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Unit 1 School life Task Skills building 1: understanding a programme Events or activities are the most important part of a programme. For example: Reporter: Good morning, Mr. Gu. What’s your programme like for next week? Scientist: On the twenty-first of October, that’s Monday, I will visit your school, Datong High School, at nine thirty in the morning. Reporter: Wow! You are really busy. I look forward to seeing you again on Monday. Step1: completing a school timetable programme You are the monitor of your class. You and other monitors from other Senior High 1 classes are having a meeting with the headmaster. He is telling everyone about a programme of talks for next month. You have a timetable Headmaster: Next month we are going to have several talks. We have invited eight people with different jobs to give us talks on different subjects. Each class can choose up to five talks according to your class timetable. Monitors, you have to make sure you understand when and where each talk is to be given. You also have to be sure about the subjects and who the speakers are, and then report to your class teacher and classmates. First of all, we have a famous writer coming on Friday, the eighth of October. He is going to talk about how to read a novel. The talk will be held in Room Two-oh-one, Building Four, beginning at one twenty in the after- noon. At two fifteen on Monday afternoon, the eleventh of October, a fireman is going to talk about fire prevention, in Room Five-oh-three, Building Three. A student from the USA is going to talk about school life in the USA on Wednesday, the 13th of