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Unit 2
School life
Reading 1
Learning objectives
By the end of this lesson, we will be able to:
Master core words and expressions in this period;
Describe one’s school life in English and share their own campus experiences with others;
Stimulate interest and respect for different cultures and enhance an international prespective.
Understand and summarize the characteristics of school life in different countries;
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In which country do students love drama and art most?
Students there must have to survive. Where is it?
In which country do students have foreign language lessons?
In which country do students often cook and clean?
Lead in
School Life Express
Send the school features to the correct country!
UK (London)
Japan ( Tokyo)
点击包裹 → 它会飞入正确的国家!
cooking
earthquake drill
drama lessons
foreign languages
art lessons
cleaning
Lead in
drama lessons
UK (London)
Japan ( Tokyo)
art lessons
foreign language lessons
earthquake drill
cooking lessons
cleaning
Key words: Arts & creative
Key words: Life skills & safety
Is the UK's school only about arts? Is Japan's school only about safety?
Let’s start our reading to find out the truth!
Pre-reading
What’s the type of the two texts?
Who wrote the two blog posts?
What are the two blog posts about?
Read and predict
It’s blog posts.
Nancy and Tomoya.
Nancy’s and Tomoya’s school life.
They come from different schools/countries.
Blog posts usually use conversational language and a relaxed tone. Writers often share their personal opinions or experiences.
Pre-reading
Think and share
What is your school life like?
What is special about your school life?
It’s colourful/enjoyable/interesting... We have interesting lessons, friendly teachers and classmates, exciting matches...
We have all kinds of after-school activities, such as speech contests, debate competitions, Fun Sports Day, DIY club and other sport clubs. We can take part in the activities we are interested in.
While-reading
Skimming for the structure
My name is Nancy. I am at Woodland Secondary School near London. Our school is small, so we have fewer students and smaller classes than most schools.
We go to different classrooms for different lessons. There are many interesting subjects to choose from, such as drama and foreign languages. To us, learning Chinese may not be as simple as learning French or German, but I am looking forward to having a go.
The arts are as important as languages, Maths and Science at our school. We have a special building just for art, music and drama lessons. Being creative is great and it helps us study better in other subjects.
Time flies when we are enjoying school!
Introduction to herself and her school.
① ② ③ ④
Subjects and what’s special about her school.
Nancy’s feelings about her school life.
Divide the blog into parts and match the main idea with each part.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
While-reading
Scanning for the details
While-reading
Scanning for the details
Scan the blog post and complete the table about Nancy’s school.
My name is Nancy. I am at Woodland Secondary School near London. Our school is small, so we have fewer students and smaller classes than most schools.
We go to different classrooms for different lessons. There are many interesting subjects to choose from, such as drama and foreign languages. To us, learning Chinese may not be as simple as learning French or German, but I am looking forward to having a go.
The arts are as important as languages, Maths and Science at our school. We have a special building just for art, music and drama lessons. Being creative is great and it helps us study better in other subjects.
Time flies when we are enjoying school!
Britain/The UK
fewer
subjects
arts
the capital of Britain
While-reading
Read carefully and complete the chart
What’s special at Nancy’s school?
Different _______ to choose from
Strong focus on _____
_____
foreign languages
Which language?
Chinese:
Not be __________ learning French or German
But Nancy is looking forward to _____________
Why?
Have a _____
_______just for arts
such as
subjects
arts
drama
as simple as
having a go
speical building
How?
_____________helps students study better in _________
Being creative
other subjects
Think:
Why Chinese is harder than French or German for English speakers?
While-reading
Why Chinese is harder than French or German for English speakers?
对英语母语者而言,汉语之所以远比德语、法语困难,根本原因在于:
语言距离:德语和法语与英语同属印欧语系,共享大量同源词汇和相似的语法逻辑(如时态、词性变化),而汉语属于汉藏语系,与英语几乎毫无关联。
书写:汉字是数千个需逐一记忆的二维方块字符,无法像字母文字那样拼读。
发音:汉语的四个声调能改变词义,而英语的语调只表情绪,这要求学习者从零建立“音高辨义”的神经通路。
词汇:日常基础词与英语毫无相似之处,无法借助母语“亲戚”关系来记忆。
语法:虽然汉语没有动词变位、名词性别等复杂形式,但其时态和语气依赖助词与语序,完全不同于英语母语者熟悉的词形变化思维。
正是这种从书写、发音到思维模式的全面“换挡”,使汉语学习时长(约2200小时)远超德语(900小时)和法语(600-750小时),成为英语母语者眼中难度最高的语言之一。
While-reading
How does Nancy like her school life? How do you know that?
Do you like Nancy’s school? Why?
Think and discuss
She thinks it’s enjoyable.
Yes, because her school has many interesting subjects...
No, because her school is small...
I am Tomoya from Japan, a Grade 8 student at Gekko Middle School in Tokyo.
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. We get plenty of hands-on experience from these programmes.
Our school also pays a lot of attention to food education. We learn how to cook meals and eat well. In this way, we are more aware of the importance of a healthy diet.
Cleaning is another important tradition in Japanese schools. Every day at school, we clean classrooms, toilets and other school areas carefully by ourselves. This helps us develop good habits from an early age.
While-reading
Scanning for the details
Introduction to himself and his school.
① ② ③ ④
Subjects and what’s special about his school.
Divide the blog into parts and match the main idea with each part.
Part 1
Part 2
While-reading
Scanning for the details
While-reading
Scanning for the details
Scan the blog post and complete the table about Tomoya’s school.
I am Tomoya from Japan, a Grade 8 student at Gekko Middle School in Tokyo.
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. We get plenty of hands-on experience from these programmes.
Our school also pays a lot of attention to food education. We learn how to cook meals and eat well. In this way, we are more aware of the importance of a healthy diet.
Cleaning is another important tradition in Japanese schools. Every day at school, we clean classrooms, toilets and other school areas carefully by ourselves. This helps us develop good habits from an early age.
Japan
safety
Food
cleaning
the capital of Japan
What’s special What to learn Benefits
Safety programmes Learn how to__________
_____________________ Get plenty of ________
___________________
Food education Learn how to__________
_____________________ Be more aware of _____
____________________
Cleaning Clean classrooms,_______
_____________________ Help them ____________
____________________
While-reading
Read carefully and complete the table
suirvie in
the face of danger
hands-on
experience
cook meals
and eat well.
develop good habits from an early age.
the
importance of a healthy diet
toilets and other school areas.
Think:
Why does Japan always have earthquakes?
While-reading
Why does Japan always have earthquakes?
While-reading
Does your school have similar education?
Safety programmes
Think and discuss
Labour education
Elderly Care programmes
ICH(非遗) in the classroom
While-reading
Read the blog posts again. Write T if a sentence is true or an F if it is false. Then correct the false one(s).
F
F
T
T
F
F
near London
not easy to learn
knows
, classrooms and other school areas
Post-reading
Kitty is reading another blog post about a Chinese school. Complete it with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box.
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.
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 (4) ________ of the importance of green energy. So, we built a small car for this year's science festival. This car gets its energy from the sun, so it is quite clean. Our Science teacher is as excited as we are. He (5) ________ to help when we had a problem, and now the car works.
hands-on
creative
environment
aware
offered
Post-reading
Kitty is reading another blog post about a Chinese school. Complete it with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box.
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 ___________ everything and tell you all about it in my next blog post.
plenty of
looking forward to
pay
attention to
Post-reading
Work in pairs and think about the question. Talk with your partner and share your opinions with the class.
Which school in the blog posts do you like to go to? Why?
Woodland Secondary School
Gekko Middle School
Donghua Junior High School
Sentence pattern:
I would like to go to ______
because I want to ___________./
because I am interested in ______.
Think and share
Post-reading
Which school do you think is best?
There is no "best" school in the world.
But every school teaches us how to grow,
how to learn, and how to become a better person.
Remember: Different schools, colorful lives.
Respect diversity, embrace the world!
Summary
What we have learn today
School:
Location:
Size:
Nancy’s school
Introduction to herself and her school.
Subjects and what’s special about her school.
Nancy’s feelings about her school life.
Subjects:
Special focus:
Time flies
Woodland Secondary School
Near London
Small
fewer students & smaller classes
Drama, foreign languages, Maths, Science, music, art
Arts
a special building
being creative
Enjoy it
Summary
What we have learn today
School:
Location:
Tomoya’s school
Introduction to himself and his school.
Subjects and what’s special about his school.
Safety programmes:
Food education:
Cleaning:
Gekko Middle School
Tokyo, Japan
teach how to survive in the face of danger
get plenty of hands-on experience
learn how to cook meals and eat well
be more aware of the importance of a healthy diet
clean classrooms, toilets and other school areas
develop good habits from an early age
Homework
Must do
Choose to do
1. Read the two articles fluently.
2. Retell Nancy’s and Tomoya’s blog post.
Write a blog post to introduce your own school life.
Bye-bye!
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