Unit 3 Could you please clean your room?
Section B
Step 1 Reading
1.Warming-up (2a)
Discuss the questions with your partner.
(1)What do you often do to help your parents at home?
(2)Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?
2.Skimming (2b)
The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Skim the following letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?
了解略读策略:
Skimming 意为“快速掠过,从中提取最容易取得的精华”。这种读法包含原词的所有意思——快速读过去,读取读物中关键性的东西。因此,我们可以把这种读法理解为快速浏览课文,领会文章大意。一般而言,通过标题可知道文章的主题。对文章的首段和末段要多加注意,以便发现作者的观点。
Answer the questions.
(1)What is Ms. Miller’s opinion?
(2)What is Mr. Smith’s opinion?
3.Reading(2c, 2d)
(1) According to Mr. Smith and Ms. Miller, what are the pros and consabout kids doing chores?
(2)Read the letters again and finish the following tasks.
①完成句子,每空词数不限。
a.Ms. Miller thinks children should spend their time on schoolwork in order to .
b.Mr. Smith thinks these days children depend on .
②判断正(T)误(F)。
( )a. Ms. Miller thinks doing chores is not difficult.
( )b. Mr. Smith’s neighbor’s son looked after himself well during his first year in the college.
[答案]
①a.get good grades and get into a good university
b.their parents too much.
②a.T b.F
(3)①Write one sentence with each phrase in 2d from the letters.
②Discuss the questions in 2e with your partner.
Step 2 Language points (详见云资源)
waste; provide; depend on; as a result; in order to…
Step 3 Exercises
Ⅰ.根据句意及首字母提示补全单词。
1.He was i but nobody took him to the hospital.
2.If you don’t study hard, your grades will d .
3.I like Old Henry because he often p us with hot water.
4.We can d on him for help.
5.Mother thinks playing computer games is a w of time.
Ⅱ.用所给词的适当形式填空。
1.He (develop) a farm from nothing.
2.In fact, young people have too much (stress) today.
3.He didn’t mind (help) me with my English.
4.Mr. Li and Mr. Wang are both my (neighbor).
5.Why did the man make the little boy (carry) water? [答案]
Ⅰ.1.ill 2.drop 3.provides 4.depend 5.waste
Ⅱ.1.developed 2.stress 3.helping 4.neighbors 5.carry
Step 4 Homework
Ask the students to make some new dialogues with the phrases in 2d.
