Unit 2 School life

1. Unit 2 School life Hetou Middle School Miss Zhou

2. How many lessons do you have every day? • What subjects do you learn? • How often do you have a class meeting? • What after-school activities do you have? • Have you joined a club? • A hero is someone that your respect or admire. Do you have a hero? This is our school life and what are doing now?

3. British English • American football • autumn • film • secondary school • post • lift • football • ground floor • Maths • rubber American English football fall movie high school mail elevator soccer firstfloor Math eraser

4. New words mixed 男女混合的,混合的 subject 科目 Home Economics 家政课 sew 缝,做针线活 myself 我自己 tasty 味道好的 even 甚至 guy <口>家伙 guys 朋友们,各位 softball 垒球 practice <美>练习,操 练 buddy <口>好朋友;搭档 senior (大学和中学的)毕业生 hero 被崇拜的对象;英雄 hero 复数为 heroes close 密切的,亲密的 taste 味道 article 文章

5. read the passages: a close friend Home Economics tasty as well softball buddy hero mixed school senior a person with good qualities, admired by many people with a pleasant taste a school for both boys and girls too a subject about cooking and sewing a student in the year before graduation from a high school or college a kind of ball game

6. A British school boy An American school girl Nancy John Read the text and fill in the table. Underline the words or pharases when you read.

7. Life in a British school Life in an American school Nancy John Who Where What When Why Woodland school London Rocky Mountain high school, Denver Home Economics Reading week Softball Buddy club Twice a day Every Monday Every year Likes learning to cook and sew Can read anything he likes Loves the game Enjoys it a lot

8. Life in a British school reading week Home Economics

9. Life in an American school driving lesson softball game buddy club lunchtime

10. Listen and read after the tape, Tor F questions: • In a mixed school, boys and girls have lessons together. • John’s favourite subject is English. • Students at John’s school can read magazines during the reading week. • Students must not talk in class during the reading week. • You can have driving lessons at age 16 in the USA. • Nancy plays softball twice a week. • Every Monday, Nancy meets Julie to talk about school. • American students go to shopping malls at lunchtime. Home Economics can talk to friends near the end of the class after school

11. Hi everybody My name is John. I am in Year 8 at Woodland School near London. It is a m____ school. Boys and girls have lessons t_______. My favourite s______ is Home Economics. I like learning how to cook and sew. I did not know how to do things for m_____ before I came to this school. Now, I know how to cook healthy and t____ meals. ixed ogether ubject yself asty

12. My classmates and I Our school has a reading week every year. _________________ （我和我的同学们） love it. During this year’s Reading Week, I read the most books in my class. My classmates and I love our Reading Week. We can read any books from the school library. We can even ________ （把……带来） books and magazines from home but we _______（必须） tell our English teacher what we are reading. Near __________ （在……的结尾） each class we can _______ our friends _____（对……谈论关于……） our books. The reading week is always too short because we want to read all our classmates’ books _______（也）. bring in have to the end of about talk to as well

13. Hi guys, I’m Nancy and I’m 14 years old. I’m ____________ （在九年级） at Rocky Mountain High School in Denver. My brother’s name is Jim. He is 17 years old. He had _____________（驾驶课） in school last year. Now, he _________________（开车送我上学） every day. This is great because it’s ___________（比……快） taking the bus. in 9th grade driving lessons drives me to school faster than

14. oftball racticing Twice a week, I play s_______ after school. I love this game and I spend a lot of time p_________. Every Monday, I go to a ‘b____ club’. In the Buddy Club, older students talk to new students about school l___. I enjoy this a lot. My buddy is Julie. She is a s_____ in 12th grade. She helps me learn all about my new school. She helps me with my homework and listens to my p_______,too. Julie is my h___. uddy ife enior roblems ero

15. During lunchtime _________________（在午餐期间）, I meet my friends and we always ___________________（度过一段美好时光） talking to each other. Sometimes, we go to shopping malls ____________（放学以后）. have a great time after class

16. Reciting Article A(复述) John is in a _________school. It is ______ Woodland School. It is a ________ school. That means boys and girls have lessons __________. John’s favourite _________ is Home Economics. He likes learning how to ______ and _______. Now he knows how to cook _________ and _______ meals. British called/named mixed together subject cook sew healthy tasty

17. His school has ______________ every year. The students all love it. They can read _______________ the school library. They can even _________ books and __________ from home but they ___________ tell their English teacher what they are reading. Near ______________ each class they can _______ their friends about their books. The reading week is always too short because they want to read all their friends’ books ___________. a reading week any books from bring in magazines have to the end of talk to as well

18. Reciting Article B(复述) Nancy is 14 years old. She is in an _________ school. Her brother is 17 years old. So he had _______________ in school last year. Now he can ___________ school every day. It’s _____ than taking the bus. Nancy likes playing __________. Every Monday she goes to a “_____________”. There they can make some good friends. Julie is her __________. She helps Nancy a lot. So Nancy thinks Julie is her __________. American driving lessons drive to faster softball buddy club buddy hero

19. Talk about your school life Life in a Changzhou school Name: ___________________________________ Grades:___________________________________ Subjects:__________________________________ __________________________________ Clubs/activities:____________________________ ____________________________________ Houtou Middle School Grade 8 Maths, Chinese, English, Physics, Geography, History, Computer Studies… sports meeting; volleyball match football

20. Let’s Have a Great and Happy School Year! Thank you!

21. in Year 8 在八年级 • in 9th grade 在九年级

22. 2. a mixed school 一所混合学校 a school that both boys and girls study in mix v. 混合 mix sth with sth If you mix blue and yellow you will make green. Water and oil can’t mix. mixed 是-ed分词形式，作定语修饰school. a lost boy, a broken window, a borrowed book

23. 3. I like learning how to cook and sew 特殊疑问词+ to do I want to know what to do, when to do it and how to do it.

24. 4.near the end of each class在每节课要结束时 at the end of … 在……的尽头,末尾 at the beginning of … 在…….的开始 at the top/bottom of… 在……的顶/底部

25. 5. as well同样,也 = too 常用于句末。 He speaks English as well. He is a teacher and a writer as well.

26. 6 drive sb. to sp. 开车送某人去某地 I got up late, so I asked Dad to drive me to school.

27. 7. This is great because it’s faster than taking the • bus. • than 是介词，后加名词、代词、动名词 • b. than是连词， taking the bus 后省略了is。 • Playing football is more interesting than having lessons (is).

28. 8. have a great/good time doing sth. 干……是很开心，很尽兴的 We had a great time having a PE lesson. have fun doing sth. have some problems doing sth.

29. Translation. 1.男生和女生可以在男女混合的学校里共同学习。 2.约翰最喜欢的科目是家政和数学。 3.我姐姐喜欢学习如何烹饪和缝纫。 4.我妈妈总喜欢为我们做健康和美味的饭菜。 5.我们都喜欢看学校图书馆的书和杂志。 6.在每节课快结束时，我们都必须告诉语文老师我们在读什么。 7.有时我们也喜欢与朋友交流我们的书. 8.孩子们常常从家里带许多杂志来。