Online Class Notes (Li)[R]
Today we focused on:
Reading – high school students vs. university students
Vocabulary
look forward to sth: excited and happy about something
eg. I’m looking forward to meeting my new classmates.
eg. I’m not looking forward to the end of year.
biology: 生物
geography: 地理
physics: 物理
chemistry: 化学
handcrafts: things made by hand 手工
IT/information technology – 信息
middle school – 初中
society: 社会
individual: each person
eg. Some students prefer to have individual classes.
eg. Do you prefer to live in groups or as an individual?
stressed/pressured – 压力
path: a route or track 路，小道
paths: ways
eg. There are many paths to success.
schedules: timetable
success: the achieving of the results wanted or hoped for 成功
eg. He is well known in his field for his success.
eg. The success rate for this operation is quite low.
assignments: like homework
serious: not joking or funny
eg. There are many serious exams in high school.
eg. The students got scared because the teacher got serious.
carefree – opposite of serious
eg. She has a carefree attitude to life.
alike: similar 相似的，类似的
eg. Those 3 kids look alike.
eg. They get along well because they think alike.
Speaking exercise
New classmates, the new class. Yeah, Biology. Maths class, Chinese class, English class and Geography, Physics class, Chemistry class, History class, Art class, PE class, Music class, Handcrafts class and IT class. History class and PE class. Chinese class maybe.
At my middle school.
Revised:
I am looking forward to my new classmates and my new class. Yeah, Biology. Maths class, Chinese class, English class and Geography, Physics class, Chemistry class, History class, Art class, PE class, Music class, Handcrafts class and IT class. (I am good at) History and PE. Maybe I like Chinese class.
During middle school.
Reading
Education is very important for society. It is very important in the development of the individual, too. However, there are many methods of learning and ways to develop students’ skills, so it’s very difficult to work out which are the best paths to educational success. Nothing demonstrates this more than the differences between the lifestyles of high school students and university students.
First of all, high school students just have to follow the rules and obey their teachers. In contrast, university
students have more responsibilities than high school students. They have to be more independent and make decisions by themselves. For example, they have to manage their schedules and do assignments.
Pronunciation
paths – pafs
individual – in-dee-vi-du-al
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