As in reading teaching,schema theory has long been taking a dominant part.According to this theory,English teacherscan help the students to call up their prior knowledge by placing an emphasis on a more efficient use of pre-reading activities.Oneof the effective activities is to make good use of the pre-reading exercises in the textbook.This paper intends to analyze the resultsof two brief investigations.One was about the pre-reading exercises in the SEFC(New Edition 2010)Book 1.The other was car-ried out among the first year students from Nanhai Experimental High School of South China Normal University.English teachersin high school thus can train the students to make links between the text and what they already know according to their interests.