My First Day at Senior High,Section 1,Questions,1. Whats your new senior high school?2. Do you like the school? Why?3. How many students are there in your new class?4. Do you have great confidence to learn English well?,vocabularyTurn to page 113， and study the vocabulary list for Unit one, paying attention to the relationship between the spelling and the pronunciation.,Do you know all of them?,biologychemistryEnglishJapanesegeographyRussian,ChinesemathematicsphysicsPE (Physical Education)historyIT (Information Technology),Discussion,How many of the subjects are science subjects?Which of the science subjects do you study at your school?How many of them are languages?Which languages do you study at your school?Which of them are not academic subjects?Which are your three favorite subjects?,Complete the sentences with a subject and a reason.,I like because .I think is important because .I think is difficult because .I would like to study because .,Discussion,What are the main differences between Junior High school and Senior HIgh school?Do you think that work at Senior High school is harder than at Junior High school?Are Senior High teachers similar to Junior High teachers?,Answer the questions and guess the meaning of the key words.,Describe your attitude to studying English. Are youenthusiastic?interested?not very interested?,Describe the general behaviour of your Junior High class in English lessons. Do you allwork hard in class?behave in a serious and polite manner?sometimes get noisy?,Give an example of your teachers teaching method. Does he/shetell stories?explain grammar?write new words on the blackboard?,What do you find most difficult about English?reading comprehensionspeaking (c)handwriting(d)spelling(e)understanding instructions(f),Whats the difference between this textbook and the one you used at Junior High? Think about (a)difficulty (b)photographs (c)reading texts.,Match the words with their definitions,attitudebehaviourhandwritingmethodtextbook,a book used for the study of a subject in schoolthe particular way someone writes using a penway of doing somethinga way of feeling or thinking about someone or somethingway of acting in a particular way,Match the words with their definitions,comprehensioninstructionphotographspelling,a photothe action of forming words correctly from letters, or the ability to do thisan orderthe act of understanding or ability to understand,1.He is rude to others. Nobody likes his _2. He teaches by telling stories, and all of us enjoy his teaching _3. While listening, you d better catch the key words. It can help you with _.4. In everyday life, we should behave ourselves, for our _ can show whether we are well educated.,Reading Activity!,Skimming,Skim: Find out the topic sentence of the text.,Scanning:,After reading, answer the following questions.1) Which city does Li Kang come from?2) What about his classrooms? What are there in the classrooms?3) Is his English teacher excellent? Why?,read the school diary and find,something about this school which is different from Li Kangs Junior High school.two things that the English teacher thinks are important to do in class.two things that the English teacher wants to improve.,Discussion:Read the text again and put the following statements in the right order.,The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing.My name is Li Kang.My new school is very good and I can see why.The English class is really interesting.Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting.There are sixty-five students in my class-more than my previous class in Junior High.I like her attitude very much.,2.My new school is very good and I can see why. 4.The English class is really interesting. 1.My name is Li Kang. 6.Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. 3.The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing. 8.There are sixty-five students in my class-more than my previous class in Junior High.5.The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.7.I like her attitude very much.,Choose the answers with the same meaning as the sentences from the text.,1.Lines 21-24: Ms shens method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High school.A. My previous teachers method of teaching is better than that of Ms ChenB. My previous teachers method of teaching is different form that of Ms Shen.,2. Lines 27-28: I dont think I will be bored in Ms Shens class!A. I will find the class interesting!B. I will find the class difficult!,3. Lines 31-32: some students were embarrassed at firstA. The students stopped being shy eventually.B. The students couldnt do the activity.,