Unit 1 Teenage Life Reading and Thinking & wokbook reading 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

TEENAGE LIFE Reading and Thinking THE FRESHMAN CHALLENGES Your learning aims: to practice the skill of skimming (略读)( for the gist key words & topic sentence) to learn to analyze the structure of the text. to compare the school life in china and other countries and develop a positive attitude towards challenge. The photo is from the International Kite Festival held in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. Periodically [ˌpɪrɪˈɑdəklɪ] 定期地 since 2003, the city of Xiamen holds an international kite festival on Guanyinshan Beach. The 2014 festival hosted招待 33 kite teams from China and 14 foreign countries, and attracted about 80,000 visitors from around the world. The quote is from one of Aristotle’s most important and influential works, Nicomachean Ethics尼各马可伦理学, which is thought to be based on his lecture notes at the Lyceum（书院）. In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that in order to become a good person, one must start by learning good habits. However, good habits are not enough, as they require no thought or choice. Ultimately, a person must choose to be good, and show that goodness through the practical choices he or she makes in daily life. Task 1 : Fast Reading Activity 2 Read the text quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph. (mark the topic sentence and key words ) The topic sentence is normally, but not always, the first sentence of a paragraph. It gives the main idea of the paragraph. 1. The main idea of each paragraph Para.1　 Senior high school is a challenge. Para.2 Choose the suitable courses. Para.3 Choose extra-curricular activities. Para.4 Study harder and be responsible for a lot more. 2. The structure of the text: main part supporting parts Task 2 : Careful Reading Background Information Activity 3 High School Curriculum In North America, many schools allow students to choose which courses they want to take. Chinese is increasingly being taught as a foreign language in Western high schools. However, in North Ame