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UNIT 1
TEENAGE LIFE
Period 2
Reading and Thinking
Learning objectives
To read to learn American students’ school life.
To compare senior high school life between China and foreign countries.
To think about your own challenges, feelings and solutions in high school.
Warming up
How is your school life ?
What do you want to know about teenage life in other countries?
Lead in
What is the video about ?
American high school life
Is it similar to Chinese high
school life?
different subjects
different learning environment
….
American classroom
After-class activities
Brainstorm
What do you think of your high school life now?
busy
interesting
difficult
positive
Increase in learning difficulty
What challenges are you facing now?
Much more homework
More difficulties in study
which club to choose
get used to the learning schedule
feeling lonely and miss families
hard to keep good relationship with classmates and teachers
challenge
Ⅰ. Skimming for main ideas
The text mainly tells us ________.
A.the importance of taking courses
B.why Adam joined a volunteer club
C.how Adam dealt with the freshman challenge
D.Adam is worried about his advanced course
Predicting
Look at the title and guess what the article is mainly about?
Who:
What:
So it’s maybe talk about ________ ______________________________________________________
A freshman
Challenges
a freshman's challenge at a new school
a student in the first year of high school
Something new and difficult that takes time and hard work to deal with
He had to choose extra-curricular activities.
Adam will study harder and be responsible for a lot more.
Match the sentences with each paragraph.
Para 2
Para 1
Para 3
Para 4
Senior high school is a challenge.
Adam had to think carefully about which courses he wanted to take.
Skimming
Skim(略读)
You can find main ideas by first taking a quick look at the title, picture(s), key words and phrases, and topic sentences.
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Tip: Sometimes the first sentence can give you m