My First Day at Senior High

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MODULE 1

• My First Day at Senior High

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Introduction and Reading
Period 1
Introduction and Reading
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• Warming up by questions.

1. Whats your new senior high school? Do you
like the school? Why? 2. How many students are
there in your new class?
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3. How many subjects do you study? 4. Do you have
great confidence to learn English well?
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Warming up by new words.
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• We may get much more i__________ from the
  Internet nowadays.
• I felt so a______ when I heard the news of the
  accident which happened yesterday.
• Whats your a______ to studying English this new
  term?

nformation
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ttitude
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• They have got many m______ to solve this problem,
  dont worry.
• Do you feel e___________ when your friend refuses
  to lend you some money?
• I know little about the new machine, have you got
  any i__________ when you buy it?

ethods
mbarrassed
nstructions
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amaze vt. ?????? bore vt. ?????? embarrass
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• disappoint vt.
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• encourage,vt.
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• disappear vi.
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• move vi.
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• cover vt.
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• have fun
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• dont think (suppose) that
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• by oneself
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• in other words
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• sb. says (thinks) that / it is said that/
• sb. is said to do...
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• at the start of / at the beginning of
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• be divided into
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• three times asas
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• look forward to doing sth.
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• is nothing like that of
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Vocabulary and speaking

• biology chemistry
• English Japanese geography Russian history
  Chinese mathematics physics PE(physical
  Education) IT(Information Technology)

How many of the subjects are science subjects?
Which of the science subjects do you study at
your school?
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Complete the sentences with a subject and a
reason.
Example I like Chinese because I enjoy reading
to stories and poems.
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1. I like ______ because_____ .
2. I think______ is important because____.
3. I think____ is difficult because ____.
4. I would like to study ____because___.
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Discussion

• Describe your attitude to studying English.
• Are your (a) enthusiastic? (b) interested?
  (c) not very interested?

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2. What do you find most difficult about
English? (a) reading comprehension (b)
speaking (c) handwriting (d) spelling
(e) understanding instructions (f)
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• 1.Fast reading for general idea
• Knowing Li Kangs opinions
• about his new school, decide
• which of the following is the best.

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A. Li just likes his English teacher. B. Li not
only likes his former school but his present
one. C. Li describes his impression about his
new class and English teacher. D. Li mainly
introduced himself to his classmates.
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• 2.Detailed reading for information
• Read the following sentences and decide
• whether they are true or false according the
• text.
• 1.Li Kang lives in our capital, Beijing.
• 2.It is his first day at Junior High school.
• 3.Li Kang knows why his new school is
• good.
• 4.Ms. Shen is is very enthusiastic woman to
• her students.
• 5.Li Kang likes Ms. Shens attitude, but the
• others dont.

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A text structure analysis
1. Type of writing and summary of the text
The story is a descriptive style

• The story mainly tells us Li Kangs feelings
  about his new senior high school, his new class,
  his new teachers and classmates on the first day.
  He loves everything around him.

His name and birth place introduction.
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His new teachers and classroom equipments.

• His English class and English teacher.

• Introductions among the teacher and the students
  in the first English class.

• The friendly relationship between the English
  teacher and the students.

The number of the students in his class and they
are all hard-working.
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2.A box graph of the text
School yard
Class room
English teacher
Students In class
Relation Of class
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Choose the answers with the same meaning as the
sentences from the text.
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• Lines 21-24 Ms Shens method of teaching is
  nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior
  High school.

• My previous teachers method of teaching is
  better than that of Ms Shen.
• (b) My previous teachers method of teaching is
  different from that of Ms Shen.

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2. Lines 27-28 I dont think I will be bored in
Ms Shens class!

• I will find the class interesting!
• I will find the class difficult!

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3. Lines 33-35 Ms Shen gave us instructions
and then we worked by ourselves.

• We did everything by ourselves.

(b)We listened to Ms Shens explanation and then
worked with each other.
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Which is the best summary of Li Kangs opinion
about the new school?
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1.Li Kangs new school is very different from his
old school. There is new technology class.
Everyone in the class works hard.
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2.Li Kang is very impressed with the teachers and
the technology in his new school. The English
teachers method is very different from that in
his old school and very interesting. The class is
bigger and the students works hard.
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Homework
Try to describe your classroom and your English
teacher orally.
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Thank you!