Section One

Step 1. Warming-up

Let students have a free talk about their high school life, especially the first day of high school.

Step 2. Fast reading

Ask students to read the text quickly, and then ask them to answer the following questions.

1. Jenny was happy that she was wearing new jeans and a nice shirt on her first day of high school. (True or False)

2. Jenny doesn’t like math at all. (Tue or False)

3. What happened while she was looking fir Room211?

4. How were the girls she met?

5. Why did she think it was hard to be a teenager?

Step 3. Further understanding

1. Brainstorms of different feelings: Let your imagination fly! Work with you group.

2. Work with your partner to find out the different feelings Jenny had on her first day of high school.

Step 4. Language points

1. so…that

2. get lost/ married/ burnt/ paid/ changed/ separated

Cleaning women in big cities usually get ____ by the hour.

A. pay B. paying C. paid D. to pay

3. lonely; alone

Marry lived in a(n) _____ hill village.

A. lonely B. alone

4. make sure

be sure of/ about/to/ that-clause

Make sure that all the lights are off before you leave the office.

5. There was a girl sitting in front of me.

6. pick up 撿起/接受/接人

pick out/ off

David _____ the paper and read it through on the roadside.

A. picked out B. picked C. picked up D. picked off

7. get used to doing

be used to doing

be used to do sth.

used to do

- Do the Smiths live next door to you?

- No, but they_____.

A. used to B. got used to it C. were used to D. was used not to

Step 5. Homework

Make up a story about the first day of high school.

Section Two

Step 1. Revision

Review some phrases learned in last class.

Have the students to make a speech about the high school life.

Step 2. Make an adjective.

Explain “…ful” to the students, and give some examples.

peaceful careful cheerful harmful

helpful hopeful painful powerful successful

Step 3. Listening

Play the tape to the students. And do the exercises on P5.

Step 4. Speaking

Let the students make up a dialogue according to the material given in the book. And make them act it out.

Step 5. Writing

Write a diary entry about your first day in senior high school. Then ask some students to read it out. Correct it with the students together if necessary.

Section Three

定語、定語從句初探

一般來說，修飾名詞作定語的常見形式為形容詞、短語（ 形容詞短語、介詞短語等）。如：

a beautiful girl

a girl in front of me

a tree 4 meters tall

那么一個句子放在名詞后面作定語當然就是定語從句了，只不過這個從句和那個名詞之間要有一個紐帶即連接詞，在定語從句中叫關系詞，被修飾的名詞放在從句之前，先行一步，被叫做先行詞。

由此可見定語從句的存在要有三個要素即：先行詞、關系詞、定語從句。如：

The girl who is standing in front of me is my sister.

注意：(1) 一定要有先行詞，否則定語從句則是“無水之源”。看著句話對嗎？Is this girl who you talked of just now?

(2) 關系詞分類及作用

關系詞可分為關系代詞who, whom, whose, that, which 和關系副詞where, when, why等。

關系詞的作用重大: A. 起連接作用。B.代替先行詞。C.在定語從句中充當成分。

Section Four

Step 1. Revision

Go over the Attributive clauses with students together. Make some sentences if necessary.

Step 2. Fast reading

Read the texts quickly, and then give a judge to the following sentences.

1. I felt very nervous when I saw I got a 93 in the math test.

2. My mother was satisfied with my grade.

3. I always like making my mother proud of me.

4. I’m really tired of my mother’s complaints.

Step 3. Further understanding

1. After school, how did the writer feel? Why?

2. Seeing the writer’s score (a 93), how do you think the mother feel? Why? How did the writer feel then?

3. When she arrived home, what was her mother doing?

4. How well did her mother think she should perform in her studies? What happened in her junior high school?

5. By the 7th grade, what did the writer decide to do? Why?

6. When the writer did the greatest like a 100, did her mother congratulate her? Why? Or why not?

7. Why did the mother desire the girl so much? What about your parents?

Step 4. Language points

1. feel like 摸著象，感覺象；想要做

It makes me feel like I’m not good enough.

I feel like a cup of tea.

I don’t feel like eating anything after the long journey.

2. be typical of sb. to do

It was typical of her to say that.

3. congratulate sb. on sth.

4. hope/wish

hope+ that-clause

hope to do sth.

wish sb. to do sth.

wish+that-clause

wish sb. Sth.

wish后面的從句習慣用虛擬語氣。如：

I wish I were you.

I wish I could do that for you.

I wish I would fly to the moon in a moment.

I wish I had left yesterday.

5. V-ing 作狀語

分詞短語常在句中作狀語表示動作發生的時間、原因、伴隨等。分詞作狀語時，它的邏輯主語往往是這個句子的主語，應注意句子的主語和分詞之間的關系。如主語是分詞動作的執行者，應用現在分詞；而主語如是動作的承受者，應用過去分詞。

“Can’t you read?” Mary said, ______.

A. pointing angrily B. and point angrily

C. pointed angrily D. and angrily pointing

6. go through

drive sb. crazy

in a way

be faced with

hang out

put all efforts into sb.

be based on

lose touch with

let sb. down

Step 5. Difficult sentences

1. You see, next time try harder, and you will succeed.

2. So what if I miss a few questions.

3. That’s not the point.

4. As I opened the door, I found my mom where I usually find her, over the sink preparing dinner and washing the dishes.

Step 6. Homework

Review the whole unit. Write down the difficult points, you think.