Education in Australia

Time

Teacher’s activity

Student’s activity

2min

1. Organization movement.

The teacher greets the students:

Good-morning ,students .Sit down ,please .I’m very glad to see you today .

Who is on duty ?

Who is absent ?

What day of the week is it today ?

What date is it?

What season is it now?

What is the weather like today?

A student answers the teacher’s question and listens very attentively.

4min

2. Phonetic and Speech Drill.

Repeat the words: broken, hearted, words, wisdom, parted, hour, darkness, sounds, music, comes to me.

Let’s sing a song “Let it be”

The students repeat the words, they sing a song “let it be”.

19 min

3. Checking up homework.

And now it is time to check your homework. We are going to speak about to the famous sightseeing in Australia. So we start our travelling. Have a good time!

Questions:

1. What do you know about Sydney Opera House?

2. The biggest Australian state is Queensland , isn`t it ?

3. Tell Melbourne?

The students retell a topic about the famous sightseeing in Australia.

2 min

4. Motivation

Our today’s class is devoted to getting about the system of education in Australia, the famous people of Australia and their achievements . Today we are going to speak about private and state schools, review grammar rule about about Present Continuous Tense, do exercises and discuss information about schools in Australia.The teacher tells the students the theme of the lesson and explain what aims they are going to solve at the lesson.

Education in Australia. Famous people of Australia and their achievements

Teamwork

Brain storming

Error monitoring

Grammar

Questions

The students listen to the teacher’s explanation what they are going to do at the lesson.

35 min

5. Presentation of new theme: « Education in Australia. Famous people of Australia and their achievements »

Look at the blackboard!

How do you think what is the theme of our lesson?

We are having an unusual lesson

The topic « Education in Australia. Famous people of Australia and their achievements» and what will we do at our lesson

We’ll do some exercises

Watch slides

Work in groups

Repeat the words

1. Vocabulary:

Feepaying

free of charge

obligatory

senior classes

cancelling

irrespective

abilitie

tendency

complete

1. Reading with stops.

Team work strategy. The students are divided into 4 groups and each group reads its own extract. Then they tell the main ideas of the extracts.

Education in Australia.

There exists a centralized national system of education in Australia.

The top of this system is the Federal Ministry of Education. But there are still many differences in the structure and the curricula of schools in different states. There exist two types of schools in the country: state schools and private schools. Tuition in state schools is free of charge. Private schools charge rather high fees. 80 % of Australian children go to state schools, and only 20 % attend feepaying schools.

School education is obligatory for all children from 6 to 15 years. At present the school education scheme is “6+4+2” or “7+3+2”. Most children begin primary schools at the age of about five. Primary schools include from 1 to 6 or 7 grades. After the primary school children pass to the secondary school without examinations. Junior high schools comprise 4 or 3-year courses. After these courses students complete two year senior high school.

After senior classes of secondary schools students may enter any higher educational institution in the country. There is a tendency of cancelling final examinations in both junior and senior secondary schools. In this case more children, irrespective of their abilities, may receive secondary education. University admission is only after the senior secondary schools. Tuition fees differ from one state to another.

c) Brain storming.

d)Reading with the missing words.

Complete the text with the appropriate words

1. Private schools charge rather __ fees.

2. School education is obligatory for all children from _ to _ years.

3. There is a tendency of cancelling final __________ in both junior and senior schools.

e) Comprehension questions:

1. How many types of schools in the country?

2. Are you for or against wearing school uniforms? Why?

3. What kind of school would you prefer: a private or a state one?

4. How is the system of education in Australia different from our system?

Reflection

f) Let’s compare the systems of education in Australia and Kazakhstan?

g). Сomplete the table «Insert»

h). Bloom`s cube

i)Author’s chair

The students listen to the teacher’s explanation.

The student repeats the words, read and translate it in order to understand its meaning.

The students are divided into 4 groups, read and translate their extracts. While reading the text they mark the main ideas of the extracts.

The students read the text with missing words and fill in the gaps with the appropriate ones.

The students answer the questions on the text.

The students compare the systems of education in Australia and Kazakhstan.

The students complete the table.

The students make the questions.

20 min

6. Presentation of grammar material:

Present Continuous Tense

am/is/are +

Present Continuous образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to be и добавления к смысловому глаголу окончания ing 

We are looking for the Republic Square, which is the central square of the city.

The students are learning the history and culture of Kazakhstan in four exhibition halls.

The Johnsons are listening famous singers, poets and composers.

Time expressions: now, at the moment.

Work with the Pencup.ru and do the exercises.

The students listen to the teacher’s explanation of grammar material and do different oral and written practice exercises.

The students translate the sentences.

The students work with the Pencup.ru and do the exercises.

4 min

7. Reflection

1)What can you tell about today’s lesson?

2)What is sensible, useful?

3)Have you enjoyed our lesson?

4) What kind of text did you read?

5)What have we discussed today?

6)Have we achieved the goal of the lesson?

The students answer the questions.

2 min

8. Home task

1.Education in Australia

2.Grammar

The students write down the home task.

2 min

9. Marks

You have worked very well , have been active and have got good and excellent marks. I am grateful of all of you for today’s lesson. See you next week. Goodbye.

The students listen the results of the lesson.