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Unit 1 Teenage Life
Reading and Thinking
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Learning Objectives
1. To know more about life of senior high school students in western countries and master the new words and phrases.
2. To improve your reading skills and ability of cooperating with others by discussing in groups.
3. To establish an positive attitude and face the challenges in senior high school actively.
Warm-up
1. What do you think of your school life ?
2. What's your own challenges and feelings?
Pre-reading
When it comes to " The Freshman Challenge", what do you think of?
Look at the pictures and the titles and predict what the text is probably about?
While-reading
Task 1. Fast Reading
Match the paragraphs(left column) with their main idea(right column).
para.1 Senior high school is a challenge
para. 2 Adam will have to study harder for the future
para. 3 Adam had to choose extra-curricular activities
para. 4 Adam had to choose courses
Task 2. Detailed information
1. What courses did Adam choose? which one do you think would be his favorite? Why?
2. Why did the speaker want to sign up for advanced literature?
3. Why couldn't the speaker join the school football team?
4. What did the speaker decide to do instead of joining the football team?
Task 3.
1. What can we learn about Adam according to the passage?
A.He thinks junior high school life is the same as senior high school life.
B.He has started his senior high school life.
C.He can't get on well with his lessons.
D.He will graduate from senior high school.
2. What did Adam do when he failed to join the school football team?
A.He felt very happy and joined another club.
B.He