Unit 1 Communications

Homework:
Ex: 3
to practise guessing the meaning of new words Ask PP to find the words in the Calendar and to guess or find out their meaning in the Wordlist. PP then write their own school calendar.
Date:
Form: IX
Subject: English
Theme: Education in England and Wales
Aim:
• to talk about and compare education systems in Uzbekistan, the UK and the USA
• to present and provide practice in the use of the relative pronoun 'which' in 'extra information' clauses
• to raise PP awareness of different cultures
• to practise reading for specific information
• to practise using the new structure in sentences
Equipment: picture, dictionary
T h e p r o c e d u r e o f t h e l e s s o n
1. The beginning of the lesson
2.Checking up the homework
T h e m a i n p a r t o f t h e l e s s o n
Activity 1a
Objective: to pre-teach some of the vocabulary in the reading passage Start by checking the homework. You could ask these questions: Compare the calendars for Uzbekistan and the USA.
1 Who has the most holidays?
2 Are any of the holidays the same date?
Ask PP to describe briefly the reasons for the holidays in the school calendar. Continue by asking PP to make phrases with the word 'school', then ask them to try guessing their meaning.
Activity 1b
Objective: to identify vocabulary from Activity 1a in context
Ask PP to read the text and find the words from Activity 1 a.
Culture Note:
In Britain in 1965 the Labour Government introduced the policy of comprehensive education. Before that time, all children took an exam at the age of 11 called '11+'. Approximately the top 20 per cent were chosen to go to the academic grammar schools. Those who failed the '11+' (80 per cent) went to secondary modern schools. A lot of people thought that this system of selection at the age of 11 was unfair on many children, so comprehensive schools were introduced to offer suitable courses for PP of all abilities. Some Local Education Authorities started to change over to comprehensive education immediately, but some were harder to convince and slower to act. There are few Local Education Authorities who still keep the old system of grammar schools, but most Local Education Authorities have now changed over completely to non-selective education in comprehensive schools.
Activity 1c
Objective: to practise reading for specific information and inferring meaning from context Ask PP to answer the questions with the help of the text
Key:
1 Nursery, primary (infant and junior), secondary, private
2 5 years old
3 infant and junior
4 PP have to pass an exam to go to grammar schools
5 Public schools
Activity 1d
Objective: to practise reading for specific information
Ask PP to complete the table with information form the text.