Objectives:

1. Understand ILP targets.

2. Discuss grammar schools

3. Use ‘used to’ to talk about past habits and experiences

4. What makes a good teacher?

• Prepare and give a 4 minute presentation
• Take part in a role play to demonstrate negotiation skills
• Listen and ask and answer questions about a complex process
• Take part in a 3-way discussion on a topic of global or national interest

Why does Theresa May want to bring back grammar schools?

Today’s words:

Many remember sport at school as elitist, focusing only on those who were good at it.

elite noun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]

C1 the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trainedgroup in a society:

the country’s educated elite

a member of the elite

disapproving A powerful and corruptelite has bled this country dry.

tertiary adjective

tertiary adjective (THIRD)

 

formal relating to a third levelor stage

coeducational adjective

having male and femalestudents being taught together in the same school or collegerather than separately:

Girls tend to do better academicallyin single-sex schools than in coeducational ones.

school assembly:

PhD

In the UK, a PhD stands for ‘Doctor of Philosophy’, sometimes referred to as a ‘doctorate’. It is the highest level of degree that a student can achieve. At some institutions, including Oxford University, a Doctor of Philosophy is known as a DPhil.

A graduate wearing a mortarboard (on his head):

free school

noun

 (in England) a school set up by an organization or a group of individuals, funded by the government but not controlled by the local authority.

Academy schools are state-funded schoolsin England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individualAcademy Funding Agreements. Most academies are secondary schools.