1、Unit 1 A new start Developing ideas Warming-up What goals do you want to achieve at high school? Warming-up Read as many books as possible Learn a new skill Win an award for an English competition Get high scores Join a school club Be elected to the Students Union Take a trip with your classmates Ge
2、t to know the schoolmates Perform on stage Warming-up to lay a foundation for further study to develop interpersonal skills to make some new friends to build confidence to have rich knowledge to be independent to enrich your life and improve yourself to have the opportunity to go to an ideal univers
3、ity Why do you want to achieve these goals? Predicting What is talked about in the interview? Reading Lisas suggestions for high school students. What does the passage mainly talk about? Reading 1. What did Lisa find most helpful when she started high school? 2. How did she deal with new challenges?
4、 3. How did she handle disappointments? 4. What is the most important advice that Lisa would like to share with students? When scanning a text, you read it very quickly to find a specific piece of information. You should pay attention to the key words. Read the passage quickly and answer the questio
5、ns. Reading High school hints 1. Starting senior high Make use of 1. _ to get to know the new school and the other students. 2. Dealing with new challenges Face them bravely and 2. _ to see the final result. Dont be frightened of 3. _. 3. Handling disappointments Keep _and be part of something you l
6、ove. 4. The most important advice Give your friends a 5. _ when they need it. Orientation Day go all out failure hand working hard Discussion Finding the subjects are too difficult. Not knowing what club to join. Feeling lonely and missing family. Finding it hard to get along with classmates. Not ge
7、tting used to the learning schedule of senior high. What are the problems you may face during the first week at senior high? 1. What else would you like to ask Lisa about starting senior high? 2. What do you think Lisa means by “If you fail, no problem next time you can fail better”? 3. Think about
8、the words from Maya Angelou: “Be a rainbow in somebody elses cloud.” Do you know of any similar sayings? Discussion She means that it is ok to fail, as long as you learn something from it to help you succeed next time. Roses given, fragrance left. God helps those who help others. If you light a lamp
9、 for somebody, it will also brighten your path. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. Discussion Some similar sayings: Talking Work in group
10、s. Give a speech to the new students on their first day at high school. Start by welcoming the new students. Talk about the problems and give your advice. End by summarizing the main points of your speech. Talking Start by welcoming the new students. Welcome to our high school! As senior high studen
11、ts, we are likely to meet with many problems. Talking Talk about the problems and give your advice. Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, / Another problem is that Another good way to solve the problem is to Talking End by summarizing the main points of your speech. In a word, In short, To sum up, we may meet
12、 with different problems, but we can solve them . Reading for writing Activity 5 Read the journal entry and answer the questions. 1. Whats the passage about? 2. What happened in her physics class? 3. What did she do after class? Reading for writing 1. Whats the passage about? 2.What happened in her
13、physics class? Its about the authors experiences during the first week at senior high. She couldnt take notes of everything the physics teacher said, but the teacher told her to stop taking notes and just listen. He said that thinking was more important than note-taking and memorising. Reading for w
14、riting 3. What did she do after class? She hurried to the school skateboarding club, and bumped into a girl on the way. Then she tried skateboarding at the club and made friends with the girl she bumped into earlier. Writing Activity 6 Think of your own experiences of the first week at senior high a
15、nd share with your partners. My impression of the first week An enjoyable class After-school activities How I made a new friend First-week experience at senior high Things are going well; . was a little confusing; feel happy/ curious/ anxious . I am going to/will/plan to/am about to/intend to.; I am
16、 looking forward to . Writing Now write your journal entry about your first-week experiences at senior high. Use the expressions in the box to help you. Language focus 从毕业 即将去上大学 一个绝好的机会 保持开放的心态 合理的建议 看见试卷 全力以赴 回顾我的高中生活 向某人伸出援助之手 graduate from . be about to go to college a fantastic opportunity keep
17、 an open mind sound advice at the sight of the test paper go all out to do look back on my high school life give somebody a helping hand 1. Lisa graduated from our school last June and is about to go to college in New York. be about to: be going to do something very soon e.g. 我刚要离开房间，电话就响了。 I was ab
18、out to leave the room when the telephone rang. Notes 2. I was frightened at the sight of the test paper. But then I figured Id better just go all out and see what happens. at the sight of: 一看到 e.g. 她一看见血就晕了。 She fainted at the sight of blood. go all out: do something with as much effort as possible
19、全力以赴 e.g. 明天我们会为了赢得比赛全力以赴。 We will go all out to win the game tomorrow. Notes 3. You must have had some moments when you were disappointed. must have done: 对过去表示肯定的推测“肯定已经”； e.g. 杰克不舒服。他昨天晚上肯定喝多了。 Jack is feeling sick. He must have drunk too much last night. when引导定语从句，修饰先行词moments。 e.g. 这是我做出决定的时刻。
20、 This was the moment when I made my decision. Notes 4. Is there anything else in particular that youd like to share with us? in particular 尤其；特别 e.g. 我们最后看的那套公寓你特别喜欢它哪一点？ What in particular did you like about the last apartment we saw? be particular about/over 对挑剔，讲究 e.g. 她对吃的非常挑剔。 Shes very particular about what she eats. Notes Goodbye!
