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Welcome to the unit & reading
Realizing your potential
Unit 1 Back to school
To understand what potential is and how they can develop it;
To know about the structure, the language style and the purpose of the speech;
To express opinions on what qualities senior high students should have.
Welcome to the unit
1. How do you feel on your first day at Senior High school?
2. What do you plan to do in the new term at Senior High school?
Senior high school is a time of learning and discovery.
How do Wendy and Stephen think of their new school life?
Watch the video and finish the following exercises on P1.
Wendy:
feels a bit nervous;
plans to work harder in her studies and join the ___________.
Stephen:
feels ___________;
plans to spend more time on ____________________.
English and Physics
Art Club
very excited
Just as Wendy and Stephen said, senior high school brings a lot of different new experiences to everyone. Skim the title,the illustration(插图) and the first paragraph,and then answer the following questions.
Which sentences can show the article is a speech?
What do you think the principal will talk about in his speech?
Hello,everyone! Welcome to senior high school!Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a promising future.
I think the principal means to welcome the students to a new stage of life,and prepare them for developing their potential to the full at senior high school.
Pre-reading
Reading:Realizing your potential
While-reading
1. Read the speech transcript and find the topic sentence for each paragraph.
Fast-reading
Realizing your potential
Hello, everyone! Welcome to senior high school! Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a promising future.
I can’t wait to describe to you what senior high school life is like. The path before you leads to a world full of challenges: a new environment, new knowledge and new ways of thinking. However, for those of you with a posi