Unit 8
Teaching Objectives:
1. To learn how to live and how to plan our life;
2. To learn how to beat retirement blues;
3. To know about the memorial methods to help students remember words;
4. To deal with the language points in Text A and Text B.
5. To remember and use new words and expressions;
Focuses:
1. To learn how to live and how to plan our life;
2. To learn how to beat retirement blues;
3. To know about the memorial methods to help students remember words;
Difficulties:
How to help students remember words by knowing about the memorial methods.
Teaching Time:
2 periods.
Teaching Procedures:
Part I Pre-reading Questions
It can be used as lead-in questions. For students, they can discuss with each other and will have free answers.
Part II Extensive Reading
In
this
part,
there
are
two
texts
and
their
relevant
exercises.
By
reading
the
texts
in
limited
time,
Teacher
helps students understand the contents and the reading methods to build reading abilities gradually.
Text A How Long Will You Live
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a. Let the students read Text A as quickly as they can for the first time to get the general idea;
b. Ask students to tell others the general idea of the text;
c. Then use some basic reading skills to read through the text again to find the answers to Exercises I;
d. Check the answers to Exercises I;
e. Analyze the language points in the text:
1.
1-year-olds:
涓�宀佺殑灏忓銆傚悎鎴愯瘝鍙樻垚澶嶆暟锛屽鏋滆鍚堟垚璇嶆湁涓诲共璇嶏紝鍒欏湪涓诲共璇嶅悗闈㈠姞
-s
锛?/p>
brother-in-law
鈫?/p>
brothers-in-law,
looker-on
鈫?/p>
lookers-on;
濡傛灉璇ュ悎鎴愯瘝娌℃湁涓诲共璇嶏紝鍒欏湪鏈�鍚庝竴涓瘝
鐨勮瘝灏惧姞
-s
锛?/p>
grow-up
鈫?/p>
grow-ups, forget-me-not
鈫?/p>
forget-me-nots;
鑻ュ悎鎴愯瘝涓湁
man
鎴?/p>
woman
鐨勮瘽锛?/p>
澶嶆暟褰㈠紡鍒欒姹傚叾鏋勬垚閮ㄥ垎涔熻浣滅浉搴斿彉鍖栵細
a
woman
doctor
鈫?/p>
women
doctors,
a
man
cook
鈫?/p>
men
cooks
銆?/p>
2. hypothetical [or synthetic] cohort
锛?/p>
鍋囧畾鎴栫患鍚堥槦鍒楋紝
瀹為獙鏍锋湰鐨勪竴绉嶆柟寮忋�?/p>
cohort
锛?/p>
鍦ㄤ汉鍙ｇ粺璁″銆?/p>
缁熻瀛︽垨甯傚満璋冩煡涓畾涔夌殑涓�浠ｄ汉銆傚锛?/p>
The cohort of people aged 30 to 39 are more conservative.
骞?/p>
榫勫湪
30
宀佸埌
39
宀佺殑涓�缇や汉鏇村姞淇濆畧銆?/p>
3. If your retirement plan assumes you
鈥?/p>
ll live to 81, you probably won
鈥?/p>
t hit it right on the button.
濡傛灉浣?/p>
鐨勫吇鑰侀噾璁″垝鍋囪浣犲皢娲诲埌
81
宀侊紝浣犲彲鑳借绠楀緱骞朵笉鍑嗙‘銆?/p>
4. By the way, while the odds are heavily against his reaching 95, if he should happen to make it, he then
faces a 22% chance of getting to 100.
椤轰究璇磋锛?/p>
铏界劧浠栨椿鍒?/p>
95
宀佺殑鍙兘鎬у緢灏忥紝
浣嗘槸濡傛灉浠栬兘鐨勮瘽锛?/p>
閭ｄ箞浠栧氨鏈?/p>
22%
鐨勬満浼氭椿鍒?/p>
100
宀併�?/p>
5. Trouble is, the science behind them can be squishy.
楹荤儲鍦ㄤ簬杩欎簺鍋氭硶鐨勭瀛﹀熀纭�鍙兘鏄剢寮辩殑銆?/p>
behind:
浣滀负
鈥︹�?/p>
鐨勫熀纭�銆佹敮鎸併�傚锛?/p>
Behind your every action is self-interest.
浣犵殑姣忎竴涓鍔ㄩ兘
鏄嚭浜庝釜浜虹鍒┿�?/p>
f. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.
Text B Plan Ahead to Beat Retirement Blues