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Teaching aims & demands

• 1. Learn some new words and useful expressions.

• 2. Try to master two of the basic reading skills: skimming and scanning.

• 3. Identify the differences between school life in the UK and in China.

What is the biggest difference

between this school and your junior

middle school?

What about school life in other countries?

School life in the UK

Reading strategy —Skimming1. We skim a text when we want to get a general idea of what it is about.2. the title the first and last sentences of each paragraph the first and last paragraphs charts pictures

Try to find the main idea of each paragraph in the shortest time.

school hoursschool hoursattending an assemblyattending an assemblyteachers and classmatesteachers and classmates

homework and subjectshomework and subjectsBritish food and her activitiesBritish food and her activitiesher intentionsher intentions

Skimming

Para.1:Para.2:Para.3:Para.4--6:Para.7:Para.8:

Reading strategy —scanning

1. We scan the text when we want to find certain information in a text quickly.

2. key words and phrases

dates

numbers

Detailed reading for certain information

1.1. What did Wei Hua think of her life in the UK?What did Wei Hua think of her life in the UK?

2. What subjects did Wei Hua study in the past yea2. What subjects did Wei Hua study in the past years?rs?

3. Which British city did Wei Hua go to?3. Which British city did Wei Hua go to?

1.1. What did Wei Hua think of her life in the UK?What did Wei Hua think of her life in the UK?

2. What subjects did Wei Hua study in the past yea2. What subjects did Wei Hua study in the past years?rs?

3. Which British city did Wei Hua go to?3. Which British city did Wei Hua go to?

ScanningScanning

She thought it was a very enjoyable and exciting experience.

Manchester.

English, History, English Literature, Computer Science, Maths, Science, PE, Art, Cooking and French.

4.According to the headmaster, what should the students spend much time on?

5.Why was it a struggle for Wei Hua to remember the names of her classmates?

6.Why did Wei Hua find her homework difficult at first?

4.According to the headmaster, what should the students spend much time on?

5.Why was it a struggle for Wei Hua to remember the names of her classmates?

6.Why did Wei Hua find her homework difficult at first?

They should devote themselves to study.

Yes. Because there were different students in some classes.

Because all the homework was in English.

7. How did Wei Hua manage to improve her English?

8. What do the British like eating at the end of dinner?

She used English every day and spent an hour each day reading English books in the library.

They like to eat dessert at the end of dinner.

Aspects Details

General impression

It was a different but exciting and enjoyable 1.______________

Assembly Students should attend it on the first day and the 2.____________ will tell the rules of the school during that period.

Class Our class is of the 3._______ size; we would never study in a fixed classroom.

Subjects

English I practiced it every day, so it got 4. ________ a lot.

French I had an 5._______ French class on Tuesday evenings.

Cooking I learned a lot and could make delicious cakes.

Selective ones

Students can 6. _______ studying some subjects if they don’t like them.

7._______ It was not heavy but a bit 8.______________

Spare time I played football with others, 9._______ under a tree and went to the Computer Club where I could send e-mails to my family and friends 10._________ of charge.

expericence

headmaster

average

improved

extra

stop

Homework challenging

relaxed

free

Consolidation: Task-based reading

What are the differences in school life

between Chinese students and students

in the UK?

1.Schools start and end at different time.2.Class size is different.3.Chinese students stay in the same classroom with the same classmates while students in the UK move to different classrooms for different classes.4.Students in the UK have practical subjects like cooking and woodwork.5. English students are free to drop the subjects if they don’t like them.6. Chinese students have heavier homework and less free time.