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Welcome Unit
Reading and Thinking
Learning Aims
1. To develop reading ability by skimming for main ideas.
2. To understand the main idea of this material.
3. To talk about the first senior high school day.
4. To describe own feelings.
1. To better understand the first day experiences and feelings of Han Jing.
2. To describe the first day experiences and feelings following the time order.
Key and Difficult points
happy
anxious
annoyed
frightened
excited
Describe your first senior high school day
First Impressions
An outward appearance
make an impression
留下印象
chemistry experiments
化学实验
be annoyed with/at
对...烦恼,烦恼...
impatience or anger
Mentally upset or worried
be anxious about/for sth.
为...(sb./sth.)担心/担忧
Fear or desperation
Embarrassed or nervous
To direct your attention towards...
concentrate on
集中精力于
n. concentration
Practice
1. There is no reason to be anxious ____________ the exam result.
2. The ____________ fiction made him ____________ to death. (frighten)
3. There's a lot to ___________ (探索) at senior high school.
4. I am not an outgoing student, but I also want to ___________________ on my new classmates.
我是个内向的学生,但我也想给新同学们留下一个好印象。
5. My deskmate whispered to himself all the time, so I couldn't ___________ the teacher's lesson. I want him to leave me alone. (concentrate)
about/for
frightening
frightened
explore
make a good impression
concentrate on
First Impressions
Find the main idea of each paragraph.
Han Jing's World
7:00 a.m.
So this is it—senior high
school at last! I'm not outgoing , so I'm a little anxious right now. I want
to make a good first impression. Will I make any friends? What if no one talks to me?
Anxious
Han Jing's World
7:00 a.m. I'm a little anxious. (The worries about the new school day )
12:30 p.m.
I just had my first maths class at senior high school! The class was difficult, but the teacher was kind and friendly. He even told us a funny story, and everyone laughed so much! I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful.
Happy
12:30 p.m. I found my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful; Happy
Han Jing's World
7:00 a.m. I'm a little anxious. (The worries about the new school day )
5:32 p.m.
This afternoon, we had our chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson was great, but the guy next to me tried to talk to me the whole time. I couldn't concentrate on the experiment. I really wanted to tell him to please be quiet and leave me alone!
Annoyed
12:30 p.m. I found my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful; Happy
5:32 p.m. I couldn't concentrate on the experiment; Annoyed.
Han Jing's World
7:00 a.m. I'm a little anxious. (The worries about the new school day )
10:29 p.m.
What a day! This morning, I was
worried that no one would talk to me.
But I was wrong. I didn't feel awkward or frightened at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here, and there's a lot to explore at senior high. I feel much more confident than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow will be a great day!
More confident
7:00 a.m. I'm a little anxious. (The worries about the new school day )
12:30 p.m. I found my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful; Happy
5:32 p.m. I couldn't concentrate on the experiment; Annoyed.
10:29 p.m. I feel much more confident. (Han Jing’s feelings about her first senior school day)
Han Jing's World
Han Jing's World
7:00 a.m.
So this is it—senior high
school at last! I'm not outgoing , so I'm a little anxious right now. I want
to make a good first impression. Will I make any friends? What if no one talks to me?
Why?
一般疑问句
要是...会怎么样呢?
Anxious
Careful Reading
Difficult sentences
1.What if no one talks to me?
=What should I do if no one talks to me. 或What will happen if no one talks to me?
What if…? 要是……会怎么样呢?结构:what if+主语+谓语?
What about…? ……会怎么样(提建议的一种形式)
eg: What about going for a walk after supper?
晚饭后去散步好吗?
So what?那又怎么样?
what's up? 怎么了?
12:30 p.m.
I just had my first maths class at senior high school! The class was difficult, but the teacher was kind and friendly. He even told us a funny story, and everyone laughed so much! I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful.
tell sb. sth.
Happy
2. I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful.
find+宾语+宾补
find后可接复合宾语,能作宾语的可以是名词,代词,形容词,副词,不定式等.
eg:He found the children (play) in the playground.
playing
5:32 p.m.
This afternoon, we had our chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson was great, but the guy next to me tried to talk to me the whole time. I couldn't concentrate on the experiment. I really wanted to tell him to please be quiet and leave me alone!
tell sb. to do sth.
leave...alone
Annoyed
10:29 p.m.
What a day! This morning, I was
worried that no one would talk to me.
But I was wrong. I didn't feel awkward or frightened at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here, and there's a lot to explore at senior high. I feel much more confident than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow will be a great day!
More confident
担心...
confidence
Read the text again and discuss
the questions.
1. Why did Han Jing feel anxious before school?
2. How was her first maths class?
3. What happened in the chemistry class? What would you do if this happened to you?
4. What did Han Jing learn from her first day at senior high school?
Read the text again and discuss the questions.
1. Why did Han Jing feel anxious before school?
She was not outgoing.
2. How was her first maths class?
It was difficult.
4. What did Han Jing learn from her first day at senior high school?
She learnt that she would make new friends here and there was a lot to explore at senior high school.
3. What happened in the chemistry class? What would you do if this happened to you?
The guy next to her tried to talk to her the whole time.
If this happened to me, I would ignore him.
Fill in the table with the words
and phrases from the text.
senior high school, a little anxious
maths class, difficult, a kind and friendly teacher, happy
chemistry class, the guy next to me talked to me the whole time, couldn't concentrate on the experiment, annoyed
didn't feel awkward or frightened, will make new friends, a lot to explore, more confident
Talk about your first day of senior high school with your partner.
Pair Work
Summary
Summary
Summary
Exercises for consolidation
巩固练习
完成下列句子:
1 He _______________ finish school and get
a job. 他渴望毕业,然后找一份工作。
2 My father always gets a bit _________ if we don't arrive when we say we will.
如果我们没有在说好的时间到达,我父亲总会有些担心。
3 Helen ________________ travelling on her
own. 海伦对自己一个人出门旅行感到担心。
was anxious to
anxious
is anxious about
4. Her speech made/left quite a good _____________ on the audience. (impress)
5. What ___________ me most about the book
was its surprising ending. (impress)
6. What was your first __________ of him? (impress)
7. The film’s special effects are particularly
_______________. (impress)
8. He was very _____________ (impress) by the
efficiency of the staff.
impressed
impression
impressive
impression
impressed
[巩固内化] 单句语法填空
1.There is no reason to be anxious ____________ the exam result.
2. He is anxious ____________(spend) the holiday with you.
3. The mother was filled with ____________(anxious) about/over her daughter’s English.
4. She waited ____________(anxious) for her mother’s letter.
about /for
to spend
anxiety
anxiously
5. She found herself ____________ (trap) into buying the useless medicines.
6. I find it necessary for us ____________(learn) a foreign language.
7. Travelling in an airplane can be ____________
(frighten) experience for some people.
8. The ____________ fiction made him ____________ to death.(frighten)
9. The man frightened the old lady into ____________
(sign) the paper at last.
trapped
to learn
frightening
frightening
frightened
signing
翻译下列句子:
1 It took her a long time to gain his confidence, but he trusts her now.
2 Tom's completely lacking in confidence.
3 The teachers often want the children to feel confident about asking questions when they don't understand.
她花了很长时间来赢得他的信任,不过现在他很信任她。
汤姆一点儿也不自信。
教师经常要孩子们遇到不懂的问题就大胆提问。
4. 我是个内向的学生,但我也想给新同学们留下一个好印象。
5. 要是一个都不想和我交朋友我该怎么办呢?
I am not an outgoing student, but I also want to make a good impression on my new classmates.
Although I'm an introverted student, I also want to make a good impression of myself before my new classmates.
What if no one wants to make friends with me?
What should I do if nobody wants to make friends with me?
6. 我的同桌一直在低声自言自语,我根本无法集中听老师讲课。
My deskmate keeps talking to himself the whole time, which makes me unable to concentrate on what the teacher is talking about.
My deskmate whispered to himself all the time, so I couldn't concentrate on the teacher's lesson.
7. 父母都出去逛街去了,把他一个人留在家里。
8. 跟陌生人见面的时候我总是感到难为情。
His parents both went shopping, leaving him alone at home. Both his parents were out shopping. They left him alone at home.
I always feel awkward/embarrassed when meeting strangers.
6. 老师告诉我们,高中生活是一个等着我们去探索的神秘世界,这让我比以前更有信心了。
The teacher told us that senior high school life was a mysterious world waiting for us to explore. This made me feel more confident than before.
Tian Hua is a new student at a school in America. She is studying at an American high school for one year. In China, Tian Hua was in Grade 1 at _______ high school, but in America, she is in Grade 10!
She did not________________ at all when she arrived. Her first ___________ was that English was difficult and people spoke too quickly, but soon she found that if she__________________ the ideas, not the single words,
she could understand!
Word Study
senior
feel confident
impression
concentrated on
She also made friends and began to _______ the city with them. Her new friends were happy to explain things to her after class. Her favourite class is chemistry because the teacher lets the students do cool ____________ ! Tian Hua is not sure how well she will do at school this
year, but she is not nervous any more.
She is excited!
explore
experiments
1. Word Study.
2. Write a short text and title it "My First Day".
Homework
Thank You!
05 First impressions
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