. CHECKING SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Tearaway (n) Disruptive (a) Methodical (a) Well- behaved (a) Struggle (n) Boarding school (n) ngươì bốc đồng, thiếu trách nhiệm trách nhiệm cẩn thận, có phương pháp gây mất trật tự cư xử đúng mực cuộc chiến đấu, đấu tranh trường nội trú

12. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Listen and repeat Tearaway (n) Disruptive (a) Well- behaved (a) Well- behaved (a) Struggle (n) Struggle (n) Actually

13. While you listen: Task 1: Listen and tick the questions to which the answer is ‘Yes’

14. JennyGavin 1 ‘Did you always work very hard ? 2 “Did you always listen carefully to your teachers?” 3 “Did you always behave well?” 4 ‘Did you pass your exams easily?’ 5 “Did you always write your homework slowly and carefully?” 6 “Did you think schooldays were the best days of your life?”     

15. Listen again and fill in the missing words SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM 1.Gavin listened to the teachers certainly when he got to the level when he was doing the __________ that he enjoyed. 2. Jenny found the exams quite a _________. 3. Though Gavin worked hard he found it very difficult to answer all the long _________ in a short time. 4. Gavin went away to _____________ when he was quite young and he didn’t like that 1.Gavin listened to the teachers certainly when he got to the level when he was doing the __________ that he enjoyed. 2. Jenny found the exams quite a _________. 3. Though Gavin worked hard he found it very difficult to answer all the long _________ in a short time. 4. Gavin went away to _____________ when he was quite young and he didn’t like that subjects struggle questions boarding school

16. 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? Task 2: Listen again and answer the questions SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM

17. Unit 4: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM TASK 2 – GAME: A LUCKY SCHOOL

18. 1. When did Gavin think he listened to the teacher well? When he enjoyed the subjects SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM 20

19. 2. How did Gavin find the exams? He found the exams very difficult. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM 20

20. 3. Why couldn’t Gavin pass the exams easily? Because they were Because they were difficult for him to do in a short time. 20

21. 4..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.) SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM Double score. 40

22. Unit 4: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM You’ve got a lucky school. 20

23. ANSWERS 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.) SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM

24. SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN VIET NAM After you listen: TALK ABOUT Jenny and Gavin’S school days USING THE INFORMATION IN THE LISTENING TASKS

25. TALK ABOUT YOUR ACTIVITIES AT SCHOOL How do you like your schooling? What things do you like and what things don’t you like? (subjects, teachers, uniform, extra activities) How are you getting on with your friends and teachers? How do you do your homework/ listen to the teachers/ write your lessons/ pass the exams? What change would you like to make? What will you do to prepare for the next exams?

26. Write a passage about your school days in the lower secondary school. Prepare writing at home.