内容正文:
The Freshman Challenge
Learning Objectives
Know about the challenges, feelings, and solutions of the teenager’s school life.
2. Learn to use the reading skill of skimming.
3. Compare school life in different places.
Lead-in
What is the video about ?
American high school life
courses in American high school
Is it similiar to Chinese high
school life?
Brainstorm
What do you think of your high school life now?
Busy
Different
Interesting
Difficult
Prediction
The freshman challenge
Predict what the article is about from the title & the picture by asking some questions:
Who
What
Where
How
He had to choose extra-curricular activities.
Adam will study harder and be responsible for a lot more.
While-reading
Skimming
Can you read and find the main idea of each para ?
Para 2
Para 1
Para 3
Para 4
How can you find the information so quickly?
Senior high school is a challenge.
Adam had to think very carefully about which course he wanted to take.
You can find main idea by first taking a quick look at the title, picture(s), key words & phrases, and topic sentences
While-reading
What is the structure of this article ?
Para 1: the topic
a Really Big Challenge
Para 2
Challenge 1
Para 3
Challenge 2
Para 4
Challenge 3
What’s the type of this article ?
General
Specific
courses
extra-curricular
activities
responsibilities
Narration 记叙文
Hi! My name is Adam and I'm a freshman at a senior high school. Going from junior high school to senior high school is a really big challenge. The first week was a little confusing.
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While-reading
Going from junior high school to senior high school is a really big challenge.
主语
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While-reading
First, I had to think very carefully about which courses I wanted to take. The school adviser helped me choose the suitable ones: maths, English, chemistry, world history, and Chinese. I know that Chinese is a very difficult language, but I hope to be fluent when I graduate. My adviser