A film by Tina Mabry
Ex. 1 Discuss the following questions with the class 1. What kind of school do you go to? 2. What characteristics make a perfect school? (Put these in order from most to least important) Justify your choice. Teacher skills Resources Badget School safety Curriculum Class size Student achievement in national exams Effective management 3. What should be done to improve a schools performance? (Put these in order from most to least important). Better teacher training Raise funds Improve the curriculum Introduce new form of testing Use ICT in teaching Evaluation of teachers Writing better books 4. What should be done to ensure that all children from all social backgrounds receive a high quality education? 5. To what lengths should a parent go to provide their children with a better educational system?
Ex. 2 Answer the questions based on the video 1. Where does Angela and her two children live? .. 2. What is Angelas main priority throughout the film? How is this related to the title of the film, Crossover? .. 3. How is the public school the children attend different from the private one shown in the film? 4. Why is Angela son Quincy not given the chance to attend a private school? How does this make you feel? .. .. 5. To what lengths does Angela go to pay the fees for a private school? .. 6. What do you think of the choice she makes to separate her family and send only her daughter in a private school? ..
Ex. 3 Decide whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE
1.Angela works as a cleaner at a private school. 2. The teacher in the film has a daughter. 3. Angela and her children live in a leafy suburb. 4. Angelas son is autistic. 5.Angela decides to sell her organs in order to afford the fees of an expensive boarding school. 6. The crime rate in Angelas neighborhood is high. 7.Jennifer, Angelas daughter is shot dead while trying to close a window
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Across 2. The group of subjects studied at school is also called the school .................. . 6. To ................. through an exam means to succeed in something but with a lot of difficulty. 7. To ................. an exam means to take an exam. 8. A school where students live and study is called a .................. school. 9. To attend a good private school you need to pay some ............... . 11. Chemistry, Maths and Geography are school subjects. Down 1. A lot of people ..............their driving test the first time and need to retake the test. 3. To pass an exam you need to ..................everything you have already learnt. 4. To ........................... means to finish school correctly. 5. If you pass an examination with ...................colours, you do it very successfully. 10. If you ................ a student you ask them to leave a school permanently.
TEACHERS NOTES AND KEY
Watch the video here or on YouTube SUMMARY In Crossover, Angela would like her two children, Jennifer and Quincy to cross over from their poor public school into the well- equipped private school in a restricted section of the city. To make her dream true she is willing to sell her organs and manage to pay for their chance of a better future. Exercise 1 1. Private, public, charter school, parochial 4. Governments priority to allocate qualified teachers in every school and provide the funds needed to establish facilities. No fees should be applied 5. To find an extra job, to save money from the birth of the baby, to get a bank loan, to borrow money Exercise 2 1. She lives in a poor and dangerous area with her two kids. 2. She wants to find the fees and send her children to a better private school. She wants them to cross over and get a better life. 3. The private school is gated and to get in you need to be scanned (students have a device implanted with a code number) The environment is clean almost sterilized and the variety of facilities huge. There is a lot of green around the school area. The public school is not as neet and seems a bit gloomy. 4. He is an autistic. Children with special needs should be treated equally and receive special education that will help them reach their potential. 5. There is hint for illegal transplant. She is willing to sell her organs and be part of an illegal transplant. 6. She wants to give at least one of her kids the chance to a better future. She sacrifices the boy. (touching maternal figure)
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