Chapter 2 Our Daily Life

1. preview the reading in chapter 2;
2. learn the new words by heart.

part two  reading (1)
teaching contents:
1. how to describe our everyday activities and how often we do things.
2. the daily life of a ‘whizz-kid’ student
main  points
read the text and abstract the important information from the text
difficult points
change the information into chart
teaching aids
multimedia, tape-recorder, ppt
teaching producedures
step 1: leading-in
ask the students when they usually get up in the morning, when they go to school and so on . then lead in the topic of this chapter ‘ our daily life’. and show them some pictures and let them do the ‘ask and answer’ activity.
which of these things do you do every day / do once or twice a week / never do?
step 2: pre-reading
let students talk about their daily life, and then compare with the life of wendy (look at the picture).
step 3: while-reading
a. skim the text and use one sentence to abstract the main idea of the text.

b. scan the text and to get the main idea of each paragraph, finish this chart
p1            wendy describes her school. she finds some school work easy but boring.
p2            at lunch-time she sometimes has lunch with a business client.
p3             wendy describes her morning routin and the background to her family computer business.
p4            wendy’s driver takes her to school in her own car.
p5           in the evenings she works on her computer games.
p6        wendy describes her after-school activities.
c. read the text again and find the facts. turn to page 18 complete the list with information that wendy gives us in her article. write only notes (one to three words or figures) for each answer.
1. what she writes               computer games
2. when she gets up               6 a.m.
3. how she gets to school          7.30 a.m
4. how she gets to school          in her car
5. what she does on the way      makes phone calls
6. her usual grade at school          a