1. Unit 12 Education for all
The Hope Project

2. Some terms 1 compulsory education 2 free/fee education 1义务教育
3 education for all
4 distance education
5 Rejuvenate the nation
relying on science and education
6 education popularization
7 The Hope Project
1义务教育
2免费/收费教育
3全民教育
4远程教育
5科教兴国
6教育普及
7希望工程

3. Check the preview work G F A D C E B
_____ Education for all children worldwide will be
difficult to achieve
_____ Solving the problem of teaching quality in remote
areas
_____ Compulsory education for all Chinese children
_____ Problems of number and location
_____ Encouraging people in rural areas to accept
education
_____ Meeting the cost
_____ Education for All --- an international target G F A D C E B

4. What is “Education for All”?
Paragraphs A and B:
What is “Education for All”?
At the World Education Forum in 2000, the member countries of the UNESCO made a commitment to provide “complete, free and compulsory education of good quality for all children by 2015”. This goal is called “Education for All”.

5. Paragraph C
Why are parents in some areas unwilling to send their children to school?
They don’t have a positive attitude towards education.
Agriculture plays an important role, people do not attach importance to education, and parents are sceptical of anything that takes children away from their work on the farm.
In some cultures parents are particularly unwilling to send their daughters to school because the custom is to educate boys rather than girls.

6. Paragraph D
What is the problems of the education in china, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and in Australia?
In China: expand school to take in many more students. A shortage of teachers. This results in large class size.
In Turks and Caicos Islands: several different grades are taught in the same classroom.
In Australia: too far away from school, which needs distance learning.

7. Paragraph E: How does a country achieve the goal of education for all?
Some governments rely mainly on aid from other countries, international organizations and non-government organizations.
Other countries receive help with particular programs.
Corporations and private citizens also donate money through the Hope Project.

8. Paragraph F:
Are there problems on education in the richest country? What are they?
How do they solve these problems?
The USA has found that it is not easy to make sure that every student receives the same quality of teaching.
One in three students in the country lives in the countryside, and providing them with a full curriculum is difficult.
Distance learning has helped.
Many children in small countryside schools study subjects using computer software, and video conferencing.

9. Paragraph G How is the goal of “Education for All” getting on?
The situation is different in different countries.
The Chinese government overcame problems of population and economy to accomplish its “nine years of compulsory education” goal.
In the least developed nations of Africa and Asia, reaching the target of “Education for All” will be a huge task, despite help from the international community.

10. There are 113 million children not in school today.
Ex.2 on Page104
There are 113 million children not in school today.
→ When the World Education Forum met in 2000, it calculated that there were 113 million children not in school.

11. 2. Children who live on farms do not like attend school.
→ In areas where agriculture plays an important role, people do not attach importance to education, and parents are sceptical of anything that takes children away from their work on the farm.

12. 3. Class sizes are bigger in city schools than in rural schools.
4. By 2015 every child in the world will receive nine years of compulsory education.
→ Class sizes vary in different countries and regions, depending on the population.
→ At the Forum, the member countries of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) made a commitment to provide “complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality for all children by 2015”.

13. Australia, China, the USA
Methods
Methods
Countries
distance learning
mixed-grade
classes
Australia, China, the USA
the Turks and Caicos Islands, China

14. money from money from local Methods Countries international
organizations
money from local
China;
developing countries;
the least developed nations of Africa and Asia
China

15. Word Study absent not present compulsory
standard
curriculum
distribute
tendency
not present
having no choice, must be done because of
the rule or law
something used as a rule or model
subjects taught in a school/college
to spread around a space or area
a trend, an action which is common

16. expand
sceptical
commitment
load
to make bigger, increase
not trusting people or ideas, doubting that sth. is true
pledge, undertaking
a burden, something to be carried or put
up with