Raoued Secondary School Module 5: Education Is Not Filling Pr. M.
Gannouni
A Bucket But Lighting A Fire
School Year: 2024 / 2025 3rd Form Secondary Education
Section 3: Reading
I- Pre-reading Stage:
1) Look at the pictures below and try to guess:
a) Who the people are.
b) Whether they are praised or punished.
c) If there is punishment, what might have caused it?
2) What other kinds of punishment are there? Are they useful? Do activity 1 on page 162.
3) Were you ever punished? When? Why? What kind of punishment did you have? What impact
did the punishment have on you?
II- While-reading Stage:
A- Reading Comprehension:
1) Circle the right alternative:
a) The text is:
i.
ii. Narrative iii. Argumentative iv. Descriptive
b) The main idea of the text is:
i. Disruptive behaviour. ii. General class iii. Management of
management. disruptive students.
2) Fill in the table with the necessary information from the text:
Characters Problem Solution
3) Experts have different opinions about managing unruly pupils. Complete the chart with their
opinions from paragraphs 2, 3, and 4:
Nick Seaton Chris Keats Dr. Swinson
4) Focus on paragraph 5 and complete with information about the training programme:
Name Duration Purpose
5) Complete the paragraph with words from the text:
In every class there are some pupils whose behaviours are not good. They are always called 1-
…………………… Managing them seems difficult for some teachers. So, it is important for teachers
to 2-…………………...them and not 3-…………………..them 4-……………..........That’s why a
training program was 5-………………….by psychologists to give teachers more guidance. It was so
effective showing a 6-……………………..in dealing with students.
B- Vocabulary:
Find in the text words having nearly the same meaning as:
a. Disobedient / hard to control (§1): ………………….
b. Young people (§2): ……………
c. Before (§ 5): ………………….
d. Change (§ 5): ………………….
e. Wasting time (§ 5): …………………
C- Grammar:
1) Focus on these sentences taken from the text and try to answer the questions below:
i. Many teachers were unaware of the skills which are needed to deal with unruly classes.
ii. The training, which only lasted between two and three hours, showed an important shift in the
way teachers spoke to pupils.
a) Is the information in the two relative clauses essential?
i. Sentence 1: …………………………………………………………………………………………..
ii. Sentence 2: ………………………………………………………………………………………….
b) What do you call the underlined part in each sentence?
i. Sentence 1: …………………………………………………………………………………………
ii. Sentence 2: ………………………………………………………………………………………….
2) Deduce the rule:
Relative clauses are used to give information about the person (………), the place (……………), the
time (…………) or the event / object / animal (…………). When the information is not
………………, we put commas around the relative clauses.
III- Post-reading Stage:
Your classmate behaved violently and badly at school. As a result, he was punished by being
suspended for a week. In the light of this, you, the editor of the school magazine, decided to write an
article in which you suggest other constructive and peaceful ways of disciplining bad-behaved pupils.
