四川省成都经济技术开发区实验中学高中英语外研版选修7配套课件：Module2HighlightsofMySeniorYear-ReadingPracticeandCulturalCorner.ppt

Module 2;Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year;Reading Practice My schooldays;“big school”;dormitory;A dynamic English teacher;heavy pressure;It was compulsory to write home.;Look at the title of the passage. Which of the words in the box do you expect to see in the passage?;Look at the sentences. Do you think the writer’s schooldays were happy or sad? z x x k I’m ashamed to admit that I sobbed as I fell asleep that night. (b) My first task was to multiply seven by three. No one explained why!;(c) But my parents lived in Asia and, to my great disappointment, I only got a reply from them once a fortnight. (d) … at eighteen, all I felt was a sense of liberation.;It was sad, because he cried at night, he didn’t know why he had to do a maths problem, it was misty and cold, and he felt liberated when he left school at 18.;Choose the correct statement about the passage. ;Decide where you would expect to see this passage. What helped you decide? (a) In a biography (a life story about someone written by someone else). (b) In an autobiography (the story of the writer’s life). (c) A brochure to persuade people to attend this school. (d) A government report.;(b) In an autobiography, because it is told in the first person, and it is clearly just a part of a longer piece of writing about the author’s life.;Try to guess the meaning of the underlined words according to the passage. ;(2) I was shown to the dormitory where I would sleep ….;(4) an electric kettle to heat water for tea (5) Sport was compulsory, and every week we had to go for a five-kilometers run, ….;1. The writer thinks that_____. (a) nursery school was good preparation for “big school” (b) he was not very prepared for boarding school (c) he went to nursery school because his father worked abroad (d) He learned to read and to recite the alphabet at “big school” ;2. The writer was unhappy when he arrived at school because_______. (a) the dormito