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Unit1 Teenage Life
Reading and Thinking
1. Figure out the main structure of the passage.
2. Infer the feelings when Adam dealt with his challenges
3. Express your own ideas through creative thinking and explore the possible solutions.
What can you know from the video?
School life in America:
1. Students move to different classrooms to have classes.
2.Go to school clubs or after-school activities after school.
3. optional(可选择的) courses
School life in China :
1.Teachers move to different classrooms to teach.
2.Go home and dohomework after school.
3. courses: Chinese,maths, English....
If a foreign teenager come to China for senior high, do you think he can fit in our school life? Why?
Whether in time or in the courses, they have more freedom.Maybe they have got used to that life.
Pre-reading
THE FRESHMAN CHALLENGE
Prediction
Look at the picture and read the title of the passage on Page 14 and predict what the passage is probably about.
The passage is probably about the freshman challenge in senior high school.
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Read the text quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph.
Fast-Reading
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Senior high school is a challenge
Adam had to think carefully about which courses he wanted to take.
Adam had to choose extra-curricular activities.
Studying harder and being responsible are needed
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Check your answers.
The structure of passage
Part1:
Part2:
para. 1 introduction
para.2-para.4
the various challenges
Read&Think
How does Adam feel?
What
solutions
does he take?
What
challenges
does Adam meet?
Careful-Reading
Check your answers.
Check your answers.
Solution
Challenge 3
Solution
Challenge 4
Challenge 2
Solution
Challenge 1
1. Why was Adam turned down(refuse) by the school football team coach?
Because Adam is not good at playing football.
2. What does “make the team” in paragraph 3 mean?
It means to join the team and become a member of it.
3. Is Adam confident that he will get used to senior high school life? How do you know?
Yes, he is. Because he