1. Unit2 Main task

2. Use the questions and your answers to make dialogues
How many Grade 8 classes does our school have?
2. What time does your school day start?
3. Do you think this is too late or too early?
4. Why ?

3. 1. Do you like to wear uniforms? Why?
2 Do you like to go on school trips?
3. How often do you go on school trips?
4. Where do you like to go?
5. Do you think your school is a good one? Why?
6. What subjects\ sports\ after-school activities do you like best?
Subjects Sports After-school activities
□ Art □ Badminton □ Art Club
□ Chinese □ Baseball □ Chess Club
□ Computer Studies □ Basketball □ Cooking lessons
□ English □ Football □ Drama Club
□ Geography □ Softball □ Driving lessons
□ History □ Swimming □ Film Club
□ Home Economics □ Table tennis □ Reading Club
□ Maths □ Tennis □ Sewing Club
□ Science □ Volleyball □ Support Group

4. Listen to the tape then answer the question.
1. 1. Where can Daniel eat lunch?
2. Does Daniel do his homework at weekends?
In a big dining hall.
No, he doesn’t.

5. After reading Daniel’s article, please fill in the blanks.
the length of his school day
6 hours
the length of lunch time
an hour
his favourite subjects
Maths
Computer Studies
buildings
park, library ,tennis court, swimming pool, shopping mall
how much homework every day
half an hour of homework
places of school trips
museums or theatres

6. Daniel’s ideal school Buildings School life School day After-school
homework
subjects
swimming pool
tennis court
length of
a day
School day
Daniel’s ideal
school
Buildings
School life
dining hall
library
After-school
activities
school trips
sports
clubs

7. Our school day is very short, so we
Complete the passage
John’s ideal school
My ideal school is very beautiful. There is a big library (有许多有用的书) in it. Our classrooms are very small.
Our school day is very short, so we
(为课外活动有了大量的时间)I do not like Maths so there are no Maths lessons. I love computers (因此我们有电脑课)every day.
There are lots of clubs and after-school activities. We have no homework every day. We only have
(半小时的家庭作业)at weekends.
with many/lots of useful books
time for after-school activities
have lots of
so we have Computer Studies
half an hour of homework

8. Write an article about your ideal school in about 80 words and in about 10 sentences.

9. My ideal school School life Buildings School day After-school
activities
clubs
length of
a day
subjects
homework
School day
sports

10. My ideal school
My ideal school is very beautiful. It has______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our school day is _______________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ My favourite subjects______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There are lots of clubs and after-school activities.______ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. Group work
Exchange the passages, correct the mistakes and make comments

12. Homework
Draw a map of your ideal school and rewrite the article on a piece of paper

13. Thank you!