What do you know about the high school

What do you know about the high school system in the US?

Their classes are lively and interesting．

Their after-school activities are colorful.

Read the letter and answer the questions. Paragraph 1: ① How long does secondary school cover in the US? Seven years. ② Which grades are high school? Ninth to twelfth grades. ③ What do they need if they want to go to college? A high diploma.

Paragraph 2: ① How many semesters are there in the school year? Two semesters. ② What are they? The first of which is September through December, and the second January through May. ③ What is the school schedule? They start at 7: 50 am and they finish at 3 pm.

Paragraph 3: What is the main idea of this paragraph? The student’s after-school activities. Paragraph 4: What is the main idea of the paragraph? The author wants to know something about the Chinese school system.

Read again and answer. ØWhat’s similarity and difference in the American and Chinese school systems? Similarity: A school year is divided into two semesters. Differences: American schools have long vacations.

ØIs the high school diploma useful? Why? A high school diploma is useful for the students who want to go to college.

Read again and fill in the table. Things to compare Chinese US secondary school system Years Ages 11 -16/18 (from…to…) They have to School get diploma First September semester through (time) December Ages 12 -18 They have to get September through January

Things to compare US secondary Chinese school system secondary school system Second semester (time) January February through May through June Football After-school basketball volleyball activity table tennis theater club… Football basketball volleyball tennis …

Things to US secondary compare school system Summer June through vacation August Chinese secondary school system July through August Start at 7: 50 Start at 8: 00 am School schedule am and finish at 5: 00 at 3 pm.

Things US secondary Chinese to school system secondary school compare system Compul- mathematics， Chinese, English, science, art, Mathematics, sory subject English, social biology, science, physical chemistry, education, history, physics, hygiene, safety biology, politics. . .

Things to US secondary Chinese compare school system secondary school system Chinese Foreign Mainly English languages Spanish to choose Russian and so on

3) (钱)够用 e. g. Will 10, 000 dollars cover the bill ______? 1万美元足够付帐吗? 4) 采访……；报道 e. g. I’m covering the election campaign. 我正在报道选举活动。

3. The school year is divided into two semesters, the first of which is September through December… divide（使某物）分割开；分开；分 隔, 常与介词into搭配使用。如：

divide a large house into flats ______________ 把一所大房子分隔成若干套间 divide a novel into chapters ______________ 把一部小说分成若干章节 divide the class into small groups ______________ 把那个班分成几个小组

He went with a group of people, ______were correctly equipped for few of whom such a climb. 他和一组人一起去了, 其中没有几个人配 有进行这样一次登山的适当装备。 The buses, _______were already most of which full, were surrounded by an angry crowd. 公共汽车大多数都已经挤满了人, 它们被 愤怒的人群包围着。

4. I take part in all kinds of after-school activities. take part in指参加会议或群众性活 动, 重在说明句子主语参加该项活动 并在其中发挥作用。 took part in e. g. The teacher ______our discussion yesterday. 昨天老师参加了我们的讨论。

All the children of school-age in our village have _________. attended school 我们村的所有学龄儿童都已上学了。 Did you __________? attend his last lecture 你听他上次讲课了吗？

Work in pairs. Talk about the following questions: 1. Which school system is more interesting and attractive? Why? 2. What do you imagine the perfect school system to be like? If you are the Minister of Education in China, do you think it is necessary to make some changes of the school system? And in what way?