UnitOneSchoollifePeriodIWelcometotheunitI.Teachingaim:GivetheSssomeimpressionoftheschoollifeintheUKandinformtheSsofthedifferencesbetweenschoolsinChinaandtheUK.EnlargetheSs’knowledgeandmakethemknowtheimportanceofschoollifeinone’slife.II.Keypoint:EncouragetheSstotalkabouttheirformerschoollifeandabouttheirdreamschoollife.III.Difficultpoint:Toensureeverystudenttohaveachancetoexpresshimself/herself.IV.Teachingmethod:Individual,pairorgroupworktomakeeverystudentworkinclass.V.TeachingProcedures:I.Lead-in:1.Greetingsandself-introduction.2.It’sthebeginningofanewterm.Youhavejustfinishedjuniorhighandareabouttoenteranewperiodinyourstudies.IamveryhappytohaveallofyouinmyclassandIhopewecanbefriends.3.LettheSsintroducethemselvesanddescribetheirformerschoolandschoollife.Askthemsomequestions:Q1:What’syournameplease?Q2:Whichschooldidyougraduatefrom?/Whichschoolareyoufrom?Q3:Doyouhaveanyhobbies?Q4:Howdoyouoftenspendyoursparetime?4.Introducewhatstudyingatseniorhighwillbelikeandthedifferencesbetweenjuniorhighandseniorhigh.II.Brainstorming:1.AsktheSstoreadtheinstructionsandfocusonthefourpictures.TodaywearegoingtolookatschoolsintheUKandtryandworkoutiftheyarethesameordifferentfromschoolsinChina.2.EncouragetheSstotalkabouteachpicturewiththefollowingdiagramtohelpthem.PicIntheUKInChina1Hugecampusandlow-risebuildings2Lockersforeverystudent3Fewerstudentsineachclass4AteasewithourteacherIII.FurtherDiscussion:1.Organizestudentsintopairsorsmallgroups.2.Discussthethreequestionsbelowthepicturesingroups.3.Getsmallgroupstoreporttheirconclusionsbacktothewholeclass.4.Conductafeedbackactivity.IV.SummaryandHomework:1.Todaywehaveagoodbeginning:Wehaveintroducedourselvestoeachother,andknow1aboutthedifferencesbetweenthelivesofChineseandBritishhighschoolstudents.Wealsogiveabriefdescriptionofourdreamschoollife.2.FindoutmoredifferencesbetweenthelivesofChineseandBritishhighschoolstudents,saymoreaboutyourdreamschoollife.3.Makeaplanoftheirstudiesinthecomingyearsandalistofgoalsthattheywanttoachieveinthethreeyears.PeriodIIReadingSchoollifeintheUKI.TeachingAims:TraintheSs’readingabilities.Learnsomeusefulwordsandexpressions.LearnmoreaboutschoollifeintheUKandthedifferencesbetweenschoollifeintheUKandinChina.II.KeyPoints:1.HelptheSstounderstandthepassagebetter.2.Learnandmastersomeimportantwordsandphrasesinthisperiod.III.DifficultPoints:1.HowtohelptheSsimprovetheirreadingabilityandunderstandthepassagebetter.2.Howtomastertheimportantlanguagepointsinthispassage.IV.TeachingMethods:1.Fastreadingtogetthegeneralideaofthetext.2.Carefulreadingtounderstandthepassagebetter.3.DiscussiontohelptheSsunderstandwhatthey’velearnedbetter.4.ExplanationtohelptheSsmastersomelanguagepoints.V.TeachingProcedures:I.Lead-in:1.Greetings.2.Checkthehomework.3.DifferencesbetweenhighschoolsinourcountryandtheUKandopinionsonmanyfactorsandreasonsforsuchphenomena.II.Presentation:Readingstrategies:skimmingandscanning.Skimming:Weskimatextwhenwewanttogetageneralideaofwhatitisabout.Welookatthetitlesandheadings,thefirstandlastsentencesofparagraphsandthefirstandlastparagraphsaswellaspicturesandchartstoguesswhatthetextisabout.Scanning:Whenwewanttofindcertaininformationinatextquickly,wescanthetextforkeywordsandphrase,dates,numbers,etc.Wedonotneedtoreadthewholetextwordbyword.II.Skimming:1.AsktheSstogothroughthepassageasquicklyaspossibleandtrytofindanswerstothethreequ...
