【教学过程】

Step 1 Greeting and lead-in

Welcome to our English class. I’m very glad to see you here. It’s the beginning of a new team you have just finished junior school and are about to enter a new period in your studies. In your opinion, what do you think of your school life?

School life: excitement, challenges, success, laughter’s, tears, joys, sorrows, dreams, discoveries, failures.

Step2 welcome to the Unit

T: High school is a time of discovery, learning and hard work. You should cherish the time and make

Progress every day. I can see you’re eager to know what studying at senior high will be like inChina?

Is it different from other countries. Let’s compare them.

In the British High School

In the Chinese High School

1. huge campus and low-rise building

large campus and tall buidings

2. locker for every student

none has such equipment

3. fewer students in each class 40-50-60

4. at ease with teachers

be friendly to each other

step3 Discussion

T: Discuss the three questions on page1

Can you dream of your school life? ( teacher? Students? Classmates?) what characteristics should they have?

Teachers: fair, patient, learned, humorous, co-operative, energetic

Students: diligent, energetic, civilized, polite, competitive, co-operate, open-minded, strong-minded

T: very good. Teachers and students should cooperate with each other

Teacher should love / learn from/ encourage/ understand/ help/ respect

T: only in this way. Can we make progress every day and achieve success. How can we achieve Success?

(courage, belief, luck, diligence, perseverance, intelligence,confidence, competence, cooperation, wisdom, determination)

T: like a scientist bent on making a discovery, we must cherish the hope that one day we will rewarded.

Some useful saying

1. Life is a bumpy road.

2. where there is a will, there is a way.

3. Failure is the mother of success.

Step4 Language points

1.High school is a time of discovery, learning and hard work.

抽象名词time, means, knowledge, collection, 在具体语境中，即后面有of短语或后接一个定语从句，前面要加不定冠词a/an

There was once a time when I hated to go to school.

have a good knowledge of English 精通英语

have a large collection of coins

2.What are some differences between ……?

参考金榜直通P2

补充：tell the difference between A and B= tell A from B

3.What is your dream school like?

What is sth like? 某物是什么样的？

What is sb like? 某人的（性格、外貌....)是什么样的？

What does sb/ sth look like?某人(某物)看起来是什么样的？

How is sth?某物的质量如何？

How is sb?某人的身体怎样？

补充：你觉得…..怎么样？

How do you like/find ……?

What do you think of ……?

What do you like about ……?

发散：like doing/ to do 喜欢做....

Would ike to do 愿意做....

feel like doing 想做.....

Sound like 听起来像......

【二次备课】