Unit 2 School life Integrated skills Life in

Unit 2 School life Integrated skills

Life in a British school: 1. Which school is Nancy at? She is at Woodland School. 2. What kind of school is Woodland School? It's a mixed school. 3. Which subject does Nancy like best? Why? She likes French best because learning foreign languages is fun. 4. What can students do during the Reading Week? They can borrow more books from the school library. They can also bring in books and magazines from home.

Life in an American school: 1. Which school is John at? He is at Rocky Mountain High School. 2. Who is Tony? He is John's friend in the 12 th grade. 3. What do the students do in the Buddy Club? Older students help new students learn more about the school. 4. What do John and his friends do on Friday afternoon? They often do sports together. 5. How often does John play baseball? Twice a week.

Part A 1: turn to page 25 Daniel is writing an article about different schools. Listen to him introducing Sunshine Middle School and complete the first column in the table below. Daniel is a student at Beijing Sunshine Middle School. During the summer holiday, Daniel and his classmates have 8 weeks off. (to be away from work or school for 8 weeks) They don't need to wear uniforms.

Part 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.

Beijing Sunshine Middle School Number of students 1309 Number of teachers 90 How long is the summer holiday? 8 weeks How much time do students spend on homework every day? 3 hours Woodland School Rocky Mountain High School 308 66 6 weeks 2 hours 1215 85 12 weeks 1 hour Do students wear uniforms? yes / yes Do students do morning exercises? yes / no

1. Which school has the most students, Sunshine Middle School, Woodland School or Rocky Mountain High School? Sunshine Middle School. 2. Which school has fewer teachers, Sunshine Middle School or Rocky Mountain High School? Rocky Mountain High School. 3. Which school's students spend the least time on homework everyday? The students at Rocky Mountain High School.

Part A 3: Help Daniel complete his article with the information in Part A 1. Woodland School is smaller than Rocky Mountain High fewer ( more, fewer, less) teachers and School. There are (1)_______ fewer more, fewer, less) students at Woodland School (2)_______( than at Rocky Mountain High School. Sunshine Middle School has （3）______(more, the most fewer, the most) teachers and students of the three.

more, fewer, less) weeks Chinese students have (4)_______( off for the summer holiday than British students. British less more, fewer, less) time doing their students spend (5)______( homework than Chinese students.

Among the three schools, American students spend (6)_______( the least, few, less) time on homework, and they the longest have （7）______(long/longer/the longest) summer the most holiday. Chinese students spend （8）____(the most, the fewest, the least) time on homework. They work the hardest (9) _____(hard, harder, hardest).

Part A 4: Match the sentences to the correct people 1. My school has fewer weeks off in the summertime than Daniel’s school. 2. Students at my school do not wear uniforms. 3. I spend less time doing homework than Nancy.

4. My school has the most students. 5. My school has the fewest teachers.

1. Do you have any hobbies? What are they? 2. When do you usually do your hobbies? 3. How much time do you spend on your hobbies every day? Hobbies are good for us. They are fun. But we can't spend too much time on our hobbies. we have to do our homework. Sometimes we have to help our parents do some housework, so we can only spend one or two hours a day for our hobbies at most. =∕=at least The Class 1, Grade 8 students are talking about the time they spend on their hobbies. Please listen to their conversation and find out the answers to these questions.

Simon spends the most time on his hobbies How much time does Daniel spend on his hobbies every day? • About an hour. • What about Simon /Amy/ Millie? • Simon--- About two hours • Amy--- half an hour • Millie--- half an hour

Talking about your hobby time: A: How much time do you spend on your hobbies every day, . . . ? B: About …. How about you? C: … And you? D: … Among the four of us, . . . spends the most time on his hobbies, and. . . spends more time on his hobbies than. . .

• 用所给单词的适当形式填空 1. The number of students of my school _____(be) 1500. is fewer 2. His school has _______(few) teachers mine______(I) than less 3. American students spend _______(little) time doing ______(do) homework than Chinese. length 4. The _______(long) of the river is 500 kilometers. least 5. There at _____(little) 1, 500 students in my school.

6. Beijing Sunshine secondary School and Woodland School are not _____(like). like more 7. There are _______(much) bread in the fridge than on the table. 8. Do you like _____(walk) to school walking everyday? 9. 三班的学生比四班的多。 • There are more students in Class 3 than in Class 4. 10. 桌上的面包比冰箱里的少。 There is less bread on the table than in the fridge.

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