北师大版（2019)必修第一册Unit 1 Life Choices Topic Talk课件（22张ppt无听力音频）

Unit 1 Life Choices
Topic Talk
Warming-up
Are you ready for your new school life?
What did you do before entering this new school?
What is your dream high school?
What do you plan to learn?
What kind of teachers do you wish to meet?
What learning atmosphere do you expect?
…
Warming-up
Your New School Life
What is it like?
How do you feel about it and why?
What is your plan for your new school life?
Is it different from your previous school life?
In what ways is it different?
What is the biggest challenge?
Talk about your new school life.
Warming-up
What expressions can be used to describe personal feelings?
excited / exciting
delighted / delightful
interested / interesting
stressed / stressful
bored / boring
challenged / challenging
Warming-up
What expressions can we use to describe the new school?
differs in many ways from my previous one
is much bigger and more dynamic than I expected
has a beautiful campus / a big playground
has a friendly head teacher / a big library
has an excellent student centre
Warming-up
What expressions can be used to describe forms of learning?
(can / can’t) have different class schedules / choices for different clubs
(do not) have fixed classrooms
do group projects
have group discussions
share ideas or check work together
Warming-up
What expressions can be used to describe expectations?
learn many new things
develop confidence in speaking English / competence in a variety of new skills
have a happier, more fruitful and satisfying life
Listening
1.1
Listen and complete the following sentences.
I’m a new senior secondary school student. My new school life is very _______.
I feel excited because this school ___________________
____________________.
What is also very different is that students in the same class __________________________.
In the next three years, I hope I will _______________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________.
exciting
differs in many ways
from my previous one
have different class schedules
develop confidence in speaking English and develop
competence in a variety of new skills
learn many new things,
Listening
List the differences between her new school and the previous one.
Don’t have fixed classrooms.
Sit around in groups.
Have group discussions.
Share ideas or check their work together.
Have different class schedules.
Listening
How should we arrange all the ideas when we talk about our new school life?
Personal Feelings
Reasons
Forms of learning
Expectations
Listening
I’m a new senior secondary school student. My new school life is very exciting. I feel excited because this school differs in many ways from my previous one. What is also very different is that students in the same class can have different class schedules. In the next three years, I hope I will develop confidence in speaking English and develop competence in a variety of new skills. All in all, I hope to have a happier, more fruitful and satisfying life in my new school.
How does the student introduce his new school life?
1 identity/who
2 personal feelings
3 reasons
4 forms of learning
5 expectations
6 conclusion
Speaking
Use the Text Builder to talk about your new school life in pairs.
? Use as many newly-learnt expressions from the text as possible.
? Add more good expressions if necessary.
Example: do assignments on your own, look forward to,
get used to, lockers, restrictions, freedom,
feel like a little fish in a big sea
Listening
Listen to the dialog. Three people are interviewed about their lives. Complete the notes below.
1.2
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Bob
Fred
Ms Johnson
Job
Work schedule
Positives about the job
Negatives about the job
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Bob
Fred
Ms Johnson
Job
Work schedule
Positives about the job
Negatives about the job
doctor
quite stressful, lots of pressure, little time for leisure
6.30 am, by 7,
12-hour shifts
help … recover from illnesses and injuries
football player
10 months a year, five hours a day
get injured
travel a lot, cheer you on
business manager
8 am until late in the evening
enjoy making important decisions
stressful, challenges arise, not see family enough
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Listening
Listening
Find out the similarities in their lives.
They are busy.
They lead stressful lives.
Their work has positives and negatives.
They don’t complain about the negatives.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. — Hans Selye
Discussion
How do you understand the following quotes?
There is no substitute for hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
— Alfred Tennyson
Discussion
How do you understand the following quotes?
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Quietude promotes learning, frugality cultivates virtue. One can’t show high ideals without simple living; one can’t have lofty aspirations without a peaceful state of mind.
— Zhuge Liang
Assignment
1. Use the language you have learnt to write a short paragraph about your new school life. Organize your ideas in a logical way. Then share it in groups.
2. Organize your group discussion of quotes into a short passage, and share it online.
Notes
1. It is the start of a new chapter in my life.
（人生或历史的）时期，时代，篇章
骑马出了一次严重的事故后，我生命中的那一篇章就结束了。
That chapter of my life closed when I had a serious riding accident.
Notes
2. Previously, we had fixed classrooms where students all sat in rows.
以前；先前；在以前
她以前受聘当导游。
She was previously employed as a tour guide.
Notes
3. Unfortunately, the job can also be stressful, especially when challenges arise and I work so much that I feel I don’t see my family enough.
arise — arose — arisen vi. 出现；发生；产生；起身
The birds attack crops when the opportunity arises.
一有机会鸟儿们就会破坏庄稼。
Goodbye!