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　　Unit 2  School life
　　Language functions and focus
　　Use ‘ more …than ‘, ‘fewer… than’ and ‘less… than’ to compare amounts, e.g.,
　　Millie has more flowers than Amy.
　　Use ‘the most’, ‘the fewest’ and ‘the least’ to compare more than two things, e.g.,
　　Daniel has the most money.
　　Use ‘like’ and ‘alike’ to show that things are similar, e.g.,
　　Amy’s sweater is like Millie’s sweater.
　　Amy’s sweater and Millie’s sweater are alike.
　　Use ‘the same as’ and ‘different from’ to say that something is exactly like another thing or that one thing is unlike another thing, e.g.,
　　My uniform is the same as Simon’s uniform.
　　My uniform is different from John’s uniform.
　　Use vocabulary to distinguish between British and American usage, e.g.,
　　break, recess; rubber, eraser
　　Use adjectives to talt opposites, e.g.,
　　easy, difficult; interesting, boring
　　Language skills
　　Listening
　　Recognize familiar keywords and main points
　　Listen foe special information to complete a table
　　Speaking
　　Develop fluency in asking and answering questions about school
　　Develop interactive skills by responding appropriately
　　Transfer a model conversation to a personal situation
　　Reading
　　Guess general meaning from pictures and keywords
　　Understand feelings and opinions
　　Identify specific information about school life
　　Writing
　　Complete a questionnaire with personal information
　　Select special information for an ideal school weeding the choice of favorite activities
　　Organize ideas to write an article about an ideal school for a website audience
　　Overview of the unit
　　The main topic of this unit is ‘schools around the world’. As students read about schools in both Britain and the USA, they are invited to make comparisons between the different schools.
　　Welcome to the unit    1
　　Objectives
　　To introduce vocabulary used in British English and American English
　　To distinguish between British and American usage
　　To sort out vocabulary
　　Teaching procedures
　　1. Ask the students In which countries is English used as a main language?
　　First ask them to discuss, then list the countries on the blackboard.
　　Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Guyana and parts of Afria.
　　Explain that in each area special words, meanings and pronunciation have developed. Taldents briefly about different varieties of English used around the world. Tell them that it is similar