Predicting, forming hypotheses and exchanging information.
Why are all students standing in a line in the courtyard?
Why only Cameron, Pitts and Knox are walking in a circle?
What is Mr. Keating doing?
Vocabulary work
Match the following words with their definition.
1. a stroll
2.to clap
3. a stride
4 conformity
5 acceptance
6)odd
7) silly
8) to worry
a) a long decisive step.
b) acquiescence, agreement, approval.
c)compliance with conventions, rules, or laws .
d) strike the palms of (one?s hand) together repeatedly.
e) a short leasurely walk
f) lacking in common sense; foolish.
g) unusual or unexpected; strange.
h) feel or cause to feel troubled over actual or potential difficulties
WHILE WATCHING ACTIVITIES
Put in the correct order the events of the scene
___ Knox goes to the party at Chet?s house.
___Mr. Keating asks the students to find their own walk.
___ Chet hits Knox.
___ Todd shows Neil his new desk set.
___ Knox get drunk.
___ The students are standing in a line while Cameron, Pitts and Knox are walking in a circle.
__ Charlie tells the other boys that he wrote an article, in the school paper, demanding that girls should be admitted to Welton.
___ Mr. Nolan looks out at the students in the courtyard from his office.
___ Charlie brings two girls (Gloria and Tina) into the cave.
___ Charlie doesn?t want to walk in the courtyard.
7.4 Each sentence contains a mistake. Find it and rewrite the sentence correctly (use subtitles from 1:01:43 to 1:02:47)
a) If you noticed, everyone jumped with their own stride, their own pace.
Read these two points of view about the same subject.
Which of the two is right?
Discuss it with your classmates.
Pupils at Single-Sex Schools Excel, Research Shows[1]
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Friday, May 3, 2002
Coed[2] can be no ed[3], researchers say.
Children who attend single-sex schools score higher on tests, stay out of trouble and are more willing to study a wider range of subjects than pupils in coeducational schools, researchers report.
Coeducation At Bayfield[4]
Research has been carried out as to which is better, coeducation or single sex. This research was carried out in the 1990?s and it came to the following conclusions: ? Earlier research which apparently supported single sex education for girls was seriously flawed and invalid.
? Boys perform better academically in a coeducational setting.
[1] From : http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/2/155112.shtml