Schools and education

School Discipline

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:47:35 +0000

Theme: School discipline, bad behaviour, punishments.
Lexical area: Punishments, legal vocabulary
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education, law.

Who does better?

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:47:04 +0000

Theme: Girls’ performance in the GCSE exams. UK exam system.
Lexical area: School subjects and exam related vocabulary
Cross curricular link: Relevant to all areas of the curriculum

Forced to wear a skirt

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:46:32 +0000

Theme: School uniforms and teenage dress codes
Lexical area: clothes, fashion items
Cross curricular links: personal and social education

ICT in education: From blackboard to keyboard

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:45:49 +0000

Theme: Use of technology in learning and the classroom of the future
Lexical areas: ICT, language of prediction, numbers and percentages for statistics
Cross curricular links: ICT, Personal and social education, social science

Child’s play

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:45:08 +0000

Theme: Childhood games – in connection with the recent ban of conkers and other typical playground games in UK schools.
Lexical area: Games and childhood activities.

Technology for learning

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:44:28 +0000

Theme: How technology is changing the way we learn
Lexical area: Information technology and education

UK Educational System

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:42:00 +0000

Age range: 11 - adult
Theme: UK educational system
Lexical area: Education