Uniform fashion good for Students
Do you have to wear your school uniforms every day?
Do you like your school uniforms? Why?
Our school’s uniforms
The passage probably deals with ______?
Predict the content of the passage
through the title.
B. only disadvantages of school uniforms
A. only advantages of school uniforms
D. more disadvantages of school uniforms
C. more advantages of school uniforms
Uniform fashion good for young students
Match the following headings with the paragraphs.
Resistance to the new trend
A new trend in school uniforms
Reduction of school violence
Improvement of the academic level
Connected to education
decrease
fashion
opposition, refusal to accept,
1.
2.
3.
4.
connected to education
Read the first paragraph and answer the following questions
1. Which school is the first public school in the USA to make students wear school uniform?
Cherry Hill Elementary.
2. Why did the school do this?
The school did this to reduce trouble caused by the students’ love of fashion.
3.Why did the other schools follow?
Because this new programme has proved to be a good way to promote safety and discipline.
help sth. happen or develop
Questions based on the paragraph 2,3
1. What else have school uniforms helped
reduce?
2.How do some schools stop students from wearing gang colors at school?
School violence and peer pressure.
By introduction of school uniforms.
3. How can uniforms help raise the academic
level of the students?
They send a message that students are at school to study, not to play. They reduce peer pressure and create school pride.
People of the same age, job, social class, etc
related to education
Paragraph 4
Although school uniforms have so many advantages, they have met strong resistance from parents. Why?
Some parents complain that uniforms keep students from showing their individuality.
individual tastes, preferences,
Read the essay again to
complete the table below
Advantages of school uniforms
Reduce trouble caused by the students’ love of fashion
Promote safety and discipline
Reduce school violence
Reduce peer pressure
Create school pride
Raise the academic level of the students
Disadvantages of school uniforms
1.Keep students from
showing their individuality
2.
3.
4.
…
Do you think school uniforms keep the
students from showing individuality? Why?
Never judge a book by its cover
Beauty inside is more important than beauty outside
Sayings
不能以貌取人
心灵美比外表美更重要
Assignments
1. Read the text and review the words and phrases.
2. Write a composition on “School uniforms are good for students.”
100-120 words
promote
be linked to
decrease
academic
resistance
unlikely
adopt
go against
to be related to in
some way
b. related to education
c. opposition
d. to accept and use a new idea or plan
e. to help something happen or develop
f. to become smaller
g. not probable
h. to resist
Read the essay and try to guess
the meaning of the following words
The President’s visit will _____ the cooperation(合作) between the two countries.
The worker’s pay _______ his performance at work.
Our plan to change the classroom has met strong ___
After much discussion, the headmaster decided to _____ the suggestion
These measures will help _____ the cost of production.
A good historian must have an ________mind.
It seems ____ that he will come.
She had no choice but to _____ her father’s will
promote be linked to decrease academic
resistance unlikely adopt go against
promote
is linked to
resistance
adopt
decrease
academic
unlikely
go against
Phrases
education journal
part of the traditional way of life
go against tradition
reduce trouble caused by the students’ love of fashion
prove to be a good way to promote safety and discipline
the introduction of school uniforms
reduce school violence
be linked to
youth gang
reduce peer pressure
create school pride
raise the academic level
meet strong resistance
keep students from showing their individuality
go to court
It is unlikely that…
Structures
Since this new programme has proved to be a good way to promote safety and discipline, other schools soon followed.
Much of school violence is linked to the wearing of gang color, which are the clothes worn by different youth gangs.
It is unlikely that uniforms will ever be adopted nationwide.