1. 八年级英语 上
Unit 2
School life
Reading Ⅱ

2. How much do you know about the life in a British and American school?
an American school
a British school
How much do you know about the life in a British and American school?

3. What are the names of the two students?
Answer the questions
What are the names of the two students?
John and Nancy.
2. What is Nancy’s favourite subject?
French.
3. What does John do after school?
Do sports.

4. Compare two school lives
British school life
American school life
What kind of school is Nancy in?
What do students do during the Reading Week?
When does John do sports?
2.What does he do in the Buddy Club?

5. British school life
Check the exercises on Page 21-22

6. Language points 1. Learning foreign languages is fun.
Doing sth. is +adj.=It is +adj+to do sth.
It’s fun to learn foreign languages.
2. Time seems to go faster when we are reading interesting books.
Seem的用法：
seem to do sth
seem +adj.
It seems that 从句

7. Language points 3. He often…and offers me help.
offer sb sth.=offer sth. to sb..
4. Our school ends earlier than usual.
end v. “结束”=finish=be over
5. Our school won two games last month.
win 的用法： win the first
win the match/ game
win the prize

8. Introduce your school life .
My school life
1. grade, school:
2. favourite subject:
3. favourite sport/
activity/club:
4. buddy
5. ……
Which?
What? Why?
What? How often? How? ……
Who?

9. Talk about your dream school life
Group work
Talk about your dream school life
timetable/homework
subjects/lessons
classmates/teachers
after-school activities/clubs
sports centre/libraries …

10. American school life
British school life
Chinese school life
Dream school life

11. Write a letter to your e-friend.
Dear …
How are you ? In our dream school, we want… because… …
Homework …
Can you tell me about your school life? I hope to hear from you soon.
Yours faithfully
Write a letter to your e-friend.

12. Homework
Write an article about your own school life