1、1 FRIENDSwelcome to Southwark School! When you go to a new school, it can bescary. You worry about your studies. You worry about your studies. You also worry about making friends. You worry that no one will like you. But do not worry to much. Most of the time some people are friendly and some people

2、 are not. Usually there are some people you like at once. These people often like you too. How do people make friends? What makes a person a friend? Here s what one student says:“My name is Helen. Amy and Sally are my best friends. Amy has been my friend since my first day at nursery school. We were

3、 three years old then. W ree 14 now!I like her because she is happyalmost all the time and very friendly. Sally is quiet person. She makes friends more slowly. However, she is just as good a friend as Amy. They are both interested in the same things as me, and we listen to each other s problems. Amy

4、 likes to talk and Sally likes to listen. We are all good at different school subjects. so we help each other with our homework too” !WORD BANKscary 令人驚恐的worry 擔憂、擔心almost 差不多，幾乎quiet 文靜的、沉默寡言的subject 科目EXERCISES1 .Match the word with its correct meaning in the text.worrymost oftenfriendlythink that

5、 something bad might happen or has happenedusuallya thing that is difficult to do or to understandproblembehaving in a kind and open way2 . Decide whether the following statements are true(T) or false (F).1) You don t worry about anything when you go to a new school.()2) Most of the time Amy is happ

6、y while Sally is quiet.()3) When Helen and Amy were three years old, they were at the same nursery school. ()4) Helen, Amy and Sally are good friends, so they do homework for each other. ()2 WE SPEAK DIFFERENT KINDS OF ENGLISHBen: Hi, Sally!Sally: Hello, Ben!Ben: Oh, yes, thats right! You British pe

7、ople say Hello, not Hi . I forgot that.Sally: Actually, lots of British people say Hi these days. Its all the American TV we watch. I don t think people over in America say Hello much, do they?Ben: No, most people just say Hi , as Hello sounds very formal.Sally: Well, lets be British and say Hello t

8、o each other for a change.Ben: OK, Sally!Sally: OK is not British. In Britain we say Alright.Ben: That s not true. EVERYONE in the whole world says OK! Even the French say OK.Sally: Well, yes, that s true. But alright is proper English now.Ben: So it is a kind of old-fashioned English. But OK, I mea

9、n alright. I ll try it. But will anyone understand me?Sally: Yes, of course they will, Oh, look, here comes Tony. Hes from Australia. I wonder whether he says Hello or Hi.Ben: Hi, Tony!Sally: Hello, Tony!Tony: G day, you two!Sally: Oh no! He speaks Australian English!WORD BANKforget 忘記alright還好、還可以w

10、hole整個的、全部的French法語、法國人proper正確的、合適的old-fashioned 陳舊的mean想說、意指try嘗試EXERCISES1. Find the following six words from the puzzle.CADHEJHIENIAKJBAFXOKRCGLEFTPGAWVDOUSISJGROINZPRYTAHPWQPEOMNOBSRTQROYRCstartforgetProperEnglishagainEnglish2. Follow the example and find the information from the passage to fil

11、l in as much of the table as you can.BritishAustralianAmericanHiHelloGdayAlrightOK3. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR BLACKWhich class do you teach, Mr. Black?I teach Class 3. The students are eight or nine years old.What do you teach them?Everything! I have them all day for whole year!By the end of the year yo

12、u must know them very well!Yes. They know mepretty well too.What do you think your class would say about you as a teacher?This year, my class thinks I am grumpy! My wife and I have a new baby. The baby sleeps badly, so we are kept awake almost every night.No wonderyou are grumpy in the morning! What

13、 is your favorite subject to teach?I like teaching maths I like it when I explain something and the children can do things they could not do before, like adding fractions together.Do you like teaching English?It s OK. The Class 2 teacher, Mrs. Lewis, is good at telling stories. She doesnt like maths

14、. Sometimes she tells my class stories and I do maths with her class!What do you like about teaching children of this age?They like learning new things. Sometimes older children are more interested in their friends. They like to talk to each other, and they think some lessons a boring.WORD BANKprett

15、y 相當grumpy 脾氣壞的 wife 妻子 awake醒著no wonder 怪不得 maths 數(shù)學(xué) fractions 分數(shù) learn 學(xué)習(xí) boring令人厭煩的 EXERCISES1. Choose the correct words to put into the sentences below.teach sleep boring favorite1) Did you well last night?2) I English in a middle school.3) Who is your singer?4) Eating the same thing every day

16、is.2. Answer the following questions.1) How old are the students in Mr. Blacks class?2) What makes Mr. Black grumpy?3) Why does Mr. Black like teaching maths?4 I LOVE HORSE-RIDING!I m Sue. I m 14 and I live in England. My father works in a horse-riding school. I ve been riding since I was six. I go

17、horse-riding every Saturday. Now I can ridequite well. I spend all Saturday at the riding school. I help to get the horses ready. I help the new students fe ed the horses and give them water when the lessons acever. I also brush them and clean all theequipment I do this because I like it. I also get

18、 to ridefor free!When you start riding a horse, its very difficult! The first thing you learn is how to get onto a horse. Then yo have to learn how to move up and down at the same time as the horse. If you dont do this, it is very uncomfortable for you and the horse! At first you learn to walk the h

19、orse around. Then you learn to go faster. When your teacher thinks you are good enough you learn to jump. Not everyone wants to learn to jump. Some people just want to learn to ride for theexercise But I like jumping. It is exciting!WORD BANKquite 相當 spend 花費 feed喂養(yǎng)、飼養(yǎng) over完結(jié)的、結(jié)束 brush刷、掃 equipment

20、設(shè)備、器材 for free 免費的 difficult 困難的 fast快地、迅速地 enough 足夠地 jump 跳躍 want 要，想要exercise 訓(xùn)練exciting 令人興奮或激動的EXERCISES1. Match the words with the pictures.2. Answer the following questions.1) Why can Sue ride very well?2) What does Sue do at the riding school on Saturdays?3) Is it difficult or easy to ride a

21、 horse?5 MATT S MOTHERMatts mother, Julie, is a doctor in a hospital in the USA. Hospitals are busy places. Every day people with broken legs, people who have had accidents, people who are sick and mothers who are sick and mothers who are having babies all come to the hospital. Often they stay in th

22、e hospital for days, or even weeks, before they are well enough to leave. Staying in hospital for a long time can be very boring. Patients sleep in rooms called wards, and nursesook after them. A doctor visits them every day to see if they are well enough to go home.Most doctors in hospitals look af

23、ter just one type of patient. Julie looks after babies and small children who are sick. Sometimes she works in the daytime and sometimes at night. So sometimes Matt doe snsee his mum for a few days. She is working when he is asleep. She is sleeping when he is awake! When thisiappens they write each

24、other notes to say Hi! Matt s father is a writer. He works from home. So he does all the cooking and the housework for the family. Matts 14. He s old enough to help with the housework. His sister, Shelly, is only two. She cant help yet!WORD BANKbusy 忙碌even就算、甚至Patient病人、患者ward 病房look after照顧、照料type種

25、類、類型happen發(fā)生cooking烹飪、烹調(diào)EXERCISES1. Choose the correct words to put into the sentences below.broken stay visit hospital1) His sister works in a. She is a nurse.2) Watch out! Theres glass on the floor.3) I cant long.4) We often friends on Saturdays.2. Decide whether the following statements are true

26、(T) or false (F)1) Everyone goes to the hospital every day.()2) All the doctors in hospitals look after one type of patients. ()3) Often Julie doesnt see her son for a few days.()4) Matt can help his father with the housework.()6 GOING TO A CONCERTAnna and Jane had tickets for apop concert in London

27、. They were very excited about the concert. They had planned their day out in London very carefully. They worked out which trains to catch, where to eat and where they wanted to go shopping. Then they got some really exciting news. A friend of Janes was working with the sound equipmentbackstage He s

28、aid he could get them special passes so they could go backstage.He promised to ask the group if the girls could come to say Hello. He said that he was sure he could get them the group( s autographs. The girls could hardly wait!Then two days before the concert, Anna got a cold. It got worse and worse

29、, even though she stayed in bed and took medicine. One the evening before the concert, she had a fever and was very sick indeed. Annas mother rang Jane.Annas too sick to go to the concert, she said. You had better find someone else to go with!.The next day, Anna was feeling very sorry for herself. T

30、hen she had a visitor. It was Jane! She came with a big bag of fruit and a pile of their favorite CDs.“gave the tickets to Jill and Sue in the end, “ she said. Well go to another concert when you re well. It wouldn t be much fun without you.”WORD BANK pop 流行音樂 carefully 細心地 backstage在后臺、在幕后 cold感冒 f

31、ever 發(fā)燒 indeed確實、當然 pile 疊、堆 another 另一個1. Put the letters in the right order to form aEXERCISESword from the passage you just read. The first two letters ofeach word have brlexiven below.caexfrco2. Complete the following sentences according to the passage.1) Anna and Jane were very glad to in Londo

32、n.2) One of Janes friends could get them.3) Anna got a cold, so she couldnt.4) Jane brought Anna.7 MY NEW SCHOOLHi Ben,How are you? I m writing to tell you about my new school. I m a bit nervous It is called Senior High School. In England you change schools when you are about 11 years old, d o you?H

33、ere in America, most students change schools at about 10 and again at about 13. At 10 we move from elementary school to Junior High. That is when we move from having one teacher for all our subjects to having a different teacher for each subject. But our school is still quite small, though not as sm

34、all as our elementary school. We move to Senior High at 13. This time some of my friends are changing schools with me. Some of them are going to a different Senior High. Sometimes a Junior High School is next to a Senior High School. My Senior High is in a different place from the Junior High. I hav

35、e to take the bus and it takes longer to get there. It is a lot bigger too. There were about 900 students in my Junior High, but there are about 3,500 students in Senior High. Wish me luck on my first day!EricWORD BANK bit稍微、有點 nervous緊張的、不安的 elementary school 小學(xué) still仍、還是 though盡管EXERCISES1. Choose

36、 the correct words or phrases to put into the sentences below.a bit as as luck nervous1) I cant run fast you.2) Wed all like to wish you in your new job.3) Youll have to wait longer.4) He s always been a little of change.2. Match the sentences according to the passage.In EnglandIn Americathe student

37、s go to Senior High School at 13.the students go to Junior High School at 11.in Senior High School.in elementary School.We have one teacher for all our subjectsThere are 2,600 more students8 SCIENCE IS MY FA VOURITE SUBJECTHi Eric,Good to hear from you. I remember when I changed schools, I was nervo

38、us on the first day too. Almost all the students were nervous! But now most of us like it. There are about 2,000 students in my school and about 80 teachers. The big difference between our old school and the new one is that our new school has a lot more equipment. In our science classes we can doexp

39、erimentsusing chemicals and complicated equipment. I feel like a real scientist!Science is my favorite subject. We have two lessons together every Friday afternoon. This is when we do experiments. We have to write them up carefully afterwards, but the best part is doing the experiments. Often we set

40、 fire to things (on purpose for the experiment!). It is amazing how chemicals react with each other! Even when that doesnt happen, you do interesting things. For the last three weeks we have been growing a crystal on a piece of string. It seems to come from nowhere. It gets bigger and bigger. Our te

41、acher says that if we had a beaker the size of the science lab, we could make a crystal bigger than me. That would be cool, don you think so?I must go, let me know how your first day went.BenWORD BANK remember 記得 experiment 實驗 chemical化學(xué)藥品 complicated 復(fù)雜的 feel like感覺自己是(某種人) together 一起 afterwards后來

42、、其后 set fire to使燃燒 on purpose故意、蓄意 amazing令人驚奇的 react起化學(xué)反應(yīng)EXERCISES1. Match the word with its correct meaning in the text.changesciencerememberbetweenin the space or time that separates two things or people have a picture in your mind of people, events, places etc. from the pasthave one thing in pla

43、ce of anotherthe study of the physical world and natural laws2. Complete the following sentences according to the passage.1) Bens new school has more equipment than.2)is Bens favorite subject.3) Every Friday afternoon Ben has.4) Ben has been growing a crystal and it gets.9 PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES!I

44、 think I am going to explode with boredom! It s our first day at school and they expectus to sit down and start to work at once. The examinationsare years away! We re confusedby the size of the school. Were too worried about making friends to concentrate on work. I think they should give us a day to

45、 get used to the timetable and find our way around the school. Maybe even spend the day with our form teacher. That way we would get to know each other and the form teacher, at least. But no! We go round different classes and teachers all day. Its crazy!I hate the first day with the new students! Th

46、ey just dont settle down. They have to learn that they are starting to prepare for examinations. They have to start taking work seriously right from the first day. They dont realise how quickly the time will pass. Every day counts.Now it is the time to set the high standards of work and behavior we

47、will expect from them all through Senior High. These students are quiet enough. However, I can tell they are not thinking about the work at all. If s crazy! WORD BANK explode 爆炸 expect 預(yù)料 examination考試、考查 confuse使混舌L concentrate專心致志、集中精神 maybe也許、可能 crazy荒唐的 hate憎恨 settle down安靜下來 prepare 準備 seriousl

48、y嚴重地，認真地 realize知道、了解到 count很重要 EXERCISES1. Choose the correct words to put into the sentences below.size timetable spend different1) They are people with the same name.2) I was surprised at the of the hotel.3) I dont want to too much time on it.4) There is a bus on the desk.2. Answer the following

49、questions.1) What do the students want to do on their first day in a new school?2) Why does the teacher hate the first day with the new students?10 ANNE: A GPAnne Weatherley is a doctor in England. Shes a general practitioner (GP). A GP is a doctor who works in a surgery and looks after the local pe

50、ople. GPs see lots of patients every day. Yesterday Anne saw two babies with sore ears, one old lady with a bad leg, six people with coughs two people who couldnt sleep, two people with sore backs and one old man with aourn on his arm. So as you can see, she is very busy!Anne doesnt have a big famil

51、y. She and her husband Andrew, have three children: Chris, Jon and Katie. They live in a small village called Elmstone in England. Anne; s surgery is in a nearby village, Ash. Andrew is a doctor, like Anne, but he works at a hospital in Canterbury, which is home of the world famous Cathedral. It tak

52、es him about an hour to get to work. Anne has a sister and a brother. Andrew has a brother, but he doesrnt have a sister. So Chris, Jon and Katie have two uncles and one aunt. Anne and Andr ewbrothers and sister live in different parts of the country. Annes parents live in England, but not near Anne

53、 and Andrew. Andrew sparents live in France. They often only see each other at Christmas. Then they have a lot to talk about!WORD BANKsurgery 診所local當?shù)氐腸ough咳嗽burn燒傷husband 丈夫village 村莊cathedral大教堂country 國家EXERCISEShusbandVillagehospitallive1. Find the following six words from the puzzle.ACHOSPITAL

54、DHUIECMKCIJKSGBFSCFVMNBVILLAGEDSAJLJKHFKXQNHGLPRWIQWDTUKMNJThusband Village hospital live2. Follow the example and find the information to fill in the table.AnneAndrewJobWork placeSisterBrotherPlace where Parents live11 MY GRANDPARENTSMy grandparents can be good fun. They areretired, so they dont wo

55、rk anymore. My grandfather is 68 and my grandmother is 67, but they are not too old to be active They exercise by playing golf and they go out for meals and to the theatre Sometimes they take me out too. We have a good time. They also go on great holidays. Last year, they went to China and walked al

56、ong the Great Wall!Sometimes, my grandparents like tocriticize me. They think that children today have an easy life. Life was very different when they were young and there are many things about my life that they do not understand. They tell me, over and over, how they had to start work at 16. They k

57、now that I will go on to university and wont be getting a job until I am about 22! They also think that I have too many possession such as mobile phones, computers and PSPs. When they were young, they did not have anything like that. What they do not realize is that they cannot compare our generations. They had the same sorts of thi