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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Integrated skills
Welcome to our school
Beautiful school
playground
classroom
library
Before listening
500 hundred students
do morning exercises
The number of
Before listening
uniforms
spend
Before listening
have 8 weeks off
=have eight weeks’ holiday
1.How many lessons do you have every day?
2. What subject do you like best?
Before listening
3. How much time do you spend on your homework every day?
4. Do you want to have less homework?
5. How long is your summer holiday?
Do you know which country the flag stands for?
China
the UK
the USA
Get to know three friends
Daniel
Nancy
John
Sunshine Middle School
Woodland School
Rocky Mountain High School
Sunshine Middle School
Woodland School
Rocky Mountain High School
Number of students
Number of teachers 66
How long is the summer holiday?
How much time do students spend on homework every day?
Do students wear uniforms? /
Do students do morning exercises? / no
1309
90
8weeks
3hours
yes
yes
Sunshine Middle School
Woodland School
Rocky Mountain High School
Number of students
Number of teachers 66
How long is the summer holiday?
How much time do students spend on homework every day?
Do students wear uniforms? /
Do students do morning exercises? yes / no
1,309
1,215
90
85
6 weeks
2 hours
1 hour
8 weeks
3 hours
yes
308
12 weeks
no
1 Which school has more teachers, Woodland school or Beijing Sunshine Middle School?
2 Which school has the most weeks off in the summertime?
3 Which school spends the least time on homework?
Woodland School is smaller than Rocky Mountain High School. There are _____ (more /fewer/less) teachers and _____ (more/fewer/less) students at Woodland School than at Rocky Mountain High School. Sunshine Middle School has ________ (more /fewer/the most) teachers and students of the three.
A3 Help Daniel complete the article with
the information in Part A1.
fewer
fewer
the most
Chinese students have _____ (more/fewer/less) weeks off for the summer holiday than British students. British students spend _____ (more/fewer/less) time doing homework than Chinese students. Among the three schools, American students spend _______ (the least/few/less) time on homework, and they have __________ (long/longer/the longest) summer holiday. Chinese students spend ________ (the most/the fewest/the least) time on homework. They work __________ (hard/harder/the hardest). A
more
less
the least
the longest
the most
the hardest
A4 Match the sentences with the correct people.
1 ______: My school has fewer weeks off for
the summer holiday than Daniel’s.
2 ______: Students at my school do not wear uniforms.
Nancy
John
3 ______: I spend less time doing homework than Nancy.
4 ______: My school has the most students.
5 ______: My school has the fewest teachers.
John
Daniel
Nancy
playing computer games
reading stories
drawing
How do you spend your spare time?
How much time does Daniel spend on his
hobbies every day?
What is Amy’s hobby?
Who spends the most time on hobbies?
About one hour. Half an hour for playing computer games and another half an hour for playing chess.
Her hobby is swimming.
Simon.
B Speak up
S1: Hi, Mary. What’s your hobby?
S2: I like playing basketball.
S1: How much time do you spend playing basketball every day?
S2: About an hour. And you?
S1: I only spend half an hour on my hobbies every day.
Make up a new conversation
1. Read the conversation of Part B.
2. Write a new conversation as Daniel’s.
Homework
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Grammar
Wolf warriors
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
/'w?r??/
has more box office(票房) than
has more songs than
has more acting scenes than
Compare movies.
Nanjing has fewer cows than Xinjiang.
Nanjing has fewer camels than Xinjiang.
Nanjing has less sand than Xinjiang.
Nanjing has fewer horses than Xinjiang.
Compare cities.
Xinjiang has more cows than Nanjing.
Xinjiang has more camels than Nanjing.
Xinjiang has more sand than Nanjing.
Xinjiang has more horses than Nanjing.
Compare cities.
Use “ more…than”, “less… than” or “fewer…than” ?
Xinjiang has ______ universities than Nanjing.
Nanjing has ______grapes than Xinjiang.
Xinjiang has ______ rain than Nanjing.
Nanjing has ______ vegetables than Xinjiang.
fewer
less
more
fewer
Try to use.
university
rain
vegetables
grapes
Japan has the most sushi (寿司) in the world.
Japan has the most local cars in the world.
Compare three or more.
Compare three or more.
Among China, America and Japan, Japan has the least rubbish on the road and the fewest number of people.
We use________ and _________ with countable nouns.
We use_________ and _________ with uncountable nouns.
We use _______ and _______ with both countable and uncountable nouns.
Rule:
fewer
the fewest
less
the least
more
the most
1. John studies ______ subjects than Nancy, but he studies ______ subjects than me. I study the _______ subjects among the three of us.
2. Nancy is in _______ clubs than John, but she is in ______ clubs than me. John is in the ______ clubs among the three of us.
3. I have _______ free time than John, but Nancy has ______ free time than John. Among the three of us, I have the ______ free time and Nancy has the _______ free time.
more
fewer
most
more
fewer
fewest
less
more
least
most
Amy
Sandy
Millie
Millie came third in the race. She ran fast.
Sandy came second in the race. She ran faster than Millie.
Amy came first in the race. She ran the fastest.
构成法 原级 比较级 最高级
hard
high
early harder
higher
earlier hardest
highest
earliest
quickly
carefully more quickly
more carefully most quickly
most carefully
well
badly
far better
worse
further/farther best
worst
furthest/farthest
Work out the rules！
单音节词和少数双音节词,词尾加er, est
大部分双音节词和多音节词前加more , most
不规则变化
Tips:
副词最高级前the通常可以省略。如：
She plays volleyball (the) best in her class.
有些词既可以作形容词又可作副词。如：
early far fast hard high late long
e.g.: I get up early in the morning to catch the early bus.
Don’t work hard to break the stones. They are really hard.
well
better
(the)best
Sandy draws _____ (well). She draws _____ (well) than any other student in my class. She draws ________ (well) of us all.
David jumps ______(high). He jumps _______ (high) than any other of classmates. He jumps _________(high) in my class.
Amy swims _______ (fast). She swims ________ (fast) than all my other classmates. She swims ________(fast) in my class.
Millie writes _________. She writes _______________ than the other students in my class. Millie writes ___________ (quickly)
My classmates
high
higher
highest
fast
higher
faster
fastest
quickly
more quickly
most quickly
Compare your school with Beijing Sunshine High School and your School, and then write a letter to your principal about the advantages and disadvantages and advice.
Homework
If you hope to make fewer
Mistakes（错误） and get more
Progress(进步), you need to work
harder and practice more,
if you work the hardest,
you will be the best.
Please remember: practice
makes perfect!
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Revision
What is school like ?
What do usually you do at school?
Free talk
Have lessons together
Learn foreign languages
Discuss the books
Do after-school activities
------
Different schools have different school lives
Life in a British School
Nancy is __________________(在八年级）. She studies at Woodland School which _________________(是一所混合学校) from London .The school is famous for its Reading Week. During the week, it’s meaningful_______________________________
(从图书馆借更多的书).We are allowed_____________________
(带书和杂志) from home.Near the end of the week, we can spend time_______________________________________________
(和同学讨论这些书). It _______________________（非常有用）.
in Year 8
is a mixed school
to borrow more books from the library
to bring in books and magazines
discussing the books with our classmates
is very useful /of great use
Life in an American School
Different schools have different school lives
John’s school life is________________________________
(与Nancy 的不同). Every Monday, he goes to the Buddy Club.
There, older students _______________________(仔细倾听)
his problems and ________________________(给他提供帮助).
On Friday afternoon, his school _________________________
(结束比往常早). They ________________________ (练习打棒球) and they have fun _______________________（一起做运动）.
different from Nancy’s
listen carefully to
offer him some help
ends earlier than usual
practise playing baseball
doing sports together
The length of the summer holiday
Time to do homework every day
Number of clubs
1 3 2
6 weeks
2 hours
1 hour
8 weeks
3 hours
12 weeks
Xinhai Middle School
British School
American School
Compare the schools using
more…than, fewer…than, less …than,
the most, the fewest, the least , …
Grammar
1.Chinese students have ____ weeks off ___British students.
2.American student have ____weeks off among the three.
3.British students have ______weeks off among the three.
Notes:
more + 可数名词 或不可数名词+ than ， 比---多
fewer+可数名词 +than ， 比---少
less +不可数名词+than ， 比---少
the most +可数名词或不可数名词，最多
the fewest+可数名词，最少
the least +不可数名词， 最少
Grammar
Li Gang
Wu Li
High Jump
Long Jump 1.8m
Running (50metres)
1.65m
1.5m
2m
2.1m
7.5s
8 .2s
1.4m
9s
Compare the schools using
more quickly…than, higher…than, farther…than,
the most quickly, the highest, the farthest …
Zhang Wei
Grammar
1.Li Gang jumps ___________ than Wu Li.
2.Zhang Wei jumps _________ of the three.
副词比较级变化规则
early- late-
high- fast-
earlier - earliest
later - latest
higher - highest
faster - fastest
Good memory
大部分以形容词加ly 结尾的副词
Good memory
quickly-
carefully-
slowly-
more quickly-most quickly
more carefully-most carefully
more slowly-most slowly
Good memory
副词不规则变化
well-
badly-
far-
better-best
worse-worst
farther/further
-farthest/furthest
单项选择题
(??? )1. People usually like the TV channels with funnier programmes but _______advertisements.
A few??? ??? ?B. little?? ?? ?C. fewer? ??? D. less?
(??? )2. If you want to know more information about the coming party, please _______ the website :www. happyweekends. com.
A. set up??? ?? B. look through C. pick out????? D. turn off
(??? )3. Emma looked after her pet dog ______ of all her friends.
A.careful B. most careful C. more carefully D. the most carefully
C
B
D
直击中考
Homework
Information Suggestions
1.每天上午9点开始上课，下午4点放学；我们不需要早起；有很多时间进行课外活动；只有一小时的作业；
2.每个班大约有20个学生；我们相处愉快。学校里的老师也很友好。
3.学校有……
（写出你期待的设施、活动） 合理分段；
善用连词；
巧用句型， 提升作文档次；
确保准确。
My ideal school
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Study skills
What should you do in class?
In class
We should sit quietly when others are talking.
We should keep quiet.
adj.
adv.
when others are talking
In class
We should listen carefully.
We should be careful when we are listening.
when we are listening
adj.
adv.
In class
We should be polite to the teacher.
We should speak politely to the teacher.
adv.
adj.
When we speak to the teacher
In class
We should be active to answer questions.
We should answer questions actively.
adv.
adj.
When we answer questions.
The suffix -ly
adj. adv.
quiet
careful
polite
active
quietly
carefully
politely
adj. ly adv.
Rule 1.
actively
slow— happy—
bright— heavy—
excited— noisy—
bad— easy—
nice— gentle—
polite— simple—
possible—
More practice
slowly
brightly
excitedly
badly
nicely
politely
happily
heavily
noisily
easily
gently
simply
possibly
1. ～ ly
2. ～辅y ily
3. ～ le ly
More practice
well
fast
early
late
4. Special words
Fill in the blanks.
We all shouted________(excited/excitedly) when we heard the good news.
_______(Lucky/Luckily), I got to the meeting room on time.
How_________(quick/quickly) the horse is running!
It was raining_______(heavy/heavily) when I was on my way home. I got completely wet!
He is a top student. He does everything_____(good/ well).
excitedly
Luckily
quickly
heavily
well
friendly lovely weekly monthly
Adj?
Adv?
week—
month—
day—
year—
weekly
monthly
daily
yearly
Ⅱ. n ly adj.
The suffix -ly
adj. → adv.
n. → adj.
careful
easy
month
slow
week
day
love
quick
usual
year
Put the words in different groups.
carefully
easily
slowly
quickly
usually
monthly
weekly
daily
lovely
yearly
Today we had an English test. We have a ________(month) test on each subject. I looked through the questions ______(quick). I could ______(easy) answer all of them.
To me, learning foreign languages is _____(real) fun. I read English newspapers and magazines every day. I read very ______(slow) at first, but I am doing better now. I also keep writing in English about my ______(day) life. I learn to use English better this way. ______(usual) I watch English videos at weekends. I always have a ______(love) time!
monthly
quickly
easily
Fill in the blanks
really
slowly
daily
Usually
lovely
Homework
1.Remember the words we learnt today.
2.Write an article about the rules that the students should follow with as many as the words we learn today.
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Task
Likes and dislikes about your school.
1. What time does your school start?
2. Do you think this is too late or too early?
3. When do you finish school?
4. Do you think this is too late or too early?
5. How long is lunchtime at your school?
6. Do you like your school uniform? Why
or why not?
7. Below are some subjects, sports and after-school activities. Put a tick (√) in the box next to the ones you like.
□ Chinese □ Badminton □ Art Club
□ English □ Baskteball □ Chess Club
□ Geography □ Football □ Dance Club
□ History□ Table tennis □ English Club
□ Maths □ Tennis □ Reading Club
□ Physics □ Volleybal □ Singing Club
What is your ideal school like?
My ideal school has a very big playground and lots of trees around.
It finishes early every afternoom.
my ideal school
School time
Ideal school
starting/finishing time
time for homework / after-school activities
lunch
uniform
School life
Study
classes
subjects
Activities
facilities(设备)
after-school
activities
A flow chart
When does the school finish?
How long is his lunchtime?
How many students are there in each class?
What activity do they do every month?
At 3 p.m.
An hour.
There are about 20 students in each class.
They go on a school trip every month.
Read Daniel’s article and answer the questions.
Paragraphs Key words
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
school
starting/finishing time
lunchtime: length, location, food
subjects, uniforms and classes
facilities
clubs and after-school activities
Mr. Lu wants to know what your ideal school is like. It’s your turn to write a letter to describe your ideal school.
Write to our principal
How many aspects does the letter have?
What is each aspect about?
What do you think of his / her ideas?
(cool, wonderful, attractive, special…)
4. How is his / her handwriting?
(beautiful, tidy, not bad, so-so
not good enough, untidy…)
What to write about.
Dear principal
I am very pleased to study in such a beautiful school. However, I have my ideal school in my mind all the time. Today I will write to you to describe my ideal school.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I hope you will like my ideal school.
Yours sincerely
_________
评 分 标 准 评分分值
2 1 0
相关性 1 Are all the paragraphs about your ideal schools?
得体性 2 Do you use ‘I ’ or ‘we’ in your letter?
3 Do you use the Simple Present Tense?
4 Do you try to tell your reasons?
准确性 5 Are there any errors in tense of the verbs, the usage of the vocabulary and mistakes in spelling, capital letters or punctuations?
创造性 6 Do you try to use good phrases and different sentence structures to write about your ideal school?
7 Do you try to make your aspects interesting?
连贯性 8 Do you try to use proper linking words to make your letter more fluent (流畅)?
美观性 9 Is your handwriting beautiful and tidy? /
Final marks
Self-edit your own writing according to the writing evaluation table.
依据写作评价表对自己的文章进行自评。
2. After self-editing, revise your drafts.
自评完成后对草稿有针对性地加以修改。
Homework
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Comic strip & welcome to the unit
1
2
3
Restaurant
the 1st floor
the 2nd floor
the ground floor
the 1st floor
the 2nd floor
the 3rd floor
first
Hobo and Eddie: Where is the men’s toilet?
American waiter: It’s on the _______ floor.
women’s
Step1. Be a language learner
But when they got there, they were surprised to find it was a ________ toilet.
American English
British English
Step1. Be a language learner
Step1. Be a language learner
American football
football
autumn
fall
Step1. Be a language learner
lift
elevator
film
movie
Step1. Be a language learner
football
soccer
holiday
vacation
Step1. Be a language learner
maths
math
rubber
eraser
Step1. Be a language learner
American football
autumn
lift
film
football
holiday
rubber
football
fall
soccer
elevator
movie
vacation
eraser
Step1. Be a language learner
This summer ________, the superstar Snoopy moved to a beautiful house. It is near a school. His house is very modern and has an _________ in it.
His favorite season is _____. He often takes pencils and ________ to do some drawing in a park. In his free time, he likes watching ______ and playing ______.
He loves bones very much, so many fans send delicious bones to him by _____.
vacation
mail
movies
fall
erasers
elevator
soccer
Complete the report in American English:
1). Let’s listen !
Because we are smarter than people.
It’s like watching TV, but there are fewer advertisements.
Step2. Be a sharp reader
Why don’t dogs go to school?
What’s school like?
If there are more/fewer…,
2). Let’s read between the lines !
It’s like watching TV, but there are fewer advertisements.
Talk about it with your partner:
Step2. Be a sharp reader
Eddie will enjoy going to school.
If there is more/less…,
3). Let’s talk about it:
What's school like?
School is like opening a box of chocolates,
you never know what you are going to get.
School is like a marathon. You can choose to look at someone else’s back, or let others look at your back.
Step2. Be a sharp reader
I hope my teachers are friendly because …
I hope my teachers are…
I hope we can have a chess club, because …
I hope …
Good teachers:
Good activities:
Step3. Be a cultural learner
Work in groups: (Good teachers & Good activities)
What should a good teacher be like?
Step3. Be a cultural learner
Caring
Understanding
Humorous
Patient
Nice and friendly
Knowledgeable
Good teachers:
A good school should be
A good government should be
of the people,
by the people,
for the people.
Step3. Be a cultural learner
of students,
by students,
for students.
Abraham Lincoln:
What makes a good school?
Step3. Be a cultural learner
Good teachers
Good facilities
Good activities
…
ourselves
Hard-working
Confident
Active
Independent
Honest
Strong-minded
Co-operative
Step4. Be a motivated learner
Helpful
Homework:
Search online for more differences between British English and American English.
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Reading I
Step1 Pre-reading
What’s your school life like?
What is special in our school?
an American school
a British school
How much do you know about the life in a British and American school?
Life in a British school
While-reading
Nancy
in Year 8
Woodland School
a mixed schoool
While-reading
Questions:
1. What is Nancy’s favourite subject?
French.
2. Does she have a reading week every year?
Yes, she does.
Life in a British school
Step2 While-reading
the Reading Week
When:
What:
every year
borrow more books from the school library
bring in books and magazines from home
discuss the books with the classmates in class
John
Life in an American school
While-reading
in the 8th grade
Rocky Mountain High School
Questions:
1. When does John go to the Buddy Club?
Every Monday.
2. Do they have the same class every day?
No, they don’t. They have different classes every day.
Life in an American school
While-reading
the Buddy Club
What to do in the club
Who is John’s buddy
How to help
Old students help new students learn more about the school.
Tony
Listen to the problems and offer help
While-reading
Name Nancy John
School
Grade
Subjects/classes
Mentioned(提及)
Club
Activities
Different classes
French
Woodlanad School
Reading Week
play baseball
do sports
Rocky Mountain High School
Buddy Club
in Year 8
in the 8th grade
Post-reading
Read and compare
Read and compare
What do they like in the school?
Nancy
John
interesting
French
Reading Week
basebal
Buddy Club
Borrow
Bring
discuss
older students help new students learn more about the school. Listen &offer
Have an interview with John/Nancy .
Group 1,2,3
Group 4,5,6
(Each team chooses one student to act John / Nancy. The other one asks him / her any question about the school life.)
Post reading
A: What school/grade are you in?
B: I’m....
A: What’s you school like?
B: It’s a mixed school/beautiful....
A: What’s your favourite subject?
B:....
A: What activities are there in your school?
B:....
......(不必完全参照模板，可自由发挥）
Post reading
Post reading
Talk about your school life
Life in a Chinese school
Name: ___________________________________
Grades:___________________________________
Subjects:__________________________________
Clubs/activities:____________________________
Read and remember the main information about two foreign school lives.
Get more about school lives around the world.
Write an article about your own school life
Homework
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《初中英语》（译林版）八年级上册
Unit 2 School life
Reading II
Retell the text
Life in a British school:
Nancy: in Year 8; mixed, have lessons together; subjects; French; Learning…is fun.
Reading Week; During…; borrow…from…; bring in…from home; Near the end of …; discuss… with; Time seems to….
Nancy
John
Life in an American school:
Retell the text
John: in the 8th grade; the Buddy Club; …help…learn more about…; Tony; the 12th grade; listen carefully to… and offer…; hero.
On Friday afternoon, …; do sports.
play baseball; practise hard; won
offers
hero
ends
sports
baseball
twice
won
Pair work
Pair work
1. a mixed school (Line 4)
— Boys and girls have lessons together.
Yangzhou fried rice is
a kind of _______ food.
I think it’s really tasty.
mixed
Language Points
2. Learning foreign languages is fun.
=It is fun to learn foreign languages.
翻译：读书很有趣。
Reading books is interesting.
It is interesting to read books.
Language Points
3. near the end of the week
在这周快要结束的时候
near the end of ... 在……结束时
Language Points
★ near the end of …. “在…接近 / 快结束时”
在这节课快结束时
在考试快结束时
near the end of this class
near the end of the exam
★ at the end of …. “在…结束时，在…末端”
在这个月底
在今年年底
在路得尽头
at the end of this month
at the end of this year
at the end of the road
★ in the end “最后，终于” = =
他们最后成了好朋友。
at last
finally
They became good friends in the end.
Language Points
4.Time seems to go faster...
It seems + that 从句
e.g. It seems that no one knows the secret.
seem to do sth
seem to be... 看起来…
似乎要做某事
翻译：她似乎要去看电影。
She seems to see a film.
翻译：他看上去是个老师。
Simon看上去很高兴。
He seems to be a teacher.
Simon seems to be happy.
5. read more books than my classmates
比我同学读的书多
more...than... ……比……多
e.g. 汤姆的CD比西蒙的多。
Tom has more CDs than Simon.
Language Points
flying
medicine
history
magic
Subjects
Language Points
Time
subjects
12
9
6
3
flying
medicine
history
magic
(hours a week)
Language Points
He spends ________ time on Magic than History.
He spends ________ hours on Magic than History.
He spends ________ time on Medicine than the other subjects.
He spends ________ hours on Medicine than the other subjects.
He spends ___________ time flying.
He spends ___________ time on medicine.
fewer
more
less
more
the least
the most
Language Points
Group Work
A: Talk about your school.
A: Talk about your dream school.
Write a letter to our principal about the lessons and activities you want to have at our school.
Homework
Goodbye
Let’s Enjoy Our School Life!
