Reading   School life in the UK

4. dealing with d and e
complete parts d and e individually first and then we’ll check the answers together. part d helps you comprehend the meanings of the words from the context and match them with the correct definitions; while part e is a letter from a british student who wants to make friends with wei hua. you’ve got to first understand the letter and then fill in the blanks with proper words.
answers
 
d   1 d 2 g 3 a 4 e 5 b 6 c 7 f
e   (1) experience (2) literature (3) desserts (4) headmaster
(5) different    (6) life        (7) preparing
answers
part a1 (page 86)
1 enjoyable    3 challenging     5 fun            7 exciting
2 experience   4 e-mails         6 drop           8 helpful
part a2 (page 86)
1 with        3 like            5 on            7 at
2 to   at     4 to   at         6 for   about     8 on on
step 4: post-reading
1. suppose you have a chance to interview wei hua. apart from the things you have been told, what other information would you like to know about her life and study in the uk? (the teacher can fire students’ imagination with the following)
   so far we ourselves haven’t had the opportunity to go abroad to experience a foreign way of   life. we are very happy today to have a student here who has just finished one year of study in the uk. now you can all ask her some questions.
2. suppose you are asked to write an article about the differences between high schools in the uk and in china. what kinds of differences will be dealt with in your article? ( the teacher can give some hints if necessary: timetable, subjects, teachers and students, size of the classroom, campus, school facilities, atmosphere, teaching methods, school rules and principles)
3. write a summary of the article written by wei hua.
4. read the two articles in reading on pages 82 and 83 in workbook and answer the questions below them, so that you can find more about school life in other countries. (they can also do this as their homework.)
5. for the article in part a, more questions will be asked to test your understanding of some new words. for example: what does the phrase school uniforms mean? what kinds of clothes are fashionable? what clothes are leisure clothes?