differences between high school life and junior school life as well as to identify the differences between school life in different countries.

　　2. To help the students enlarge their vocabulary, especially those related to the topic.

　　3. To develop listening and speaking by talking about life in the new school.

　　4. To enable the students to know how to compare.

　　5. To learn to be cooperative and helpful when working together.

　　重点难点

　　1. To find out the differences of their life between senior high and junior high.

　　2. To learn something about the high school life in the UK.

　　3. To encourage the students to talk about their former school life and about their dream school life.

　　4. To know how to get on well with high school life/study.

　　5. To ensure every student to have a chance to express himself/herself.

　　教学方法

　　1. Discussion in pairs or in groups.

　　2. Task-based in-class activities.

　　3. Explanations of some language points.

　　教具准备

　　A tape recorder and the multimedia.

　　课前准备

　　1. The topics we are going to deal with in our next periods are not only very interesting and attractive, but also a bit challenging as well. Ask the students to prepare for a free-talk for about two or three minutes. They can introduce themselves to their classmates or say something about their junior middle school life, or even make a plan for their high school life. This will help all the students to take part in in-class activities and help them adapt to high school life quickly.

　　2. Encourage the students to prepare for the following topics. It is best for all of us to make preparations first, either by searching for information on the Internet or looking through background information in some books and so on. They can also be divided into several groups to get some information about high school life in different countries as they like.

　　3. Prepare the following questions in advance.

　　Questions:

　　1)Do you know of any differences between the lives of Chinese and British high school students?

　　2)What differences exist between high school life and junior school life?

　　3)What is your dream school life like?

　　4)What should we prepare for the new high school life in order to succeed?

　　5)What can you find in these four pictures?

　　6)How do you find school life in Britain?

　　7)What do you want to know by learning this unit?

　　4. Ask the students to read the following passage to help them know something about high school.

　　High School

High school sounds like a scary time for everybody. But when you really get to high school, it doesn't seem that bad.