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Reading Unit 2 School life 1 Learning aims 通过阅读,了解Nancy和Tomoya的学校情况 能正确运用本课时的重点词汇 2 Lead in What unusual schools around the world do you know? What’s special about them? There is the boat school in Bangladesh. Students go to such schools because floods often happen in the country. There is the School of the Air in Australia. Some students live far away from the nearest school so they can use the internet to have lessons. 3 1 What is your school like? 2 What is special about your school? Know Nancy’s and Tomoya’s schools by reading Activity 1 Skimming What are the schools? 5 Scanning Divide the article into different parts. introduction to the writer and his/her school Subjects and what's special about his/her school feelings Careful reading Read Nancy’s post and fill in the chart. Subjects Foreign languages The arts Maths Science Courses (1)_ (2)_ (3)_ Art Music (4)_ - - Nancy’s opinion Chinese is (5)_, but she wants to (6)_. She can be (7)_ when learning the arts. - - What’s special Focus (tick the subject) Measure There is a (8)_. Reason It helps students (9)_ in other subjects. Chinese French German Drama not simple have a go creative special building study better What’s special What to do benefits Safety programmes Learn how to (1)_ Get plenty of (2)_ Food education Learn how to (3)_ and eat well Be more aware of (4)_ Cleaning Clean classrooms, (5)_ and other school areas Develop (6)_ survive in the face of danger hand-on experience cook meals the importance of a healthy diet toilets good habits Read Tomoya’s post and fill in the chart. Complete the table below about Nancy’s and Tomoya’s schools. School Woodland Secondary School Gekko Middle School Country (1)_ (2)_ What is special Small school, (3)_ students and smaller classes Different (4) _ to choose from Pay great attention to (5) _ Different (6)_ programmes (7)_education at school A tradition of (8)_ the UK Japan fewer subjects art safety Food cleaning Read the blog posts again. Write a T if a sentence is true or an F if it is false. Then correct the false one(s). 1 Nancy’s school is small and it is in London. 2 Chinese is not easy to learn, but Nancy wants to have a go. 3 Nancy likes going to school. 4 Tomoya’s school has different programmes to help students stay safe. 5 Tomoya does not know how to cook. 6 Every day at school, Tomoya and his classmates only need to clean the toilets. _ _ _ _ _ _ F T T T F F near knows clean classrooms, toilets and other school areas. Post reading Why does Woodland Secondary School pay great attention to the arts? Version 1: The arts encourage creative thinking and also help students study better in other subjects like Maths and Science. Version 2: Drama lessons can help develop communication and public speaking skills. Version 3: The arts can also help students form a positive attitude towards life. Think and share. Why does Gekko Middle School consider safety programmes and food education important? Safety programmes and food education can help students live safe and healthy lives. They can also prepare students for their future with challenges. 1.In your opinion, what is the best thing about each school? In my opinion, the best thing about Nancy's school is that they go to different classrooms to have different lessons. The best thing about Tomoya's school is that they pay a lot of attention to food education. 2.Which school in the blog posts would you like to go to? Why? I would like to go to Nancy's school as an exchange student. Because we have many more students here, and l would like to experience classes in a smaller size. Version 1: We think our school has the best teachers. They help us solve problems whenever we are in need. 3.What do you like best about your school? Version 2: We think the best thing about our school is that it offers us optional lessons. We can choose what we are interested in to develop our Activity 2 Use the key language points correctly 1. To us, learning Chinese may not be as simple as learning French or German, but I am looking forward to having a go. 对我们来说,学习中文或许不像学习法语或德语那么简单,但我很期待尝试一下。 期待做某事 look forward to doing 这本书和那本一样有趣。 This book is as interesting as that one. 和…… 一样…… as … as 我盼望着很快见到你。 I’m looking forward to meeting you soon. 2. Time flies when we are enjoying school! 时光飞逝,当我们在学校过得开心时更是如此! 时光飞逝 time flies 开心的时候,时光总是飞逝。 Time flies when you’re having fun. 3. Japan is one of the countries with the most earthquakes in the world, so our school offers different safety programmes to teach us how to survive in the face of danger. 日本是世界上地震最频发的国家之一,因此我们学校开设了各种安全课程,教我们如何在危险来临时逃生。 最……之一 one of+最高级+n.复数 她是这个国家最有才华的歌手之一。 She is one of the most talented singers in the country. 提供 offer 这家酒店为所有客人提供免费早餐。 The hotel offers free breakfast to all guests. 面对困难,他们齐心协力解决问题。 They worked together to solve the problem in the face of difficulty. 面对…… in the face of… offer to do sth.主动提出(做某事) He offered to help me carry the heavy box. 4. In this way, we are more aware of the importance of a healthy diet.这样一来,我们就更加意识到健康饮食的重要性了。 意识到;察觉到;知道 be aware of 我们应该意识到保护环境的重要性。 We should be aware of the importance of protecting the environment. 5. This helps us develop good habits from an early age. 这有助于我们从小养成良好的习惯。 养成良好的习惯 develop good habits 她努力养成每天阅读和锻炼等好习惯。 She tries to develop good habits like reading and exercising daily. C Kitty is reading another blog post about a Chinese school. Complete it with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box. aware creative hands-on look forward to environment offer plenty of pay ... attention to My name is Linlin. I am Chinese, and I go to Donghua Junior High School in Shanghai. We study lots of interesting subjects at school, such as foreign languages and History. But I love our Science lessons the most. We get to do all kinds of " (1) _ activities. hands-on Every year, my school has a science festival. It is a chance for us to be (2) _ with our learning. My classmates and I want to protect the (3)_.We are also of the importance of green energy. So, we built a small car for this year’s science festival. creative environment We are also (4) _ of the importance of green energy. This car gets its energy from the sun, so it is quite clean. Our science teacher is as excited as us. He (5) _ to help when we had a problem, and now the car works. But that’s not all! There are (6) _ fun things to see at the science festival. I am really (7) _ it. There will be toy robots and a model of a space rocket. I will (8) _ special (9) _ everything and tell you all about it in my next blog post. aware plenty of looking forward to offered pay attention to Summary 重点词汇 few, pron., drama, foreign, as...as..., French, German, forward, look forward to, go, have a go, earthquake, offer, programme, plenty, plenty of, hands-on, attention, pay attention to, boring, aware, be aware of, importance, Japanese, carefully, ourselves, develop, junior, rocket, blog, least Exercise 1. 期待_ 2. 尝试_ 3. 大量_ 4. 注意_ 5. 意识到_ 6. 和……一样……_ 7. 时光飞逝_ 8. 面对危险_ 9. 独自_ 10. 保持安全_ look forward to have a go plenty of pay attention to be aware of as…as… time flies in the face of danger by oneself stay safe 短语翻译 Homework 1. Write the new expressions five times each. 2. Read the article. 25 $$