1. Unit2 School life
Welcome to the Unit

2. Make a survey 1. What do you do from Monday to Friday?
2. Do you like to go to school?
3. How many lessons do you have every day?
4. What subjects do you learn?
5. What do you think of your school life?

3. Do you think dogs need to go to school?

4. Listen and answer Why does Eddie think dogs don’t go to school ?
Eddie thinks they are cleverer than people.

5. Read and answer What does Eddie think school is like ?
Eddie thinks that it’s like watching TV, but there are fewer advertisements

6. Complete the dialogue. don’t cleverer like watching TV fewer
Hobo: Why _________ dogs go to school,
Eddie?
Eddie: Because we’re ___________ than
people. They have to ___________.
Hobo: What is school ______________?
Eddie: It’s like _______________________,
but there are
_______advertisements.
don’t
cleverer
work harder
like
watching TV
fewer

7. Read and understand: Why don’t you do…?= why not do …? 为什么不做…呢?
work harder 更努力地学习
fewer advertisements 少一点的广告
fewer是few的比较级，同样修饰可数名词的复数 不可数名词则用little的比较级less

8. Discussion:
What do you think school is like?

9. Do you know which countries the flags stand for?
China
the UK
the USA

10. Attention:
People speak English in both Britain and the USA. However, sometimes they use different words which mean the same thing.

11. ground floor
first floor

12. Maths
Math

13. present
gift zx，xk

14. football
soccer

15. American football
football

16. autumn
fall

17. lorry
truck

18. rubber
eraser

19. biscuit
cookie

20. shop
store

21. film
movie

22. garden
yard

23. holiday
vacation

24. d e g i b c h a f British English American English 1 ___ 2 ___ 3 ___
4 ___
5 ___
6 ___
7 ___
8 ___
9 ___
1 biscuit
2 autumn
3 lorry
4 film
5 football
6 holiday
7 garden
8 rubber
9 shop
a. eraser
b. soccer
c. vacation
d. cookie
e. fall
f. store
g. truck
h. yard
i. movie e g i b c h a f

25. Please change the British English into American English
I am a boy from England. I am a Grade8 student. I like playing football. and I am good at Maths . Autumn is coming and my best friend ,Max’s birthday is coming too. He lives on the ground floor. I will give him my present. That’s a nice rubber. And I plan to watch a film with him on that day.
soccer
math
Fall
first
gift
eraser
movie

26. Read and answer 1. What is Simon going to buy for his cousin?
He is going to buy a lorry for his cousin.
2. What is Daniel going to buy?
He is going to buy some biscuits.
3. What’s Daniel’s plan for the weekend?
He wants to see a film.
4. How about Simon’s?
He will practise playing football this Saturday.
truck
cookies
movie
soccer

27. 1. 学校生活
2. 更努力地工作
3. 像看电视一样
4. 更少的广告
5. 更少的钱
6. 周末计划
7. 看场电影
8. 校足球队
9. 一场重要的比赛
10. 这个秋季
11. 练习踢足球
school life
work harder
be like watching TV
fewer advertisements
less money
plan for the weekend
watch a movie/film
school football / soccer team
an important match
this autumn
practise playing football

28. Goodbye