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Grade 8
Unit 4
Why don’t you talk to your parents?
Section B 2a-2e
Warming up
Watch and answer
Leading-in
What does Binbin do after school?
Ask and answer
He plays sports after school.
What does Andy do after school?
He reads books after school.
What do you do after school?
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Pre-reading
Are you busy in a week?
What do you do after school?
Ask and answer
have piano lessons
study English
Pre-reading
While-reading
Fast reading
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
A.Life for the Taylors’ children is busy, too.
B.Linda Miller’s opinion.
D. Dr. Alice Green’s opinion.
C. Chinese children are busy on weekends.
While-reading
1. What is the common problem for Chinese and American families?
2. Who gives their opinions about the problem?
The children have to take too many after-school classes.
Cathy Taylor, Linda Miller and Alice Green.
Parents give their children too much stress.
Careful reading
Pre-reading
猜测意义
第一次阅读某篇文章时,不要担心你不认识的单词。利用上下文帮助你猜出意思。
While-reading
Careful reading
continue
training
stress
typical
compete
develpment
comparing
While-reading
Careful reading
While-reading
Chcck the answers.
1. Does Cathy Taylor think it’s important for kids to join after-school activities?
Yes. She believes these activities are important for her children’s future.
2. Does Linda Miller agree with Cathy? What’s her opinion?
No, she doesn’t. She thinks it’s crazy and unfair to send small kids to all kinds of classes. Parents shouldn’t push their kids so hard, and they should let their kids be kids.
While-reading
Chcck the answers.
3. Does Dr. Green agree with Cathy or Linda?
What does she say?
She agrees with Linda. She says kids should have time to relax and think for themselves. Although it’s normal to want successful children, it’s even more important to have happy children.
Post-reading
1. In my opinion, if your kids really like some activities such as
swimming, dancing and so on, they can go to the classes.
They