This lesson contains 32 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 3 videos.
Items in this lesson
Lesson 4
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How was your spring break?
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Today
Feedback test unit 3
The British school system
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Pay attention!!
"At school we learn a few foreign languages." → correct
"In school we learn..." → possible, but more common in American English, and even then it sounds a bit more general or abstract
So pls go with at school while speaking or writing
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Let´s talk about
The British school system
What do you already know about it?
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The British school system explained
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Boarding schools
A very British phenomenon. Think of The O'Sullivan Twins (de dolle tweeling) or Harry Potter. Boarding school stories make up an entire literary genre.
Interested in listening to a fragment?
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What do you think are the perks of attending a boarding school?
What about the other side of the coin? What are the drawbacks of life at a boarding school?
Here's an insightful video of Nikolas Lloyd, a British youtuber who went to a boarding school for two years at the age of 16.
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So, having seen this video
From what age can children be sent to a boarding school?
Can you think of new perks?
Can you think of new drawbacks?
Would you consider sending your own children to such a school?
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How do you say that?
Tussenuur:
having a free period / hour or being in between classes.
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Useful school
idioms
In addition:
see next slide, read the next slide, read the article and answer the questions
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theconversation.com
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timer
15:00
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timer
12:00
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Do you know?
The number of languages in the world?
The language with the most native speakers?
The language with the most non-native speakers?
The oldest written language that still exists?
The country with the most languages spoken by native inhabitants?
7000
Mandarin
English
Chinese and Greek
Papua New Guines (over 800 living languages)
papua new gini
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When and how did you first start learning English?
I started learning English when I was at a primary school.
I like speaking and reading English but I'm not so good at writing.
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Gateway
p.40-41
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Now
Look at the pictures and tell me how each one can help to learn English
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Ex 3
The language biography complies an overview of a student's most important language-learning experiencies.
Read the text in ex 3 and mark the paragraphs.
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The answers
My name is... I can speak English
I started learning...we practised speaking
At the moment...on the computer
Outside school... to London for example.
I like learning English.... revise them from time to time.
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Use the Writing bank tips and write your language-biography.
