Unit 1 School life

Task Reporting school activities

As we all know, there are various school activities for students to attend. What school activities do you often have? Can you name some? This section consists of a series of activities which provide you with opportunities to practise your language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. It is divided into three steps, and each step is preceded with a skills building activity. Through the three steps, you will learn to solve a practical problem in your daily life--how to talk about school activities and how to write a notice about a school activity.

Skills building 1: understanding a programme

Suppose you are monitor of a class and you are to plan and arrange a class meeting for parents to visit your school. What will be informed your classmates of about the class meeting? That is to say, what will be included in your plan?

　　Here you can find out what a programme usually includes when you read the guidelines and you will know what you should notice when you are listening to someone talking about a programme.

1. Read the five points in Skills building 1 on page 12. Write down the names of months and the seven days of a week in abbreviations. For example, 2nd/2 Feb; 5th/5 Mar; 3rd/3 Aug; 21st/21 Oct; 30th/30 Nov; Mon; Wed; Tue; Fri; Sat

2. Listen to the tape and finish the timetable on page 12.