Unit 2 Roads to education 同步课文资料

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 Unit 2 Roads to education 同步课文资料 Objectives A. Reading and interaction ·Express your personal views on education based on the passage B. Grammar activity ·Use the verb-ing and verb-ed forms as the attributive correctly in the given context C. Listening and speaking ·Evaluate benefits of play on physical or mental health and school performance D. Writing ·Write a for and against essay about the length of English classes using appropriate language and format E. Cultural focus ·Interpret the ways people influence each other’s decisions ·Describe student life at an American high school A.Reading and interaction Pre-reading activity 1.Look at the photo and answer the questions. What is this place?Is it a place for working or learning? 2.Look at the title.Then study the two phrases below and guess their meanings.Predict what the passage is about. ·the unteachable ·Schoolteacher of the Year An experiment in education The best programme on TV last night was the first episode of a new series about education, and it was set on a farm. But this farm is not for animals: it’s for children. The farm has been converted into （convert… into 使转变；把…转化成）a school for one class of difficult students. And it’s the job of one man to try and teach these students something in he two weeks when they are there. The class is a group of 16 boys and girls, aged 13 and 14, who have all been expelled from(be expelled from…被开除;expelled是expel的过去分词) schools at least once. Their previous teachers said that they were “unteachable” and, judging by their behaviour in the programme last night, it isn’t hard to see why. The teacher who has to deal with (deal with 是处理的意思) this class is 40-year-old Philip Beadle. Before working in education, Mr. Beadle played in a rock band. He gave up music eight years ago to become a teacher. At his first school,he helped his students to get the best English marks the school had ever seen(省略关系词的定语从句). As a result, he was made Schoolteacher of the Year. In the programme last night,we saw the students have their first lesson with Mr. Beadle. He started by playing a game, where he and the students pointed at each other and said something funny about the other person. This might not sound very educational, but it caught everyone’s attention（catch one’s attention,吸引某人的注意力）. After that, Mr. Beadle took his class outside for an English lesson. At their previous schools, most of these students refused to read (refuse to do sth. 拒绝做某事 ) in front of their classmates, so Mr Beadle took them to a field to read to some cows. Each student read a brief quote from a Shakespeare play to them, and the students seemed to enjoy it. In the next scene, Mr Beadle took them to another field to teach them basic punctuation. He did this through another game where he asked the students to jump around, clap their hands and shout, “question mark!” and “semicolon!” Everyone see ... ...