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You are going to listen to Joan and her grandson Gareth talking about their schools.

a) Which of the following topics do you think each of them will mention?


Going to church

Staying at school after classes

Snobbery

Mealtimes

Saying prayers

School uniform

Good manners

Speaking French

The chemistry lab

Wearing trainers

Being lonely


B) Check if you know what the phrases below mean

a convent school

snobbery

to treat fairly

to fold hands on the laps

detention

6. Listen and mark each of the topics in 5a with J if Joan mentions it and with G if Gareth does. One topic is not mentioned at all.

Can you remember exactly what rules were for each thing?

Discuss in groups.

What are the main differences between Joan’s and Gareth’s schooldays? Do you think they were/ are happy at school?

Do the rules they describe seem sensible and fair to you?

How do their schooldays compare with your own?

Describe your last school and how you feel about it. Were the rules strict or not? While speaking use the following phrases:

a) What I hated most…

b) What used to make me angry was…

c) The depressing thing about it was…

d) The worst thing about…

e) My favourite was…

f) I knew I was in for a treat when…

g) Sometimes I got really fed up with…

h) I was at my happiest when…

 

8. Read the article and comment on the problems of the British teachers and pupils. Are these problems found in your country?

Classroom Chaos: How Teachers Lost Control

“As the petite, middle-aged teacher shouts desperately for the out-of-control class to be quiet, a faint, childish boy’s voice can be heard, calling out above the deafening din: ‘Go to Hell, Miss!’ It’s a shocking scene, but according to Classroom Chaos – a documentary broadcast on Five – not untypical of daily life in British schools.

Teachers are leaving the profession because of the violent behaviour of pupils.

More than 80 per cent of teachers believe that unacceptable behaviour has increased during their career; nearly as many experience disruption to lessons on a weekly basis.

Returning to teaching after a gap of 30 years, Sylvia Thomas secretly filmed her experiences as a supply teacher in 15 secondary schools in London and the north of England; the schools were chosen at random. Yet almost everywhere she went, Thomas faced a “constant battle” with rude, unruly pupils. In the documentary children are shown ”on their feet, moving around, shouting, bustling, getting on with their own petty social business”.

The Survey by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) found that 30 per cent of teachers encountered the use of offensive weapons The Survey by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) found that 30 per cent of teachers encountered the use of offensive weapons and a similar number claimed to have been bullied by a pupil at least once a week.

One of the most worrying findings of the report was the spread of the problem to younger children. More than 60 per cent of teachers in primary schools and more than 40 per cent in nursery schools recorded weekly disruption ranging from verbal aggression to physical assault.



As usual, the educational system is failing the less clever children. Vast sums of money are spent on helping bright pupils escaped to new “academies” – modern-day grammar schools where “rough boys” are not present – leaving the rest to sink or swim.

But money spent on “bog-standard” schools is money down the drain unless we first “re-establish institutional control”. That will take ”near-martial discipline”: two adults in every classroom, metal detectors, and police on the premises. We’ll get nowhere until we restore authority to teachers.

 


Date: 2015-12-17; view: 985


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