READING AND VOCABULARY S (1 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions My First Day at Senior High 1 What are the main differences between Junior High school and Senior High school? y name is Li Kang. I live in 2 Do you think that work at Senior High Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei school is harder than at Junior High school? Province. Today is my first day at 3 Are Senior High teachers similar to Junior s Senior High school and I'm writing High teachers? down my thoughts about it My new school is very good and I 2 Answer the questions about the words can see why. The teachers are ver in the box d friendly and the 10 classrooms are amazing. Every room attitude behaviour a has a computer with a special screen comprehension handwriting almost as big as a cinema screen. The instruction method ph hotograp teachers write on the computer, and spelling textbook eir words appear on the screen 15 behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and information Describe your attitude to studying English. from websites. They're brilliant! Are you(a) enthusiastic? (b)interested? The English class is really interesting (c)not very interested? The teacher is a very enthusiast 2 Describe the general behaviour of your 20 woman called Ms Shen. We're using Junior High class in English lessons. Do a new textbook and Ms Shen's you all (a) work hard in class? (b) behave in a serious and polite manner? (c) sometimes get noisy? 3 Give an example of your English teachers teaching method. Does he /she (a)tell stories? (b) explain grammar? (c) write new words on the blackboard? 4 What do you find most difficult about English? (a)reading comprehension (b) speaking (e) handwriting (d)spelling (e) understanding instructions 5 What's the difference between this textbook and the one you used at Junior High? Think about (a)difficulty (b) photographs (c)reading texts Read the school diary and find 1 something about this school which is different from Li Kangs Junior High school 2 two things that the English teacher thinks are important to do in class 3 two things that the English teacher wants to improve
and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spelling ga and other activities. I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the 40 other students shows that they like her. to method of teaching is nothing like T here are sixty-five students in my that of the teachers at my Junior High class -more than my previous class school. She thinks that reading in Junior High. Forty-nine of them are 25 comprehension is important, but we girls. In other words, there are three speak a lot in class, too. And we have times as many girls as boys. They say fun. I don't think I will be bored in that girls are usually more hard Ms Shen's class working than boys, but in this class everyone is hard-working. For our 50 Today we introduced ourselves to homework tonight, we have to write 30 each other. We did this in groups. a description of the street where we Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly live. I'm looking forward to doing it! 4 Choose the answers with the same meaning as the sentences from the text I Lines 21-24: Ms Shen,s method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High sche 1g (a) My previous teachers' method of teaching is better than that of Ms Shen (b) My previous teachers' method of teaching is different from that of Ms Shen 2 Lines 27-28: I don' t think I will be bored in Ms Shen's class (a)I will find the class interesting! (b) I will find the class difficult 3 Lines 31-32: Some students were embarrassed at first (a) The students stopped being shy eventually. (b) The students couldnt do the activity 4 Lines 33-35: Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves (a) We did everything by ourselves (b) We listened to Ms Shens explanation and then worked with each other
5Read the passage again. Say which words appear in it. amazed amazing bored boring brilliant embarrassed embarrassing enthusiastic exciting hard-working interested interesting 6 Read the three summaries of Li Kang's opinion about the new school Decide which is the best D I Li Kang's new school is very different from his old school. There is new technology and they speak a lot in the English class. Everyone in the class works hard 2 Li Kang is very impressed with the teachers and the technology in his new school The English teachers method is very different from that in his old school and very interesting. The class is bigger and the students work hard D 3 The most important thing about the new school is the technology in the classroom There are more girls than boys in the class. Li Kangs first homework is a description of the street where he lives Work in groups Discuss these questions with other students. I Is your English classroom like Li Kangs? 2 Is your class the same size as his? Is the number of boys and girls the same? 3 Are you looking forward to doing your English homework? GRAMMAR 1 Revision of the present tenses 1 Read the sentences and answer the questions. I Which verbs are in the present simple tense? A I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing B We' re using a new textbook. C The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them D I'm writing down my thoughts about it. 2 Which uses of the present simple tense are they examples of? D indicating a permanent state of affairs I indicating a habit, or something you do regularly B indicating something which is always true(e. g. scientific facts) 3 The verbs in the other two sentences are in the present continuous tense. Which uses of the present continuous tense are they examples of? D indicating that something is taking place at this moment J indicating that something is taking place in this period of time(e.g. this month, this term, this year)
2 Read the passage again. Choose three sentences in the present simple tense and two in the present continuous tense. Say which uses they show LISTENING AND VOCABULARY Complete the chart with the words in the box correction encouragement enjoyment explanation fluency misunderstanding progress pronunciation Noun Adjective correct encourage eNjoy enjoyable exclaim fluent misunderstand progressive pronounce 2 Complete these sentences. Use a suitable form of each word in the box I He isnt Chinese. but he's In Chinese 2 The first lesson was very I liked it a lot! 3 Mr Davies gave us a lot of made us feel really good about being there 4 I think we all made a lot of just an hour 5 The most important thing at the beginning is getting the sounds right 6 He had an interesting attitude to he said it didn't matter if we made mistakes the teacher-I thought the class was for people who already speak Spanish 8 I was a bit disappointed -she everything in English
3 Read the sentences in activity 2 again. Answer these questions. I What do you think the students are doing? Choose from this list. More than one answer may be correct (a) They're talking about a Chinese lesson that they both attended. (b) They're talking about a Chinese lesson that one of them attended (e) They' re talking about different language lessons that they attended 2 What do you think about the lessons they attended? (a) They were both happy with their lessons (b) They were both disappointed with their lessons (e) One was happy but the other was disappointed Now listen to the conversation and check your answers 4 Listen again and answer these questions. Add information. Example: -Is Rob studying Chinese? -Yes, he is. And he thinks it is good to study Chinese I Is Diane studying Chinese? 2 Is Rob's teacher a native speaker of Chinese? 3 Is the assistant teacher a native speaker? 4 Did the Chinese teacher encourage the students 5 Did he give the students anything to read? 6 Did Diane understand the level of the class she went to? 7 Was Rob disappointed with his first lesson? 8 Was Diane excited about her first lesson? GRAMMAR 2 Adjectives ending in -ing and-ed Read My First Day at Senior High again and underline the adjectives with -ing or-ed endings 2 Choose the correct explanation the-ing form describes things; the -ed form describes people the-ing form describes the people or things that cause the feeling; the -ed form tells us how people feel