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Unit 2 Improving yourself
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Students could get the main idea of this passage
Teaching Goals
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Students could acquire the specific information of the four jars
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Students could form correct concept of money
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Do you receive lucky money
(压岁钱) this year?
lead in
How do you spend your lucky money?
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lead in
Look at the chart and answer the questions. (page.20)
1. What are the top three things students from this school spend their money on?
2. What else do you think students often spend their money on?
books and magazines
school supplies
clothes
snacks
computer games
presents
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step2Pre-reading
The words used in the title are different forms of one word and they have similar meanings,which makes the title more amusing and interesting.
Valuable values
Most important/most concerned/useful;
Worth a lot of money
Ideas about what’s right or what’s important in life
Things that you think most important in your life
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step2Pre-reading
Learning to learn
Wordplay uses the sounds and meanings of similar words in an amusing or clever way, for example: I was trying to discover how lightning worked, and then it struck me! It can also be used to reinforce the meanings of themes: in the title The Importance of Being Earnest,
“Earnest” (认真的,诚挚的) is an adjective as well as a character’s name.
Valuable values
Please look at the title and make a prediction for the passage
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Task1. fast-reading
Listen to the passage and read together. Think about the main idea of every paragraph.
Step.2 While-reading
Para 1 What to do with their money?/One example.
Para 2 Age is no barrier to making good use of
money/Another example.
Para 3
Managing it (money) seems to be
Unprecedentedly important to
/statement to the thesis
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Step.2 While-reading
Para.4 What the four jars are.
Para.7 The value of the Investing jar.
Para.8 The value of the Giving jar.
Para. 5 The value of the Spending jar.
Para.6 The value of the Saving jar.
Para. 9 Restatement of the main point to draw a conclusion.