Unit 2 School Life Integrated skills Free talk

Unit 2 School Life Integrated skills

Free talk: 1、How many students are there in our class? 2、How many teachers are there? 3、How long is the summer holiday? We have …off. 4、How much time do you spend on homework every day? I spend…on homework. 5、Do you wear school uniforms? 6、Do you do morning exercises?

A 1 Daniel is writing an article about the different schools. Listen to him introducing Sunshine Middle School and complete the first column in the table below.

Sunshine Middle School Number of students Number of teachers Woodland School Rocky Mountain High School 1, 309 90 Summer holiday 8 weeks Time on homework 3 hours 66 School uniform yes / Morning exercises yes / no

A 2 Sandy is helping Daniel collect information on the Internet about other schools. Listen to their conversation and complete the rest of the table above

Sunshine Middle School Number of students Number of teachers 1, 309 90 Woodland School 308 66 Rocky Mountain High School 1, 215 85 Summer holiday 8 weeks 6 weeks 12 weeks Time on homework 3 hours 2 hours 1 hour School uniform yes / Morning exercises yes / no no

A 3 Help Daniel complete his article with the information in Part A 1 Woodland School is smaller than Rocky fewer Mountain High School. There are ⑴_____ teachers and ⑵fewer ______ students at Woodland School than at Rocky Mountain High School. Sunshine Middle School has ⑶____ the most teachers and students of the three.

Chinese students have more _____ Weeks off for the summer holiday than British students spend ______ less time doing homework than Chinese students. Among the three schools, least time on American students spendthe _____ homework, and they havethe ______ longestsummer the most time holiday. Chinese students spend ______ on homework. They workthe _______. hardest

A 4 Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting online about their schools. Match the sentences with the correct people. Use the information in Part A 1 on Page 25 to help you. Nancy My school has fewer weeks off in the ______: summertime than Daniel’s school. John Students at my school do not wear uniforms. 2. _______: John : I spend less time doing homework than Nancy. 3. _______ 1. Daniel My school has the most students. 4. ______: Nancy My school has the fewest teachers. 5. ______:

Speak up

Speak up : Simon spends the most time on his hobbies The Class 1, Grade 8 students are talking about the time they spend on their hobbies. Work in groups and talk about your hobbies. Use the conversation below as a model.

Listen and answer 1、How much time does Daniel spend on his hobbies? About one hour 2、How much time does Millie spend on his hobbies? Half an hour 3、How much time does Simon spend on his hobbies? Two hours 4. How much time does Amy spend on his hobbies? Half an hour

Language points 1、the number of…意为“……的数量” ，做主语 时，谓语动词用单数形式。 Eg：The number of teachers is two hundred in our school. 辨析：a number of =many …许多，大量，修饰 可数名词复数。 A number of students are planting trees in the park.

2、spend的用法 Spend 意为花费（时间或金钱），过去式为spent. 1、I spent a day visiting Beijing. 2、Susan spent over two hours on her homework yesterday evening. 句型： spend …… on sth spend……（in） doing sth

辨析 spend， pay，take，cost 单词 主语 常用句式 spend 人 ①Sb spend +时间/金钱 on sth ②Sb spend +时间/金钱 （in）doing sth pay 人 Sb +pay+金钱+for sth take it It takes sb +时间+to do sth cost 物 Sth cost (+ sb) +金钱

中考演练 B 1、I ______ 30 dollars on this coat. A cost B spend C pay D take C 300 yuan for the bike yesterday. 2、I ______ A cost B spent C paid D took 3、I bought a new sweater last weekend. It ______ me A 120 yuan. A cost B spend C pay D take D her ten minutes to walk to school. 4、It _____ A costs B spends C pays D takes

3. do morning exercises做早操 do eye exercises做眼保健操 4. My school has fewer weeks off for the summer holiday than Daniel’s. 我的学校比Daniel的少放几 个星期假. have--- off 休息(一段时间) 休息两周 have two weeks off

5. How much time do you spend on your hobbies every day? 你每天在爱好上花多少时间？ 6. I have only half an hour for my hobbies at most. 我最多只有半个小时进行我的爱好。 7. do some reading 阅读