Lesson 1 Another School Year—What For? Aims: 1.Get the students to read and understand the text and help them master the structures of the patterns; 2.Get the students to master the words and the prefixes and suffixes presented; 3.Help them master the grammatical rules presented; 4.Help them finish off all the exercises both in vocabulary and in grammar. Main Points: Understanding the text and learning the words and grammar. Difficult Points: The structures of difficult sentences. Teaching Methods: Discussion, interpretation and explanation. Teaching Course: I. Pre-class Task: To read and get familiar with the new words in the lesson. Previewing the text. Every student should go over the whole text so that they can get the main idea and write the gist. II. Detailed study of the text. 1. to be fresh out of: be having recently finished 2. body: a group of people who work together 3. to reach for: try to obtain To read: to have … written on it 4. Question: What’s the difference between training and education? 5. … be around long enough for it to matter. Paraphrase: stay at college very long to understand my words, so it would not be important whether or not I told him all this. 6. to average out to/at …: (informal) to result in an average amount 7. to hold: to remain the same 8. to see to it that: to make sure that 9. … doesn’t go to the electric chair… Paraphrase: is sentenced to death not because you are not a competent lawyer. To go to the electric chair: to be punished or killed on the electric chair. 10. along with: in addition to; as well as Sentence meaning: In addition to all other things the professional skills offer. 11. … may it always suffice. I hope ...