Inside Australia's toughest boys school: does traditional discipline work?

This is a list of key vocabulary and expressions from the video in order of how useful they are.  The student must choose 6 items from the list to study in the lesson.

Committed

To carry on ((doing) something)

To swear

To get into trouble

To get away (with something)

Breed

Could have happened

Worst-case scenario

Dumb

To overtake (someone/ something)

Cheeky

A peer

Drop out

Petrified

Gruelling

Good on you!

To cram

To skip (something)

Not cut it

Blimey

A bloke

A troublemaker

Tame

To put someone to shame

Wakey-wakey

15 conversation-provoking questions related to the article.

 

1.    In a nutshell, what is this school?

2.    What do the head and deputy head believe?

3.    What do you know about Mitchell?

4.    What do you know about the triplets?

5.    What do you know about Matt?

6.    Do you approve of the methods this school uses?

7.    Should teachers be allowed to use physical punishments, like making a child squat against a wall?

8.    Do you like the way the school used physical exercise to instil discipline in the children?

9.    ‘We don’t have soft talk’. Do you support this?

10. Do you think it schools should be allowed to expel pupils?

11. What bad behaviour did you see in your school?

12. What was your attitude to P.E lessons?

13. How were pupils punished in your school?

14. Which lessons did you dread?

15. How would you like to see schools change?

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