At the School Library

Xinhai School

Liu Chao

2015.04.10

Our School Library

What should a good school library be like?

A good school library

A large collection of books

Borrow BooksGet a library card

Check books on the computer

Find books on the shelves

Ask the librarian to record

Recall them

Return Books

Return on time The book is due

Renew it

Don’t return in time

Have to pay a fine

Focus:

• How many books may you borrow at a time in our school library?

• How long may you keep books?

• How can you recall a book?

Get a library card/ show me your student card and fill in a form with full details about yourself

May I help you?

Just show me your student card and fill in a form with full

details about yourself. Thanks.

Yes, please. How can I get a

library card?

Keep these books for another week/

renew them

Find this book quickly/ check for it on the computer first

Don’t return this book in time/ have

to pay a fine

Borrow a book on loan/ recall it

Tom’s story

do for you library card fill in

details ready how to

wonder kind of culture

customs title author

In that case check Select

call welcome

Tom’s story

A: I’m afraid I can’t return these books until I’ve finished my project.

B: In that case, you’d better renew them before they’re due so that you can keep them longer.

A: Thank you very much.

Word cues:

return these books/ finished my project/ renew them before they’re due/ keep them longer

start my project / read some more books about it / go to the library / get more useful information

use the library / get a library card / fill in a form now / get the card right away

borrow this book / someone has returned it / recall the book / get it sooner

pay a fine

on loan

renew

fill in formlibrarian

recall

due

so that

not… until

以便；因此

续借；更新

付罚金

直到……才

图书管理员到期

（被）暂借的

催还

填表

Introduction

• Introduce how to borrow a book to our new students in our school library if you are a librarian. You can use the following word cues.

pay a fine

on loan renew

fill in form librarian

recall due

so that not… until