UNIT 4: EDUCATION SYSTEM
(from period 18 to 22)
A – READING
 OBJECTIVES
Aims: School education system in England
Lexical items: Words / phrases related to education.
Teaching aids: pictures in textbook.
Skills: Reading for gist and for specific information
 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative.
 PROCEDURE
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
WARM-UP
 Game: Word search
The words to find
Education, school year, free, begin, end, public,
system, grade, course, holiday, term, exam
 Ask Ss to look at the words and guess what
they are going to read.

BEFORE YOU READ
 T can explain some new words
1. compulsory (a): obligatory, ≠ voluntary
2. certificate (n): an official document showing
that you have passed an examination
3. curriculum (n): plural curricula /-lə/ or
curriculums: the subjects that students learn at a
school, college etc
4. core (a): the most important or central part of
something
5. tuition fees: the money you pay for being taught
Whole class

 T gets Ss to speak out the answers.
 T gives feedback. AFTER YOU READ
Stop and correct
 T has Ss read the passage very carefully in about
5 minutes and then close their books.
 T reads the paragraph 2 with the wrong
information and tells Ss to listen and shout
“STOP” when they realize the wrong
information.

5. The General Certificate of Secondary
Education.
6. curriculum
Task 2
1. from the age of 5
2. There are three terms.
3. The state school and the “independent”
or “public” school system.
4. Yes.
5. There are 3 core subjects.
6. When Ss finish the secondary school,
they have to take an examination called the
GCSE.
Gap – filling

 OBJECTIVES
Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get some knowledge of the education
system and talk about the school system in Vietnam.
Lexical items: Words / phrases related to the school system in Vietnam.
Teaching aids: handouts
Skills: Ss can talk about the school system in Vietnam.
 METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative.
 PROCEDURE
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
WARM-UP
Game: Match up
 T shows pictures of schools and ask them to
match the school with their names.

Ss work in pairs
6. Pre – school
7. Primary school
 T calls on Ss to give the answers and give feed
back.
 T asks Ss to practise speaking about the school
education system in Vietnam.

BEFORE YOU SPEAK
 T elicits the Vietnamese meaning of the
following words from Ss
1. nursery school (n): nhà trẻ
2. kindergarten (n): trường mẫu giáo
3. primary school (n): trường cấp 1
4. Lower secondary school (n): trường cấp 2
5. Upper secondary school (n): trường cấp 3


Whole class Conversation
A: When do the children in Vietnam go to
primary school?
B: When they 6 years old.
A: How long does the primary education
last?
B: 5 years.


6. saatcmhmeit M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S
7. pggyoaerh G _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y
8. ymtrhceis C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y
 T tells Ss here are some school subjects and ask
them to work out what they are.
BEFORE YOU LISTEN
 T explain some new words
1. tearaway (n): người hay bốc đồng
2. disruptive (a): gây rối
3. methodical (a): cẩn thận, có phương pháp
4. well-behaved (a) :cư xử đúng
5. struggle (n): cuộc đấu tranh
WHILE YOU LISTEN
 T: Listen to the conversation between Jenny and
Gavin. Put a tick () to the question to which
the answer is “Yes”
 T plays the CD player twice for Ss to listen
 T asks them to listen and do task 1
 T goes over the answers with the class.  T lets Ss listen to the conversation again and do
task 2
 T asks Ss to compare the answers in pairs
 T call on Ss to write their answers on the board
 T checks the answers with the whole class.


4
5
 
6
Task 2:
1. When he enjoyed the subjects.
2. He found it 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.

Ss work in pairs

Homework: Ask Ss to write about the
results of their current exams at school and
what they will do to prepare for the next
exams.
Comments
AFTER YOU WRITE
 Check how Ss have corrected their mistakes,
and then give marks to some of them.

 T assigns homework. Ss work in pairs
Suggested ideas
The formal school system in Vietnam
consists of two levels of education, primary
and secondary education. The children start
Grade 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
11 years old. They will finish nine-year
compulsory education when they complete
Grade 9 at the age of 14. The children may

Passive voice verbs are used in writing much more
often than in speech, and they are used in some
types of writing much more often than in others.
Passives are used more in journalism (newspapers,
magazines) than in fiction (novels, stories), but most
journalists and fiction writers use far more active

Whole class
Exercise
1. People developed Concorde in the
1960s
2. They spent £ 1.5 billion on its
development.
3. They have built twenty planes
altogether.
4. People built the Houses of Parliament
in the nineteenth century.
5. People produce Champagne in
France.
than passive sentences. However, passives are very
common in all types of scientific and technical
writing. Scientific articles often contain more
passive than active sentences. You should not use
passive voice verbs unless you have a good reason.
A. Relationship between active and passive:
1. The object of the active verb is the subject of the
passive verb (“English” in the example sentences
below). Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed
by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in
passive voice.

PASSIVE: English has been spoken.
ACTIVE: They had spoken English.
6. The police fined her £ 300 for
speeding.
7. They pay school teachers about £
25,000 a year.
8. The postman deliver our post twice a
day.
9. People gave three teenagers an award
for bravery yesterday.
10. They make paper from wood.
11. Someone killed resident Kennedy in
Dallas.
12. People grow coffee in Africa.
13. Someone painted this picture.
14. The Japanese developed Walkman
cassette players.
15. People knocked down the Berlin Wall
in 1989.
16. They held the 2000 Olympic Games
in Australia.
17. People make Roll-Royce cars in
Britain.
18. People have produced Coca-Cola for
over 100 years.
19. They will speak English at the
conference.
20. People grew Sugar cane in India
thousands of years ago.
21. They speak English here.

English sentences:
ACTIVE: They have been speaking English.
ACTIVE: They had been speaking English.
ACTIVE: They will have been speaking English.
But sentences like these are rarely used:
PASSIVE: English has been being spoken.
PASSIVE: English had been being spoken.
PASSIVE: English will have been being spoken.
B. Most passive sentences do not contain an
agent; all active sentences contain an agent.
1. An agent is the subject of the active verb. In the
example sentences above, the agent is “they” in all
the active sentences; the passive sentences do not
contain an agent.
2. When a passive sentence contains an agent, it is
in a prepositional phrase following the verb. For
example:
English is spoken by them.
In the following sentences, the noun “teachers” is
the agent in both sentences. “Teachers” is also the
subject of the active verb, but “exams” is the subject
of the passive verb.
ACTIVE: Teachers prepare exams.
PASSIVE: Exams are prepared by teachers.
C. You should not use passive voice unless you
have a good reason.
Here are some good reasons for using passive voice:

1. Passive voice is often used when the agent (the
doer of an action; the subject of an active verb) is

51. The volcano will effect the earth’s
climate.
52. The government has published the
latest crime figures.
53. Young people commit most crimes.
54. Last year the courts sent more people
to prison.
55. The press has predicted an increase.
56. The figures will worry people.
57. The media are going to attack the
government.
58. A special committee is studying the
report.
59. They will present their ideas next
month.
60. People would accept some big
changes.
61. An American company makes these
computers.
62. He wrote the program.
63. Someone has left the disk in the disk
drive.
64. People should make backup copies.
65. Children mustn’t use these machines.
66. They are going to cut down forest.
67. She asked the boys to be quiet.
68. The police arrested the boy for setting
fire to the factory.
69. Graham Bell invented the telephone.
70. People invented the telephone in

we arrived at the theatre last night.
75. They have ordered some new
equipment since the factory was
rebuilt.
76. They had arranged some plans before
they chose the new manager.
77. A passer-by took him home.
78. We will receive the gifts on Monday.
79. We didn’t send the reports last month.

80. Did you send the reports last month?
81. They have posted the letters.
82. Someone has locked the door.
83. She made a mistake in the
examination.
84. People play football all over the
world.
85. Our country exports rice and sugar.
86. We use ruler to draw a straight line.
87. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona
Lisa.
88. We write letters to our friends twice a
month.
89. When did people invent television?
90. Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse.
91. When did people build that pyramid?
92. Teachers gave the students a lot of
homework.
93. I have to park my car over there.
94. People held the 1998 World Cup in