Perfect School

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

• Gum in the bin.
• Take off your coat.
• Put your bag on the floor.
• Take a seat.
• Grab your book and start reading quietly.

• Gum in the bin.
• Take off your coat.
• Put your bag on the floor and have a pen ready.
• Take a seat.
• Quietly wait for class to start.

My perfect school

Today

Start new assignment: My Perfect School

• Compare a British to Dutch secondary school. 
• Make a mind map for your perfect school.

Final product: Write leaflet in class for your perfect school.

• SO next Thursday 16 January (2)

Today

• Review Writing Superhero

• Start new assignment: My Perfect School 
• Work on your school system in pairs or alone

• Final product: Write leaflet in class for your perfect school 

Word order:  it does How work?

Word order

Word order

Basic word order (in short)

Improve your English

• now
• know

• where
• were

• Choose two mistakes from your text and correct them on your rubric.

Work in pairs to create your own school. 

• Present your mind map to your classmate sitting next to you. 

Is your perfect school like a Dutch school? Is it more like an English school? Or is it something completely different? 

What would your perfect school system look like?

Write down the following on a piece of paper which you hand in at the end of class:

• The name of your school.
  
• Where is it located?
  
• What does the building look like?
  
• Which rules does your school have?
  
• Which facilities does your school offer? (If there is a building, what does that building look like? Are there school lunches, laptops, after school activities, etc?) 

Planner for your perfect school

My perfect school preparation (2 classes)

- Work in pairs on your school system and subjects. 

- Hand in your work at the end of class.

SO 6 January

- Write a leaflet in pairs for grade, 200 words (2).

- Complete with illustrations in following class.

School systems

• Do you know what British schools are like?

School systems

• Go to Assignments on Moodle > My Perfect School
  
• Watch the videos what school is like in countries across the globe. 
• Write down at least three aspects of the different school systems.  

What surprised you most? Write the country first, and then the aspect.

Which system do you prefer and why?

1. Finland
2. United Kingdom
3. United States
4. China

What would your perfect school system look like?

• Make a mind map about your school system.  
• Come up with a school system for children from age four to sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years old.  
  
• What is special or different about your school system compared to the Dutch school system? 

Describe what you learn at your school

At our school we help you prepare for university or some other form of higher education. That is why in English class we encourage you to think critically. We also think it is important to have good writing skills, which is why you do assignments such as these. 

Not every important skill is taught at Dutch schools. Basic home and tool repair is not something, for example, which is generally on the programme.  

What are your students going to learn at your dream school? Are they going to learn how to farm? How to look critically at social media? How to cook? Mental health survival skills? Caring for animals? Gender understanding? Meditation? Democracy education? What is on your programme? 

Describe what you learn at your school

Hand in at the end of class: 

• Which subjects does your school offer? Write down a list of subjects. 
• Describe three subjects in more detail: a language subject, a science subject and a subject of your choice. 

Examples

• Is your ideal language classroom a multimedia lab or a traditional classroom, for example? 
• Maybe there are lots of assistants there with whom you can speak the languages which you are learning. 
• Does you school teach French, English and German? Or does it teach Chinese, Mongolian and Frisian? 

Describe your school

1. The name of your school.
2. Where is it located?
3. What does the building look like?
4. Which rules does your school have?
5. Which facilities does your school offer?

Describe the subjects

1. Which subjects does your school offer? Write down a list of subjects. 
2. Describe three subjects in more detail: a language subject, a science subject and a subject of your choice. 

• 30 minutes to write 100-150 words on blue or red topic.
• 15 minutes to discuss with your partner. 

My Perfect School

Take a dictionary if you want.

Sit next to your partner.

Please write in pen.

Start with this

Holmwoods Unit 5

Finish 20% before you continue with My Perfect School.

My Perfect School

My perfect school lesson 3 (Moodle)

Work in pairs and hand in your work at the end of class.

Next week (13 March)

- Write leaflet in pairs for grade, 200 words (2).

- Complete with illustrations in following class.

Today

Reading

My perfect school lesson 4 (Moodle)

Work in pairs and hand in your work at the end of class.

Friday 15 March

1 Write leaflet in pairs for grade, 200 words (2).

In following class

2 Complete with illustrations.

Today

Holmwoods Unit 5
Finish 30% by next Wednesday 20 March.

Friday 15 March
1 Write leaflet in pairs for grade, 200 words (2).

In following class
2 Complete with illustrations.