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Unit2 School life Reading John Nancy Woodland School Rocky Mountain High school Year 8 French Reading Week Grade 8 the Buddy Club Life in a British School Life in an American school Baseball Name School Grade Subjects Activities/Clubs life —— lives 1. 生活;生活经历 2.生命;生机 Different school lives 2 a mixed school like French best practice baseball learn a foreign language go to a Buddy Club Reading Week offer new students help learn more about school bring in books and magazines do sports play baseball have lessons together Revision Guess and say: a mixed school go to the Buddy Club listen carefully offer me help have a Reading Week borrow more books from do sports together practice hard discuss books with bring in books and magazines from home Let students try to say as much information as they can about the phrases. 4 Which type are their schools? mixed schools “Boys and girls have lessons together.” a mixed school adj. 男女混合的,混合的 mix v. 混合 mix … with … 把…和…混合起来 1. Our school is a _ (mix) school. 2. Tom often _(mix) sugar with coffee together. 3. Sometimes, our PE teacher _ (mix) boys with girls to form training teams in table tennis. 4. I came home from the meeting with _(mix) feelings. mixed mixes mixes mixed Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation What is Nancy’s favorite subject? Why ? A foreign language Learning foreign languages is fun. =It is fun to learn foreign languages. Doing sth. is +adj.=It is +adj+to do sth. “Among all my subjects, I like French best.” Among表两者以上同类人/事物范围中 (French) _English is fun.= It’s fun _English. Reading to read What special activity does Nancy’s school have? During the Reading week we can _more books_the library. We can also _books and magazines _ home. borrow from bring in from Can you your bike to me? lend the Reading Week Can you _ me your bike? Can I _ the bike _ you? lend borrow from Nancy reads _ books _ Daniel. Sandy reads _ books _ Daniel. Simon reads_ books _Sandy. Nancy reads_books _ the other students. books Nancy Simon Sandy Daniel more than more …than … during the Reading Week Does Nancy like reading? How do you know ? I often read more books than my classmates. Times seems to go faster when we are reading books. fewer than fewer than more than Time seems to go faster when we are reading books. Time seems faster … It seems that time goes faster … Does time really go faster ? Time seems to go faster if you do something interesting/ like doing something... seem to do sth. 表示动作 seem to be + adj. /n. 表示状态 seem + adj. / n. 表示状态 It seems +that 从句 Time seems to go faster /faster when we…. When does time seem to go faster in your daily life? 一些奇怪的事情似乎快要发生了。 Something strange _ _ _ soon. 他似乎挺开心。 He seems to be happy. He seems happy. It seems that he is happy. seems to happen seem to do sth. 表示动作 seem to be + adj. /n. 表示状态 seem + adj. / n. 表示状态 It seems +that 从句 “We discuss the books with our classmates.” What do they do near the end of the Reading Week ? We often _problems_our classmates in class. 和同学讨论问题 Advice :It is good for us to share our ideas with others. discuss sth with sb 和某人谈论某事 have a discussion about sth with sb. They are having a _ _ their classmates _ the holiday plan. 讨论假期计划 discuss with discussion with about discuss v. = have a long talk about… discussion n. 讨论 (1) 我们正一起讨论有关读书周的事情。 (2) 在读书周期间,我们可以自由地讨论我们所读的东西。 (3) 你猜一猜接下来我们要讨论什么呢? Can you guess what we will discuss next? Can you guess what we will have a discussion about next? We are discussing something about the Reading Week. We can freely discuss what we read during the Reading Week. Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation √ √ √ Put a tick (√) in the boxes below: A. listen carefully to their problems B. help them learn more about the school C. help them become heroes D. offer some help with their problems Tony is John’s hero because John admires him very much. What do the buddies usually do ? Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation Each student is willing to _ (提供) books to the students in poor areas. 2. The buddies often _ (提供) new students with useful advice on how to learn English well in the past. offer provided offer v. 给予,提供 offer sb. sth. = offer sth. to sb. 给某人提供某物 provide v. 提供 provide sb with sth = provide sth. for sb. 向某人提供某物 Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation The buddies sometimes offer to help us practise playing baseball. 这些伙伴有时主动帮助我们练习打棒球。 offer v. 主动 offer to do sth. 主动做某事 Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation Why is the Buddy Club so special for John? He can meet his hero Tony. He can learn more about the school. Older students are willing to help new students. Discuss: What makes heroes? offer me help = offer help to me good achievements work hard … listen carefully to my problems good qualities Is Su bingtian your hero? Why? hero 偶像,英雄 He _ hard, and never gives up. We can learn from him. practices v. heroes On Friday afternoon, John’s school ends earlier than usual. Near the end of the week, we discuss the books with classmates in class. end v. 结束 (及物动词/不及物动词) n. 结尾,结束(不可数);末端,尽头 near the end of 在…接近 / 快结束时 in the end 最后,终于 at the end of 在…结束时,在…末端 n. 结尾,结局(可数) adj. 没有尽头的 ending endless Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation batter 击球手 catcher 捕手 pitcher 投球手 Baseball is a sport played between two teams usually of nine players each. It is a bat-and-ball game in which a pitcher throws (pitches) a hard, fist-sized, leather-covered ball toward a batter on the opposing team. Playing baseball is great fun. 20 batter 击球手 catcher 捕手 pitcher 投球手 To John, playing baseball is great fun. Lead-in Presentation Practice Consolidation What can we get from our school life? School life sadness failure knowledge happiness friends challenge success B4 Complete Daniel and Kitty's conversation with the words in the box. Daniel: I read an article by a boy from the USA. His name is John. He's in the 8th grade. Kitty:Really?What's his school life like? Daniel:Every Monday,he goes to the Buddy Club. His friend Tony is in the 12th grade.Tony listens to John's problems and _ him help. He's John's _. offers hero baseball ends hero offers sports twice won 23 Kitty:What else do you know about John? Daniel:On Friday afternoon, their school_earlier than usual. They often do _together. Kitty:Does John like sports? Daniel:Yes. His favourite sport is _. He plays it _ a week. Their team_two games last month. ends sports baseball twice won 24 Exercises 中考链接 1. —_the summer holiday, we can go to many places to have a good time. —Yes. I like Qingdao and the sea there. A. Among B. Between C. On D. During 2. _ each class, students often play a game. A. In the end B. In the end of C. Near the end of D. Near the end D C 25 3. He seems _, so he begins to sing a song. A. happy B. unhappy C. to happy D. to unhappy 4. —Who _the tennis game yesterday? —Jack. He _all the others. A. beat; won B. won; won C. beat; beat D. won; beat A D 26 Choose the right answers 1. —When shall we have another baseball match? —_ the term. A. On the end of B. By the end of C. Near the end of D. In the end of 2. I am too busy to listen to her _ talking. She has talked for about two hours. A. hopeless B. endless C. harmless D. careless 3. _, we’ll have a break as soon as we _ the discussion. A. Than usual; end B. As usual; end C. Than usual; ended D. As usual; ended 用所给词的适当形式填空 1. You'd better go home to see your parents _ (two) a week. They need more care. 2. After the class_(end),we will go for a picnic. 3. -Could I _(borrow)your dictionary? -Yes, you can. twice ends borrow 28 4. It's_(usual)for the apple trees to come out (开花) in winter so early. 5. Mo Yan is the first man_(win)the Nobel Prize for Literature of the Chinese. 6. —Among all my_(subject), I enjoy English most. —Me too. English is interesting. 7. A lot of _ (foreign) come to visit the Great Wall every year. unusual to win subjects foreigners 29 null 125157.055 $$