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课件网) Unit 2 School life Period Three Reading 2 通过本节课的学习，同学们将能： 1.熟练掌握文本中重点词汇和短语的用法，并能在不同语境中准确运用这些词汇和短语进行口头及书面表达。 2.学会通过略读获取文章的主旨大意，通过精读理解文章的细节信息。 3.借鉴文本的结构和表达方式，围绕学校生活相关主题介绍学校的基本情况，再分别阐述学校的特色课程、特色活动等内容。 学习目标 Role-play If you were to role-play as Nancy/Tomoya, what would you say to introduce your school to Tomoya Please describe in detail. Discuss Which school life do you like Why 知识讲解 原文再现 Our school is small, so we have fewer students and smaller classes than most schools.和大多数学校相比，我们的学校学生更少，班级规模也更小。 1. fewer数量更少 fewer为比较级，其前还可用 much，even，a little等词修饰，以强调程度差异。如： much fewer students学生数量少得多 even smaller classes班级规模甚至更小 【对点练习】 今年这座城市的游客比去年少得多。 _____ in this city this year than last year. There are much fewer tourists 2. There are many interesting subjects to choose from, such as drama and foreign languages.有很多有趣的科目可供选择，比如戏剧和外语。(原文再现) to choose from修饰subjects，表示这些科目是可供选择的。此处动词不定式作后置定语，此结构中动词不定式与所修饰的名词存在逻辑上的动宾关系。 such as用来列举事物，意为 “例如”，后面直接接所列举的事物。与such as类似的表达还有for example，但for example一般只列举一个例子，且常用逗号与句子其他部分隔开，可置于句首、句中或句末 。For example, he likes playing basketball.例如，他喜欢打篮球。 （1）为了这次派对，我有很多衣服可供挑选。 I have a lot of clothes _____ for the party. （2）我们养了很多宠物，比如狗、猫和兔子。 We have many pets, _____ dogs, cats and rabbits. （3）有些学生，比如汤姆，数学非常好。 Some students, _____, Tom, are very good at math. 【对点练习】 to choose from such as for example 3. To us, learning Chinese may not be as simple as learning French or German, but I am looking forward to having a go.对我们来说，学习中文可能不像学习法语或德语那么简单，但我很期待尝试一下。 （1）“as...as... ”结构表示两者在某方面程度相同，其否定形式为“not as/so + 形容词原级 + as”，意为“一方在某方面不如另一方”。 拓展 “as...as...”结构中间还可加入副词原级，来修饰动词。如： He runs as fast as his brother.他跑得和他哥哥一样快。 （2）look forward to意为“期待”，to是介词，后接名词、代词或动名词形式。 look forward to的同义短语有expect to，be eager to等，但用法上有区别，expect to和be eager to后接动词原形。如： I expect to see you soon.我期待很快见到你。 She is eager to visit the new museum.她渴望参观新博物馆。 【对点练习】 （1）这个包不如那个包贵。 This bag is _____that one. （2）I am looking forward to _____(watch) the new film with my friends. not as expensive as watching 4. Japan is one of the countries with the most earthquakes in the world, so our school offers different safety programmes to teach us how to survive in the face of danger.日本是世界上地震最多的国家之一，所以我们的学校提供了各种安全课程来 ... ...
