Module One My first day at Senior high

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Module 1 My first day at senior high
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Contents
Reading
Language points
Grammar 1 Listening Vocabulary

Grammar 2 Speaking Writing
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Reading
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Fast reading
1. What are the differences between Likangs
Junior High school and Senior High school? 2.
What are the two things the English teacher
thinks important to do in class? 3. What are
the two things that the English teacher want to
improve?
The method of teaching, more students in the
class.
Reading comprehension, speaking.
Spelling, handwriting.
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Careful reading

• 1. 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.
• 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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Careful reading

• 3. Lines 31-32 Some students were embarrassed at
  first
• (a) The students stopped being shy eventually.
• (b) The students couldnt do the activity.
• 4. Lines 33-35 Ms Shen gave us instructions and
  then we worked by ourselves.
• (a) We did everything by ourselves.
• (b) We listened to Ms Shens explanation and then
  worked with each other.

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Discussion
We have known the Likangs life at Senior High,
Is your English classroom like Likangs?
Is your class the same size as his? Is
the number of boys and girls the same? Are
you looking forward to doing your English
homework?
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Culture corner
Whats similar and whats different in the
American and Chinese school systems?
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Discussion
Ask the students to prepare a short reply to
introduce the school system, vacation, study
time after-school activities in China by
imitating the letter in Cultural corner.
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Have a rest!
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Language points
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Word

• academic adj.
• (1) of (teaching or learning in) schools,
  colleges, etc. ???,???
• the academic year ??
• (2) of theoretical interest only ???
• e.g. a matter of academic concern ??????
• n. teacher at a university, college, etc
  professional scholar ???????????
• ?? academy n. ????????
• Academy Award ??? academician ??

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2. instruction n. (pl) (1) order or direction
given ???? (2) information on how to do or use
sth. ?? follow the instructions for
????? instructions on (how to do ) sth.
(???)????? instructions to do sth. ?????? on
sb.s instructions ??????? be under instructions
to do sth. ??????
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3. embarrassed adj. feeling nervous and
uncomfortable and worrying be embarrassed to do
sth. ????? be embarrassed about/at ????? 4.
behaviour n. way of treating others manners
behaviour towards/to????/?? be on ones
good/best behaviour ???????? put sb. on his
best behaviour ??/?????????

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5. cover vt. to include or deal with sth.
?? be covered by/ with???? e.g.????????Cover
the table with a cloth. cover for sb.
???? e.g.?????????? Ill cover for Jane while
shes on holiday. cover (a distance)
?(????) cover (sth new )??(????) cover sth up
???? e.g. ??????????The government is trying to
cover up the scandal.

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Sentences
1. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman
called Ms. Shen. called Ms. Shen
??????????,???????????????????,???????who/that
was called Ms. Shen? ??????????????? We
visited the new library_______________________.
?????????????????????? The first textbooks
____________________________as a foreign language
came out in the 18th century.
built three weeks ago
written for teaching English
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a dated map ????? a retired teacher ????
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2. I don't think I will be bored in Ms. Shens
class!
???????,?think, believe, expect, suppose,
feel, guess, imagine ?,????????????????????,??????
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I dont believe what he said is true.
I dont suppose they will object to my suggestion.
He didnt imagine that she would go abroad.
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I dont think its going to rain tomorrow, is
it?You dont think I have made mistakes, do you?
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3. In other words, there are three times as many
girls as boys. (1) in other words
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In other words, she must give up singing.
Beethoven wrote many world-famous musical
compositions. In other words, he was a great
musician.
(2) ?A be?? as adj.asB ?Abe??
???thanB ?Abe??the size/length/height/d
epth/width of B
This book is three times as long as that one.
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This book is three times the length of that one.
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This book is three times longer than that one.
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4. Im looking forward to doing it!
look forward to sth./doing sth.
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I look forward to hearing from you as early as
possible.
??????to????????
look forward to ?? turn to ???????
pay attention to ?? stick to ?? get down
to ????? object to ?? belong to ??
refer to ??,??,?? point to ?? see to
??,?? come to ???? reply to ?? agree to
?? add to ?? devoteto ???
compareto???
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5. The school year is divided into two semesters,
the first of which is September through December,
and the second is January through May.
be divided into ?????
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Our class is divided into four groups.
America is divided into over 30 stales.
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6. At the end of twelfth grade, American students
receive the high school diploma.
at the end of ?????????? ????? in
the end (at last finally)??,?? by the end of
???? at the beginning of (at the start of )
?????? at the beginning (in the beginning
at first) ??,???
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7. Oh really? So have I.
so ???/????/???????(????)?
so am I
???????,???? He is interested in physics and
__________.
so can I
????????,???? If you can finish it in
time,__________.
????????neither/nor ???/????/?????,??(????)??

Bob???????,Jack???
Bob wasnt at school last Friday, and neither/nor
was Jack.
so ?????/????/???????????????????????,???????
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You have dropped a word here. Yes, so I have.
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Have a rest!
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Grammar 1ListeningVocabulary
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Lead-in
1. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from
Beijing . 2. I am writing down my thoughts about
it.
What are the tense differences are there between
these two sentences?
Read the following examples and try to find out
the principles of the uses of the present simple
tense the present continuous tense.
A. She visits her parents everyday. What is
the time by your watch? The moon goes around
the earth. The train leaves at seven and
arrives at nine.
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B. All the students are looking at the blackboard
carefully. We are learning New Standard
English. Now we are leaving the classroom
and approaching the playground. She
is always thinking of herself.
the uses of the present simple tense
A indicating a permanent state of affairs B
indicating a habit, or something you do regularly
the uses of the present continuous tense
A indicating that something is taking place in
this period of time B indicating that something
is taking place at this moment
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Listening and vocabulary

correction
encouragement
enjoyment
explanation
fluency
misunderstanding
progress
pronunciation
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Listen carefully and answer the following
questions
1. Is Diane studying Chinese? 2. Is Robs
teacher a native speaker of Chinese? 3. Is the
assistant teacher a native speaker? 4. Did the
Chinese teacher encourage the students? 5. Did
he give the students anything to read? 6. Did
Diane understand the level of the class she went
to ?
No, she isnt. Shes studying Spanish.
No, he isnt, but hes fluent in Chinese.
Yes, she is. Her names Miss Wang.
Yes, he did. He made them feel really good.
No, he didnt. He said pronunciation was the most
important thing at the beginning.
No, she didnt. She thought it was for speakers
of Spanish.
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Have a rest!
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Grammar 2SpeakingWriting
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Grammar 2 -ing-ed
Lead in by doing exercises
1. I was ________ when I saw the _______ news.
(exciting excited) 2. The dog was ________ in
playing _________ games, such as playing balls,
wires and plates. (interesting interested)
excited
exciting
interesting
interested
Discovering
Read My First Day at Senior High again and
underline the adjectives with -ing or -ed
endings. After you have found out them try to
find out the different uses of words with
different endings.
The -ing form describes the people or things that
cause the feeling the -ed form tells us how
people feel
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Practice
Read the examples and complete the sentences.
1. bored / boring I wasnt __________ with the
lesson. 2. interested / interesting I was very
__________ in her teaching method. 3. amazed /
amazing The computer screen is absolutely
__________. 4. disappointed / disappointing He
was __________ because Ms Shen wont be the
teacher every day. 5. embarrassed / embarrassing
Group work activities wont make you __________
because you can keep quiet if you want to. 6.
bored / boring The journey home from school was
_______.
bored
interested
amazing
disappointed
embarrassed
boring
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Speaking
Look at the pictures(page7 on textbook) in
Speaking part to find out what the US high school
students do after class.
1. What can you see in the picture and what are
they doing. 2. Is the school similar to ours?
Explain why it is or isnt. 3. Do students at our
school do things like this ? 4. How do you think
about the after-school activities? Are they good
or bad? How can we make best use of after-school
activities.
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Writing
Read this email from an American student in tenth
grade and answer the following questions
1. Who is writing the email? 2. Why is she
writing? 3. What does she remember?
Martha, a 16-year-old girl from new York.
She wants students to tell her about their
memories of their first year at primary(grade)
school.
The smell of wall paint Molly, her friend Miss
Sharps smile.
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Goodbye and good luck!
THANK YOU!