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As the film says, the college life is about ourselves. During a few years of study, we are going to make a great improvement. It is colorful because all types of extracurricular activities such as sports meets, speech contests, and different social gatherings and dancing parties provide opportunities to make new friends.
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➢ being independent ➢ a new lifestyle ➢ a new environment ➢ meeting different people ➢ learning more knowledge
Most probably, our new friends come from different cultures, speak different dialects or languages and have different views of the world. The college or university is just a new stage of life for us to play our own roles colorfully. However, college life is also very challenging. It is actually everyone’s story about how to develop skills in communicating, learning and researching, about how to make achievements in preparing for a bright future and again about ourselves.
Unit 1
Going to College
NEW HORIZON ENGLISH COURSES
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• taking an exam once a week
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4. What are you going to do at college?
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➢ having more fun ➢ making decisions on my own ➢ learning as much as possible ➢ a bright future ➢ a lot more than just getting a grade
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Entering college for the first time is an exciting moment in your life. Think about why you decided to go to college. You may have several reasons. But whatever the reasons, use your time wisely to work hard, enjoy meeting new people and prepare you for a bright future.
It is about you. It is about connecting. It is about skills. It is about achievements. It is about the future.
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Discussion: After seeing the ad video of the campus life in Evergreen Valley College, what is your general impression of the college life? And what do you think about the five themes mentioned in this film?
Valley College, Canada. It helps us catch a glimpse of the campus life in a foreign culture. As a new college student, what do you think about the themes talked about in this film?
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Section A: How to Be Cool at College?
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What do you think? The film below is an ad video of Evergreen
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How to Be Cool at College?
Going to college? Lucky you! You’ll have a great time and a lot of fun on the way. Yet your education is also very serious business. To a large extent, you will be on your own. True, there will be many people ready to help you, but you will often have to take the first step in whatever you choose to do.
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Leading in 1. What’s your purpose of going to college?
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➢ for the parents ➢ to get a good job ➢ to better serve other people in the future ➢ to get/have more knowledge ➢ to get/have a degree
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Now you are a college student, happy and proud. Sure, in college you’ll have more time for yourself. And sure, you’ll have to decide how to spend your own time and how to make most of.
“I want to be cool at college,” you may say. Good. That’s the first step to being cool. Now take the second: answering the following questions.
Work in pairs and ask each other the following questions while checking (√) the answers and providing your own in the blanks. Please notice that the questions are open-ended with no right or wrong answers.
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• washing by yourself College? • going to school on
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• having good meals at home
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• Being with parents
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Campus Life in the University
The short video presents before us a very exciting, colorful and yet challenging college life. It is exciting because the college or university is the place where we can grow up, and where we can change from an innocent boy or girl to someone who knows exactly what to do. We can not only acquire a lot of book learning in the classroom lectures, we can also make good use of the library to explore the knowledge by ourselves.
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* make more friends * play computer games * learn as much as possible * travel with classmates * be in love with someone * have more than one degree
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Do you know the differences between Leading in college and middle school life? Discuss with
your partner and make a decision.