Unit 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
The 19
th
period
Unit 4: Reading
A. Objectives:
- Students should know school education system in England
- 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
- Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage
comprehension
B. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
C. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook
D. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I.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?
II. Presentation ( 35 min )
1. Pre - reading:
- 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

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
2- primary education
3- secondary education
4- compulsory
5- General Certificate of Secondary
Education (GCSE)
6- Curriculum
* Task 2:
- 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
3. Post- reading:
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.
III. Consolidation & Home work: (5 minutes)

th
Period
Unit 4: Speaking
A. Objectives:
- Students should know school education system in Vietnam
- General knowledge: Students learn about school education system
- Language: Talking about the school education system in Vietnam.
- New words: words related to school education system
- Talking about school education system
B. Method: integrated, mainly communicative
C. Teaching aids: Board, chalks, textbook and notebook....
D. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. 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)
II. Presentation ( 35 min )
1. Pre-speaking :
* Task 1
- Ask Ss to work in pairs. Study the table
below then ask and answer the questions
about the school education system in

- Keep books close
- Listen to the teacher
- Look at the board and try to remember names of ten
subjects

- Work in pairs.
- Practice asking and answering the questions about
the school education system in Vietnam using the
information in the table.
Example:
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:
There are some differences between the school
systems in Vietnam an England. Children in Vietnam
start primary school at the age of 6 and finis this level

Unit 4 Listening
A. Objectives:
- Students should know about someone’s background.
- General knowledge: Students talk about someone’s background.
- Language
- New words: Words related to someone’s education.
- Listening for gist and for specific information
B. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
C. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook
D. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss some questions about their studies at
school.
1. What school subjects are you good at?
2. Which ones do you enjoy most/least in
your class? Explain why.
II. Presentation ( 35 min )
1. Pre-listening:
- Ask Ss to look at “Listen and repeat”
- Read and ask students to listen
- Let students listen again and repeat.
- Write some words on board and ask students
to read them aloud.
- Let they work in pairs
- Listen and correct mistakes
- Listen to the teacher
- Answer the questions:
- Work in pairs
- Listen and understand the meanings of those

school days in secondary school.
- Ask students to prepare the part Writing at
home
- Read the questions quickly.
- Listen to the listening script.
- Answer the questions.
Answer:
1. Jenny/ Gavin
2. Gavin
3. Jenny
4.
5. Jenny/ Gavin
6.
- Look at the task 2 and listen to the teacher
- Read the questions and try to understand them
- Listen to the tape script
- Give correct answers:
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.
- Work in pairs. Talk about the results of your
current exams at school and what you will do to
prepare for the next exams
E.g. I didn’t do well in the last exam period. I was
content with my math, physics and chemistry
results but my English result wasn’t very good. I