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8A Unit 2 School life
常州市钟楼实验中学英语组
Reading 1
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Lead-in
Students in ... study in ... because...
unusual schools for
better education
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Know more about schools around the world
Lead-in
What is the school life around the world like ?
Why is their school life special ?
How do they feel about their schools ?
School Exploring Club
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Pre-reading
What are the two articles about?
What’s the genre(体裁) of the articles?
使用对话式的语言和轻松的语调
分享他们的个人观点和经历
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While-reading
Skimming
Skim Para1 of each post quickly and find out information about the two writers.
Nancy from the UK
Tomoya from Japan
Who are they?
Where are they from?
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While-reading
Skimming
How many parts are there in Nancy’s and Tomoya’s blog posts?
What is each part about?
Nancy’s blog post
Part 1 (Para 1): Introduction to herself and her school
Part 2 (Para 2-3): Subjects and what’s special about her school
Part 3 (Para 4): Her feelings
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While-reading
Skimming
How many parts are there in Nancy’s and Tomoya’s blog posts?
What is each part about?
Tomoya’s blog post
Part 1 (Para 1): Introduction to himself and his school
Part 2 (Para 2-4): Subjects and what’s special about her school
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While-reading
Scanning
Finish Part A on P24
the UK/England
fewer
subjects
studying
Japan
safety
Food
cleaning
What’s the school life around the world like?
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While-reading
Careful reading
Why is their school life special?
What’s special about the way of having lessons at Nancy’s school?
Do you think it is necessary? Why?
Because stufents may have more chances to make friends with similar interests.
They go to different classrooms for different lessons.
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While-reading
Careful reading
Why is their school life special?
Interesting subjects at Woodland Secondary School
Such as _______ and ____________
Which language?
Chinese French German
Chinese:
Not be _________ learning French or German
But Nancy is looking forward to ________
Which is also important?
Arts
Why?
Have a ____________ just for arts.
____________ helps us study better in other subjects.
drama
foreign languages
special building
Being creative
as simple as
having a go
Further thinking:
Why are there so many interesting subjects?
To make the school life
colourful and better.
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While-reading
Careful reading
Why is their school life special?
Read Nancy’s blog again and judge T/F
F
F
T
How does Nancy show her love for her school life?
Time flies when we are enjoying school!
Happy time always makes people feel short.
时光飞逝
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While-reading
Careful reading
Why is their school life special?
Special education at Gekko Middle School
Safety programmes
Food education
Claening tradition
What to learn:
how to survive in the face of danger.
get plenty of hands-on experience
What to learn:
how to cook meals and eat well
be more aware of the importance of a healthy diet.
What to learn:
clean school areas by themselves.
help develop good habits from an early age.
Why?
Living skills
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While-reading
Careful reading
Why is their school life special?
Read Tomoya’s blog again and judge T/F
T
F
F
Does your school have similar education?
Why or why not?
Each school has their special education with its
own living conditions, culture and tradition.
Living conditions
Culture
Tradition
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Post-reading
Further thinking:
What’s Chinese education like?
morals
intelligence
health
labor
overall
development
education
全面发展教育
aesthetic
Morality and rule of law
PE
Art、music
Labor
Chinese
Maths
English
History
Biology
Physics
Chemistry
Computer
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Post-reading
Are there any special lessons in China?
earthquake drill(演练)
fire drill
bring traditional culture to schools
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Post-reading
Read about a Chinese school (Part C, P25)
aware creative environment plenty of
hands-on look forward to offer pay... attention to
What's special about Linlin’s school?
•Linlin’s work:
toy robots
hands-on
creative
development
aware
offers
plenty of
looking forward to
pay
attention to
A science festival
•Other fun things:
a small car with green energy
a model of a space rocket/ˈrɒkɪt/
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Summary
School life
in China
overall development education
after-school activities
in England
interesting subjects
foreign languages
arts
in Japan
safety programmes
food education
cleaning tradition
enjoying school
living skills
What is the main focus of the education in China, the UK and Japan?
In my opinion, ...is the best thing in a school.
(Give your own reason)
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What do you like best about your school?
Describe the special parts of your school life.
--------Sharing time!--------
Production
How do you feel about your school life?
Talk about your school life
School Exploring Club
There is a writing competiton from School Exploring Club.
Please write about your school life and share with us!
Homework
For all:
1. Review the expressions learned in this class.
2. Think about your
school life and give some suggestions to your ideal school life.
For some:
Make a real web page or wechat page, and you can add some pictures about
your school.
Hope you enjoy special school life!
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Thank you !
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