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Unit 1 Teenage Life-Reading and Thinking
【教学目标】
1.to learn some useful expressions
2.to learn to talk about freshman challenges and take a positive attitude towards school life
3.to learn the learning strategies
【教学重难点】
1. Develop students’ reading ability such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.
2. Let students talk about their new school challenges in senior high school and encourage them to find the possible solutions to conquer them.
【教学过程】
Step 1 Pre-reading1.what do you want to know about school life
2.What's your biggest challenges of the first week when entering senior high school .....
3.Let students guess what the text will be mainly about before reading by looking at the picture and the title.
Step 2 While-Reading
Task 1. Fast reading1.The passage mainly talks about ___________
A. the importance of taking courses
B. why Adam joined a volunteer club
C. how Adam dealt with the freshman challenge
D. Adam is worried about his advanced courses
2. Match the main idea of each paragraph
Para.1 A. Choose the suitable courses.
Para.2 B. Choose extra-curricular activities.
Para.3 C. Study harder and be responsible for a lot more.
Para.4 D. Senior high school is a challenge.
Tips: you can find main ideas by first taking at quick look at the title, picture, key words and phrases and topic sentences.
Task2. careful reading1.read paragraph1and finish questions1-2
（1）. Adam felt __________at the beginning of his senior high
A. excited B. Interested C. confused D. worried
（2）.What is the challenges for Adam
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2.read paragraph 2 and finish questions3-4
（3）.Which one of the following courses did Adam not choose
A. English B. Chemistry C. World history D. Physics
（4）.Why did Adam’s adviser prefer him to sign up for advanced literature
A. Chinese is a very difficult language
B. He likes English and does well in it
C. He likes Chinese and he is good at it
D. Advanced literature is an important courses.
3. read paragraph3and finish questions5-6
（5）.Why did Adam fail in joining in the school football team
A. His coach thought that he didn’t play well enough.
B. He had his leg injured and had to give up.
C. his classmates thought that he did badly in football
D. He wanted to join other clubs.
（6）.What did Adam do after he was refused by the football coach
A. He quitted school and became a cook in a soup kitchen.
B. He joined a basketball club instead.
C. he became an actor in a film industry.
D. He joined a volunteer club.
4. Read paragraph4and finish questions 7-9
（7）.Read the sentences below and decide they are ture or false
①.Adam will have to study harder as a senior high school student( )
②.Adam is unhappy to be here.( )
③.Studying hard is always fun for Adam.( )
（8）.In the end, what is Adam's feeling for future
A. worried B. confident C. confused D. anxious
（9）. What kind of person is Adam
A. brave and well prepared B. negative and silly
C. active and shy D. gentle and patient
5. read the text silently and then finish the chart .
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Step 3 Passage Consolidation
Complete the passage with the suitable words from the passage.
I'm Adam, 1._______freshman in senior high school. The first week was a little 2._____ (confuse).There are some 3. _____ (challenge) I have to face in my new school life. First, I had to think carefully about my courses. Chinese is hard to learn, but I hope I can speak it_____ (fluent) when I graduate. My adviser 5. _____ (recommend) me to sign up for advanced literature because I'm good 6. _____it. Second, I had to choose my extra-curricular activities. I tried 7. _____ (join) the school football team though I couldn't do well in 8. _____at first. Besides that, I joined a volunteer club. In order to be well 9. _____ (prepare) for university or whatever else10. _____ (come)in the future, I make up my mind to study harder and get used to new situation.
Post reading
Step4 What do you think a senior high school student should do when entering senior high school
First of all /firstly, be confident, be positive, be adapt to Secondly, make friends
Thirdly , develop good habits ,make good use of time ,join in,.......Step5 Homework
Write a passage to introduce you first senior school challenges and how tosolve them. (about 120words)名言潮语：
1．Goals determine what you are going to be.目标决定你将成为什么样的人。
2．Learn young，learn fair.学习趁年少，而且要学好。
3．Youth should be energetic，be aggressive.青年应当有朝气，敢作为。——Lu Xun
4．An idle youth，a needy age.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
5．It's never too old to learn.活到老，学到老。哲理故事
Your time is one of the most precious things you have. Keep that in mind when choosing how to spend your time. Tomorrow can be improved as a result of the way you use your time today. By using your time wisely，you can transform the richness of this moment into richness that continues in your life for years to come.
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Being a teenager can be challenging, but it can also be exciting. You're becoming more independent and making decisions for yourself. You are also learning to take risks and solve problems better. And changes are happening throughout your body，even in your brain. The changes in your brain are influencing how you develop into an adult. Imagine the structure(结构) of your brain is like a big road map. Lots of roads lead to different destinations(目的地)．When you were a child, as you learnt new things，your brain created more and more roads to different destinations. By the time you become a teenager，many different roads lead to the most important places on the map. Now your brain's job is to make.
As a result，your experiences as a teenager actually influence the way that your brain develops. If you spend hours playing videogames，what skills do you use？You learn to see something with your eyes and respond to it with your hands. As you develop those skills，your brain is making sure that the roads leading to them are especially fast and efficient. So，your videogame playing could be preparing you for a career such as a pilot. The changes in your brain are influencing how you develop into an adult. Imagine the structure(结构) of your brain is like a big road map. Lots of roads lead to different destinations(目的地)．When you were a child, as you learnt new things，your brain created more and more roads to different destinations. By the time you become a teenager，many different roads lead to the most important places on the map. Now your brain's job is to make that map more efficient. This is a great time for you to practice new skills and discover what you're good at and try what you love doing.
Go out and try different activities，and stick to them if you think they're useful. Remember that with everything you do，you're shaping your brain for the future.

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