Warm-up
In this unit you will…
Talk about your own lifestyle and find out about other people’s.
Listen to some interviews, radio programmes and a survey.
Read articles about lifestyles and a personal letter.
Write a personal letter.
Review the present tenses.
Warm-up
1 >Look at the photos. What kind of lifestyle do you think the people have?
Use the Key Words to help you.
boring, busy, dangerous, active, easy, lazy, exciting, free, interesting, peaceful, relaxing, stressful
Example
I think a shepherd’s life is peaceful and relaxing-but maybe it’s boring sometimes.
Answers
1 Shepherd’s life: lazy/free/dangerous
2 Football player’s life: interesting/exciting/stressful
3 Business manager’s life: busy/exciting/boring
4 Student’s life: interesting/active/stressful
2> Listen. Say which of the people in the photos is speaking.
Example 1 a football player
Answers
1 a football player 2 a student 3 a shepherd 4 a business manager
Tapescript
1 Football player: Being famous isn’t easy, you know. I travel a lot-I have matches in different countries. But my job is exciting, very exciting! I love the matches, the people cheering, know what I mean?
2 Student: My dad says these are the best days of my life-but I’m not so sure! You know, I’ve got lots of work to do and there’s not much time really. I also play football for the school team and we have to do training three nights a week.
3 Shepherd: I love the animals and I love nature. It’s peaceful, and there’s no one to tell me what to do. But it’s not so good when the weather’s bad!
4 Business manager: I’m very busy, and I don’t have time to see my husband and children. Mmmm and my life is very stressful, I suppose. I mean, I have to deal with lots of money. But I find it really exciting.
3> Work in pairs. Talk about the lifestyles below.
Example
A: My aunt’s life is very interesting because she…
B: Yes, but it’s very…
1 My aunt is a business manager in Shanghai and she travels a lot. She has a young daughter. She works very hard so she hasn’t got time for hobbies.
2 Fang Ming is a police officer in Chengdu. He is also a member of a basketball team and plays the game once a week. He goes fishing in his free time.
4> Introduce some more lifestyles of other jobs. Let the students learn more.
Writing
5> Imagine the lifestyle of your dreams. Write five sentences about it.
Example
I am a professional tennis player. I live in Beijing but I travel a lot.
6> Think bout your own lifestyles. You know, you are students, you are very busy. In other countries, students ‘s lifestyles aren’t like ours. What’s your opinion about this? Please write them down.
Lesson 1 A Perfect Day?
Teaching aims:
To discuss favorite TV programmes and daily activities.
To revise Present Simple and Present Continuous.
To read two texts in order to check predictions.
To read two texts for specific information.
Teaching difficulties: To revise Present Simple and Present Continuous.
Teaching Aids: computer and cassette
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming up
T: I think most of us like watching TV. Watching TV is part of our life, do you think so?
S:
T: We know about all kinds of things from TV. What are your favorite kinds of TV programme? Tell the class. Use the Key Words to help you. (show some slides about TV programmes)
S:
T: Why do you like the programmes?
S:
T: Do you ever watch too much TV? How much time do you spend watching TV every day?
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T: The way a person lives and works is different. Can you imagine an adult does nothing except watch TV all day? Or he only thinks of working and never has time to watch TV? What kind of lifestyle do you think the men in the picture have?
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T: In reality few people like do that, but some people like that lifestyle and think it is a perfect day. Now let’s read the text “A Perfect Day?” really?
Ⅱ Reading
Do the exercise true or false to see how much students understand.
1. Brian is not satisfied with the kind of lifestyle.
2. Brian’s wife goes out to work and supports the family.
3. Bob is poor so he has to work day and night.
4. Bob almost has no time to spent with his family.
5. It seems that Bob prefers doing a lot of things all day to doing nothing.
6. Bob’s wife often quarreled with Bob for him doing nothing.
7. Brian has more than a TV set.
8. Brian ‘s wife often complains the money that Brian makes is not enough.
Answers: 1. F 2.T 3. F 4. T 5. T 6.F 7.T 8.F
T: What does a couch potato refer to?
S:
T: A couch potato is someone who watches lots (some would say too much!) of television.
“沙发马铃薯”。它不是马铃薯的变种，而是现代社会里的产物，指浪费太多时间看电视的人。
T: What is workaholic?
S:
T: A person who works very hard and finds it difficult to stop working and do other things. What is different between a workaholic and a couch potato?
S:
T: They are too different. One is lazy and doing nothing, the other like being busy
Ⅲ Read aloud
Do the exercise 3 to let students understand the text.
Read the two texts quickly and underline the TV programmes that Brain usually watches.
the children’s programs, news, old movies, TV series, sports games
Underline the kinds of work Bob does every day.
meetings and phone calls, urgent matters, do my own paperwork and answer some personal e-mails, look at documents at home, be ready for the next day’s work
Do the exercise 4. Read the two text again and answer these questions:
Ⅳ Discuss
Which lifestyle do you prefer? Which one is healthier?
What can Bob or Brian do to improve their lifestyle?
Possible answers:
Do you work too hard? You may need more time to enjoy your life with your family.
You are too lazy! Your life is too boring only at home .You should go out for work and do some exercise.
Ⅴ Language points
1. switch on=turn on 接通， 打开（电器）
. First you should switch the machine on.
switch off =turn off切断（电流等）
He switched it off because he didn’t like the television programme.
他把电视关了， 因为他不喜欢那些电视节目。
switch over 交换位置， 转换
You drive first and then we can switch over.
你先开车， 然后我们换着开。
2. take up占据（时间、空间）
This table takes up too much room.
这个桌子太占地方。
Her time is fully taken up with writing.
她的时间都用来写作了。
take up 还可以表示： 开始学习某项课程；向…提出；开始做某项工作； 拿起武器；打断某人等。如：
A few years later I dropped medicine and took up physics.
几年以后我放弃了医学， 开始学习物理。
He said he would take up my difficulties with the headmaster.
他说他要向校长提出我的困难。
When can you take up your duties, Doctor White?
怀特医生， 您什么时候可以开始工作？
She took me up suddenly when I suggested that the job was only suitable for a man.
我提出那工作只适合男人做， 她突然不容分说地把我打断了。
He called on the people to take up arms to defend their freedom.
他号召人民拿起武器保卫自由。
3. fill vt./vi 使充满；注入
Flowers filled the garden.
花园里开满鲜花。
The doctor filled the bottle with some medicine.
医生往瓶里装入一些药物。
be filled with充满
Her eyes are filled with tears.
她眼里满含泪水。
4. When I get home at about ten, I look at some documents that I bring back from the office so that I can be ready for the next day’s work. (分析句子成分)
5. be /get bored厌倦 , 厌烦
I’m getting bored and homesick.
我感到厌倦了，有点想家。
I’m bored with the subject anyway.
不管怎么说我对这个题目有点烦。
Ⅵ Vocabulary and Grammar
Do the exercise 7, 8 and 9.
Homework
Keep a diary about your weekend. Words about 100.
Lesson 2 Relaxing
Teaching aims:
To practise listening for specific information.
To use strategies to predict answers before listening to a text.
To practise expressing preferences
To become aware of hesitation techniques.
To learn about ways of dealing with stress in everyday life.
Teaching difficulties: To practise expressing preferences
Teaching Aids: computer and cassette
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warming up
T: Today we are going to study lesson 2 relaxing. What’s meaning of relaxing?
S:
T: Relaxing means to rest while you are doing something enjoyable, especially after work or effort. Do you know what I say?
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T: In our life we often face all kinds of stress and worries. Think about situations in your life. Use the key works to say how relaxing or stressful they are for you. Do the exercise 1.
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T: Too much stress and worries for a long time does harm to our health, we must think of ways to get rid of them, now look at the picture, stressful?
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T: Yes, they are relaxing, these are effective ways of reducing stress.
Ⅱ Listening
T: we will listen an interview about relaxing, but before listening we do an exercise to help you understand.
Do the exercise 2, You will hear the following words in the interview. Use them to complete the sentences.
T: In order to live happily we must think of ways to reduce stress, do you think so? What ways do you have?
S:
T: The interview will give you some new ideas, but before you listen , read the questions carefully, try to think of possible answers.
Do the excise 3 and 4
Do the excise 5
T: Now let me test your remembering ability, you read through the questions, answer them if you can remember any of the answers.
Students listen to the cassette again and answer the questions.
Do the exercise 6.
T: We will listen to Mark’s dialogue about relaxing and stress. I guess maybe you will have the same feeling and experience. Pay attention to his stressful actives and relaxing actives to fill the blank.
When students have checked their answers, ask them “Before exams and before going to parties what do you do to avoid much too stress?
Do the exercise 7
Students look at the Function File activity and see if they can remember or can guess any of the missing verbs.
Students listen to the cassette again and complete the sentences in the Function File.
Remind students of these words’ character: v + ving.
Do the exercise 9
In our oral language we often pause. Now listen to Mark again. Which words or sounds does he use to hesitate?
Students listen to the cassette. After each sentence, pause the cassette so that students can repeat the hesitation device.
Ⅲ Practice- Speaking
In pairs students act out a role play in which one person is not sure what to say and so uses a lot of hesitation words. For example, You borrow your friend’s favorite CD last week. Now she ask you for it back you can’ t find it.
Ⅳ Homework
Write eight sentences about yourself using the verbs in the Function File.
Lesson 3 A Volunteer Teacher
Teaching aims:
To listen for specific facts
To give opinion about voluntary work
To talk about future arrangements and intentions, using the Present Simple, the Present Continuous and going to
Teaching difficulties:
To talk about future arrangements and intentions, using the Present Simple, the Present Continuous and going to
Teaching Aids: computer and cassette
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Speaking
T: What does the girl do?
S:
T: Yes she is a volunteer teacher. This is a real story. The girl’s name is Wang Shu, grew up in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Upon graduation from the English department of Beijing Normal University, she left Beijing for Inner Mongolia working as a volunteer teacher. She is still there now. What do you know about this part of China?
S:
T: show a slide to introduce Inner Mongolia (Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol) is the first national autonomous region established in China. It stretches along China's northern border with Mongolia and Russia and covers an oblong area of over 1.28 million square kilometers, one eighth of China. Of all the Chinese provinces and autonomous regions, Inner Mongolia is the third largest after Xinjiang and Tibet.) Inner Mongolia falls behind developed areas so it needs volunteers go to work there.
T: What can you say about the girl in the photo?
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Ⅱ Listening
Students read the questions and predict the answers
T: I think you must be interested in Wang Shu, now listen to the interview, you will learn more about her and answer these questions.
Students listen to the tape and check their predictions.
Students listen to the tape again and make sure of the answers
Students work in pairs and take turns to retell Wang Shu’s story
Ⅲ Voice your opinion
Is it a good idea to do voluntary work? What reasons do people have for doing voluntary work?
Ⅳ Vocabulary
Do the exercise 5.
Students work individually, thinking about the cues and what they are going to do.
Students read the sentences, decide which words to use, and then complete the sentences.
Ⅴ Grammar
Do the exercise 6
Listen to the interview again. Pay attention to these sentences from the interview. What verb forms are used to talk about the future?
Guide students to draw the following conclusion:
present Simple
present Continuous
going to + infinitive
do consolidate exercise7, 8and 9
explain further grammar:
Expressing future arrangements and intentions:
be going to-- to express an intention to do something.
Present Continuous-- to talk about future events that we have already fixed or arranged.
Present Simple-- to talk about official events or timetables which we cannot change.
be going to do 与 be doing 的区别
be going to do 表示事先经过考虑过，然后计划好将做某事；迹象将发生某事。
We are going to go climbing this week.
My sister is going to go to Australia in a week.
It is going to snow.
be doing 指立刻决定的计划，没有经过一段时间 的考虑, 意思上相当于be about to do, 但后者不能接时间状语；多用于表示位置移动的动词中，如：go, come, arrive, leave, reach , start;
I am going to hometown this afternoon.
He is leaving.
We are playing the piano at six.
I am about to go out.
句型转换
1. We are going to do some shopping next Tuesday. (变成否定句)
We ____________________ shopping next Tuesday.
2. I’m going to see my mother on Mothers’ Day. (变成一般疑问句，并作否定回答)
- ________ going to see your mother on Mothers’ Day?
-NO, _________.
3. She is going to carry these luggage to the train station. (对划线部分提问)
_____ is she going _____?
4. Sophie is going to France the day after tomorrow. (对划线部分提问)
_______ Sophie ______ to France?
Answers: 1. aren’t going to do some 2. Are you, I am not
3. What, to do 4. When is, going
补全对话：
A: (1) ________________________tomorrow?
B: I'm going to buy a gift.
A: (2) ___________________________?
B: I'm going to give it to my mother.
A: (3)________________________ ？
B: I'm going to buy a bunch of flower.
A: ___________________________?
B: I'm going to buy it in the Flower World.
A: Are you going there alone
B: No. (5)__________________________.
A: your mother will be happy.
Answers:
(1) What are you going to do
(2) Who are you going to give it to
(3) What are you going to buy
(4) Where are you going to buy it
(5) I’m going there with my sister
Translate sentences
1. 我们要两点半出发。
__________________________
2. 明年我们要去加拿大度假。
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3. 我将派约翰去帮助你。
______________________________
4． 约翰和玛丽买了一些家具，他们打算下个月结婚。
____________________________________________.
Answers:
1. We are going to start at 2:30.
2. We are going to take a holiday in Canada next year.
3. I’m going to send John to help you.
4. John and Mary bought some furniture, they are going to marry next month.
Ⅵ Homework: writing
You have just started your senior high school. You must have a lot of plans. Choose from the following and write about one of your plans:
Your plan for the next three years.
Your plan for the coming holiday.
Your plan for the coming weekend.
Lesson 4 City and Country
Objectives:
To practise using background knowledge strategies when reading.
To practise reading for specific information.
To express opinion orally and give reasons for them.
To compare one lifestyle with another.
Pre-Reading
Answer these questions to prepare yourself.
Use the Key Words below to help you.
office, farm, underground, walk, crowded, space, quiet, noisy.
1) How are city and country lifestyles different in China?
2) Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?
Show some pictures in the country and in the city.
Reading
Read and fill in the table with information about Debbie and Paul’s lives. Add information about your own life and compare.
Debbie Paul You
Lives in A big city a small
village
Wake-up time 7 am 4 am
Job an accountant a farmer student
Working
hours 8 all day
Works in center of London north of England
Evening
activities dance classes, go to the gym, French classes play with his children;
study by distance learning
Special
activities go to the cinema,
drive to the country and go walking there go to London for a weekend break
Look at the chart then try to think out some words to describe the advantages and disadvantages living in the city or the country.
Post-Reading
Choose the best answers:
1.From the first paragraph of text 1, we can know that ___
A. Debbie has to get up very early but Paul doesn’t have to.
B .Debbie is rather tired of the underground.
C .Debbie goes to work by car every day.
D .Paul has to travel far away to work every day.
2. In the last paragraph of text 2, it can be inferred that ___.
A. Paul’s wife does not like movies
B. Paul often goes to see the film
C. The life of Paul is very convenient
D. When Paul’s children see the tube, they will get very excited
3. The main idea of text 2 is that ___.
A. Paul lives in a small village in the north of England
B. It is easy for Paul to go to work
C. Paul is busy but without the stress of life
D. Paul’s life is very free
4. Whose life is better, Debbie’s or Paul’s?
A .Debbie’s. B. Paul’s. C. Both.
D. Different people have different ideas.
5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the texts?
A. Debbie has to spend all morning checking numbers every day on workweeks.
B. Debbie likes to go to the countryside to have a weekend break sometimes.
C. Debbie and Paul are both movie fanatics and both see movies a lot.
D. Paul likes all the crowds and the noise in London.
Answers: BDCDC
Languages points:
1. That’s what people call …
He’s a new comer. That’s what I know about him.
That’s how… That’s why… That’s where…
2. …it’s so crowded that I can’t find …
so …that…引导结果状语从句,如此…以至于…
Anna works so hard that she has little time for rest.
Tommy got up so late that he missed the first bus.
3. I spend all morning checking numbers.
spend some time doing sth. 花费时间做――
I spend two hours doing my homework everyday.
4. We don’t have the same work hour that office workers in the city have. that引导的从句表示的内容与主句所讲的是“同一”
That’s the same purse that I bought last Sunday.
对比 That’s the same purse as I bought last Sunday. (同我丢失的那个一样，但不是同一个)
5. Right now I am studying by distance learning.
distance learning 远程教育
6. …it’s my dream to see the Great Wall …
不定式to see the Great Wall作真正的主语，前面的it是形式主语。
dream of
梦见...
I often dream of myself becoming a great singer.
I never dreamed of meeting you here.
我绝对未想到在这里遇到你。
7. My wife calls me a movie fanatic.
call+宾语＋宾补
We call him our monitor.
8. …so I don’t get the chance to go very often.
get the chance to do-有机会做――
I’m so happy that I got the chance to go abroad.
Exercise
Choose the best answers
1 –Bob told me not to swim in this river.
--That’s I told him.
A how B it C that D what
2-Don’t spend too much time the game.
--I see.
A to play B playing C played D play
3 –I saw a pen in the garden yesterday.
--Where is it now? It’s the same pen I lost.
A that B as C which D what
Keys: D, B, A
Vocabulary
Use the words from the texts to complete the sentences below.
accountant, tube, underground, crowded, nearby, otherwise, career, fanatic, forecast, distance learning
1) In England, the is often called the . Many people travel on this to work.
2) I am a real book . I have so many books in my flat. It looks like a library!
3) The says that the weather this weekend is going to be sunny and warm.
4) If you like maths you could be an , you could be a maths teacher.
5) There is a restaurant and it is always because it is so popular.
6) I am studying by to improve my .
Answers:
1 underground, tube 2 fanatic 3 forecast 4 accountant, otherwise 5 nearby, crowded 6 distance learning, career
Speaking
Talk about it. How are Debbie and Paul’s lifestyles different? How are they similar?
Example Debbie has to travel to work but Paul doesn’t.
They both have to work.
Writing
Where do you live? In a city or in the countryside? What do you like about where you live?
List three things.
Then try to write an essay to describe the place where you live , if you like there and the reason you like it or dislike it.