内容正文:
Everyday economics
Book 7 Unit 4
Look at the chart and answer the questions.
1. What options do college students have after graduation?
2. What does the second chart tell you about the trend of college graduates starting their own businesses?
3. What do you think the trend will look like in five years’ time?
Trend of Chinese college graduates
starting a business
1) From 2009 to 2015, the percentage of university graduates who started a business rose.
2) Between 2015 and 2016, the percentage remained almost at the same level, about 3%, while in 2017, the percentage declined.
Fast reading
What decision did Zhang Yue make to develop her career?
Zhang Yue decided to return to her home town and start a business growing roses.
Read for main idea
What do you think is the main purpose of the passage and why?
What is the genre of this passage?
News
A biography
A feature story
新闻特写
“hook”
“meat”
“summary”
Read for structure
Divide this passage into several parts and summarize the general idea in each part.
Hook
the reasons
the challenges
Advice
a scene in the studio
a scene in the rose valley
Read for details
Scene in the studio
Why was ZY in the studio?
How did she feel? How do you know that? Why did she feel that way?
She was doing a presentation to win support for her business.
She was very nervous.
We can find the clue from her shaking hands and the line of sweat.
Because she was afraid that she might fail.
Read for details
Scene in the valley
What is the valley like? When does this conversation take place?
Why does the author mention the quotation, “The early bird catches the worm”?
It’s filled with row upon row of rose plants.
It takes place in the dawn.
To point out a feature in this business: to start early in order to keep the flowers in a good state.
一排又一排的
Read for details
Read Para 3~8 to complete the interview notes.
Chairwoman
was willing to purchase the product and help with its distribution
An ideal place
being her own boss
Giving something back to her