Step 1. Observe: Read the following passage and try to tell the function of the underlined words.
New term is coming. Almost all students feel depressed. They have to struggle to get up early, deal with too much homework. what’s worse, some students feel so bored, for them, everything seems uninteresting to them: the unfinished homework for holidays, the boringclassroom , facing unknown classmates This is so-called “back-to-school syndrome”