Good morning, distinguished teachers ,welcome to my class. Today we're going to learn Unit One Teenage Life.高考阅读里关于校园生活的话题比比皆是，所以这篇文章的单词、句型都很重要，我们早下手，早准备。Early birds catch the worms.

Learning aim

1.To learn about the students' senior high school life in different countries .

2.To learn the main idea of the text and each paragraph.

Key points and difficulties:

1.To learn about the challenges Adam had and improve the basic reading skills by skimming the text.

2. To finish some basic exercises.

School life in America:

Around 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Students move to different classrooms to have classes.

Go to school clubs or extra-curricular activities after school.

Compulsory courses &optional courses.

Homework mainly contains reading and essays.

School Life in China:

Around 7 a.m. to 6p.m.

Teachers move to different classrooms to teach.

Go home and do homework after school.

13 courses: Chinese, math, English… Homework mainly contains copying and test exercises.

Give you three minutes and read the text quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph.

Paragraph 1:Senior high school is a challenge.

Paragraph 2:

Paragraph3:

Paragraph4:

Listen to this passage carefully.

Now discuss in groups in five minutes. After that I will ask someone volunteers in each group to translate the text and to find out difficult knowledge points which you think are important.

Homework:draw a mind map.