1、教材分析This reading passage is about a vivid description of the school life in Manchester made by Wei Hua, a Chinese girl who once studied in the UK. The students who are expected to learn this unit are the new comers to high schools. They will certainly curious about British high school life as well a
2、s their own school life. So the topic is an amazing one for the students, and it will definitely stimulate the students interest since they can imagine and arrange their own new school life. By learning this unit, the teacher can also help the students to get used to the new high school life as soon
3、 as possible.While the students are reading this passage, some reading strategies should be introduced: skimmingto get the general idea of a passage by looking at the titles and headings, the first and last sentences of paragraphs and the first and last paragraphs as well as pictures and chart; scan
4、ningto find certain information in a text quickly by looking for key words and phrases, dates, numbers, etc.Meanwhile, different in-class activities should be well organized for all the students to take part in according to the content of the text with the purpose of training their skills in not onl
5、y reading, but also in listening and speaking. Some charts and tables are used for the students to find some information for the text. And the students should be encouraged to take part in different activities of pair work or group work. They should learn to enjoy team-work. More in-class activities
6、 are related to the students daily life and require common sense from the students. And more exercises are given in different forms to help the students to learn how to use some of the new words and phrases. 三维目标1. Train the students reading ability, introducing the two reading strategies, skimming
7、and scanning.2. Enable the students to learn to talk about school life and identify the differences in the school life between the UK and China.3. Learn some useful words and expressionsattend, earn, respect, achieve, challenging, prepare, drop, miss, experience, introduce, for free, at lunchtime, w
8、ord by word, on average, sound like4. Learn some important sentence structures1)This means I could. . .2)I found the homework was not as heavy as what I used to get. . . 重点难点1. Help the students to learn about the school life in the UK and get the students to talk about the differences in the school
9、 life between the UK and China.2. Help the students to learn to use some of the new words and expressions.3. Help the students to learn to make an outline of a plan for their new school life. 教学方法1. Discussion in pairs or in groups.2. Task-based in-class activities.3. Explanations of some language p
10、oints. 教具准备A tape recorder and a multimedia classroom. 课前准备1. Ask the students to prepare for a free-talk for about two or three minutes. They can introduce themselves to their classmates or say something about their junior middle school life, or even make a plan for their high school life. This wil
11、l help all the students to take part in in-class activities and help them adapt to high school life quickly. If some students really have some difficulty in doing this, the teacher can help them to prepare for it before class.2. Encourage the students to go to the library or surf the Internet to get
12、 some information about school life in the UK, if possible. They can also be divided into several groups to get some information about high school life in different countries as they like.3. Ask the students to read the passage School life in the UK on pages 2 to 3, as well as reading strategy on pa
13、ge 3. If time permits, ask them to finish exercises C1, C2 and D on page 4. 教学过程Step 1 Greetings and self-introductionThis is the first semester of the high school and most students are not familiar with each other, so self-introduction is necessary for them to get to know about each other. Encourag
14、e the students to volunteer to go to the front of the classroom to make a self-introduction or describe part of their junior middle school life and make a plan for their high school life. After one student finishes his or her free-talk, other students or the teacher can ask him or her some questions
15、. Step 2 Lead inAsk the students to describe some parts of high school life in the UK based on what they learned in Welcome to the unit. If necessary, they can also talk about some of the differences between Chinese and British school life.Some possible answers: 1. Huge campus and low-rise buildings
16、 can often be seen in the UK. That is an outstanding sight when we travel in the UK, compared to so many high-rise buildings in China.2. What impressed me a lot are the lockers in the classrooms for students to put their stationery, books, exercise books and other belongings. I think it is really convenient for the students. While in China, we us
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