Lesson D: Writing
Unit 4
School Education System
The school education system in Vietnam
The formal school education system
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* Answer the questions:
1. How many levels of formal school education
are there in Vietnam?
- There are two:
+ Primary education
+ Secondary education
- lower secondary education.
- upper secondary education.
2. How many classes are there in each level?
There are 5 classes in primary education
and 7 classes in secondary education.
3. How long does it take to finish the lower
secondary education/ upper secondary education?
- It takes 4 years to finish the lower secondary education
and 3 years to finish the upper secondary education.
4. When do children start to go to primary school?
5. How many weeks are there in the academic year?
6. How many terms are there in a school year?
When are they?
7. When can students take the national
examination for GCSE?
- When they are 6 years old.
- There are 35 weeks in the academic year.
- There are 2 terms in a school year. The first term is from
September to December, the second term is from January
to May.
Students can take national examination for GCSE at
the end of May or beginning of June.

* Writing.
- Write a paragraph on the formal school education system in Vietnam, based on the questions and answers in Discussion task, in about 150 words.
Useful language
Gồm có
Kéo dài từ… đến…
Được chia thành …
Thi tốt nghiệp
Ex: Class 12B5 consists of 42 students
Ex: In Vietnam, summer holiday runs/ is from June to August.
Ex: The academic year in England is divided into 3 terms.
Ex: Students can take the national examination for GCSE
when they finish the secondary education.
- Consist of + Ns/es :
Run / Be from … to… :
- To be divided into :
- Take the national examination for GCSE:
- Move to :
Chuyển lên
Ex: Students move to lower secondary when they are 11 years old.
- Tense:
Simple present tense
- S + Vs/es + O
- S + is/am/are + C
- It takes ...year to V(bare):
Mất ...năm để làm gì …
Ex: It takes 4 years to finish the lower secondary education.
- They are at the age of 6 years = when they are 6 years old.
-There are two levels of formal school education system.
+ Primary education
+ Secondary education
- lower secondary school.
- upper secondary school.
There are 5 classes in primary education
and 7 classes in secondary education.
- It takes 4 years to finish the lower secondary school
and 3 years to finish the upper secondary school.
- There are 35 weeks in the academic year.
- There are 2 terms in a school year. The first term
is from September to December, the second term
is from January to May.
- Students can take national examination for GCSE
at the end of May or beginning of June.

* Look back some useful expressions:
* The suggested writing
There are 2 levels of education in the formal
school system in Vietnam: Primary education and Secondary education. Children start going to primary school at the age of 6 and after 5 years they move to lower secondary school where they study for 4 years. The Secondary education consists of lower secondary education and upper secondary education. Primary and lower secondary education are compulsory in Vietnam. The upper secondary education lasts 3 years, from the age of 15 to 17. If they want to sit for the entrance exam to universities or colleges they have to take the national examination for GCSE which takes place in the beginning of June. The academic year lasts 37 weeks from Mid-August to the end of May. It is divided into 2 terms. The first term is from Mid-August to December and the second term runs from January to May. The students have a 3-month-summer holiday after the second term.