(共29张PPT)
Unit 1 Teenage Life
Reading and Thinking
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青年时期养成的良好习惯
使人受益终身。
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
—Aristotle / r stɑ tl/亚里士多德
1. Use reading strategies to understand
the main information of the text;
2. Analyze the structure of the text;
3. Compare school life in different places;
Learning aims
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How do you feel about your senior high school
Leading-in
challenging
excited 兴奋的
funny
curious
worried
confused
confident
anxious 焦躁的
frightened 害怕的
a freshman in senior high school
A freshman named Adam who face many challenges in new semester/s mest r/学期
What kind of challenges does he face
Circle Adam's feelings
confusing 令人困惑的
unhappy
carefully
worried
happy
Find the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1._______________________________________
Paragraph 2._______________________________________
Paragraph 3. _______________________________________
Paragraph 4. _______________________________________
Fast Reading(Skimming)
Paragraph 1: Senior high school is a challenge.
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 4:
Adam had to think very carefully about which courses he wanted to take.
Adam had to choose extra-curricular activities.
Adam will have to study harder in the future and get used to being responsible for a lot more.
Which paragraph is the main part
Which paragraphs are the supporting parts
Para.1
Challenge
Para.2
How to choose courses
Para.3
How to choose extra-curricular activities
The structure of the text
Para.4
How to study
Scan the text and choose the best choice.
1. Adam felt __________at the beginning of his senior high.
A. excited B. interested C confused D worried
2. Who gave Adam advice on courses
A. Parents. B. Adviser. C .Coach. D. Classmates.
3. What subject is Adam's favorite
A. Chinese. B. World history. C.Math. D. English.
Scanning
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4. Hearing he was poor in playing football well, Adam
A. felt disappointed but went on with it
B. left the football and joined a club
C. didn't give up and tried to improve
D. felt unhappy but signed up for a new team
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What kind of person is Adam
A. brave and well prepared
B. negative and silly
C. active and shy
D. gentle and patient
Infer from the text
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Para. Challenge How Adam feels Solution
1 Confused
Going from junior high school to senior high school
Careful Reading
Complete the outline
Para. Challenge How Adam feels Solution
2 Choosing _________________courses The school adviser
______________________________________________
the suitable
Serious/
Careful
helped him choose
suitable courses.
第二段
Para. Challenge How Adam feels Solution
3 He will find a way to
______________________________________________
Unhappy
Making the school football team
improve in order to
make the team next year.
第三段
Para. Challenge How Adam feels Solution
4 He will
__________________________________________________________________________
Keeping up with the other students in his advanced course and getting used to the homework
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Worried but still happy
②
confident about his future
and get used to being
responsible for a lot more
try to study harder
第四段
Do you face the same challenges as Adam
What other challenges are you facing
Further discussion
I'm good at maths, so my teacher___________________that I should choose advanced maths in my first year.
Finding time for both studies and extra-curricular activities is a big_____________, so I need to make a workable schedule.
3. It's a little______________to choose suitable courses. I hope that my adviser can help me make a good decision.
4. We can try a course for two weeks after we________up for it. After that, we cannot change it.
recommended
challenge
Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the new words from the text.
confusing
sign
5. The main purpose of the course is to help____________ each student's reading ability.
6. Some of the students want to become writers or editors after they____________, so the teacher advised them to start a writing club.
7. The school is_______________for the safety of all the students.
8. Whenever I'm facing a difficulty, I always tell myself, “Don't let anything stop you. Don't ever _______.”
improve
graduate
responsible
quit
Answers to Exercise 5
1. recommended
2. challenge
3. confusing
4. sign
5. improve
6. graduate
7. responsible
8. quit
Consolidation
a
confusing
challenges
fluently
recommended
Complete the passage with the suitable words from the passage.
I'm Adam,1.____ freshman in senior high school. The first week was a little 2. __________ (confuse). There are some 3. _____ __ (challenge) I have to face in my new school life. First, I had to think carefully about my courses. Chinese is hard to learn, but I hope I can speak it4. _____ ___ (fluent) when I graduate. My adviser 5. ________________ (recommend) me to sign up for advanced literature
prepared
comes
it
because I'm good 6. _____ it. Second, I had to choose my extra-curricular activities. I tried 7. _________ (join) the school football team though I couldn't do well in 8. ____ at first. Besides that, I joined a volunteer club.
In order to be well 9._____________(prepare) for university or whatever else10. ___________(come) in the future, I make up my mind to study harder and get used to new situation.
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Skimming(略读)是指快速阅读以获取大意
其目的是 understand the gist(主旨,要点),the general idea of the text手段是通过对于文章标题、小标题、图片、关键词、关键句及各段主题句的关注来快速获取文章大意或者段落大意。
Skim
You can find main ideas by first taking a quick look at the title, piture(s), key words and phrases, and topic senteces.
Summary
Scanning(扫读),扫读是定位细节信息的过程
其目的是 looking for a specific piece of information or specific words。Scanning 一定要找到定位词,定位词最好是形式固定且比较容易被“扫”到,有:人名、地名、机构名称、数词、特殊印刷字体的词等。
Scanning
A technique for quickly looking through reading material to locate a particular piece of information
— a fact , a name, a date, a statistic,etc.
Summary
Para.1
Challenge
Para.2
How to choose courses
Para.3
How to choose extra-curricular activities
The structure of the text
Para.4
How to study
引出话题
如何选课
三大挑战
如何选课外活动
如何尽快适应高中生活
Write a passage to introduce your senior school challenges and how to solve them.
(about 100 words)
Homework
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