UNIT 5: ILLITERACY- PART B: SPEAKING

WARM-UP: BRAINSTORMING State the reasons of illiteracy: - Many children live far from school. - Their families are too poor to send them to school. - Lack of schools and teachers in remote or mountainous areas. - Students cannot buy all the required books. What are your suggested solutions to these problems? To solve these problems I think we should: • Build more schools. • Provide poor children with transportation, books, money … • Send teachers to remote areas. TASK 1: WORK IN PAIRS. Match each problem in A with its appropriate solutions in B A B 1. Many students can’t buy all the required textbooks. • Provide free textbooks for students from low- income families. • Collect used textbooks for school libraries. A B 2. Students cheat in exams. • Enforce strict school regulation. • Offer special tutoring lessons 3. Many children live far from school. • Provide transportation to schools. • Build new schools. A B 4. Many students left the schools before completing it. • Offer special tutoring lessons. • Help them do their homework. 5. Many students have difficulty in learning English. • Set up an English speaking club. • Provide cassettes and videos in English. TASK 2: WORK IN GROUPS. Talk about your school problems and offer solutions. Use the suggestions in Task 1. Example: A:- Many students cannot buy all the required books. What do you think we should do to help them? B:- I think we should ask the school head- master to provide free textbooks for students from low-income families. C:- We should collect used textbooks for school libraries. TASK 3: WORK IN GROUPS. Think of three or four problems your class is coping with. Talk about them and offer the solutions. You may use the cues below: • Large class size (Over 50 students in the class) • Shortage of desks (3 students per desk) • Hot in summer (no electric fans) • Cold and dark in winter (broken windows, no lights) SUGGESTED CONVERSATION A:- The main problem of our class is that it is oversized. There are over 50 students in our class. What should we do to solve this problem? B:- I think an ideal class size is 20-30 Ss , so the school should recruit more teachers and open new classes. A:- Another problem is that there is a shortage of desks. Three students have to sit on a desk. What should we do? B:- We should buy more desks or if there are new classes , the current number of desk should be provided adequately. • Write a paragraph about a school problem and one or two solutions to it. • Do exercises in the workbook. • Prepare for the next lesson: Unit 5 – Listening. . homework. 5. Many students have difficulty in learning English. • Set up an English speaking club. • Provide cassettes and videos in English. TASK 2: WORK IN GROUPS cannot buy all the required books. What do you think we should do to help them? B:- I think we should ask the school head- master to provide free textbooks