●Project Starting a new school club

Everybody, please look at a picture on the screen. Do you know what the girl student is doing? (She is broadcasting.) Yes. Does your school have such a radio station/club? What does it often do usually?

The project in this unit is designed to help you use English through doing a project. The two reading materials about school clubs here are samples for you to learn how to develop after-school activities and form a school club. Try to design a poster advertising a new school club.

You're supposed to use what you've learned to finish a project by working together. You may discuss what club you'd like to start, and what each of them will do. Search for some information, do some writing and drawing. To make an attractive poster, you are expected to cooperate to complete each part of the task.

Read the first passage about a school radio club run by students themselves. Find out as much information as you can about the radio club.

Who started the radio club? (Kate Jones, the writer)

When was the radio club started? (two years ago)

Why was the radio club started? (CD players were not allowed in school; to play music during break time)

What does the radio club do? every morning: (tell about the weather, the recent news, special messages the teachers want to broadcast) during exam time: (the special programme telling students what they should and shouldn't do) at the end of the school year: (graduating students giving messages to their friends and teachers) when parents come: (playing songs sung by students, special messages to inform people about events) Find out as much information as you can in the second passage about the school club.

the name of the school club: (Poets of the Next Generation)

Who started the school club? (Mr Owen, the English teacher)

When do the members of the school club meet? (the last Friday of every month)

What do the members of the school club do? (talk about poems and poets they like, select poems, read out aloud, write poems and read out) Choose the best answer according to the reading material.