3/12/12 Education superlatives

Lesson:

In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.

report / world education / learning curve / statistics / literacy rates / attendance / leaders / spending lots of money / good teachers / technicians / the future / job titles

3. EDUCATION: How can we make it better? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you wrote. Change and share again.

Improvements	What's wrong now?	How to make it / them better?
Classrooms
Technology
Subjects
Teachers
Exams
Hours / Days

4. BETTER: Students A strongly believe education will get better in the future; Students B strongly believe not.  Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

GRAMMAR: Grammar have to-worksheet, Practice 

5. SUBJECTS: What's the best thing for today's students to study? Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the best at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

environmentalism community relations English health and sports SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article. 1. report a. reading/writing 2 system             b. necessary 3. provide c. method 4. analysed d. important 5. literacy e. examined 6. essential f. study 7. valuable g. giant 8. huge h. give 9. key i. names 10. titles j. precious Listening- Article 1. What was the new report into? 2. What is the name of the report? 3. What two rates did the researchers look at? 4. In which position did South Korea finish on the list? 5. What was Mexico's position on the list? 6. How many things did the report want education leaders to remember? 7. What are good teachers essential to? 8. How should teachers not be treated as? 9. What must a country's culture have a strong focus on? 10. What did the report say about many job titles today? Questions-