1、My First Day at Senior HighSection 1Questions 1.Whatsyournewseniorhighschool? 2.Doyouliketheschool?Why? 3.Howmanystudentsarethereinyournewclass? 4.DoyouhavegreatconfidencetolearnEnglishwell? vocabulary Turn to page 113， and study the vocabulary list for Unit one, paying attention to the relationship
2、 between the spelling and the pronunciation.Doyouknowallofthem?biologychemistryEnglishJapanesegeographyRussianChinesemathematicsphysicsPE(PhysicalEducation)historyIT(Information Technology)Discussion How many of the subjects are science subjects? How many of them are languages? Which of them are not
3、 academic subjects? Which are your three favorite subjects?Complete the sentences with a subject and a reason. I like because . I think is important because . I think is difficult because . I would like to study because . Discussion WhatarethemaindifferencesbetweenJuniorHighschoolandSeniorHIghschool
4、?The teachers are enthusiastic and friendly.Every room has a computer. The students are more than my previous class.Do you think that work at Senior High school is harder than at Junior High school?Work at Senior High school is harder than at Junior High school.Everyone should be hardworking.If not,
5、youll be left behind.Are Senior High teachers similar to Junior High teachers?At Senior High, the method of teaching is nothing like that of my previous teachers. At Senior High, the teachers put more importance on reading comprehension.Answerthequestionsandguessthemeaningofthekeywords.Describeyoura
6、ttitude tostudyingEnglish.Areyouenthusiastic?interested?(a) notveryinterested?Describethegeneralbehaviour ofyourJuniorHighclassinEnglishlessons.Doyouall workhardinclass? behaveinaseriousandpolitemanner?(a)sometimesgetnoisy?Giveanexampleofyourteachersteachingmethod.Doeshe/she tellstories? explaingram
7、mar?(a)writenewwordsontheblackboard?WhatdoyoufindmostdifficultaboutEnglish? readingcomprehension speaking(c)handwriting(d)spelling(e)understanding instructions(f)Whatsthedifferencebetweenthistextbook andtheoneyouusedatJuniorHigh?Thinkabout(a)difficulty (b)photographs(c)readingtexts.Match the words w
8、ith their definitions attitude behaviour handwriting method textbooka book used for the study of a subject in schoolthe particular way someone writes using a penway of doing somethinga way of feeling or thinking about someone or somethingway of acting in a particular wayMatch the words with their de
9、finitions comprehension instruction photograph spellingaphototheactionofformingwordscorrectlyfromletters,ortheabilitytodothisanordertheactofunderstandingorabilitytounderstandSkimmingSkim: Find out the topic sentence of the text.Scanning: After reading, answer the following questions. 1) Which city d
10、oes Li Kang come from? 2) What about his classrooms? What are there in the classrooms? 3) Is his English teacher excellent? Why?read the school diary and find somethingaboutthisschoolwhichisdifferentfromLiKangsJuniorHighschool. twothingsthattheEnglishteacherthinksareimportanttodoinclass. twothingsth
11、attheEnglishteacherwantstoimprove.Discussion:Read the text again and put the following statements in the right order. TheteacherisaveryenthusiasticwomancalledMsShen. Theteachersareveryenthusiasticandfriendlyandtheclassroomsareamazing. MynameisLiKang. MynewschoolisverygoodandIcanseewhy. TheEnglishcla
12、ssisreallyinteresting. MsShenwantstohelpusimproveourspellingandhandwriting. Therearesixty-fivestudentsinmyclass-morethanmypreviousclassinJuniorHigh. Ilikeherattitudeverymuch.2.MynewschoolisverygoodandIcanseewhy.4.TheEnglishclassisreallyinteresting.1.MynameisLiKang.6.MsShenwantstohelpusimproveourspel
13、lingandhandwriting.3.Theteachersareveryenthusiasticandfriendlyandtheclassroomsareamazing.8.Therearesixty-fivestudentsinmyclass-morethanmypreviousclassinJuniorHigh.5.TheteacherisaveryenthusiasticwomancalledMsShen.7.Ilikeherattitudeverymuch.Choosetheanswerswiththesamemeaningasthesentencesfromthetext.1
14、.Lines21-24:MsshensmethodofteachingisnothinglikethatoftheteachersatmyJuniorHighschool. A.MypreviousteachersmethodofteachingisbetterthanthatofMsChen B.MypreviousteachersmethodofteachingisdifferentformthatofMsShen.2.Lines27-28:IdontthinkIwillbeboredinMsShensclass! A.Iwillfindtheclassinteresting! B.Iwi
15、llfindtheclassdifficult!3.Lines31-32:somestudentswereembarrassedatfirst A.Thestudentsstoppedbeingshyeventually. B.Thestudentscouldntdotheactivity.4.Lines33-35:MsShengaveusinstructionsandthenweworkedbyourselves. A.Wedideverythingbyourselves. WelistenedtoMsShensexplanationandthenworkedwitheachother.Find out the topic of each paragraph. Retell the content of the text with the help of the topic sentences.Assignment:try to recite the new words and write an essay to describe your school.My First Day at Senior High Section 2
