Unit 2 School life
Integrated skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. improve their listening skills of focusing on the unknown information;
2. talk about different school lives using comparatives and superlatives.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: spend, chess, uniform, number of students, do morning exercises,
have ... weeks off, spend time on/doing sth, another half hour, play
chess, at most, do some reading, wear uniforms
2. New structures: Sunshine Middle School has the most teachers and students of the three.
Chinese students have fewer weeks off for the summer holiday than British students.
British students spend less time doing homework than Chinese students.
Among the three schools, American students spend the least time on homework.
They work the hardest.
I have only half an hour for my hobbies at most.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Grasp the listening skills of focusing on the unknown information and catching numbers.
Talk about different school lives, using comparatives and superlatives and certain sentence patterns.
Integrate the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to complete the tasks about school lives.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Comparing schools
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Present the poster of Harry Porter 7 and ask them if they have watched it.
2. Show the photo of Harry’s school—Hogwarts and present some numbers about Hogwarts on
the screen. Illustrate the numbers one by one.
T: This is Harry’s school—Hogwarts. How much do you know about Hogwarts? Here are some numbers about it. Let’s have a look. The first number is about the number of the teachers in Hogwarts. Can you tell me how many teachers are there in Hogwarts? (624)
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T: Pay attention to the word “and” after hundred.
T: The second number is about the classrooms there. (5240)
3. Offer some tips
T: The way we express numbers in English is totally different from that in Chinese. I will show you some tips.
Tip 1: Count from the right side of the number.
Tip 2: Put a comma every three numbers.
Tip 3: Read the first comma as thousand and the second comma as million.
【设计意图】以学生喜爱的哈利波特电影海报导入新课，自然地过渡到哈利波特的学校霍格华茨，呈现两个关于霍格华茨校园生活的数字，引导学生说，练习英文中数字的表达方法。归纳出英语数字的读法和听写的技巧。通过听、说、写数字为接下来的听力做好准备。在知识准备与语言环境两方面都为学生做好铺垫。
Step 2 Listening
1. Prepare for listening
Tell the students that we will talk about some other schools besides Hogwarts. Ask them to read the information form in A1 and tell the class what information they can get from the form. Ask the students to tell us what they still don’t know in the form.
2. Listening
(1) Listen to the article
a. Ask the students to listen carefully to the article about different schools by Daniel and finish the first column in the form. Replay the tape if necessary.
b. Check the answers with the students.
(2) Listen to the conversation
a. Listen to the conversation and complete the rest of the form.
b. Check the answers with the students. Replay the key points to check answers if necessary.
【设计意图】让学生自己阅读A1部分的信息表，引导学生自己说出在这张信息表中能得到什么信息，还有什么信息是在表中无法获得的？如果想获得这些未知信息，在听时应该聚焦哪些关键词？旨在培养学生阅读信息并获取信息的能力，并训练聚焦未知信息关键词的听力技能。
Step 3 Post-listening
1. Ask the students to compare the three schools
A: How many … / How long … / How much time …
B: … (more … than, fewer … than, less … than, the most, the fewest, the least)
2. Ask the student to complete the article in A3 on P17
Ask the students to read the article to check the answers.
3. Ask the students to read the form carefully and finish A4 on P18
【设计意图】让学生就已经完成的三所学校的听力表同桌之间两两进行口头比较，及回顾了语法部分的内容又为接下来的A3书面作业，A4的猜谜游戏，及speak up中的对话打下了基础。训练学生通过阅读掌握信息，并对所获取的信息进行加工处理的能力。
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B Speak up: Simon spends the most time on his hobbies
Step 1 Presentation
1. Ask the students 3 questions about the conversation in “Speak up”. Listen to the dialogue and
answer the following questions.
How much time does Daniel spend on his hobbies every day?
What is Amy’s hobby?
Who spends the most time on hobbies?
2. Read after the tape and practise in groups.
3. Pay attention to the pronunciation, such as linking and loss of blasting. Give students two
examples to understand what is linking and loss of blasting and practise more.
【设计意图】听speak up部分的对话并跟读，目的在于让学生学习地道的英语发音，并注意英语中的词与词之间的连读、失去爆破。这些其实也是听力中的障碍，听说是互相促进的。
Step 2 Make a survey
1. Find out the information
Ask the class to get into groups of two and each member in the group gets a different envelope about a different school in some other countries. Ask the students to read the information about a different school in the envelope. Then they are supposed to ask questions so as to get information from their partner about other schools.
Name of the country
Hogwarts
Brazil
Kenya
Length of School days in a year
210 days
days
days
Number of students in each class
38
Do they wear uniform?
yes
Special or interesting things
We can study magic there.……
2. Finish the survey report
Present the rules of the survey, ask the students to finish their survey report, walk around the class to offer help and check whether every one has obeyed the rules.
3. Sum up
Ask the students to sum up their survey and make a report about it.
【设计意图】
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学生将完成一张世界各地学校的调查表。学生们分成两人一组，每人会得到一个含有不同学校信息的小短文，小组成员独立阅读自己所得到的学校的小短文，并完成信息表中该学校的信息。完成信息后，小组中的成员不允许看他人的信息，利用信息沟之间的信息差，用学过的对话模式询问并获取其它信息，完成调查表。完成调查表后学生独立总结几所学校的信息，进行对比，选出自己最喜爱的一所学校，并陈述原因进行汇报。
V. Homework
Make a survey about at least two friends in other schools and compare them with our own school. Some students will be chosen to make a report in front of the class.
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The information about school life in different countries
This is the information about the school life in Brazil.
Brazil
There are three terms in Brazil’s schools and each term lasts about 14 weeks. Children go to school for about 190 days. The school time in Brazil runs from 7 a.m. to noon, and students usually go home at noon to share lunch with their family. Lunch is the most important meal of the day. Students must wear uniforms at school. In Brazil, P.E. is very important for the students. There are 30 or more students in a class. Most schools have only one or two computers for 30 students to share.
This is the information about the school life in Kenya.
Kenya
Kenya is a country in Africa. The school year in this country is divided into three terms, each 13 weeks long, with one-month breaks in between. Students go to school for about 200 days. School time is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students do not have to wear school uniforms at school. Most classrooms have about thirty students. Most of the classrooms do not have computers. Many schools offer lunch. Because Kenya is very poor, some students save all or part of their lunch to share with their families.
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