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B1 U1
Back to school
Welcome & Reading
How did Riley feel about starting school?
头脑特工队(Inside out)
How did you feel on your first day at Senior High school?
excited
happy
other …
curious
nervous
proud
How do Wendy and Stephen think of their new school life?
How do Wendy and Stephen think of their new school life?
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How do Wendy and Stephen think of their new school life?
Art Club
very excited
English and physics
Lead-in
How do you think senior high school will be different from junior high school?
advanced facilities
new teachers
more subjects
study pressure
more friends
various activities
1.What is your impression of senior high school life?
2. In your opinion, senior high school is a time of__________.

discovery
enjoying
learning
challenging
developing
……
Free-talk
！！
senior high school is a time of...

discovery
learning
- knowledge of
different subjects
- by joining various school clubs and activities
Chinese
Math
English
Biology
History
Physics
Chemistry
Music
PE
Realizing your potential
A principal’s speech transcript
Pre-reading
A speech is a formal talk that a person gives to an audience. A good speech keeps the audience interested all the time. To achieve this, the speaker may tell interesting stories or speak questions. A good speech also uses quoations and such rhetorical devices as metaphor, repetition and parallelism.
What is a speech?
Pre-reading
Understanding a speech
A speech by the principal on the first day of a term.
What do you think the principal will talk about in his speech?
Prediction
Read the speech transcript and find the topic sentence .
Para. 1
Welcome to senior high school!
Para. 2

Para. 3

Para. 4

Para. 5

Para. 6

I can’t wait to describe to you what senior high school life is like.
Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough.
To fully realize your potential, it is important for you to make the most of our school resources.
Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude.
You alone are responsible for realizing your great potential.
Fast-reading
welcome the audience
introduction
description
definition
describe the school ife
what is potential?
how to realize your potential
advice
encouragement and expectation
conclusion
Para. 1
Welcome to senior high school!
Para. 2

Para. 3

Para. 4

Para. 5

Para. 6

I can’t wait to describe to you what senior high school life is like.
Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough.
To fully realize your potential, it is important for you to make the most of our school resources.
Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude.
You alone are responsible for realizing your great potential.
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Analyze the structure of the speech
(Para. 1) Hello, everyone! Welcome to senior high school! Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a promising future.
大家好！欢迎进入高中阶段学习！今天，是新学期的开始，是一段三年旅程的开端，更是一个锦绣前程的起点。
Detailed-reading
Para 1
Para 1: Welcome to senior high school!
Today is the start of ______________________,
the start of ______________________,
the start of ______________________.
a new term
a three-year journey
a promising future
A new term
Senior high school
A promising future
Parallel structures use the same pattern of words or sentences. They can add balance to sentences and make the language more powerful and effective.
Detailed-reading
(Para. 2) I can’t wait to describe to you what senior high school life is like. The path before you leads to a world full of challenges: a new environment, new knowledge and new ways of thinking. However, for those of you with a positive mind, opportunity lies in each challenge. When you rise to the challenges, you will have the opportunity to acquire great knowledge and enjoy personal growth. Most importantly, your time and effort at senior high school will open the door to your potential.
Para 2
(Para. 2) I can’t wait to describe to you what senior high school life is like. The path before you leads to a world full of challenges: a new environment, new knowledge and new ways of thinking. However, for those of you with a positive mind, opportunity lies in each challenge. When you rise to the challenges, you will have the opportunity to acquire great knowledge and enjoy personal growth. Most importantly, your time and effort at senior high school will open the door to your potential.
我迫不及待地想要向你们描述高中生活的模样。你们面前的路通向一个充满挑战的世界，这里有新环境、新知识和新的思维方式。不过，对你们当中心态积极的人来说，每一个挑战中都蕴藏着机遇。在迎接挑战的时候，你们将有机会掌握大量的知识，并享受个人的成长。最重要的是，你在高中阶段度过的时光、付出的努力将会为你叩开潜能的大门。
Opportunity
A positive mind
Challenges
Potential
acquire great knowledge and enjoy personal growth
will be realized with
your time and effort
a new environment， new knowledge and new ways of thinking
Para 2: what senior high school life is like
Detailed-reading
(Para. 3) “What is potential?”you may ask. Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough. Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create, what medical advances you will make or what amazing technologies you will develop! The possibilities are endless, and I have confidence in your ability to make a difference to your family, to your community and to our country. Over the next three years, you will discover your potential while you develop as a student and as a person.
Para 3
Para 3
◆ What is potential?
Para 3：The definition of potential
Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough.
◆ Please translate and recite：
Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create,
what medical advances you will make or
what amazing technologies you will develop!

Detailed-reading
◆ Why does the principal ask and answer a question in Para 3?
Para 3：The definition of potential
To attract the readers’ attention and arouse their interest by asking and answering a question in such a way.
Rhetorical devices
修辞手法
Detailed-reading
/r??t?r?k(?)l/
(Para. 3) “What is potential?”you may ask. Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough. Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create, what medical advances you will make or what amazing technologies you will develop! The possibilities are endless, and I have confidence in your ability to make a difference to your family, to your community and to our country. Over the next three years, you will discover your potential while you develop as a student and as a person.
(Para. 3) “What is potential?”you may ask. Put simply, potential is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough. Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create, what medical advances you will make or what amazing technologies you will develop! The possibilities are endless, and I have confidence in your ability to make a difference to your family, to your community and to our country. Over the next three years, you will discover your potential while you develop as a student and as a person.
你们也许会问：“什么是潜能？”简而言之，潜能就是当你足够努力时才可以开发的天赋。谁知道未来你们能创作出哪些精美的艺术品，实现哪些医学突破，或者开发出哪些不可思议的技术！可能性无穷无尽，而且我相信你们有能力改变你们的家庭、改变你们的社区、改变我们的国家。在今后的三年里，你们作为学生和个体成长的同时，将会发现自己的潜能。
(Para. 4) To fully realize your potential, it is important for you to make the most of our school resources. Take advantage of your classes, learn from your teachers and classmates, and make use of our school facilities. There are also a lot of school activities for you. Join a club or two, and take an active part in different sports.
Para 4
◆ What school resources are mentioned
in this part?
Para 4: Make the most of school resources.
School resources:
classes
teachers & classmates
school facilities
school activities
Detailed-reading
(Para. 4) To fully realize your potential, it is important for you to make the most of our school resources. Take advantage of your classes, learn from your teachers and classmates, and make use of our school facilities. There are also a lot of school activities for you. Join a club or two, and take an active part in different sports.
(Para. 4) To fully realize your potential, it is important for you to make the most of our school resources. Take advantage of your classes, learn from your teachers and classmates, and make use of our school facilities. There are also a lot of school activities for you. Join a club or two, and take an active part in different sports.
要想全面发挥自己的潜能，充分利用我们学校的资源很重要。要让学校课程为你所用，要向老师和同学请教，要善用学校的各种设施。学校还为你们准备了许多活动。要加入一两个俱乐部，并且积极地参与各项体育运动。
(Para. 5) Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude. Carefully plan your study, set clear goals and balance your schoolwork with other activities. As a senior high school student, you must make efforts to improve your communication and problem-solving skills. Last but not least, always look on the bright side and never lose hope, even in difficult situations. In time you will find yourself growing into a well-rounded individual.
Para 5
Para 5: Ways to realize potential
good study
habits
useful skills
A positive attitude
_________your study, _______clear goals and ________ schoolwork with other activities.
Plan
set
balance
__________ the communication and problem-solving skills.
Improve
____________ the bright side and never __________ hope in difficult situations.
Look on
lose
Detailed-reading
(Para. 5) Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude. Carefully plan your study, set clear goals and balance your schoolwork with other activities. As a senior high school student, you must make efforts to improve your communication and problem-solving skills. Last but not least, always look on the bright side and never lose hope, even in difficult situations. In time you will find yourself growing into a well-rounded individual.
(Para. 5) Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude. Carefully plan your study, set clear goals and balance your schoolwork with other activities. As a senior high school student, you must make efforts to improve your communication and problem-solving skills. Last but not least, always look on the bright side and never lose hope, even in difficult situations. In time you will find yourself growing into a well-rounded individual.
同样重要的还有良好的学习习惯、实用的技能以及积极的态度。要细致规划学习，设立清晰的目标，并且平衡好课业和课余活动的关系。作为一个高中生，须努力提高人际沟通和解决问题的技巧。最后但同样重要的是，要一直看到事情好的一面，即便身处困境，也永远不要失去希望。最终，你会发现自己已逐渐成长为一个全面发展的人。
①Of equal importance are good study habits, useful skills and a positive attitude. ②[Carefully plan your study, set clear goals and balance your schoolwork with other activities.]③[As a senior high school student, you must make efforts to improve your communication and problem-solving skills.]④[Last but not least, always look on the bright side and never lose hope, even in difficult situations.]⑤In time you will find yourself growing into a well-round individual.
Structure of para. 5:
topic sentence
supporting sentences (②③④)
concluding sentence
TS-SS-SS-SS-CS
/r??pet?t?v/
How does the principal link one paragraph to the other ?
Read for struture: Paras. (2-5)
Tips: pay attention to some repetitive words or phrases.
/r??pet?t?v/
Links between paras. (2-5)
...open the door to your potential.
“What is potential?” you may ask...
To fully realize you potential, it is important to...
Of equal importance are good study habits...
Para. 2:
Para. 3:
Para. 4:
Para. 5:
(Para. 6) As Lao-Tzu wisely said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” You need to make a continuous effort to train your mind and develop your character. Senior high school will help you learn and grow, yet you alone are responsible for realizing your great potential. Be confident, do your best and make us proud!
Para 6
Para 6
◆ How do you explain what Lao?Tzu said?
A．Better late than never.
B．Keep feet on the ground and make progress step by step.
C．The more you study, the more you will find yourself ignorant.
D．Talents come from diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation.

Para 6: Express expectations
Detailed-reading
(Para. 6) As Lao-Tzu wisely said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” You need to make a continuous effort to train your mind and develop your character. Senior high school will help you learn and grow, yet you alone are responsible for realizing your great potential. Be confident, do your best and make us proud!
(Para. 6) As Lao-Tzu wisely said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”You need to make a continuous effort to train your mind and develop your character. Senior high school will help you learn and grow, yet you alone are responsible for realizing your great potential. Be confident, do your best and make us proud!
正如老子睿智的箴言所说的那样：“千里之行，始于足下。”你们要坚持不懈，努力去训练自己的头脑、培养自身的性格。高中阶段会帮助你们学习、成长，但是只有你们自己，才能肩负起发挥自身巨大潜能的责任。满怀信心，竭尽全力，让我们为你们感到骄傲吧！
Understanding the language style of the speech
Para. 1: Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a promising future.
Para. 2: Most importantly, your time and effort at senior high school will open the door to your potential.
◆What techniques does the principal use?
parallel
structure
Post-reading
metaphor
Understanding the language style of the speech
Para. 3: “ What is potential?” you may ask.
Para. 6. As Lao-Tzu wisely said, “ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
◆What techniques does the principal use?
asking questions
Post-reading
quotation
What makes a good speech?
keep the audience interested
Interesting stories
/Ask questions
quotations
(引语)
rhetorical
devices
(修辞)
Parallelism
(排比)
metaphor
(比喻)
To inspire
To encourage
To guide
To motivate
The principal means to welcome the students to a new stage of life and prepare them for developing their potential to the full at senior high school.
Post-reading
◆Understanding the purpose of the speech
Consolidation
Building your language
B1 Maggie, a new student, wrote about her first day at senior high school. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below.
challenge confidence acquire rise to
effort responsible balance take advantage of
I’ve just finished my first day of senior high school and I really enjoyed it. I’ve been told that schoolwork will present more of a(n) __________ in the years ahead, and that the teachers will hold us to higher standards. This means I’ll have to put a lot of __________ into my studies. I’ll also need to be very careful about __________ my schoolwork and hobbies. This is all quite new and different from my life at junior high school, but I’m sure I’ll _________ all these challenges. In fact, I’m looking forward to being more

challenge
effort
balancing
rise to
Consolidation
Building your language
B1 Maggie, a new student, wrote about her first day at senior high school. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below.
challenge confidence acquire rise to
effort responsible balance take advantage of
independent and ____________ for my own learning. There is so much knowledge I need to __________, so I’ll work harder than ever. I also plan to ____________________ every opportunity to improve my communication skills. I’ll make more friends by joining some clubs. I have ______________ in my ability to do well at senior high school!
responsible
acquire
take advantage of
confidence
-ful
-less
-ive
-ous
-ful
useful, beautiful, hopeful, helpful, careful, meaningful, successful, colourful, wonderful, powerful...
-less
endless, priceless, careless, meaningless, jobless, homeless, fearless, useless, harmless...
-ive
active, attractive, protective, impressive, creative,
effective...
-ous
continuous, various,
nervous, famous, humorous, dangerous
Study without thinking leads to confusion;
thinking without study ends in puzzlement.
— Confucius
Welcome Back to school
wish you good luck and success
in your first year of high school!
Thank you !

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