Period 5

Teaching Content Culture Corner

Writing

Task

Activity 1 Pre-reading

Introduce some colorful pictures about schools, teachers and students downloaded from the net. Ask the questions:

1. What do you think of the relationship between teachers and students?

2. How do you find the school?

Activity 2 Skimming and scanning

1. Scan the passage and find out the answers to the questions.

What kind of difference in schools does the passage describe?

What’s the difference between state schools and public schools?

2. Call back the answers from students.

Activity 3 Detail reading

Read the passage again and fill in the chart in pairs.

Countries

Relationship between

teachers and students state schools or

private schools

Northern Europe

France, Germany

Spain

Russia

America

Britain

China

Activity 4 Post reading

Talk about the chart in pairs.

Match words and expressions with their definitions .

relationship be suitable for

formal like, the state of being like

discipline order, rules

relaxed connection, having sth. to do with

similarly in accordance with rules

be true of less tight or strict

Activity 5 writing

Look at the position of commas in these sentences.

1. Surprisingly, all the students got good marks.

2. I’m doing maths, chemistry, physics and biology.

3. It’s sometimes difficult for me to understand him, but I do my best.

4. They’re intelligent, hard-working and lively students.

5. It was a difficult problem, I agree.

Activity 6 task setting criteria for a good teacher

Write ten criteria for a good teacher. Give the specific reasons to support your idea.

Criteria Reason

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