SCHOOLS IN AFRICA: KENYA AND CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Posted by Ahou Ado Gabin Salomon (adogabin@yahoo.fr)

Integrated skills lesson
Duration: 1 hour

STUDENT’S WORKSHEET

TASK 1: (17 min) The table below describes schools both in Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire. Look at it
carefully and listen to your teacher. And then answer to the questions he is going to put.

School here in Kenya School there in Côte d’Ivoire

Grades Age Grades Age
Standard 1 6 CP1(1st Preparatory grade) 6

PRIMARY SCHOOL
Standard 2 7 CP2 (2nd Preparatory grade) 7
PRIMARY SCHOOL

Standard 3 8 CE1 (1st elementary grade) 8

Standard 4 9 CE2 (2nd elementary grade) 9
Standard 5 10 CM1 (1st intermediate grade) 10
Standard 6 11 CM2 (2nd intermediate grade) CEPE 11
Standard 7 12
Standard 8 KCPE 13

Form 1 14
SECONDARY

Form 1 12
SCHOOL

1st cycle
Form 2 15 Form 2 13

SECONDARY
Form 3 16 Form 3 14

SCHOOL
Form 4 KCSE 17 Form 4 BEPC 15
Form 5 16
cycle

Form 6 17
nd
2

Form 7 Baccalauréat 18

TASK 2:

a) (2 min) As you read the text below quickly, say whether the following statement is true
(T) or false (F): The text is about an old woman.

My name is Yao and I’m a boy. I am 13 years old and I go to school in Abidjan, in Côte
d’Ivoire. My school’s name is Sainte Marie. It is a secondary school. I am in Form 2. My sister
Akissi is 11 years old. She goes to a Primary School and she is now in CM2. At the end of the
year, she’s going to take her CEPE exam. In Côte d’Ivoire, school is compulsory for children
up to the age of 16. So I must stay at school for three more years until I am 16.

b) Then listen to your teacher and answer the questions he is going to put.

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 c) (6 min) Finally, name a friend. With your partner, ask and answer questions like this:

Where does your friend go to school?

Which form ie (s)he in?

Where does your siter / brother go to school?

Which form ie (s)he in?

TASK 3: (7 min) Look at the table above and write eight sentences like this (4 min). Then with
your partner, check whether they are true or false, according to what you know so far (3 min):

At the age of 6, children in Kenya start primary school. .

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TASK 4: (5 min) Peter’s Ghanaian friend wanted to know more about school here compared to
Côte d’Ivoire’s. This is the letter he sent him. But the rain torn the letter and some parts are
missing. Use the words in the box below to complete it. #1 is done as an example:
#1: six

Eighth – Baccalauréat – secondary – six – seven – KCSE – KCPE

In my country, children usually start school at the age of (1)_six_____________.

They spend eight years in primary school. At the end of the (2) _________________ year, our
children take the (3) _________________ exam. Then the good pupils go on to (4)
_________________ school. The secondary school lasts four years. But in Côte d’Ivoire, pupils
have to spend (5) _________________ years in secondary school.
Here in Kenya, after the four years of secondary school, pupils take an exam called
the (6) _____________ which is almost the equivalent of the Ivorian (7) ________________.

HOMEWORK
Re-read the text of above (TASK 2) either tick (√) where correct or write down the correct
answer in the table below.
YAO AKISSI
Primary school
Secondary school
Present year
Present age
Number of years left

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