Reading and vocabulary.

My first day at senior high

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Self- introduction Name, place

My new schoolTeachers,Classrooms,Screens

English class Teacher, teaching method, activities

Classmates,

Homework

Quantity of students,description

•Points in the reading material

作同位语的几种形式：1.My deskmate Tom is a nice guy.

( Tom 这个名词，作 deskmate 的同位语）

2. My job ， to teach English ， is amazing .

(to teach English 是 job 的同位语 )

3. They all / both enjoy reading a lot .

4. The news that we won 47 gold medals excited us a lot .

5.The teacher wants to have a talk with you two.

Points in the reading material 1.I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing.eg.

Do you live far away from our school?

far from doing sth. ( 不但 ) 不做…… ( 反而…… )

Far from being kind, he was most cruel.

far from 根本不The war is far from over.

She is far from beautiful.

2. write down…= set down… 写下… 记下 ... It’s all written down in the notebook.

It’s all set down in the notebook.3. Every room has a computer with a special

screen , almost as big as a cinema screen. 同级比较句型： 1 ） . 若表示双方的程度一样时，用 as + adj / adv( 原级 ) + as … eg. Our school is as good as Li Kang’s. He is as handsome as his father. He works as hard as his classmates.

2). 若表示双方的程度不同时， 用 not … so / as + adj / adv + as… 结构 eg. I’m not so tall as most of you.

I’m not as tall as most of you.

We can’t speak English as fluently as the natives .

4.Her teaching method is nothing like that of the teachers at my

Junior High school . 1 ） . be / look nothing like… not at all like / totally different from … 根本不像… 完全不像 …eg. Though they’re twins ， he looks nothing like his twin brother. mine.2 ） . not at all ， not nearly 根本没有… 完全不… eg. I had nothing like enough money to pay for a bicycle. She had nothing like enough courage to say “no”.

that 常用来代替前面提到过的抽象名词， 如：人口，故土面积， 天气，方法，风

格等。 eg.

1 ） The weather here is hotter than that of

Shandong province.

2 ） The population of China is much

larger than that of any other country

on earth.

3 ） Ms Shen’s teaching mothod / style is

different from that of my former

teachers.

5.And we have fun.

fun ，为不可数名词，在应用时要注意。 eg.1).We had a lot of / much fun at

yesterday’s get-together. 2). “ What fun ! ” she said with a laugh. 3). It’s not fun going to a party alone . 4). What do you think of a trip to the

countryside? Sounds like fun !

关于 fun 的惯用表达法：1 ） . Have fun ! Enjoy yourself! 尽情玩儿吧！2 ） do… for fun. 为好玩而做…

do … just for the fun of it .eg. I attend the dancing class just for the fun of it . 3 ） make fun of sb/sth .eg. Never make fun of disabled people .偶尔， fun 也作形容词，例如： we do this in a fun way. She’s really fun to be with.

6. I don’t think I will be bored in …

这个句子中， 我们要注意两点： A : 否定前移： think / believe / suppose / expect…

eg. We don’t think you’re wrong.

I can’t believe he passed the test easily..

若是反意问句，要注意： eg. 1).I don’t believe they have finished their work ， ______________ ? 2). You don’t suppose I’ve ever made many silly mistakes ， ___________ ? 3). They didn’t expect we had won 47 medals ， _____________ ? 4). We don’t think you made it by yourself ， _______________ ?

结论 :主句主语是第一人称时，反意问句部分决于从句；主句主语是第二，三人称时，反意问句部分决于主句。

have they

do you

did they

did you

3). 倍数表达三结构：

A: 倍数 + as + adj / adv （原形） + as…

• as + adj. +a + n. + as….• Tom is as smart a boy as Jerry.

• as + many / much +n. + as…• as + few / little + n. + as …. size lengthB: 倍数 +the depth + of… weight height

eg.

1. The earth is 49 times the size of the moon.

2. The passage is 3 times the length of the one

we learned yesterday.

C: 倍数 + adj / adv ( 比较级 ) + than…

eg.

1. Draw a line 3 times longer than that one .

2. He has mastered twice more words than

she has .

7 . introduce A to B .

8 . at first / at the beginning

9 . … and then we worked by ourselves.

do… by oneself.

10. in other words

11. I’m looking forward to doing it .

My Name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and I'm writing down my thoughts about it.

My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers are very__________and friendly and the classrooms are__________ . Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the computer, and their words __________on the screen behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and___________ from__________ . They're__________ !

enthusiastic

amazing

websitesinformation

brilliant

appear

The English class is really interesting. The teacher is a very__________ woman called Ms Shen. We're using a new textbook and Ms Shen's__________ of teaching is nothing like ________ of the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading__________ is important, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don't think I will be__________ in Ms Shen's class!Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were__________ at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us__________ and then we worked by ourselves.

enthusiastic

method

comprehension

bored

embarrassed

instructions

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Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities. I like her__________ very much, and the__________ of the other students shows that they like her, too.There are sixty-five students in my class—more than my__________ class in Junior High. Forty-nine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys, but in this class, everyone is hard-working. For our homework tonight, we have to write a__________ of the street where we live. I'm looking forward to doing it!

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I’m Li kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city __________ Beijing. Today is my first day at senior high and I’m __________ my thoughts about it.

My teachers are very enthusiastic. The classrooms are amazing. Every room has a computer with a screen which is __________ a cinema screen.

Ms Shen is my English teacher. Her teaching method is __________ that of my previous teachers. We had fun in her class, that is to say, we learn English ___________.

not far fromwriting down

as big as

nothing like

in a fun way

There are sixty-five students in my class, among which there are forty-nine girls. In other words, girls are threes times __________ boys. All my classmates are working hard.

As for homework tonight, we have to describe the streets where we live. I’m _______________ doing it!

as many as

looking forward to

My Name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and I'm writing down my thoughts about it.My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers are very__________and friendly and the classrooms are__________ . Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and__________ from__________ . They're__________ !The English class is really interesting. The teacher is a very__________ woman called Ms Shen. We're using a new textbook and Ms Shen's__________ of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading__________ is important, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don't think I will be__________ in Ms Shen's class!Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were__________ at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us__________ and then we worked by ourselves.Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities. I like her__________ very much, and the__________ of the other students shows that they like her, too.There are sixty-five students in my class—more than my__________ class in Junior High. Forty-nine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys, but in this class, everyone is hard-working. For our homework tonight, we have to write a__________ of the street where we live. I'm looking forward to doing it!

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amazing

information websites brilliantenthusiastic

methodcomprehension

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