[00:07.18]Why don't dogs go to school,Eddie?
[00:12.25]Because we're smarter than people.
[00:16.51]What is school like?
[00:20.17]It's like watching TV,but there are fewer advertisements.
[00:27.12]Reading A School lives
[00:33.88]Mr Wu tells his students to visit the website of an e-friendship club
[00:40.25]called 'Schools Around the World'.
[00:44.20]Two members of the club write about their school lives.
[00:49.55]Read what John and Nancy say about their schools.
[00:54.91]Life in a British school
[00:58.67]Hi everybody
[01:01.83]My name is John.I am in Year 8 at Woodland School near London.
[01:09.09]It is mixed school.Boys and girls have lessons together.
[01:15.65]My favourite subject is Home Economics.
[01:20.40]I like learning learning how to cook and sew.
[01:25.16]I did not know how to do things for myself before I came to this school.
[01:31.22]Now,I know how to cook healthy and tasty meals.
[01:37.07]Our school has a reading week every year.
[01:41.80]My classmates and I love it.
[01:45.77]We can read any books from the school library.
[01:50.73]We can even bring in books and magzines from home
[01:56.30]but we have to tell our English teacher what we are reading.
[02:02.46]Near the end of each class we can talk to our friends about our books.
[02:09.54]The reading week is always too short
[02:14.11]because we want to read all our friends'books as well.
[02:19.76]Life in an American school
[02:23.83]Hi guys
[02:26.99]I'm Nancy and I'm 14 years old.
[02:31.95]I'm in 9th grade at Rocky Mountain Hight School in Denver.
[02:37.52]My brother's name is Jim.He is 17 years old.
[02:43.76]He had driving lessons in school last year.
[02:48.31]Now,he drives me to school every day.
[02:53.45]This is great because it's faster than taking the bus.
[02:58.89]Twice a week,I play softball after school.
[03:03.85]I love this game and I spend a lot of time practicing.
[03:09.70]Every Monday,I go to a 'buddy club'.
[03:14.17]At the buddy club,older students talk to new students about school life.
[03:21.01]I enjoy this a lot.My buddy is Julie.She is a senior in 12th grade.
[03:29.37]She helps me learn all about my new school.
[03:34.02]She helps me with my homework and listens to my problems.
[03:40.19]Julie is my hero.
[03:43.71]During lunchtime,I meet my friends
[03:48.55]and we always have a great time talking to each other.
[03:53.38]Sometimes,we go to shopping malls after school.
[03:58.52]Integrated skills A Comparing schools
[04:05.50]Daniel is writing an article about the different schools for the school newsletter.
[04:14.75]Sandy is helping him collect information on the Internet.
[04:20.02]Listen to their conversation.Help Daniel complete teh table below.
[05:20.78]B Speak up:talking about different schools
[05:26.64]You are talking to your e-friend on the phone.
[05:32.98]Work in pairs.Use John and Daniel's conversation as a model.
[05:40.24]Replace the underlined words with your own information.
[05:45.60]How far do you live from your school?
[05:49.86]About four kilometres.
[05:53.62]Do you walk to school?
[05:57.28]No,I usually take the school bus.And you?
[06:03.62]I usually walk to school because I like walking.
[06:09.19]What if it rains or snows?
[06:13.45]It doesn't snow very often here,and I don't mind the rain.
[06:19.79]Pronunciation Showing surprise
[06:26.06]A Amy and Sandy are talking about their classmate Laura.
[06:32.91]Listen to their conversation.
[06:36.56]Laura hurt her leg on Monday. Oh,really!
[06:41.92]She has to stay in hospital for a month. A month!
[06:47.98]Yes.She won't be able to play basketball for three months. Three months!
[06:55.74]B Listen to the sentences.
[07:00.99]Put a rising arrow( )at the end of the sentence if you think the speaker is surprised.
[07:07.26]Put a falling arrow( ) if you think he/she is not.
[07:12.30]1 Look out the window.It's snowing! Snowing!
[07:19.25]2 Mr Wu is going to be on TV tonight. Mr Wu [07:26.30]3 Joe wants go get a pet monkey. A monkey!
[07:32.96]4 I'm hungry.
[07:37.53]Hungry?You just ate four hamburgers.
[07:43.39]5 We'll have cakes for dinner tonight. Cakes!
[07:49.66]6 Did you hear the news?Liu Mei is going to move to Canada.
[07:56.60]I don't believe it.
[08:00.26]Main task B Ideal school
[08:06.43]B1 Mr Wu asks his students to write to the Schools Around the World Club
[08:15.20]about their ideal schools.
[08:19.46]Here is Daniel's article.Read it with your partner.
[08:25.10]My ideal school
[08:28.97]I like to get up late,so my ideal school starts at 9 a.m.
[08:36.52]It finishes at 3 p.m.
[08:40.88]So we will have a lots of time for after-school activities.
[08:47.44]we have an hour for lunch.There is a big dining hall.
[08:53.92]We can eat lunch and chat there.
[08:58.78]We can also listen to pop music in the hall.
[09:03.63]We eat fruit and vegetables every day.
[09:08.78]We have Maths every day because I think Maths is very interesting.
[09:15.55]I love computers so we have Computer Studies every day before lunch.
[09:22.68]We wear school uniforms,but we do not wear ties.
[09:28.95]The classes are quite small.
[09:32.89]There are about 15 students in each class.
[09:38.66]My ideal school has a park on one side and a shopping mall on the other.
[09:46.92]We have a big library with lots of useful books.
[09:52.88]We also have a tennis court and a swimming pool.
[09:57.92]There are lots of clubs and after-school activities.
[10:03.35]We only have half an hour of homework every day,
[10:08.60]and we do not do homework at weekends.
[10:13.46]Every month,we go on a school trip to a museum or a theatre.
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