2013版,译林牛津版英语书B,Unit2 Reading部分,明天补课要听写默写,

with the words in the box.







































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原书这一部分是
B2)

baseball

ends

hero

offers

sports

twice
won
Daniel:
I read an article by a
boy
from the USA.

His name is John. He’s in the 8th grade.

Kitty:
Really?
What’s his school life like?

Daniel:
Every
Monday,
he
goes
to
the
Buddy
Club.
His
friend
Tony
is
in
the
12th
grade.
Tony listens to John’s problems and (1)





him help. He’s John’s (2)



.
Kitty: What else do you know about John?
Daniel: On Friday afternoon, their school (3)




earlier than usual. They often do (4)




together.
Kitty:
Does
John
like sports?
Daniel:
Yes
. His
favourite sport is (5)


.
He plays it (6)


a
week.
Their
team
(7)



two games last month.
（原书此处还有
C1
C2
和
vocabulary
部分）

Grammar
A Comparing the amount of things
We can compare
the amount of things
using
more
…
than
, fewer
…
t
han and less
…
than
.
We
use the most for the largest amount and the fewest/ the least for the smallest amount.


Millie has
more

tomatoes
than
Daniel
.

Kitty has the most eggs.
Millie has less rice than Daniel.



Daniel has the fewest tomatoes.
Millie has fewer bananas than Kitty.


Millie has the least juice.
Comparing school lives
A1

Daniel
wants
to
compare
his
school
life
with
Nancy
’
s
and
John
’
s.
Look
at
the
table
below.

Help Daniel complete his sentences.

Nancy

John

Daniel

Me

Subjects
6
8
12

Clubs
3
2
4

Free time
each day

4 hours
3 hours

1 hour

1 John studies



subjects
than Nancy, but the studies



subjects
than
I.
I
study the




subjects among the three of us.
2 Nancy
is in




clubs
than John, but she is in




clubs
than
I.
John
is
in
the




clubs among the three of us.
3 I have



free time
than John, but Nancy has



free
time
than
John.
Among the three of us, I have the





free time and Nancy has the




free time.
A2

What is your school life like?








Complete the last column
in part A1
with your own
information. Make
sentences
to compare your school life with Nancy
’
s, John
’
s and Daniel
’
s.
（原书此处还有
A3
）

B
Comparative and superlative adverbs
We
can form
comparative
and
superlative
adverbs
in
the
same way we
form
comparative
and superlative adjectives.
Millie came third in the race. She ran fast. Sandy came second in the race. She ran faster
than Millie.
Amy came first in the race. She ran the fastest.
Adverb
Comparative
Superlative
Most short adverbs
+ er
+ est
hard

high
→

harder
→

higher
→

hardest
→

highest
Long adverbs
more +
most +
quickly
carefully
→

more quickly
→

more carefully
→

most quickly
→

most carefully
Irregular adverbs
replace the word
replace the word
well
badly
far
→

better
→

worse
→

further/ farther
→
best
→
worst
→
furthest/ farthest
My classmates
Daniel
is
writing
about
his
classmates.
Help
him
complete
his
sentences
with
the
correct
forms of the words in brackets.
1 Sandy draws




(well). She draws



(well) than any other student in my
class. She draws




(well) of us all.
2 David jumps




(high). He jumps




(high)
than
any
other
of
my
classmates. He jumps


(high) in my class.
3 Amy swims



(fast). She swims



(fast)
than
all
my
other
classmates.
She swims




(fast) in my class.
4 Millie writes




(quickly). She writes



(quickly)
than
the
other
students in my class. Millie writes




(quickly) of us all.
Integrated skills
A comparing schools
A1
Daniel
is
writing
an
article
about
different
schools.

Listen
to
him
introducing
Sunshine
Middle School and complete the first column in the table below.

Sunshine

Middle School

Woodland

School

Rocky Mountain
High School
Number of students


66





Number of teachers











How long is the
summer holiday?












How
much
time
do
students
spend on
homework every day?













Do students wear uniforms?




/




Do students do morning exercises?
yes
/

no

A2 Sandy is helping Daniel collect information on the Internet about other schools. Listen to
their conversation and complete the rest of the table above.
A3 Help Daniel complete his article with the information in Part A1.
（原书中这是属于
A2
）

Woodland School is smaller than
Rocky Mountain High
School. There are (1)

(more,
fewer, less) teachers and (2)


(more,
fewer,
less)
students
in
Woodland
School
than
in
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
or

the
summer
holiday

than
British students. British students spend (5)



(more,
fewer,
less)
time
doing

homework

than Chinese students.
Among the three schools, students in the American school 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).
A4

Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting online about their schools. Match the sentences
with
the
correct people. Use the information in Part A1 on page
25
to help you.

Daniel, John & Nancy
1

Nancy

: My school has fewer weeks off
for the summer holiday than Daniel
’
s.

2



:
Students in my school do not wear uniforms.

3



: I spend less time doing homework than
Nancy.

4



: My school has the most students.
5



: My school has the fewest
teachers.








（原书有
6
题）


B Speak up: Simon spends the most time on his hobbies.

The Class 1, Grade 8 students are talking about the time they spend on their hobbies. Work
in groups and talk about your hobbies. Use the conversation below as a model.
Millie: How much time do you spend on your hobbies every day, 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.
Study skills
The suffix
–
ly
A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that we add to the end of a word to form a new word.
We can add
–
ly to some adjectives to form adverbs. We can also add
–
ly to come nouns to
form adjectives.
Adjective
Adverb

Noun
Adjective
real

really
friend
friendly
bad
badly
day
daily
usual
usually
week
weekly

A Add
–
ly to each of the words in the box on the left. Then put them in different groups. Y
ou
may use a dictionary.
Adjective
→
Adverb






Noun
→
Adjective






B Millie is writing in her diary. Complete her entry with the correct forms of the words in
brackets.
Today we had an English test. We have a (1)



(month)
test
on
each
subject.
I
looked
through the questions (2)



(quick). I could (3)


(easy) answer all of them.
To me, learning foreign languages is (4)



(real)
fun.
I
read
English
newspapers
and
magazines every day. I read very (5)

(slow)
at
first,
but
I
am
doing
better
now.
I
also
keep writing in English about my (6)


(day)
life.
I
learn
to
use
English
better
this
way(7)


(usual) I watch English videos at weekends. I always have a (8)




(love) time!

Task
My ideal school
A What do you like or dislike about your school? Read the questionnaire below and write
your answers.

Questionnaire
1 What time does your
school start?












2 Do you think this is too early or too late?










3
when do you finish school?













4 D you think this is too early or too late?











5 How long is
lunchtime at your school?












6 Do you like your school uniform? Why or why not?








7
Below
are
some subjects
, sports and after-school activities. Put a tick (
√
) in the box next to the
ones you like.






Subjects




Sports



Clubs

□
Chinese



□
Badminton

□
Art Club
□
English



□
Basketball


□
Chess Club
□
Geography


□
Football


□
Dance Club
□
History



□
Table tennis


□
English Club
□
Maths



□
Tennis


□
Reading Club
□
Physics



□
Volleyball


□
Singing Club
















8 How often do you go on school trips?















9 Do you think your school is a good one ? Why or why not?














Useful expressions
My ideal school starts at
…
and finishes at
…

We have an hour for
…


careful


day
easy

love
month

quick
slow


usual
week

year
I have
…
because I think
…
is very interesting
I love
…
so I have
…
every day.
There is
…


We have lost of
…

Every
…
, we g on a school trip.
B Read Daniel
’
s article about his ideal school.
My ideal school
My ideal school starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at 3 p.m. We do not need to get up early, and
we
have lots of time for after-school activities.
We only have an hour of homework every day.
We have an hour for lunch. There is a big
, clean
dining hall. We
have lunch
and chat there.
We
listen to music at lunchtime. We wear school uniforms, but we do not wear ties.
Our
classes
are
quite
small.
There
are
about
20
students
in
each
class.
We
can
choose
subjects to study. I have Maths because I think Maths is very interesting. I love computers,
so I have computer lessons every day.
There
is
a
big
library,
a
football
field
and
a
swimming
pool.
We
have
lots
of
clubs
and
after-school activities. Every month, we go on a school trip. We always have fun.
C
Write an article about your ideal schoo
l.





Use the information in Part A to help you. Then
read your article to your partner.


Self-assessment
I have learnt

Details

Result
1 about different school lives.


2
to
use
the
new
words
to
talk about my school life.


3
to
compare
the
amount
fo
things.
To
use
comparative
and superlative adverbs.


4 the suffix -ly


Result: Excellent!

Good!

Not bad!
I need to spend more time on



















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