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Unit 2 Improving Yourself
Developing Ideas
Lead in
If you were $1000, draw a chart to show your spending habit?
Pre-reading
Look at the picture and think:
1. Is your spending habit reasonable/valuable?
2. What could be talked about in the passage?
Some values about how to spend money wisely?
While-reading
Task 1: Read quickly and complete the questions below.
1. What’s the type of the passage?
A. Narration B. Explanation C. Argumentation
2. What’s the main idea of the passage?
3. How does the writer develop the passage?
Part 1 para. 1:
Part 2 para. 2:
Part 3 para. 3-8:
Part 4 para. 9:
How we can make good use of money and make a big difference to our life.
Raising the question
An example to make good use of money
Four jars to teach teenagers how to spend money wisely
Conclusion
While-reading
Task 2: Read Part 1 and part 2 carefully and answer the questions.
What is the purpose of writer in writing the passage?
To tell us the value of money.
To teach us how to handle money wisely.
To warn us the disadvantage of wasting money.
To advise parents to let children manage their own money.
While-reading
Task 3: Read part 2 carefully and answer the questions.
1. Why does the author use the example of Khloe Thompson?
To introduce how to handle money well
To raise people’s awareness of saving money
To share a touching story
To prove age is no barrier to making good use of money
2. How did Khole Thompson make use of her money?
She spent the money on after-school activities
She saved all her money for her college
She used the money to create a fund
She bought necessities for homeless people
While-reading
Task 4: Read Para. 3 and answer the questions.
4. Why do the high school students in America require to take financial courses?
Because the parents ask them to do that
Because they want to be the next Bill Gates
Because it’s important for them to know how to manage money
Because they want to own a credit card.
5. What does the writer think of Jerry Witkovsky