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Unit 1 A New Start
Understanding ideas
Learning aims:
1.To know the main idea, and sort out the time sequence of plot development.
2.To learn to describe a life experience with suitable verbs (动词)and adjectives(形容词).
3.To understand the meaning of “ a good beginning is half done” by combining the text, and establish confidence in high school life.
Important and difficult points:
How to describe a life experience with suitable verbs and adjectives and establish confidence in high school life.
Part1: Pre-reading
As a new senior student , if you write a diary to record your first day in the new school, what you will include?
Part2: While-reading
I. Fast-reading
1. Read the passage quickly and tick what the author wrote in his diary about his first
day at senior high.
the school campus new teachers school subjects
a new timetable an embarrassing moment
new friends his feelings
2.Choose the best descriptions of Meng Hao’s first day at senior high.
A. He found the English class difficult and was not sure what to do.
B. With the English teacher’s support, he thought senior high was easy and felt confident
about his future
C. He was not sure about life at senior high, but after the English class, he felt more confident
II. Intensive-reading
Read the passage carefully and finish the following tasks.
1. Divide the diary into four parts and complete Meng Hao’s experiences with expressions from the passage.
Structure of the text
Meng Hao’s experiences
Before going to school
(Para.1)
Because it was Meng Hao’s first day at 1.______________, he got up early and 2.____________ to his new school.
Arriving at school
(Para. ----Para. )
The campus was still quiet, so Meng Hao decided to 3.______________. He met a man who he 4._________________ find out later was his English teacher.
During the English class
(Para. ----Para. )
Meng Hao was nervous about introducing himself in front of t