Single-Sex Schools Are Good for Education

Single-sex schools are schools that only admit those of one specific gender, believing that the educational environment created by a single gender is more helpful to learning. Studies conducted have shown that boys gain more academically from studying in co-education schools, but that girls find segregated schools more productive for achievement.

Level: Intermediate: B1/B2
Running Time: 90 minutes +

Materials included

This free lesson plan is suitable for adults, teenagers, and General English classes. Each plan includes:

• A debate motion
• A summary of the controversy
• Points for both Pros and Cons
• Language to use in a debate
• Debate role cards to help identify student groups
• An article
• Statistics (true or false exercise)
• Vocab for the topic

Preparation

For more information on how to use this in the classroom, please have a look at our detailed post on using free lesson plans.

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Single-sex schools are good for education

Further reading / additional resources

Single-sex schools are good for students

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