Unit 2 Sschool life 知识 2025-2026学年译林版（2024）八年级英语上册

八上 Unit 2 School life

1. Education is our passport to the future.

教育是我们通往未来的通行证。

2. give suggestions on how to improve school life

就如何改善学校生活提出建议

3. understand the importance of education

了解教育的重要性

importance (n.)重要性

the importance of… …的重要性

important (adj)重要的

be important to... 对…重要

be of importance to... 对…重要

 

Welcome to the unit

4. Children live far away from school.

孩子们住得离学校很远

5. Heavy floods happen often.

大洪水经常发生。

① sth happen 发生(偶然发生的事件)

What happened? 发生什么？

happen to do sth碰巧做某事

happen to sb发生在某人身上

② sth take place 发生；举行(计划)

sb hold sth举办活动

6. Many children from poor families work at train stations or on trains.

许多来自贫困家庭的孩子在火车站或火车上工作。

7. Do you know any unusual schools around the world?

你知道世界上有什么不寻常的学校吗？

all over the world/across the world/ the whole world

8. During the rainy season, there’s much more rain in Bangladesh than in many other parts of the world.

在雨季，孟加拉国的降雨量比世界许多其他地区多得多。

9. With the boat school, children have a chance to learn even when there are floods.

有船校，当有洪水时，孩子们也有机会学习。

have a chance to do sth有机会做某事

get to do sth有机会做某事

10. What a good way to get the children learning!

这是让孩子们学习的好方法！

get sb (not) to do sth让某人(不)做某事

get sb doing sth 让某人处于正在做某事的状态中

11. Another example is the bottle school.

另一个例子是瓶子学校。

12. People in the Philippines and Guatemala build this kind of school with used plastic bottles.

菲律宾和危地马拉的人们用用过的塑料瓶建造这种学校。

13. This is very cheap and good for the environment.

这非常便宜，对环境也有好处。

 

 

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14. Our school is small, so we have fewer students and smaller classes than most schools.

我们的学校很小，所以我们的学生和班级都比大多数学校少。

15. We go to different classrooms for different lessons.

to have different lessons.

我们去不同的教室上不同的课。

16. There are many interesting subjects to choose from, such as drama and foreign languages.

有许多有趣的科目可供选择例如戏剧和外语。

① choose…from… 从…中选择…

choose to do sth选择做某事 (过)choose→chose

choose sth./sb. to do选择……做…

choose sb as/to be… 选择某人为…

② foreign (adj.)外国的 foreigner (n.)外国人

17. To us, learning Chinese may not be as simple as learning French or German, but I am looking forward to having a go.

对于我们而言，学习汉语可能并不像学习法语或德语那么简单，但是我期待试一试。

① look forward to sth 盼望某事

look forward to doing sth盼望做某事

② have a go 尝试，试图

18. Being creative is great and it helps us study better in other subjects.

有创造力很棒，它可以帮助我们更好地学习其他科目。

creative (adj.)有创造力的、创造性的

create (v.)创作、创造、产生

19. Time flies when we are enjoying school!

当我们享受学校时，时间过得真快！

20. 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多的国家之一，所以我们学校提供不同的安全课程，来教我们面对危险时如何生存下来。

① offer to do sth主动提出做某事

offer sb sth =offer sth to sb为某人提供某物

② give sb sth = give sth to sb

③ provide sth for sb = provide sb with sth

21. We get plenty of hands-on experience from these programmes.

我们从这些课程中获得了丰富的实践经验。

22. Our school also pays a lot of attention to food education.

我们学校也很关注饮食教育。

① pay attention to sth注意某事

pay attention to doing sth 注意做某事

② focus on 关注