Do you think Korean education is good and effective? Is the school schedule of children too hard for them?Did you / Do you enjoy your university days? Why / Why not?

DISCUSSION

VOCABULARY

• compulsory• private• public• specialized• vocational• optional• academic• polytechnic• college / university

• nursery school / preschool• primary (elementary) school• secondary (middle) school • kindergarten • high school• fees• course• skills• subjects

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‘CAN DO’ OBJECTIVE

Can discuss and give an opinion on education.

EXERCISE

Using the adjectives below, write adjective / noun pairs of words.

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• The most common way to ask questions about a person, place or object, is to use “Wh-” questions words. In English this question words are: “what, who, when, why, where, which, whose” and “how”.

• We also form a lot of questions with – How + adjective / adverb: “how much, how many, how long, how tall, how high, how big, how old…”

We usually answer these questions with a number. E.g. How much was your car? It was $30,000.

How long is the snake? It’s 2 feet long.

Note the answers to – “How tall / long / wide / high, etc.” E.g. How tall are you? I’m 1.8 m tall

How wide is the river? It’s 3 m wide

Wh- and How Questions

GRAMMAR FOCUS

Example: academic: academic year, academic life, academic school, academic studies

compulsory: ______________________________________________________

private: __________________________________________________________

public: __________________________________________________________

specialized: ______________________________________________________

vocational: _______________________________________________________

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Determine the type of school for each of the student descriptions below.

A four-year-old child: ________________________________

A teenager who wants to study medicine: _____________________________

A young boy who is seven: ________________________________

A girl who just turned 14: ________________________________

A young adult who wants to go back to school: __________________________

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EXERCISE

Complete the questions below using “Wh” or “How”. Review the answers provided as clues to complete the questions.

Example: Where did you go on your last vacation? I went to Switzerland.

______________ did you go? Was it in October? No, we went in December.

______________ did you get there? By plane? Yes, by plane and by train.

______________ did you do there? We went snowboarding.

______________ did you stay – one or two weeks? We stayed for two weeks.

______________ did you go with? Friends from work? No, I went with my best

friend.

______________ did you go there? It was my father’s birthday.

______________ did it cost? It wasn’t cheap.

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TASK

1. Split the class into pairs or small groups and distribute the flashcards to each

student.

2. Each flashcard contains questions related to education. View sample flashcard.

3. Review your flashcard and share your opinion about the question.

4. Discuss the questions with your partner or group.

• In “Wh-” questions, the verb “to be” or the modal verb (e.g. “can”, “should”) comes after the question word but before the subject.

E.g. Where is the supermarket? What can you see from here?

• In all tenses the auxiliary verb usually comes before the subject and the main verb comes after it. We usually do not change this word order or omit the auxiliary.

E.g. Where is Peter going? Who did you see at the beach?

When will the party start?

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SAMPLE FLASHCARD

Discuss the following question about education with a partner or in a group. Share your opinion and give your reasons.

When do children usually start school in Korea? Do you think this is the right age for them to start going to school?

USEFUL LANGUAGE

I don’t think______________.

I don’t believe that______________.

I am sure that______________.

I agree / disagree because _______________.

In my opinion, _______________.

I totally agree with you.

That’s exactly what I think.

That’s true, but _______________.

The problem is that _______________.

It’s better for children to ____________.

NOTES

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(noun) adjectives relating to education

(noun) a school for children who are between about three and five years old

(adjective) must be done; necessary by law or a rule

(noun) a school that provides the first part of a child’s education, usually for children between five and eleven years old

(adjective) for the use of or belonging to one particular person or group only, or not shared or available to other people

(noun) a place of higher education usually for people who have finished twelve years of schooling and where they can obtain more advanced knowledge and get a degree to recognize this

(adjective) relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group of people

(noun) a school for children who are about 15 to 18 years old that is usually divided into grades nine through twelve or ten through twelve

(adjective) relating to one particular area or designed for a particular purpose

(noun) a class for young children, usually children four and five years old, which is often the first year of formal education

(adjective) providing skills and education that prepare you for a job

(noun) a school for children who are about 15 to 18 years old that is usually divided into grades nine through twelve or ten through twelve

(adjective) not necessary or demanded but possible or available; depending on what you decide to do

(noun) amounts of money charged for a service or for the use of something

(adjective) relating to schools, especially colleges and universities, or connected with studying and thinking and not with useful skills

educational adjectives

nursery school / preschool

compulsory

primary school

private

college / university

public

secondary school

specialized

kindergarten

vocational

high school

optional

fees

academic

WORD / PHRASE DEFINITION

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(noun) a set of classes in a subject at a school or university

(noun) special abilities to do something

(noun) a college where students study scientific and technical subjects

(noun) areas of knowledge that are studied in school or college

course

skills

polytechnic

subjects

WORD / PHRASE DEFINITION