Discuss the following questions in pairs.
1. How important is it for you to get high-level educational qualifications?
2. What would the effect be on you and on your family if you failed your next examination.
3. What do students in Poland like least about school? What do they like most?
4. Should lessons be more about things that young people are really interested in? Why? Why not?
5. What makes a school lesson interesting? What makes it boring?
6. How has technology helped to improve the educational system?
7. What is the main purpose of education?
8. What are some important factors in determining which college to attend?
 to learn facts
 to get a good job
 to pass exams
 to satisfy your parents
 to learn skills that help with real life
 to learn how to get on with other people and develop social skills
Discuss the following questions in pairs.
1. Should teachers express their political views in class? Why? Why not?
2. Is it important for a teacher to have a sense of humor? Why? Why not?
3. Do you prefer strict teachers or easy-going ones? Explain.
4. What do you think a teacher’s classroom nightmares are?
5. What are the qualities of a good techer?
PAIRWORK
In most schools, teachers ask parents to come to school for parent-teacher conferences several times each year. The teacher and the parents discuss the child’s progress in school. Role play these conferences between a mother or a father and their child’s teacher.
1. The son, Tony, is seven years old. His family just moved to this city three weeks ago, and Tony is very lonely in school.
2. The daughter, Laura, is six years old. She has been very sick this year, and the doctor says she will have to stay at home for two more months. Her parents are worried because she will have to miss so much school.
3. The son, John, is fourteen years old. He has been skipping school. His parents thought he was going to school every day, but he has actually been going over to his friend’s house.
4. The son, Peter, ten years old, is a discipline problem. He fights in the schoolyard and talks back to the teacher.
5. The daughter, Ann, eleven years old, is very bright and is bored with the school work the teacher is giving her.
LESSON PLAN Joanna Rówińska
TOPIC: EDUCATION
AIM: Speaking practice – talking about education
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary – education
ACTIVITY
DESCRIPTION
AIM
TIME
1. warm-up (brainstorming)
2. classwork
3. picture description
4. coursebook (Gold 1/123 )
5. coursebook (2/123)
6. pairwork
7. READING
(‘101 WAYS TO AVOID STUDYING’)
- pre-reading activities
9. Reading/ post-reading activities
SCOOL iswritten on the board. Students’ task is to think of some words associated with SCHOOL (then the words connected with education)
Students answer the teacher’s questions (What’s the difference between ...?)
Students’ task is to compare and contrast two pictures (ways of studying) and to discuss which place they would prefer to study in and which is the best way to learn? (in a group/ individually)
Students read the short text and choose the correct word in each sentence.
Students think about their own experiences of education and discuss the topics given.
Students discuss the questions given.
1) Students discuss questions (1/124 – coursebook) (asked at random)
2) Students discuss the title of the text.
Students read the text.
1) Is it a serious article giving advice?
2. Is it a serious warning about the dangers of not studying properly?
3) Is it humorous/ ironic? (how can they tell?)
Students do exercise 2 p.124
Matching the headings ex.3/124
(if there’s enough time – the class is divided into 7 gropus. Each group is given one paragraph to read. They read their paragraph, and think of a suitable title for it – the title should summarize in a few words what the paragraph is about. Then they can compare their ideas with the headings in ex.3/124
Vocabulary – revision
Vocabulary
Speaking practice
Vocabulary
Speaking practice
Speaking practice
Speaking practice
Reading comprehension/ speaking practice
4’
3’
6’
4’
8’
10’
6’
17’
10. pairwork
11. Groupwork
Students discuss the qualities of an ideal student.
Students are the board of governors of a school . Their task is to cut down on expenses and discuss the consequences of their actions.

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