2022年高中英语Unit1SchoolLifeReadingSchoollifeintheUK1Aims and requirements Read a magazine article about school life in the UK and two other articles about school clubs Listen to a headmaster talking about school activities Discuss daily school life with your class partner Report your school activities to your class teacher Write a poster for a new school clubProceduresReading School life in the UKStep1: Leading-in Do any of you happen to have had the chance to go on a tour in the UK or have taken part in some exchanging programmes? Please bring some photos to school to pass them around and make brief descriptions of the photos. You can use the information to discuss the difference and try to think of the reasons for these differences.Step2: Fast reading for general ideasGo through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A. You need only focus on and identify the most important information.1.How long did Wei Hua stay in Britain? (For one year )2.What was the name of Wei Huas Class teacher? (Mr Heywood)3.What did Wei Hua make in her Woodwork class? (A small table)Step3: Detailed reading for important information1. Dealing with C1 and C2Now reread the passage and plete Part C1 and C2 individually. Questions in Part C1 are to check your ability to read and locate specific information. Statements in Part C2 serve as a strengthening activity for your prehension of this passage. AnswersC1 1. School begins at around 9 a.m. 2. 293. Because all the homework was in English 4. She had an extra French class5. Lots of desserts 6. ManchesterC2 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. T 7. F2. Dealing with specific aspects Go through the article first and find out what topics are covered in it. Some aspects that reflect school life in the UK are mentioned in Wei Huas letter. Try to find out what specific aspects are mentioned and then fill in the form with relevant information.Are the following aspects of school life mentioned in the article?teachers, classmates, friends, subjects,homework/assignments, grades, timetable,activities, school facilities, host family, food,hobbies, customs, traditions, festivals3. Focus on the two exercises Now weve found out the most important information and got the main idea of the article. But Im curious about the reading method you use when reading the article. Can you tell me how you find the main idea in such a shorttime? Do you think you have to read the whole article slowly and carefully in order to get a brief understanding of it?4. Dealing with D and Eplete Parts D and E individually first and then well check the answers together. Part D helps you prehend the meanings of the words from the context and match them with the correct definitions; while Part E is a letter from a British student who wants to make friends with Wei Hua. Youve got to first understand the letter and then fill in the blanks with proper words.AnswersD 1 d 2 g 3 a 4 e 5 b 6 c 7 fE (1) experience (2) Literature (3) desserts (4) headmaster (5) different (6) life (7) preparingAnswersPart A1 (page 78)1 enjoyable 3 challenging 5 fun 7 exciting2 experience 4 e-mails 6 drop 8 helpfulPart A2 (page 78)1 with 3 like 5 On 7 at2 to at 4 to at 6 for about 8 On onStep4: Post-reading1. Suppose you have a chance to interview Wei Hua. Apart from the things you have been told, what other information would you like to know about her life and study in the UK? (The teacher can fire students imagination with the following) So far we ourselves havent had the opportunity to go abroad to experience a foreign way of life. We are very happy today to have a student here who has just finished one year of study in the UK. Now you can all ask her some questions.2. Suppose you are asked to write an article about the differences between high schools in the UK and in China. What kinds of differences will be dealt with in your article? ( The teacher can give some hints if necessary: timetable, subjects, teachers and students, size of the classroom, campus, school facilities, atmosphere, teaching methods, school rules and principles)3. Write a summary of the article written by Wei Hua.4. Read the two articles in Reading on pages 82 and 83 in Workbook and answer the questions below them, so that you can find more about school life in other countries. (They can also do this as their homework.)5. For the article in Part A, more questions will be asked to test your understanding of some new words. For example: What does the phrase school uniforms mean? What kinds of clothes are fashionable? What clothes are leisure clothes?6. For the article in Part B, Ive got two sentences for you to finish.1) When yo