Thursday, September 21, 2017

Unit 2: Back to School


“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.'

Listening Skills
  1. Music: "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd 平克·佛洛伊德 (lyrics, fill in the blanks)
  2. More music Back to School,


Writing: Review Punctuation and Capital Letters
Present Tense Dialogue: I live in Pasadena

A: Where do you live?
B: I live in Pasadena.
A: Where is Pasadena?
B: It's in California加利福尼亞州.
A: Is it in northern在北部的 California?
B: No. It's in southern California.
A: Is Pasadena a big city?
B: It's pretty big.
A: How big is "pretty big"?
B: It has about 140,000 people.
A: How big is LA (Los Angeles洛杉磯)?
B: It has about 3 million 300萬 people.
Adopt to Taiwan
Extra Present Tense Dialogue: What's on TV?

Phonics Reading 1: Back to School (short e)
  1. Vocabulary: well Ned tests met set letter get tells better best
  2. Back to school vocabulary game
  3. Short e tongue twisters
  4. Extra: “EA” words (head, dead, breath, bread, deaf)
  5. Good-better- the best
Grammar: Comparisons
 More Practice, 2, Online Games





Positive    Comparative        Superlative
good        better             best 
bad         worse              worst 
little      littler, less      littlest, least 
far         farther, further   farthest, furthest


Grammar: 25 Most Common Verbs see also


Reading 2:  Finland Reforms Education For the Digital Age (A Class/ B Class)



Introduction: Brainstorm about the title
Vocabulary:
  1. education system
  2. prepare
  3. emphasis
  4. training
  5. performance
  6. necessary
  7. subjects
  8. skills
  9. succeed
  10. facts

Finland 芬蘭 wants more than to have the world's best education system. It wants to prepare students for the digital age數字時代. It wants to put more emphasis on digital and workplace skills. An example of this would be to use 3D printers in classes for students to make models 模型 of things they read about. There will also be training in real-life work places. Students' performance would be judged by a teacher and by a worker from the company公司 helping the student.

One teacher explained 解釋 why change was necessary. She said school is divided 分開 into subjects to learn, but our brain  is not divided into subjects. She said students needed to think differently. They needed to think about the problems in the world. She questioned whether today's children get the skills to succeed in such an inter-cultural 跨文化 world. She warned 警告 it would be a mistake to let children think that the world is simple, and that all they need is facts.


Idioms 成語:

Write the English meaning. Draw the literal meaning. In your notebook write an example for each.

  1. Bookworm
  2. Brainstorm EX: The team got together to brainstorm (the project).組員們聚集在一起(就這個企劃)集思廣益。
  3. Copycat EX: You're just a copycat! 你只會學別人!
  4. Hit the books 
  5. Teacher’s Pet

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