【正文】 ). The movie opens with Sydney (Bynes) on one of her dad’s construction sites. John Schneider plays his dad role with warm understanding. We get to see how Sydney grew up with her dad and his workers. Sydney White is leaving to go off to college at Southern Atlantic University, Where she’ll be pledging to her deceased mom’s sorority (婦女聯(lián)誼會 ). It means a lot to Sydney to get into the sorority because she feels that it’s a way to connect with her mom. Sydney eventually runs for student council president herself, rallying all the school misfits and socalled Losers in a coup to wrest power from the Greeks. Fun Time 。0639。), and do the following tasks. Task 1 Group Work In small groups, take turns to ask the following questions. l Why is it a good idea to set yourself some goals? l What are your plans for academic success? l What sort of electives do you want to take? l What courses do you want to take for your minor? l Do you want to change your major? l How many clubs or anizations do you want to join? Themerelated Activities Part 3 Unit 1 College Life Task 2 A good way of measuring your progress and motivating yourself to improve is by setting some goals to achieve. Take English for example: I will learn 10 new words every day. Try to set yourself some goals now by pleting the table below and then discuss with your partner or your teacher whether these goals are realistic and achievable or not. Goals How to Achieve the Goals I will learn 10 new words every day. By writing them down and repeating them to yourself. … (Open.) … (Open.) … … … … … … Themerelated Activities Part 3 【 script】 Unit 1 College Life Following is the script of the video: What Are Your Hopes for the Future? Connie: That’s the subject of this report. Almost three million students will graduate from American high schools this year. Half of them want jobs now. They need to work. Maybe they can’t go to college. Maybe they have to earn money. All of them have to plan their future. And they have to do it now. What will they do? Today we’re going inside Stamford High School to find out. Connie: OK, Mike. Let’s go inside. I want to shoot some pictures of students in the classroom, and then I want to interview some of the students. Connie: OK. What are your hopes for the future? What do you want to do when you graduate from high school or college …? Yes? Student 1: I hope to join the Peace Corps and do, uh, research or field work in India. I speak Hindi and I’d like —I hope to learn a language a bit more proficiently. Themerelated Activities Part 2 Unit 1 College Life Connie: And what do you hope to do? Student 2: Um… I want to… I hope to bee an astronaut, hopefully… um … or some kind of scientist dealing with space and astronomy in particular… Connie: Do you want to land on the moon? Student 2: Yes, I want to land on the moon. Connie: That’s interesting, but do you want to work that hard? Student 2: Well, I don’t want to work that hard, but I’m going to have to. If I want to… if I get my dream, so… Connie: What do you plan to do when you graduate from high school? Student 3: When I graduate from high school, I’d like to go to… go to college and try to get a job in a large pany to bee an accountant and make a lot of money and just live well off. Student 4: I plan to be a social worker. Connie: My best friend is a social worker… What do you want to do? Themerelated Activities Part 2 Unit 1 College Life Student 5: Well, I want to be in the NFL playing football and have my own business. Connie: What do you want to do? Student 6: I’m not really sure. I want to go on to college, and I want to study fine arts. Student 7: I imagine coaching high school football. Connie: What do you enjoy? Student 8: I enjoy athletics. I enjoy playing field hockey and doing gymnastics. Um … I enjoy reading. Uh… I like to read fiction. I don’t like…um…I don’t enjoy science fiction, but … um… any other kind of fiction I enjoy. Student 9: I want to teach English. Connie: That’s terrific. Connie: OK, Mike. Great interviews! Are you ready? Connie: In our next report, we’ll find out what students really like and don’t like. What’s interesting, what’s exciting, and what’s boring. I’m Connie Swift reporting for WEFL. (482 words) Themerelated Activities Part 2 Unit 1 College Life Following is the script of the VOA news report: VOA Education Report This week, we begin a series of reports for students around the world who are interested in higher education in the United States. The last time we broadcast our Foreign Student Series was two years ago. Since then we have gotten more requests for information about how to attend an American college or university. So we will present new reports in our series with the most current information. Each week, we will discuss a part of the process for being an international student in the United States. Students have many questions: How do I find out about schools? How do I choose the right one for me? Which tests m