Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year Reading parctice

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Revision
What did we learn about before the summer vacation
1. Basketball --NBA –Michael Jordan , Wilt Chamberlain and Yao Ming -–Basketball is one the safest sports ---the beginning of basketball ,football and baseball.
2. Highlights of My Senior Year---The differences between American Secondary School System and Chinese System ---The Highlights of our senior year , especially the highlights of Joanna Sykes .
She thinks there is so much to remember .
7.being elected prom queen.
6.being elected to the student council.
5.receiving the senior prize for English Literature.
4. getting good grades in her final exams.
2. working as a peer mediator.
1. working as an arts editor for the newspaper.
Among them she likes the senior prom best .
3. Going on a short school skiing trip to the Rocky Mountains.
Important Language Points
1.受到高度评价的书
2.出席会议/演讲
平均为
拯救某人、让某人摆脱…
5.曾经一度
6.毫无疑问
7.我最亲近的家人
8.值得做\被做
9.占有、占据
a valued book
attend a meeting \ lecture
with an average of
rescue sb from
at one point
without doubt \ there is no doubt that
my immediate family
deserve to do \ to be done \ doing
take possession of
10.让我们这么说吧
11.抚养
12.干什么是某人的天性
13.一窜走红的人物
14.如果有必要的话
15.对某人粗鲁
16.根据…命名
17.把…系在…上
18.以…为根据
Let’s put it like this .
bring up
It’s (in )one’s nature to do sth
an instant hit
if necessary
name after
be rude to sb
attach …to
be based on
19.回顾\回忆
20.在…有问题
21.玩得开心
22.很可惜
23.被选作…
24.我们开始吧
25.她真的很棒
26.就那一点我完全赞同
27.由你决定
28.我们完成了
look back at
have some problems with
have fun (doing sth )
be elected to be \ as
It’s a great pity that
Let’s get going .
She’s really got something .
I’m with you on that .
We are through .
It’s up to you .
Reading Practice
My Schooldays
Look at the title of the passage. Which of the words in the box do you expect to see in the passage
alphabet airmail bachelor bedding compulsory dormitory dynamic faith geometry luggage mailbox polish sew sob washroom zipper
Look at the sentences. Do you think the writer’s schooldays were happy or sad
I’m ashamed to admit that I sobbed as I fell asleep that night.
b. My first task was to multiply seven by three. No one explained why!
c. But my parents lived in Asia and, to my great
disappointment, I only got a reply from them once a fortnight.
d. ... at eighteen, all I felt was a sense of liberation.
Of course sad .
Fast Reading
Read the passage quickly and find out the main idea of the passage .
Decide where you would expect to see this passage. What helped you decide
The passage is about ____.
A. the writer’s first day at school
B. the writer’s schooldays
C. the writer’s childhood
D. the writer’s life
B
Main idea of the passage (p26)
In a biography (a life story about someone written by someone else).
In an autobiography (the story of the writer’s life).
A brochure to persuade people to attend this school.
A government report.
Where you would expect to see this passage. What helped you decide (p26)
b
1. The writer thinks that ____.
nursery school was good preparation for
“big school”.
B. he was not very prepared for boarding
School.
C. he went to nursery school because his father
worked abroad.
D. he learnt to read and to recite the alphabet
at “big school”.
Careful Reading Choose the bestanswers.(p26)
B
2. The writer was unhappy when he arrived at
school because ____.
the dormitory was so different from what he
was used to
B. he didn’t have enough bedding
C. he was ashamed to admit that he sobbed as
he fell asleep
D. he didn’t want to share a dormitory with five
other boys
A
3. The writer’s favourite subjects were ____.
A. arithmetic, algebra and geometry
B. flowers and plants
C. sports
D. English literature and botany
D
4. Among the school regulations, the boys had
to ____.
A. write to their parents once a fortnight
B. be punctual and go for a run whatever the
weather
C. attend assembly every Sunday
D. check their mailboxes every day
B
5. The writer wanted to become a Catholic ____.
A. because he preferred zippers on his trousers
because he didn't like staying in
classrooms
C. so that he could miss assembly and read
books instead
D. so that he could attend school assembly
C
Post Reading :Complete the sentences in your own words.
The writer’s memory of his first day at
school is ______________________
________________.
2. His English teacher spent more time with the
boys because _________________________.
very negative because he
was very unhappy
he was a dynamic bachelor
3. He checked his mailbox every day
because ______________________
____________________.
4. We know the school assembly was a
religious event because __________
______________________________.
he hoped he would get a letter from his parents
he said that he wished he had been a Catholic
5. He felt a sense of liberation when he left because__________________
____________________________
_________________________.
he knew he wouldn’t have to do all the things he disliked
about school ever again
Pair work
Work in pairs and talk about your school days in senior high .
Revision
My Schooldays
Language points
My father worked abroad so I was sent to
a boarding school.
boarding 提供食宿的 board v 登机登船 aboard
adv登机登船 abroad 在国外 到国外
寄宿学校
供膳宿的宿舍
这对夫妻登上了去纽约的火车。
The couple boarded the train for New York.
boarding-school
boarding-house
几个学生和史密斯先生一起登机了。
他坐飞机去国外旅游。
He boarded a plane to travel abroad.
开往巴黎的航班 BA193现在开始登机。
Flight BA193 for Paris is now boarding.
Several students boarded the plane with Mr.
Smith.
2. There was also a teacher of botanical
science, who introduced me to my passion
for flowers and plants.
introduce sb. to sth. 使某人初次了解；尝试
汤姆使我初次了解了尝酒的乐趣。
Tom introduced me to the joys of wine
tasting.
3. Being punctual for classes was essential.
Punctual adj 准时的 punctuality n.
Punctually adv.
你应该准时赴约。
You should be punctual for an appointment.
房客都能按时缴纳房租。
The tenants are punctual in paying the rent.
4. No one was allowed trousers with zippers,
only buttons!
→ allow sb. sth. / allow sth. to sb. 允许某人
做……
我们不允许在这儿吸烟。
We don’t allow smoking here.
我不允许你拿走这本书。
I don’t allow you to take away this book.
You are not allowed to take away this book.
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. They say that schooldays are the happiest
days of your life, but not for me!
人们都说学生时代是一生中最美好的时光，但对我来说，不是！
Practice:
2. In fact, the only preparation I had for
this adventure was watching as my mother
sewed my name tag into my shirts,
trousers and woolen sweaters.
实际上，为这次冒险我做好的唯一准备就是看着我的母亲把我的名字缝在我的衬衣，裤子和羊毛衫上。
3. I’m ashamed to admit that I sobbed as I fell asleep that night.
我很惭愧地承认那晚入睡之前我啜泣了。
4. We had a dynamic English teacher, a bachelor who had plenty of time for us boys and inspired my life-long love of literature.
我们有一位精力充沛的英语老师，一个可以把大把时间用来照顾我们这些男孩子并鼓励我走上文学之路的单身汉。
5. There was also a teacher of botanical
science, who introduced me to my passion
for flowers and plants.
还有一位植物学老师，激发了我们对花草植物的热情。
6. We all had to attend morning assembly
every weekday, except for boys of other
faiths.
每个工作日，我们都要参加早晨的集会，除非是有别的信仰的男孩子。
7. Many people talk about their
happiness at school, but for me, at
eighteen, all I felt was a sense of
liberation.
许多人都谈论他们在学校的幸福时光，但是对我来说，18岁，我有一种解放的感觉。
Cultural Corner
cheerleading squad
cheerleader
pompom
routine
Fast Reading ---Skim the passage and answer the following questions.
What is a cheerleader
2. What happened in the 1920s, and 1950s
3. What happened in the 1978
4. How do Americans feel about cheerleading
1. What is a cheerleader
A cheerleader is a member of a team that dances and does gymnastics before and during
competitive games to encourage crowds to cheer their sports teams.
2. What happened in the 1920s, and 1950s
It was not until the 1920s that pompoms
began to play an important part in cheerleading.
By the 1950s, most American high schools had
cheerleading squads.
3. What happened in the 1978
In 1978, the National Cheerleading Championship
were shown on television, and universities began
offering courses in cheerleading.
4. How do Americans feel about cheerleading
Some Americans are amused by it and see it as
rather a stupid activity. In fact, cheerleading is
considered so important in America that several
movies have been made about it.
Language points
Cheerleading only exists in America,
and today it’s mostly girls that do it.
exist 存在是不及物动词。 mostly adv 大部分
水以固态、液态和气态而存在。
Water exists as a solid, a liquid and a gas.
这所学校的学生们大多来自美国。
The students in this school are mostly
from the USA.
2. It was not until the 1920s that pompoms began
to play an important part in cheerleading.
not until…直到……才…… it is/was … that... 是强
调句式。Play an important part in 在……中起着
重要的作用
直到他父亲回家来这个小男孩才去睡觉。
The little boy didn’t go to bed until his father
came back home.
It was not until his father came back home that
the little boy went to bed.
汤姆正是去年十月参加的篮球队。
It was last October that Tom took part in the
basketball team.
It was Tom __________ took part in the
basketball team.
It was on the playground _________ I saw this
wallet.
It was this very wallet __________ I saw on
the playground.
that/who
that
that
朗读在英语学习中起着重要的作用。
Reading aloud plays an important part in
learning English.
三十年高考试题强调句考题回放
1. It was _____ he came back from Africa that year _______ he met the girl he would like to marry. (09江西卷)
when; then B. not; until
C. not until; that D. only; when
C
2.－I’ve read another book this week.
－Well, maybe _____ is not how much you read but what you read that counts.(09浙江卷)
this B. that C. there D. it
3. It was not until midnight ______ they
reached the camp site. (08重庆卷)
A. that B. when C. while D. as
D
A
4. It was along the Mississippi River______
Mark Twain spent much of his childhood.
(08天津卷)
A. how B. which C. that D. where
C
3. By the 1950s, most American high
schools had cheerleading squads.
by 到……时为止可与过去完成时或将来
完成时连用。
到明年十月份我就已经完成工作了。
I’ll have finished this task by October
next year.
截止到2009年十月份，他们总共生产了
20,000辆车。
By October 2009, they had produced 20,000
cars.
4. However, many Americans are amused by Cheerleading and see it as rather a stupid activity.
rather 与 quite的用法
rather 可以和比较级/too连用。
rather +冠词+名词相当于冠词+quite+名词
如：屋里暖和多了。
It’s rather warmer inside.
你看起来好像太自信了。
You seem rather too confident.
这是一部相当好的电影。
This is rather a good film/a quite good
film.