Integrated skills

Step 1:Free Talk

Do you have any hobbies?

What is your hobby?

How much time do you spend on your hobbies every week?

play chess

do sports

Step 2: Speak up Listen and ReadMillie : How much time do you spend on your hobbies

every day, Daniel?

Daniel: About one hour. Half an hour for playing computer

games and another half an hour for playing chess.

Millie: Really? I have only half an hour for my hobbies at most.

I often do some reading. How about you ,Simon?

Simon: About two hours for sports. And you, Amy?

Amy: Usually I go swimming for about half an hour.

Millie: OK. Among the four of us, Simon spends the most time

on his hobbies, and Daniel spends more time on his

hobbies than Amy and I.

Read the conversation and answer:

Who spends the most time on his/her hobbies?

Simon

Step 3: Listen and fill in the blanks

the name of school Country

Daniel

Nancy

John

Sunshine Middle schol

Woodland school

Rocky Mountain High school

China

The UK

The USA

Step 4: Comparing schools Beijing Sunshine Middle school

Sunshine Middle School

Number of students

Number of teachers

How long is the summer holiday?

How much time do students spend on homework every day?

Do students wear uniforms?

Do students do morning exercises? yes

1309

90

8 weeks

3 hours

yes

Woodland School and Rocky Mountain High School

Woodland School

Rocky Mountain High School

Number of students

Number of teachers

How long is the summer holiday?

How much time do students spend on homework every day?

Do students wear uniforms? /Do students do morning exercises?

/ no

308

66

6 weeks

2 hours

1215

85

12 weeks

1 hour

no

Read the listening materialSandy: Daniel, here’s the woodland School website. It says here that they have

three hundred and eight students and sixty-six teachers.

Daniel: Rocky Mountain High school is a bit smaller than our school. Their website says that there are one thousand two hundred and fifteen students and eight-five teachers.

Sandy: That’s a lat. It says here that students at Woodland school have six weeks off for the summer holiday. Is it the same in the USA?

Daniel: No. In the USA, they have a twelve-week summer holiday.

Sandy: that’s great! How about homework? Students at Woodland School spend two hours on homework every day.

Daniel: Let me see. Oh ,here it says students at Rocky Mountain High School only spend one hour a day on homework. And they don’t even have to wear uniforms or do morning exercises.

Step 5: Do exercise

Do exercise on P25 A3

Help Daniel complete the article with the information in Part A1

1.fewer 2. fewer 3. the most4.more 5.less 6.the least 7.the longest 8.the most 9.the hardest

Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting online about their

schools. Match the sentences with the correct people.

1 ______: My school has fewer weeks off for the summer

holiday than Daniel’s.

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.

Nancy

JohnJohnDaniel Nancy

1. The number of sth … 的数量 a number of sth=many 许多 eg:There are a number of students in our school.

The number of the students is over 3000.2. have fewer/more weeks off ( 少 / 多 ) 休息几个星期 have + time + off 表示休息多久 We have three days off on May Day. eg: Chinese students have fewer weeks off than American students.3 spend less/more time doing homework 花更少 / 多的时间做作业 spend time on sth /in doing sth. 花时间做某事 eg: I spend half an hour reading English every day. I spend three hours on the picture.4. play chess 下棋 eg: I have an hour for playing chess every day.5. at most 最多 at least 至少 at last 最终，最后 eg:They can make lunch for two thousand students at most.6.wear uniform(s) 穿校服 eg: three men in police uniform 三个穿警服的

人

1. Remember the new words and the language points in this lesson.

2. Recite the conversation in speak up.

调查

Millie spends the most time reading books.

Amy spends the least time reading books.

Who spends the most/least time doing sth?

Daniel spends the most time playing computer games.

Simon spends the least time playing computer games.

Daniel spends the most time playing chess.

Amy spends the least time playing chess.

Simon spends the most time doing sports.

Millie spends the least time doing sports.