1. Unit 2 School life
Integrated skills

2. Check preview work
1.number of students
2.have more weeks off
3.wear uniforms
4.do morning exercises
5.spend less time on/doing their homework
6.work (the) hardest
7.play chess
8.at most

3. Learning aims (学习目标) 1.通过听力练习获取数字等细节信息的能力。
2.学会比较不同学校的信息材料，进一步巩固本单元的语法项目。
3.解更多中外学校的异同

4. Task 1: Introduce schools in different countries
Woodland School

5. Rocky Mountain High School

6. How many students are there in your school?
Number of students
How many students are there in your school?
How many teachers are there in your school?
Number of teachers
How long do you have your summer holiday?
How long is the summer holiday?
How long do you spend on your homework every day?
How much time do students spend on homework every day?
Do students wear uniforms?
Do you wear school uniform?
Do students do morning exercises?
Do you do morning exercises?

7. Task 2:Compare school
A: Comparing schools
Daniel is writing an article about different schools. Listen to him introducing Sunshine Middle School and complete the table in Part A1.

8. 1309 308 1215 85 90 8 weeks 6 weeks 12 weeks 3 hours 2 hours 1 hour
Sunshine Middle School
Woodland School
Rocky Mountain High School
Number of students
Number of teachers 66
How long is the summer holiday?
How much time do students spend on homework?
Do students wear uniforms? /
Do students do morning exercises?
yes no
1309
308
1215 85 90
8 weeks
6 weeks
12 weeks
3 hours
2 hours
1 hour
yes no 8

9. Comparing schools
Sandy is helping Daniel collect information on the Internet about other schools. Listen to their conversation and complete the rest of the table.

10. fewer fewer the most more
Woodland School is smaller than Rocky Mountain High School. There are (1)_______ ( more, fewer, less) teachers and (2)_______( more, fewer, less) students at Woodland School than Rocky Mountain High School. Sunshine Middle school has (3)_______( more, fewer, the most) teachers and students of the three.
fewer
fewer
the most
Chinese students have (4)_______( more, fewer, less)
weeks off for the summer holiday than British students.
more 10 10

11. less the least the longest the most the hardest
British students spend(5)_____________( more, fewer, less) time doing homework than Chinese students. Among the three schools, American students spend (6)________( the least, few, less) time on homework, and they have (7)_________ ( long, longer, the longest) summer holiday. Chinese students spend (8) (the most, the fewest, the least) time on homework. They work (9) (hard, harder, the hardest).
less
the least
the longest
the most
the hardest 11 11

12. Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting online about their schools
Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting online about their schools. Match the sentences with the correct people.
1 ______: My school has fewer weeks off for
the summer holiday than Daniel’s.
2 ______: Students at my school do not wear
uniforms.
Nancy
John

13. 3 ______: I spend less time doing
homework than Nancy.
4 ______: My school has the most
students.
5 ______: My school has the fewest
teachers.
John
Daniel
Nancy

14. Task 3:Time spent on hobbies
Free talk
What are your hobbies?
How much time can you spend
on your hobbies?

15. Listen and answer.
Speak up
How much time does Daniel spend on his
hobbies every day?
What is Amy’s hobby?
Who spends the most time on hobbies?
About an hour. Half an hour for playing computer games and another half an hour for playing chess.
Her hobby is swimming.
Simon.

16. Work in groups and talk
about your hobbies.
Use the conversation
as a model.

17. Speak up Millie: How much time do you spend on your hobbies, Daniel?
Daniel: About one hour. Half an hour for playing computer
games and another half an hour for playing chess.
Millie: Really? I have only half an hour for my hobbies at most. I
often do some reading. How about you, Simon?
Simon: About two hours for sports. And you, Amy?
Amy: Usually I go swimming for about half an hour.
Millie: OK. Among the four of us, Simon spends the most time on
his hobbies, and Daniel spends more time on his hobbies
than Amy and I.

18. 1.number of students 学生的数量
LANGUAGE POINTS
1.number of students 学生的数量
the number of… , “…的数目”, 后接可数名词复数，作主语时，谓语动词要用单数。
a number of …“大量的…”, 后常接可数名词的复数。
我们班学生数目是50。
______ ______of the students in our class ____ fifty.
= There _______ fifty students in our class.
这儿每年都有大量的游客来滑雪。
There______ _________ _______ _______visitors skiing here every year.
2.have more weeks off 多休息几个星期 have….off, “休息（一段时间）；放（一段时间）假”.
上周我放了两天假。
I ______ ______ ______ _______ last week.
The
number is
are
are a
number of
had
two
days
off

19. What have you learnt?

20. New words spend 花费 spend time on/doing sth. 花时间做某事 uniform 制服
chess 国际象棋
at most 最多

21. Do some exercises

22. Remember the new words and the language points in this lesson. 2
Remember the new words and the language points in this lesson. 2. Recite the conversation in speak-up.

23. Thank you