1. Integrated skills

2. Step 1:Free Talk Do you have any hobbies? What is your hobby? How much time do you spend on your hobbies every week?

3. play chess do sports

4. Step 2: Speak up Listen and Read Millie : How much time do you spend on your hobbies every day, Daniel? Daniel: About one hour. Half an hour for playing computer games and another half an hour for playing chess. Millie: Really? I have only half an hour for my hobbies at most. I often do some reading. How about you,Simon? Simon: About two hours for sports. And you, Amy? Amy: Usually I go swimming for about half an hour. Millie: OK. Among the four of us, Simon spends the most time on his hobbies, and Daniel spends more time on his hobbies than Amy and I.

5. Read the conversation and answer: Who spends the most time on his/her hobbies? Simon

6. Step 3: Listen and fill in the blanks the name of schoolCountry Daniel Nancy John Sunshine Middle schol Woodland school Rocky Mountain High school China The UK The USA

7. Step 4: Comparing schools Beijing Sunshine Middle school Sunshine Middle School Number of students Number of teachers How long is the summer holiday? How much time do students spend on homework every day? Do students wear uniforms? Do students do morning exercises? yes 1309 90 8 weeks 3 hours yes

8. Woodland School and Rocky Mountain High School Woodland School Rocky Mountain High School Number of students Number of teachers How long is the summer holiday? How much time do students spend on homework every day? Do students wear uniforms? / Do students do morning exercises? /no 308 66 6 weeks 2 hours 1215 85 12 weeks 1 hour no

9. Read the listening material Sandy: Daniel, here’s the woodland School website. It says here that they have three hundred and eight students and sixty-six teachers. Daniel: Rocky Mountain High school is a bit smaller than our school. Their website says that there are one thousand two hundred and fifteen students and eight-five teachers. Sandy: That’s a lat. It says here that students at Woodland school have six weeks off for the summer holiday. Is it the same in the USA? Daniel: No. In the USA, they have a twelve-week summer holiday. Sandy: that’s great! How about homework? Students at Woodland School spend two hours on homework every day. Daniel: Let me see. Oh,here it says students at Rocky Mountain High School only spend one hour a day on homework. And they don’t even have to wear uniforms or do morning exercises.

10. Step 5: Do exercise Do exercise on P25 A3 Help Daniel complete the article with the information in Part A1 1.fewer 2. fewer 3. the most 4.more 5.less 6.the least 7.the longest 8.the most 9.the hardest

11. Daniel, John and Nancy are chatting online about their schools. Match the sentences with the correct people. 1 ______: My school has fewer weeks off for the summer holiday than Daniel’s. 2 ______: Students at my school do not wear uniforms. 3 ______: I spend less time doing homework than Nancy. 4 ______: My school has the most students. 5 ______: My school has the fewest teachers. Nancy John Daniel Nancy

12. 1.The number of sth … 的数量 a number of sth=many 许多 eg:There are a number of students in our school. The number of the students is over 3000. 2. have fewer/more weeks off ( 少 / 多 ) 休息几个星期 have + time + off 表示休息多久 We have three days off on May Day. eg: Chinese students have fewer weeks off than American students. 3 spend less/more time doing homework 花更少 / 多的时间做作业 spend time on sth /in doing sth. 花时间做某事 eg: I spend half an hour reading English every day. I spend three hours on the picture. 4. play chess 下棋 eg: I have an hour for playing chess every day. 5. at most 最多 at least 至少 at last 最终，最后 eg:They can make lunch for two thousand students at most. 6.wear uniform(s) 穿校服 eg: three men in police uniform 三个穿警服的人

13. 1.Remember the new words and the language points in this lesson. 2.Recite the conversation in speak up.

14. Step 2: Talk about ‘A survey’ 调查

15. Millie spends the most time reading books. Amy spends the least time reading books.

16. Who spends the most/least time doing sth?

17. Daniel spends the most time playing computer games. Simon spends the least time playing computer games.

18. Daniel spends the most time playing chess. Amy spends the least time playing chess.

19. Simon spends the most time doing sports. Millie spends the least time doing sports.