Unit 2 School life Welcome to the unit课件 2025-2026学年译林版（2024）八年级英语上册

Welcome to the unit to learn some unusual schools around the world. to learn about school life around the world. to better understand the importance of education. By the end of the lesson, I will be able to... Learning objectives Unusual schools around the world Unusual schools around the world Country Type of School Reason Bangladesh A boat school Heavy floods happen often. India A school at the train station Many children from poor families work at the train stations or on trains to help support families. Australia The school of the Air Some people live on farms hundreds of kilometres from the nearest school . Philippines/ Guatemala The bottle school It’s cheap and good for environment. Unusual schools around the world [ f l 'pi nz]菲律宾 [ w :t 'm :l n] 危地马拉 How to build a bottle school? Eco-bricks: Plastic bottles filled with plastic waste. 1.Fill the bottle with plastic waste. 2.Put the bottles straight in a line. 3.Cover bottle wall with cement(水泥). Unusual schools in China Huaping High School for Girls Founded in 2008 in Yunnan’s mountains. Only for poor girls(no tuition). Super strict rules: Study from 5:30 AM to midnight. Changed lives: Sent 2,000+ girls to university. Unusual schools in China Yezhai Middle School Qianshan, Anhui Province The only school in China built in a memorial and to guard it(以校护陵). Students learn defense spirit (国防精神)by honoring 985 war heroes there. Country Type of School Reason Bangladesh A boat school Heavy floods happen often. India A school at the train station Many children from poor families work at the train stations or on trains to help support families. Australia The school of the Air Some people live on farms hundreds of kilometres from the nearest school . Philippines/ Guatemala The bottle school It’s cheap and good for environment. China(Yunnan) The school for girls The girls are very poor but Zhang Guimei wanted to change their lives through education. China(Anhui) The school with the memorial People wanted to remember the war heroes and teach the new generation the defense spirit. Unusual schools around the world What makes them unusual ? environment Education is our passport to the future. Confucius started China’s first big private school arond 500BC. He taught everyone -rich or poor . “Six Arts” like music and archery. His ideas in The Analects(论语) shaped Chinese education for 2,500 years! about 2500 years ago Sishu Traditional Chinese schools China’s first national university, the Imperial Academy appeared in Han dynasty, which enrolled(招收)up to 30,000 students. It taught Confucian classics and trained officials through exams. 2000 years ago Imperial Acadamy(太学) Traditional Chinese schools Private Acadamies like Yuelu Academy encouraged open debates and self-study. 1000 years ago (Song Dynasty) Private Acadamy(书院) Traditional Chinese schools Government-run modern style schools taught modern knowlege like English, math and science. 1862-1912 (Late Qing to Early Republic) Modern-style Schools Traditional Chinese schools Role play in groups: Choose one school type from history. Act out a classroom scene from that time. Speak and behave like people in that ear. Traditional Chinese schools Sishu Imperial Acadamy Private Acadamy Modern-style Schools Group discussion: What can we learn from the history of traditional Chinese schools ? Traditional Chinese schools Sishu Imperial Acadamy Private Acadamy Modern-style Schools Unusual schools for the future A boat school A school at the train station The school of the Air The bottle school The school for girls The school with the memorial Present Sishu Imperial Acadamy Private Acadamy Modern-style Schools ? Past Future wisdom + enviroment + technology Design a future school in 2040 for a pasture in Tibet. Future school Designer Performance Assessment Rubric Project: Design a future school in 2040 for a pasture(牧场) in Tibet. Standard 4 (very good) 3 (good) 2 (developing) 1 (beginning) 1. Problem analysis 2. Environmental reason 3. Traditional wisdom 4. Technology use 5. Presentation clarity Homework Share an unusual school that interests you most with your parents. Do a research on the school life in that school. $