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Unit 1  School life Class

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Start thinking
1 Answer the questions.
1 What time do you start and finish school?

2 What do you like about your school?

3 What do you NOT like about your school?

Comprehension check
2 Watch the video. Choose the correct answers.
1 Pupils at the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School have … classes each day.
a four b five c six
2 Rugby School and Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School are …
a the same kind of school. b not the same in any way. c the same in some ways.
3 British students usually go to … schools.
a state b boarding c private

3 Watch the video again. Correct the factual errors in the sentences.
1 The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School is for boys.

2 All of the pupils there wear a blue jacket.

3 They have lunch at twenty past one.

4 In the afternoon, they usually have a singing class, a drama class, or games.

5 Rugby School is a very new school.

6 It costs over thirteen thousand pounds a year to go to Rugby School.

7 One of Rugby School’s old students, Neville Chamberlain, later became King of Britain.

8 The painter, Lewis Carroll, also went to Rugby School.

4 Complete the summary. Write a word or a number in each gap.

There are different kinds of 1 schools in the UK. The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School is a
2
school, so pupils do not pay to go there. All of the pupils wear a 3  . They go to
school from 9.05 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then they go home. Rugby School is a 5 school,
so pupils have to pay to go there. Pupils sleep in the school because it is a 6 school. The school
is famous because it is the home of a famous British 7 with the same name as the school. Rugby
School is 8  , so both boys and girls go there.

5 Work in pairs. Answer the questions.

1 What kind of school do you go to?
2 What do you usually wear to school?
3 Do you prefer the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School or Rugby School? Why?

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 Vocabulary
6 Complete the sentences with the words below.
boarding packed private secondary state canteen uniform
1 I’m fifteen years old, so I go to school.
2 I’ve got a cheese sandwich, a cake and an apple in my lunch today.
3 I always have lunch in the school  .
4 My cousins go to a school, so my uncle has to pay for them.
5 Our school is grey trousers with a yellow T-shirt.
6 Kate only sees her parents in the holidays because she goes to school.
7 We go to a school, so our parents don’t pay for our education.

7 Replace the words in bold with the correct form of the words below.
attend blazer dormitory drama finish PE pupil start
1 We don’t wear our jackets at school in the summer.

2 There are about a thousand students at my school.

3 My cousins go to the same school as my brothers and sisters.

4 We have sports games on Friday afternoons.

5 At our school, all the boys sleep in one large room with beds.

6 I like acting, so I go to theatre group twice a week.

Extension
Work in groups. You are going to discuss the following statement: ‘The best school timetable is from 7.30
in the morning to 1.30 in the afternoon.’ One group agrees with the statement and the other disagrees
with it.
1 Choose one person in your group to take notes. In your group, write down your ideas.
2 Each student chooses one idea. Remember your sentence.
3 Your teacher will start the discussion. Each person in each group says their sentence and explains their idea.
4 After both groups finish, have a class vote about the statement.

Useful expressions: Having a discussion

We think … because …
We like / don’t like … because …
We want to / don’t want to … because …
Students can … in the morning / afternoon.
Students have got more / less time to …

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 Unit 1  DVD teacher’s notes

Video summary
The video is about secondary schools in the UK. It focuses on a state school called the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar
School, and a private school called Rugby School. This video links to page 19 of the Student’s Book.

Background culture notes

In the UK, about 93% of all schoolchildren attend state schools, while only 7% go to private schools. In the UK,
private schools are also known as ‘public’ schools, which can cause confusion. The fees at private schools range
from €3,000 to €35,000 per year.
The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School is a typical state secondary school in the town of Aylesbury in the south-
east of England, about 70 km north-west of London. The school was founded in 1947 and it educates both boys
and girls from the age of eleven to eighteen. The school has a very strict dress code and all of the pupils have to
wear school uniform.
Rugby School is a day and boarding school in the town of Rugby in the Midlands in England, about 21 km east
of Coventry. It was founded in 1567 and it is one of the oldest and most well-known private schools in England.
Originally, the school was only for boys, but it has been a mixed school since 1995. Rugby School is recognized as
the birthplace of the game of rugby.

Start thinking
1 Read the questions with the class and elicit answers from individual students. Encourage students to give a
personal response and use their suggestions to start a class discussion.
Answer key
Students’ own answers.

Comprehension check
2 Answer key
1  b  2 c  3 a

3 Answer key
1 The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School is for boys and girls.
2 All of the pupils there wear a black jacket.
3 They have lunch at twenty past twelve.
4 In the afternoon, they usually have a dance class, a drama class or games.
5 Rugby School is a very old school.
6 It costs over thirty thousand pounds a year to go to Rugby School.
7 One of Rugby School’s old students, Neville Chamberlain, later became Prime Minister of Britain.
8 The author, Lewis Carroll, also went to Rugby School.

4 Answer key
1  secondary
2 state
3 uniform  
4 3.30  
5 private  
6 boarding  
7 sport  
8 mixed

5 Students’ own answers.

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 Vocabulary
6 Answer key
1 secondary
2 packed
3 canteen
4 private
5 uniform
6 boarding
7 state

7 Answer key
1 blazers
2 pupils
3 attend
4 PE
5 dormitory
6 drama

Extension
Stage 1: Preparation before the class
• Write on the board: The best school timetable is from 7.30 in the morning to 1.30 in the afternoon.
• Tell students they are going to have a discussion. Explain that they have to think about why this is a good idea
and why it is a bad idea. Half of them are going to write sentences about the good points and the other half
about the bad points.
Stage 2: Procedure in the class
• Divide the class in half: A and B. Then divide each half into smaller groups of three or four students. Ask them to
move their desks together, if possible.
• Tell students that the A groups think the statement is a good idea and the B groups think that it is a bad idea.
• Ask students to brainstorm ideas. Name one person in each group as the secretary and ask them to make
a note of the group’s ideas.
• Ask students to choose one idea each. Explain that they need to write a sentence about it. Tell them to
memorize their sentence because they will have to say it in front of the class.
• Ask one student from one of the A groups to speak and then a student from one of the B groups to speak.
Continue until all the students have spoken.
• Hold a class vote. Ask students who think that the statement is a good idea to put their hands up. Count the
hands. Then repeat for the students who think the statement is a bad idea. Write the results on the board.
Extra ideas
You could ask students to research the advantages and disadvantages of the timetable on the internet. If they
search for terms like ‘start school earlier’ or ‘start school later’ they may find some extra ideas for the debate.

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 Unit 1 DVD scripts  School life
These students are all from secondary schools in the UK. But in many other ways they’re very different.
This is the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury. It’s a state school. It’s not a private school, so pupils don’t pay
money to go here. It’s also mixed, so both boys and girls study at the school.
Pupils at Henry Floyd all wear a black uniform with a shirt, a tie and a blazer.
They start school with registration at five past nine, and they have five classes each day.
At twenty past twelve they have lunch. The school canteen serves all kinds of food. But some pupils don’t buy their
food here, they bring a packed lunch.
In the afternoon, pupils usually have a dance class, a drama class or games.
The school day finishes at half past three and all the pupils go home.
This is Rugby School. It’s a private school in the Midlands.
Rugby is a very old boarding school and the sport of rugby started here.
Unlike Sir Henry Floyd, students at Rugby live here, so they don’t go home in the afternoon. They stay in the school and
sleep in these dormitories.
Rugby School is also very expensive. It costs over thirty thousand pounds a year to go here.
Students at Sir Henry Floyd Grammar don’t pay anything to attend.
Rugby and Sir Henry Floyd are very different schools, but they also have lots of similarities. They are both mixed schools,
and they both have uniforms.
British boarding schools like Rugby are famous all over the world and some well-known people studied there.
Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Britain from 1937 to 1940, went to Rugby School. So did Lewis Carroll, author
of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
But most British students go to state schools like Sir Henry Floyd Grammar.
What kind of school do you go to?
Is it a state school or a boarding school?

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