Gap year

1) Scientists believe that people, when trying to make sense of their lives, tend to focus on three main questions: Who am I? Who do others think I am? And who do I want to be? Personality tests help us find out the answers to these serious fundamental questions in a fun way. Do you wanna know what you truly want in life? Then watch the video!

- If your total score is from 100 to 170 points, the thing you secretly dream about is fame and recognition. You want people to know and admire you.

- If your total score is from 180 to 250 points, your hidden desire is to love and be loved. In other words, you need a person to feel connected to. - If your total score is from 260 to 330 points, your deepest wish is to be rich and successful. Money embodies the luxury and comfort you've always wanted. - If your total score is from 340 to 400 points, you want nothing more than some peace and quiet. Sometimes you feel ready to leave everything you know and head for a calm and tranquil place where nobody knows you.

2) Now the questions

As for me, the test is literary accurate for me, all what was said about my desires was correct. What about you? Has the test helped you to find out your hidden desire?

There are 4 main desires….WE shouldn't forget about the really important things we want to achieve in our life. To my mind any young person has to become an individual, able to make the difference in our world. Consequently, we can't do without education the has the major impact on our life.

3) What types of schools and national exams are there in the UK?

University GCSEs (9 subjects) primary school a degree secondary school A-levels (3 subjects) play group.

Read the list, ask me questions so that you can put the schools and exams into chronological order:

• 3-5 years old: play group
• 5-11 years old: primary school
• 11-18 years old: secondary school - GCSEs (9 subjects) at 16 and A-levels (3 subjects) at 18
• 18 years old: university - a degree

Ask learners to complete the first two columns of the table on the worksheet.

What similarities and differences they can find.

4) What have you learned from the text " Going to university"?

1. When do students apply for university place?
2. Why do most student live far away from home?
3. How do you show which universities you want to apply to?
4. What happens to the application form?
5. What happens after the university has received the forms?
6. What does an offer of a place depend on?
7. Do you have to take up the offer immediately?

5) Gap year This is a reading task using an article from the British Council's Trend UK department. Before you begin, make sure learners understand the word 'gap'.

Put learners into two groups. Give each learner in one group a copy of reading text A and each learner in the other group reading text B. Give them time to read the text and work together to check vocabulary and make notes of the main points. Then pair up one A with one B and ask them to tell each other about the text they read.

*A gap year is a period of time, usually an academic year, taken by a student as a break from formal education. It is often spent travelling or working.

6. Plan your perfect gap year.

This task follows on from Task 3 and is better suited to learners who could imagine themselves at the age of a gap year learner (16+). Put learners in pairs and go through the instructions:

Next year you don't have to go to school - you're going to take a gap year with your friend instead! Luckily money isn't a problem, so you can go wherever you like and do whatever you want. It will be an unforgettable year. Work in pairs and plan your perfect gap year.

School reunions are events where former learners of a school (usually those who finished school the same year) get together a number of years later in order to catch up.

Ask learners to imagine it's the year 2040, and they have lost touch with all their classmates. However, their old school has just written to all its ex-learners to organise an online reunion on a special website set up by the school. To participate,mthey need to write a post about what they're doing now, in 2040. They can write about their job, their family, where they're living, their future plans, etc. However, they shouldn't write their name!

Encourage learners to use their imaginations when writing their post! When they have finished, collect all the posts in. Mix them up and hand them back out to the class, making sure nobody has their own. Ask learners to read out the post they got and, as a class, decide which learner wrote it!