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Unit 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
The 19
th
period
Date : 18/9
Grade 12
Theme: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
Unit 4
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know school education system in England
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about school education system
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing school education system
- New words: Words related to school education system
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and
passage comprehension
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and
notebook
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Notes
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?

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

- 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
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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

III. Teaching aids: Board, chalks, textbook and notebook....
IV. Procedure:
Teacher s activities’ Students activities’ Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to keep book close
- Write on the board names of school
education system in Vietnam:
University, nursery, primary school,
college, kindergarten, secondary
school. Then ask Ss to put them in order
- Ask students to repeat
Tell Ss to understand more about school
education system in Vietnam.
(We learn Unit 1, part- speaking)
Pre-speaking : (12 minutes)
Task 1
- Ask Ss to work in pairs. Study the
table below then ask and answer the
questions about the school education
system in Vietnam.
- Let them work in pairs
- Listen to students and correct
mistakes
Example:
- Keep books close
- Listen to the teacher
- Look at the board and try to
remember names of ten subjects

- Work in pairs.

-Teacher introduces the task “Work in
groups. Talk about the similarities and
differences between the school system
in Vietnam and in England”.
- Let them work in groups
- Ask some students to stand up and tell
loudly
- Walk round and help them
- Listen and correct mistakes
A: When do the children in Vietnam
go to primary school?
B: When they are 6 years old.
A: How long does the primary
education last?
B: 5 years.
- Listen to the teacher
- Do task 2
- Work in groups
- The students are called stand up
and tell loudly
Example:
In Vietnam, children can go to
Nursery school when they are 1 to
2 and go to Kindergarten when they
are from 2 to 5
- Work in groups. Talk about the
similarities and differences between
the school system in Vietnam and in
England
Example:

they all have to take the national
examination known as GCSE
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework
The 21
st
Period
Date 20/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Listening
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know about someone’s background.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students talk about someone’s background.
- Language
- New words: Words related to someone’s education.
3. Skill: Listening for gist and for specific information
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and
notebook
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Notes
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Ask Ss some questions about their
studies at school.
1. What school subjects are you good
at?

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?
- Read or turn on the tape script again
once or twice
- Help students give the correct answers
Post-listening: (10 minutes)
- Teacher introduces the task “Work in
pairs. Talk about the results of your
current exams at school and what you
will do to prepare for the next exams”.
- Go round and help students
- Correct mistakes
- Work in pairs
- Listen and understand the
meanings of those words.
- Read the questions quickly.
- Listen to the listening script.
- Answer the questions.
Answer:
1. Jenny/ Gavin
2. Gavin
3. Jenny
4.
5. Jenny/ Gavin
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Homework: (2minutes)
- Ask students to rewrite a passage
about their school days in secondary
school.
- Ask students to prepare the part
Writing at home
I think I have to spend more time
studying English to get higher
grade in the coming exam.
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework
The 22
nd
Period
Date 21/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Writing
Time: 45 minutes
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 :

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 class.
- Ask Ss to exchange their writings for peer
correction
- Correct mistakes.
Suggested answer.
The formal school system in Vietnam consists of two

- Correct mistakes.
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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).
- Read the paragraph again
- Correct mistakes
- Rewrite the paragraph at home.
- Prepare the section D (The
Language focus part of Unit 4).
The 23
rd
period
Date : 22/9
Grade 12
Theme: school education system
Unit 4
Language Focus
Time: 45 minutes