Unit 2 School life

Integrated skills

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

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

Woodland School

Rocky Mountain High School

How many students are there in your school?How many teachers are there in your school?How long do you have your summer holiday? How long do you spend on your homework every day?

Do you wear school uniform?

Do you do morning exercises?

Number of studentsNumber of students

Number of teachersNumber of teachers

How long is the summer holiday?How long is the summer holiday?

How much time do students spend on homework every day?How much time do students spend on homework every day?Do students wear uniforms?Do students wear uniforms?

Do students do morning exercises?Do students do morning exercises?

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.

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

13091309

9090

8 weeks8 weeks

3 hours3 hours

yesyes

308308

6 weeks6 weeks

2 hours2 hours

12151215

8585

12 weeks12 weeks

1 hour1 hour

nono

Sandy is helping Daniel collect

information on the Internet about

other schools. Listen to their

conversation and complete the rest

of the table.

Comparing schools

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.

Chinese students have (4)_______( more, fewer, less)

weeks off for the summer holiday than British students.

fewerfewer

fewerfewer

the mostthe most

moremore

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).

lessless

the leastthe least

the longestthe longest

the mostthe most

the hardestthe hardest

Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting o

nline about their schools. Match the s

entences 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

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

What are your hobbies?How much time can you spend on your hobbies?

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.

Listen and

answer.

Work in groups and talk

about your hobbies.

Use the conversation

as a model.

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.

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….of

f, “ 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 isare

are a number of

had two days off

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

1. Remember the new words and

the language points in this lesson.

2. Recite the conversation in

speak-up.