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TYPES OF SCHOOL IN VIETNAM.
+ Secondary education
+ Pre – school
+ Primary education
Kindergarten
Nursery
Lower secondary education.
Upper secondary education.
* Look at the diagram below and answer the questions:
* And read through the suggestions in
the books then answer the questions:
1.How many levels of education are there in Vietnam?
-There are three:
+ Pre – school
+ Primary education
+ Secondary education
- lower secondary education.
- upper secondary education.
2. How many classes are there in each level?
- There are 2 classes in pre – school,5 classes in primary
education and 7 classes in secondary education.
3. How long does it take to finish the lower
secondary education/ upper secondary education?
- It takes 4 years to finish the lower secondary education
and 5 years to finish the upper secondary education.
4. When do children start to go to primary school?
5. How many weeks are there in the academic year?
6. How many terms are there in a school year ?
when are they?
7. When can students take the national
examination for GCSE?
- When they are 6 years old.
- There are 35 weeks in the academic year.
- There are 2 terms in a school year. the first term is from
5th September to December, the second term is from January
to May.
Students can take national examination for GCSE at
the end of May or beginning of June.


Notes.
1. What do you have to write about in this
lesson?
- About the formal school education
system in Vietnam.
2. Do you have to write a paragraph or
a composition?
- A paragraph.
3. How many words do you need to write?
- About 150 words.
* Writing.
- Write a paragraph on the formal school education system in Vietnam, based on the questions and answers in Discussion task, in about 150 words.
-There are three levels of education.
+ Pre – school
+ Primary education
+ Secondary education
- lower secondary education.
- upper secondary education.
- There are 2 classes in pre – school,5 classes in primary
education and 7 classes in secondary education.
- It takes 4 years to finish the lower secondary education
and 5 years to finish the upper secondary education.
- There are 35 weeks in the academic year.
- There are 2 terms in a school year. the first term
is from 5th September to December, the second term
is from January to May.
- Students can take national examination for GCSE
at the end of May or beginning of June.


* Look back some useful expressions:
- Divides the class into 3 groups:
Group 1 : write the pre – school part .

Group2 : write the primary education part .

Group3 : write secondary education part .


* After 10 minutes,3 groups stop writing, they work
and correct each others. Then teacher gives
corrective feedback and final comments.
* Students go to blackboard and write their result.
* The suggested writing
There are 3 levels of education in the formal
school system in Vietnam: Pre – school, Primary
education, Secondary education. The Secondary
education consists lower secondary education and upper secondary education. Primary and lower secondary
education are compulsory in Vietnam. Children start going to primary school at the age of 6 and after 5 years they move to lower secondary school where they study for 4 years. The upper secondary education
lasts 3 years, from the age of 15 to 17. In order to study at a university, students have to pass the
national examination held in early June every year
for the GCSE. The academic year is divided into
2 terms. It lasts 9 months from September 5th to
the end of May. The first term is from September
to December and the second term lasts from
January to May. Students have a 3-month
-summer holiday after the second term.

Homework:
- Look at the table given in the
Speaking lesson and write about
any information which is not
mentioned in the Writing lesson.
( Pre- school; levels of education and
respective school age)
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