(共17张PPT)
Reading and Thinking
Unit 1 Teenage life
Leading
Compare school life in different places.
School life
Pre-reading
What do you want to know about
school life in other countries
What would you tell a foreign teenager
about school life in China
Pre-reading
Around 7 a.m. — 4 p.m.
Students move to different classrooms to have classes.
Go to school clubs or after-school activities after school.
Compulsory courses & optional courses
Homework mainly contains reading and essays.
School life in America:
Pre-reading
Around 7 a.m. — 6 p.m.
Teachers move to different classrooms to teach.
Go home and do homework after school.
13 courses: Chinese, maths, English....
Homework mainly contains copying and test exercises.
School life in China:
Reading
What solutions does he take
How does Adam feel
What challenges does Adam meet
Think about the questions while reading THE RESHMAN CHALLENGE.
Reading
The passage mainly talks about the big ____________ Adam met in senior high school: how to choose ___________ and _________________ __________. And he’ll study harder and be ____ _________ for university or future.
prepared
activities
extra-curricular
courses
challenges
well
Summary of the text:
After-reading
because he knows that Chinese is a very difficult language, but he chose to take it.
because he joined the school football team and didn’t play well. But he wouldn’t quit and find a way to make the team.
persistent and hardworking
What kind of person do you think Adam is Why
brave to challenge himself
because he joined a volunteer club, working at a soup kitchen and handing out food to homeless people in the community.
warm-hearted
After-reading
Do you face the same challenges as Adam
What other challenges are you facing
How do you deal with it
Some of my challenges are very much like Adam’s, while some are quite different. Unlike Adam, I....
Discussion:
What are some differences between Adam’s school life and your school life
no choice of courses
social practice
no thinking about the future but for National College Entrance Examination ....
Learn new sentences
1. Going from junior high school to senior high
school is a really big challenge. The first week
was a little confusing.
句意:从初中进入到高中真的是一个巨大的挑战。第一周就有点困惑。
Going from junior high school to senior high school,动词ing形式作主语,谓语动词用单数。
例:每天读书是一个良好的习惯。
_______ _____ every day ___ a good habit.
Reading books
is
challenge n. 挑战
例:公司已经做好准备迎接未来几年的挑战。
The company is ready to meet the _________ of the next few years.
challenges
Learn new sentences
2. First, I had to think very carefully about which
courses I wanted to take.
句意:首先,我不得不非常仔细地考虑我想要上哪几门课程。
介词about后面的从句为宾语从句,连接代词是which,在从句中充当定语,表示“哪一门”。与what相比,which引导名词性从句强调有选择的范围,而what则没有选择范围。
例:你能告诉我应该穿哪一条裙子吗?
Could you tell me ______ dress I
should wear
which
Learn new sentences
3. I joined a volunteer club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out food to homeless people in the community.
句意:相反,我加入了志愿者俱乐部。每周三,我们在食品救济站工作,并且分发食物给社区里无家可归的人。
instead为副词,意为“相反地,取而代之地”,表示没有做前面的选择,而做了现在句子中的选择,可以位于句首,也可以位于句尾。
例:他没有收这笔钱。相反,他无声地离开了。
He didn’t take the money. ________, he left silently.
Instead
Learn new sentences
4. I’m a bit worried about keeping up with the other students in my advanced course, and it’ll be quite difficult to get used to all the homework.
句意:我知道,作为一名高中生,我要更努力地学习,并且习惯于承担起更多的责任。
keep up with 紧跟;跟上
get/be used to (doing) sth. 习惯于(做)某事
例:杰克跟不上班上其他人。
Jack’s having trouble _____ __ _____ the
rest of the class.
我都不习惯你已经长大了。
I can’t ___ ____ __ the idea that you’re grown
up now.
get used to
keeping up with
Practice
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.
It’s a little _________ to choose suitable courses. I hope that my adviser can help me make a good decision.
We can try a course for two weeks after we _____ up for it. After that, we cannot change it.
用文章中所学新词的正确形式填空。
recommends
challenge
confusing
sign
Practice
The main purpose of the course is to help _______ each student’s reading ability.
Some of the students want to become writers or editors after they _________, so the teacher advised them to start a writing club.
The school is ___________ for the safety of all the students.
Whenever I’m facing a difficulty, I always tell myself, “Don’t let anything stop you. Don’t ever _____.”
advance
graduate
responsible
quit
Goodbye!