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Unit 4 School Days
Reading 1
Learning objectives
learn about Wang Xinyue’s school life, her school timetable, her lessons, after-school activities and field trip;
predict, guess, and infer based on the text;
know about how to introduce your school life and write about your school life.
enjoy your school life and work hard to make it meaningful;
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Lead in
Free Talk
1. What do you do at school?
2.What is your favorite subject?
I do morning exercises at 9:20 a.m..
I have lessons...
I do after-school activities...
I..at...
My favourite subject is...
I like ... best
Chinese
Maths
English
History
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Biology
PE
Music
Art
Computer
...
Politics
Geography
Task 1 Know more about school days
Pre-reading
Scan and answer:
1.What’s the genre(体裁) of this text?
An email.
2.What’s the text about?
Millie’s school days.
3.What may Wang Xinyue do at school?
She may have lessons and play volleyball.
Tip
Before reading a text, We should know about the genre of the text and pay attention to the pictures on the page.
Introduction of the topic
Main body
Closing
Signature
Opening
Read and answer:
1.Divide the email into different parts;
2.Summarize each part by using what we learnt in U3.
What’s the main idea of this part?
Lessons at school
Activities
something Millie wants
School timetable
While reading
Yes. Because she feels great.
Careful reading :
Read Para1 and answer
topic + feeling
Does Millie like her school life? Why?
Read Para2-6 and finish part A on Page 45
exercises
famous writers
living things
activities
field trip
nature
Find your support in Para 2-6 and discuss with your group members:
1. What does Millie do at school?
2. When or how often does Millie do these things?
3. How does she feel?
Group work
Read Para 2
1.put the events in the right order
2. make a sentence and read them.
school starts
8 a.m.
8:15 a.m.
Tip:
When we talk about some events we can use events + time
lessons begin
do morning exercises
go to school
School starts at 8 a.m..
Our lessons begin at 8:15 a.m..
I go to school at...
I do morning exercises at...
1. Millie’s favourite subject is English.
2. The students read many great works in Chinese classes.
3. The students have a Biology lesson once a week.
4. It’s really interesting for Millie to study living things and nature.
F
T
T
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Chinese
twice
Read Para 3-4 and judge
What is it?
What to do?
When/how often?
How?
Read the four sentences
Read Para7 and guess:
What may Tommy write to Millie?
Tommy’s school life like school timetable, lessons, after-school activities, field trip and so on.
Further thinking:
1. How does Millie show her love for her school life?
Adjectives + Adverbs + Exclamation mark
2. What do you think of Millie’s school life?
It is colorful/fun ...
It needs hard work.
...
Work in pairs and talk about Millie’s school life
start at 8:00
do morning exercises
have lessons at 8:15
like Chinese.
read famous
writers’ works.
have Biology classes
study living things
study nature
join the school volleyball team and practise
have a field trip each term.
tomorrow we will pick apples.
term
works
languages
nature
amazing
team
practise
field trips
1.Finish Part C
2.How does Tommy express his love for his school life in the email?
Adjectives
Verbs
interesting,
great
like, love,
have great fun,
can’t wait
Task 2 Learn about Tommy’s school days
Post-reading
1. Finish the mind map about your school life;
2.Talk to your partner about your school days.
Task 3 Share your school days
what
when
How
How can we live a more meaningful and colourful school life?
Study hard and make progress (进步).
Take part in school activities.
Be friendly to teachers and classmates.
Make more friends.
Develop healthy and meaningful hobbies.
Manage your time well.
Do more exercise.
…
Further thinking:
Learn beyond the books!
For all
Talk about your school life and try to make it into an email;
For some
Search on the internet to know more about students’ school days in different countries.
Homework
THANK YOU !
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