Freshers Week 1 6 VOCABULARY FOR SPEAKING EDUCATION

Freshers’ Week 1. 6 VOCABULARY FOR SPEAKING EDUCATION SYSTEM EVERYDAY ENGLISH ASKING ABOUT WORDS AND PHRASES Prepared by: Harem. H. Qadir Date: Jan. 12 th, 2017

Objectives of the Lecture: • Understand the meanings of key vocabulary from theme • Pronounce target vocabulary accurately in isolation and in context • Use a dictionary to help with pronunciation • Use different ways of asking for meaning in short conversations.

A. Activating Ideas • Do you agree or disagree on the following statement: - Education should be compulsory for all children until the age of 18.

A. Activating Ideas Check understanding of the target vocabulary in this exercise, e. g. , T: What do we call a school for both boys and girls? Ss: mixed T: What about a school that’s only for boys or girls? Ss: single sex T: What do we call it when you stop studying a subject? Ss: drop

B. Practicing New Vocabulary Presenter: Conversation 1. Voice A: When do you sit national examinations? Voice B: In Britain, we take them at 16 and at 18. Presenter: Conversation 2. Voice A: Is education compulsory in your country? Voice B: Yes, up to the age of 16. Presenter: Conversation 3. Voice A: When did you start school? Voice B: When I was three. I went to nursery school. Presenter: Conversation 4. Voice A: Who was your best teacher? Voice B: Mr. Jarvis. He treated us as adults.

C. Developing Independent Learning • Dictionaries are helpful for pronunciation as well as meaning and spelling. • Dictionaries are helpful in order to use the phonemic script, which means how to read the pronunciation of a word between two slashes (//). * /ɪ/ and /iː/ it feet fill give eat read feel meat

phonemic script �Is a transcription of the sounds of a word or phrase, using phonemic symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). �Example The phrase 'please do it' can be transcribed as /pli: zdu: wit/

Introduction - Few questions about the British education system, e. g. , • When do children start primary school? (at five years old) • When do they start secondary school? (at 11 years old) • How many 18 -year-olds go to university? (50 per cent)

Practicing Conversations 1. Voice A: What’s a nursery school? Voice B: It’s a school for young children. Voice A: How old are they? Voice B: They’re between three and five. 2. Voice A: What does GCSE mean? Voice B: It’s an abbreviation. Voice A: I know. But what does it mean? Voice B: It means General Certificate of Secondary Education. 3. Voice A: Does primary mean ‘first’? Voice B: Yes, it does. Voice A: So does secondary mean ‘second’? Voice B: That’s right.

Practicing Conversations (con. ) 4. Voice A: What are A levels? Voice B: They’re exams in Britain. Voice A: When do you take them? Voice B: You take them at 18. 5. Voice A: Is sixth form for 17 - and 18 -year-olds? Voice B: Yes, it is. Voice A: Why is it called sixth form? Voice B: Because it starts with the sixth year of secondary school. 6. Voice A: Do you take an exam or make an exam? Voice B: We use the verb take with exams. Voice A: And what about assignments? Voice B: You do assignments.