课件23张PPT。Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year SectionⅠ Introduction & Reading — Pre-readingStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 4Step 51.What do you know about American high school life?
2.Is there any difference between American high school life
and your school life?American High School Life
High School
In America, after middle school comes high school, which includes grades 9 through 12. Students are required to take certain subjects like English, social studies, math, science, and physical education. In addition, they choose among elective subjects to complete their high school education. Electives include subjects in technology, music, art, and foreign languages. Each student in the school has their own locker for books and personal items. This convenience saves students from carrying textbooks, and allows students a small space they can decorate with posters and favourite objects.
Cheating in any form is strictly prohibited in American schools. And in fact, high school students usually don't cheat. A student caught in plagiarism (抄袭), forgery (伪造), or copying another student faces severe discipline, even expulsion (开除). School Activities
Each school holds certain yearly activities for the entire school body, such as homecoming (校友返校节), prom (班级舞会) night, holiday celebrations, etc.
Homecoming is celebrated each fall, usually on a weekend, and events leading up to it may last all week. While homecoming is celebrated differently at each school, it usually includes a parade and the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen, and ends with a football game and school dance. The prom is a formal dance for students in grades 11 and 12, and is generally anticipated as the most important social event of the school year. It can also be a time of anxiety, as boys have to work up the courage to ask a date to the prom, and girls hope the right boy invites them. These couples dress in formal clothes — girls in long gowns (礼服), boys in suits. Sports
Most high schools have at least one sports team that competes in local events, and all students are encouraged to be involved in athletics. Schools often offer football, baseball and softball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, and soccer. Some may even have sports like golf, swimming, gymnastics and cross-country skiing. Jobs
Many high school students have part-time jobs by the age of 15 or 16, some even earlier. Their first jobs are often babysitting or cutting lawns, but later they will likely get a job at a fast-food restaurant, video store, or clothing shop.
Driving
Sixteen years old is legal driving age in most states, and students usually want to own a car as soon as they can.1. Which school system do you like better, the Chinese one or
the American one?Why?
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参考答案:① I like China's education system better. Because you can get much more knowledge from books through you dull sometimes.
② I like America's better because you can get more practical skills.2. What's your opinion about ideal senior high school life?
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参考答案:① Studying life is busy but interesting. Grasp more learning methods.
② There are all kinds of after-school activities.
③ Get on well with classmates and make some friends.Read the passage quickly,and match the paragraphs with the highlights.
1.Para. 3 A.Going to the senior prom
2.Para. 4 B.Being elected prom queen
3.Para. 5 C.Working as an arts editor
4.Para. 6 D.Going on a short school skiing trip
to the Rocky Mountains5.Para. 7 E.Working as a peer mediator
6.Para. 8 F.Getting good grades on the final
exams and receiving the senior
prize for English Literture
答案:1.C 2.E 3.D 4.F 5.A 6.BChoose the best answer according to the passage.
1.Joanna thinks the experience of an arts editor is a success
because ________.
A.it helps her to become a writer
B.it helps her to become a peer mediator
C.it is her first step towards becoming a journalist
D.it helps her to be admitted to university2.All the following are the reasons why Joanna thinks being
elected to the student council unforgettable EXCEPT that ________.
A.she enjoys meeting various people
B.she enjoys communicating with the teachers
C.she cares for the students' feelings
D.she wants to inform the teachers of the students' ideas3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Joanna will never forget her school trip to the Allegheny
Mountains.
B.Joanna was once elected as chairman of the students'
union.
C.Joanna was once given the senior prize for American
Literature.
D.Joanna will never forget the senior prom at which she
was elected as prom queen.4.Which word should we use to describe Joanna's feeling
about her senior year?
A.Regretful. B.Unforgettable.
C.Tired. D.Stressful.5.There are several reasons why Joanna enjoyed the prom
so much .Which of the following isn't TRUE?
A.She had a delicious dinner.
B.She went with Daniel.
C.She was elected prom queen.
D.She had a good time with her friends.
答案:1.C 2.A 3.D 4.B 5.AFill in the blanks according to the passage.
Prom night has come and gone, and I have received my high school 1. . It's a good thing that the exams are finished. 2. , I find myself 3. back at my senior year. I have decided to write them down. One of the best things about this year has been 4. as an arts
5. .The 6. of the year was the senior prom. IdiplomaMeanwhilelookingworkingeditorhighlightfound a dress that 7. me perfectly, and 8. my hair specially done on the day of the prom. Everybody told me that I looked very 9. . But the big surprise of the evening was when I was elected prom 10. . It was a perfect ending to a perfect school year.suitedhadelegantqueen1.What do you think of the writer's life at her senior year?
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参考答案:I think her life was colourful and exciting. One thing that I admire her for is that she could work as a peer mediator to help her classmates in trouble, which is helpful to herself. Besides, in my view, the thing that makes the writer proudest is that she was elected prom queen at the senior party. I hope I will be a prom queen at such a senior party.2.Do you have the same experience as the writer at senior
year?
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参考答案:Yes. I also worked as an arts editor for our school newspaper and got good grades in my final exams and received prizes.