11th C, F English Lesson

Teacher: Ioana Bungărdean

EDUCATION AND SCHOOL

Hello, dear students! Today we are going to speak about EDUCATION AND SCHOOL
and what that means to us! It is important to be able to speak about the way we see, hear and understand the
world, the way people get their education and it is even better if we can explain it to others.
(Bună ziua, dragi elevi! Astăzi vom vorbi despre EDUCAȚIE ȘI ȘCOALĂ și ce reprezintă acestea pentru noi.
Este important să putem vorbi despre felul în care fiecare dintre noi percepem, auzim și înțelegem lumea, felul
în care oamenii reușesc să aibă acces la educație și este și mai bine dacă putem explica percepția noastră
celorlalți.)

(↓vă rog copiați lecția în caiete, apoi extrageți cuvintele necunoscute↓)

On any given school day, over 1 billion children around the world head to class.
More children and adolescents today are enrolled in pre-primary, primary and secondary education than
ever before. Yet, for many of them, schooling does not lead to learning.
A lack of trained teachers, inadequate learning materials, makeshift classes and poor sanitation
facilities make learning difficult for many children. Others come to school too hungry, sick or exhausted
from work or household tasks to benefit from their lessons.
The consequences are grave: An estimated 617 million children and adolescents around the
world are unable to reach minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics – even though two
thirds of them are in school. This learning crisis is the greatest global challenge to preparing children
and adolescents for life, work and active citizenship.
What’s more, roughly one in five school-aged children are not in school at all.
Children and adolescents are excluded from education for many reasons. Poverty remains one of the
most obstinate barriers, with children from the poorest households almost five times more likely to be
out of primary school than those from the richest.
Children with disabilities and from ethnic minorities are also more likely to be left behind.
For girls in some parts of the world, education opportunities can be especially limited. Only 66
per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in primary education. Harmful gender norms can have
severe effects for boys, too.
Location also keeps children from school. Children from rural areas are more than twice as likely
to be out of primary school than their urban peers. In conflict zones, 27 million children are out of school.
Without skills for lifelong learning, children face greater barriers to earning potential and
employment later in life. They are more likely to suffer adverse health outcomes and less likely to
participate in the decisions that affect them – threatening their ability to build a better future for
themselves and their communities.
In order to better understand, let’s watch the following clip on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/_F8nNLZlZrQ
All children have the right to go to school and learn, regardless of who they are, where they live
or how much money their family has. Quality learning requires a safe, friendly environment, qualified
and motivated teachers, and instruction in languages students can understand. It also requires that
learning outcomes be monitored and feed back into instruction. In 144 countries around the world,

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UNICEF works to provide learning opportunities that prepare children and adolescents with the
knowledge and skills they need to thrive.
In order to speak about education and school, school subjects and school objects, we need to
remember some very basic vocabulary:

↑de copiat în caiete cuvintele de pe toate imaginile, și de

tradus ↑

HOMEWORK :
Please write a short composition about the education
and school system in Romania, in about 10 lines.
(Vă rog să scrieți o compunere scurtă despe educația și
sistemul de învățământ din România, în 10 rânduri.)