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Developing ideas P8-11
新外研必修Book 1
Unit 1 A New Start
Pre-reading
What do you want to achieve at high school?
Please rank them in order of importance.
(1=most important)
Look at the following word cloud and the picture.
What do you think is talked about in the interview?
While-reading
Now let's read the interview and check
your prediction.
Scan the interview and answer the
questions.
1 What did Lisa find most helpful when she
started high school?
2 How did she deal with new challenges?
3 How did she handle disappointments?
Answer:
1 Orientation Day.
2 She figured that she should go all out
and not be afraid of failure.
3 She realised that it wasn't just about
winning, and kept working hard to be
part of something she loved.
Learning to learn
When scanning a text, you read it quickly in order to find a specific piece of information. For example,
to find out the answer to the question "What did Lisa find most helpful when she started high school?",you would look
for the key words ''helpful" and ''started high school".
True or false.
1. Lisa thinks that Orientation Day is not so helpful.
And new students don't need to take part in the
activities of it.
2. Lisa is very glad to share her suggestions for
high school in School Talk.
3. When she had a chemistry test at the end of the
first week, Lisa wasn't frightened at all.
4. The most important advice that Lisa gave in School Talk is ''Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud'' .
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1 What do you think Lisa means by "If you fail,
no problem - next time you can fail better "?
2 Think about the words from Maya Angelou:
"Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud." Do
you know of any similar sayings?
3 Which piece of Lisa's advice is the most
helpful to you? Why?
4 What else would you like to ask Lisa about
starting high schoo!?
Work in groups. Give a speech to the new students on their first day at high school.
Post-reading
Step 1 Make notes of you