课时作业1 A new start-（课时作业）【红对勾讲与练】2024版新高考英语大一轮复习全新方案（外研版）

必修第一册　 3 　 必修第一册 课时作业 1　 A new start Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2022·河北邢台六校联考) It was my first year of teaching, and I was sinking. I could not get my middle school students to sit down and pay attention. I felt frustrated that I couldn􀆳t get them to remember what I had just taught the day before; yet, they could easily remember every word of a new rap song on the radio. Of course, the other problem with this was that they came in each day singing about violence, depression and drug use, which frustrated me even more. And then, one afternoon, instead of turning off their radios, I decided to offer them a different station. I went home, and made up a rap song about the math concepts they were learning at the time, called “The Itty-Bitty Dot” . I practiced it all night. Early the next morning, when my class came in, I performed it for them. The result was very bad. The students laughed hysterically (歇斯底里地) . Not only were they not paying attention, they were also laughing at me. Later that day, I went to lunch with slow heavy steps like a big loser. And then it happened. As I walked by the lunch tables, I heard the students were singing my song! The next day, they eagerly ran into my classroom, saying things like, “Mr Kajitani, are you going to rap again? Yesterday was the best day ever in the math class!” From that moment on, everything changed. I had connected with my students on their level, using the language they understood to get across what I was trying to teac