Step 6. Speaking (Role-play)
Ask Ss to imagine that it is twenty years from now and let them talk about the highlights of their senior year. Try to use the phrases or sentences we learnt in reading to express their opinions. Step 7. Homework
1. Ask Ss to try to find out the useful phrases in the passage.
2. Ask Ss to finish Reading Exercises in the Workbook on pages 99~100. 3. Ask Ss to prepare for the Reading Practice and Cultural Corner.
Period 3 Cultural Corner, Reading Practice
Teaching Goals:
1. To enable Ss to realize school life includes not only happy but also sad moments.
2. To learn about some unhappy things about school life.
3. To help Ss learn about the American art of cheerleading and the prom. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Revision
Check the answers to the Reading exercises in the Workbook. Step 2. Cultural Corner
1. Use the pictures to introduce some new words to Ss:
routine
cheerleading squad
pompom
cheerleader
(1) What is the cheerleader?
2. Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and answer the following questions.
(2) What happened in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1978? (3) How do Americans feel about cheerleading? Suggested Answers:
(1) A cheerleader is a member of a team that dances and does gymnastics before and during competitive games to encourage crowds to cheer their sports teams.
(2) In was not until the 1920s that pompoms began to play an important part in cheerleading. (=Pompoms didn’t begin to play an important part in cheerleading until the 1920s. / =Not until the 1920s did pompoms begin to play an important part in cheerleading.)
By the 1950s, most American high schools had cheerleading squads. In 1978, the National Cheerleading Championship were shown on television, and universities began offering courses in cheerleading.
(3) Some Americans are amused by it and see it as rather a stupid activity. In fact, cheerleading is considered so important in America that several movies have been made about it.
3. Ask Ss to read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the words they’ve just learnt.
I like (1) which can (2) crowds to
cheer their sports teams during (3) games. Everyone will feel excited and can’t help roaring. In the past, cheerleading only (4) in America. As time passed, more and more counties started cheerleading. Now it (5) games (6) , and many universities offer (7) in cheerleading. In fact, cheerleading is (8) so important (9) several movies have been made about it. Suggested Answers: (1) Cheerleading
(2) encourage
(3) competitive
(7) courses (8)
(4) existed
considered
(5) Plays an important part in (6) worldwide
(9) that
Step 3. Reading Practice
Purpose: To learn about some unhappy things about school life.
1. Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and try to finish Activity 3 on page 26. 2. Ask Ss to try to guess the meaning of the following underlined words according to the passage (In this reading material there are so many new words, teachers must pay more attention to the vocabulary. Teacher may teach Ss how to understand the new words when they meet in the passage. For example, teacher can tell Ss how to guess the words according to the passage, especially the sentences before and the next sentence).
(1) In fact, the only preparation I had for this adventure was watching as my mother sewed my name tag into my shirts, trousers and woolen sweater. (2) I was shown to the dormitory where I would sleep …. (3) The bedding was a pillow, a sheet and a thin quilt. (4) an electric kettle to heat water for tea (5) Sport was compulsory, and every week we had to go for a five-kilometers run, ….
Suggested Answers:
(1) sew: to make, repair or attach sth using a needle and thread (2) dormitory: a place where people can sleep
(3) bedding: something related to bed, such as pillows, sheets, quilts and so on. (4) kettle: a container which can heat water (5) compulsory: necessary
3. Ask Ss to read the passage carefully and finish Activity 4 and 5 on page 26. 4. Ask Ss to look at the following sentences and try to translate them into Chinese. Check whether they have understood the passage well.
(1) They say that schooldays are the happiest days of your life, but not for me! 她们说学生时代是一生中最美好的时光，但对我来说，不是！ (2) In fact, the only preparation I had for this adventure was watching as my mother sewed my name tag into my shirts, trousers and woolen sweaters. 实际上，为这次冒险我做好的唯一准备就是看着我的母亲把我的名字缝在我的衬衣，裤子和羊毛衫上。
(3) I’m ashamed to admit that I sobbed as I fell asleep that night. 惭愧地承认的是那晚入睡之前我开始啜泣。
(4) We had a dynamic English teacher, a bachelor who had plenty of time for us boys and inspired my life-long love of literature.
我们有一位精力充沛的英语老师，一个可以把大把时间用来照顾我们这些男孩子并鼓励我走上文学之路的单身汉。
(5) There was also a teacher of botanical science, who introduced me to my passion for flowers and plants.
还有一位植物学老师，激发了我们对花草植物的热情。
(6) We all had to attend morning assembly every weekday, except for boys of other faiths.
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