Unit 1School life
Teaching aims of the whole unit:
1．Develop students’ability of reading comprehension by reading an article about school life in the UK and two other articles about school clubs.
2．Develop students’ability of listening comprehension by listening to two talks about school activities.
3．Develop students’speaking ability by discussing daily school life and reporting school activities. 4．Develop students’writing ability by writing a notice about school activities.
5．Develop students’integrated skills of using English by making a poster for a school club. 6．Enlarge students’vocabulary about school facilities.
7. Help students understand what an attributive clause is and what relative words function as in attributive clauses; teach students how to use relative pronouns that,which, who, whom and whose. Period arrangement: The whole unit: 12 periods Welcome to the unit: 1 period Reading: 2 periods Word power: 1 period Grammar and usage: 2 periods Task: 2 periods Project: 2 periods Self-assessment: 1 period Revision and exercises: 1 period
Period 1 Welcome to the unit I. Teaching aims:
1. Get students to know the different high school loves between the UK and China. 2. Develop students’ English speaking skills. II. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Warming up
Let some students make a self-introduction. 1. Introduce themselves.
2. Say something about their junior high school life. 3. Pair work: brain storm:
When we are talking about our school life, what will we probably think of?
What words or phrases will we use to describe our school life? Step 2 Presentation
1. Say the following to students:
It’s the beginningof the new term. You’ve just finished your junior high and are about to enter a new period in your studies. I am happy to give your lessons and I hope we can be friends.
I can see that some of your are eager to know what studying at senior high will be like. Will it be differ4ent from junior high? Well, there are certainly many differences between junior high and senior high, but there are also some things that are the same in every school in China.
What about schools in other countries? Do youhave different experiences? Are schools all over the world the same? This is the subject of our first unit. 2. Ask students to read the instruction and tell them:
Here are three pictures that show some aspects of school life in the UK. Please read the instructions, look at the pictures: what's the difference between schools in China and the UK? Step 3 Discussion
1. Ask students the following questions to talk about the words in the four pictures: Huge campus and low-rise buildings What does huge mean? What does low-rise mean?
What about campus and school buildings in China?
(Schools in China usually have a large enough campus to make sure students have enough space to study and play. But most school buildings have at least 3 storeys.) Lockers for every student Do you know what a locker is?
(There are rows of lockers by the classrooms for students to put their books, exercise-books and other belongings.)
What do you think about locker for students?
Do you think that we should have such locker in our school? Why or Why not? Fewer students in each class
How many students are there in our class?
Do you know the number of students in a class in the UK? At ease with our teacher
What can we know from this picture?
What does the word ease mean? What do you think the phrase at ease mean? Were you getting on well with the teacher when you were in junior high? What relationship do you want to have with your teachers in senior high?
2. Ask students to work in groups to talk about the four pictures and the differences between schools in the UK and China. Then ask several students to report their discussion to the whole class.
Aspects In the UK In China Huge campus and We can see huge campus Schools in China usually have a large enough campus low-rise buildings and low-rise buildings. to make sure students have enough space to study and It is the biggest difference play in. from schools in China But most school buildings are taller, at least three storeys. Lockers for every There are rows of lockers Students bring what they need for lessons to school student by the classrooms for students to put their stationary, books, exercise-books and other belongings. Fewer students in There are fewer students There are usually more students in high school, each class in a class, no more than 30 perhaps 40 to 50 per class. Recently some schools are and then take it all back home after school. Most schools in china do not have equipment in the classroom. per class. beginning to limit the number of students in each class. At ease with our teacher Students have a close relationship with their It is similar in china. Nowadays, lots of teachers and students have established a good relationship with teachers. They feel at ease each other. They respect each other and work to gain and comfortable with them.
3. Ask students to discuss the three questions in pairs, and them ask some of them to report their answers to the questions to the whole class. What is your dream school life like? What kind of school activities do you enjoy? What do you think of your life here in the new school? Step 4Summary and Homework
Today we’ve mainly talked about the differences between the high school lives in the UK and in China. After class you should:
1) Recall all the new words and expressions that we learn in this lesson.
2) Find more about any other differences between the high school lives in the UK and in China, either by surf the Internet or by reading some articles in newspapers or magazines. 3) Preview the following part: reading (Page 2 to Page 4).
Period 2Reading (1) School life in the UK Teaching aims:
1. Get students to know what school life is like in a high school in the UK. 2. Develop students’ ability of reading comprehension through:
1) skimming and scanning.
2) Guessing the meanings of some new words from the context 3. To learn some expressions about school life. Teaching procedures:
a better understanding of each other.
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