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Are our kids tough enough?

Published on Nov 09, 2017

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Are our kids tough enough?

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Take a guess-
What do you think the TV show is about?

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What it is about

  • In a unique experiment, five teachers from China take over the education of fifty teenagers
  • in Bohunt School
  • competing to see which group of students would get the better academic result at the end of the experiment

Before we watch-

  • How well do you know about western/ British education?
  • What the differences might be between British education and Chinese education? The advantages/ disadvantages?
  • Which one do you prefer? Why?
  • Which one do you think will win on the tests at the end?

1. General differences

  • What are the general differences between the two teaching systems?
8-12


size
discipline
humble
time in the school
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2. Science/ math class

  • How are the teaching styles different in the science class?
  • Which one do you think can benefit students more? Why?

39:40-44

vocabulary

  • discipline
  • humble
  • at the Chinese pace
  • fall on deaf ears
fall on deaf ears

C2 If a suggestion or warning falls on deaf ears, no one listens to it:
Their appeals to release the hostages fell on deaf ears.
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3. PE Class

  • How important is PE class in China? Why?
  • What happens in the PE class? Why is that? What does the British teacher say to the student?
24:35-32:07
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4. The result

  • Who won at the end?
  • What does the Chinese teacher think about the result?
1:45-3:39

freedom of thinking,
critical thinking, creativity
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Vocabualry

  • ...the inquiry will commence
  • ...the Chinese system won resoundingly
  • a tearful farewell
  • to some extent
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