Highlights of My Senior Year教案

(2) in was not until the 1920s that pompoms began to play an important part in cheerleading. (=pompoms didn’t begin to play an important part in cheerleading until the 1920s. / =not until the 1920s did pompoms begin to play an important part in cheerleading.)
by the 1950s, most american high schools had cheerleading squads.
in 1978, the national cheerleading championship were shown on television, and universities began offering courses in cheerleading.
(3) some americans are amused by it and see it as rather a stupid activity. in fact, cheerleading is considered so important in america that several movies have been made about it.
3. ask ss to read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the words they’ve just learnt.
i like        (1)        which can        (2)        crowds to cheer their sports teams during       (3)        games. everyone will feel excited and can’t help roaring. in the past, cheerleading only       (4)        in america. as time passed, more and more counties started cheerleading. now it        (5)        games     (6)       , and many universities offer     (7)      in cheerleading. in fact, cheerleading is      (8)      so important        (9)       several movies have been made about it.
suggested answers:
(1) cheerleading  (2) encourage   (3) competitive  (4) existed
(5) plays an important part in (6) worldwide (7) courses (8) considered  (9) that
step 3. reading practice
purpose: to learn about some unhappy things about school life.
1. ask ss to read the passage quickly and try to finish activity 3 on page 26.
2. ask ss to try to guess the meaning of the following underlined words according to the passage (in this reading material there are so many new words, teachers must pay more attention to the vocabulary. teacher may teach ss how to understand the new words when they meet in the passage. for example, teacher can tell ss how to guess the words according to the passage, especially the sentences before and the next sentence) .