Part One Warming-up Activities

Task 1 Study the pictures and discuss the questions in small groups.

1．What are the people in each picture doing? Do they enjoy what they are doing now?

2．How would you like to spend your college life?

Task 2 Watch the video clip and decide whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.

1．The narrator's friends adapted to college life easily. ( )

2．Bridget was at NYU. ( )

3．NYU is the abbreviation of New York University. ( )

4．Tibby was at Rhode Island School of Design. ( )

5．The narrator was lost with her friends going to different universities. ( )

Task 3 Watch the clip again and fill in the blanks.

1．That fall when we left for college, I watched each of my friends________a new life.

2．And Lena? She was on________at Rhode Island School of Design.

3．They made it look so easy,________and making new friends, while I was at Yale just waiting for something to feel________.

Task 4 Discuss the following questions.

1．What's your ideal college life?

2．How did you feel when you entered the college? Use three adjectives to describe your college life and tell us why.