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Lesson 3 Your Life Is What You Make It
Unit 1 Life Choices
Look at the volunteers, what are they doing?
Lead in
Look at the volunteers, what are they doing?
Lead in
Look at the volunteers, what are they doing?
Lead in
What do you want to be in the future?
Lead in
Let’s talk
Do you want to be a volunteer teacher? Why?
Warming up
Look at the photos (a-b) discuss what you think of the village school and what life will be like as a volunteer teacher? Use the phrases to help you.
small classrooms/rooms
unstable power and water supplies
dusty
muddy
challenging
tough
Pre-reading
Look at the photos (a-b) and skim through the report. Predict what you will read about.
What did Zhang Tian’s parents want him to do?
Where did he go as a volunteer teacher?
What did he decide to do after a year?
Read the report again and check your predictions. Answer the questions.
His parents hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job.
In a village school in Guizhou Province.
He decided to stay at the village school for another year.
Pre-reading
Read again and complete the information. Then tell your partner about Zhang Tian.
Fast-reading
Reasons to Be a Volunteer Teacher
Situation When He Arrived
Changes He Made
School
Living conditions
School subjects
School activities
Students’ learning
Villagers’ life
Work in pairs and discuss what changes did Zhang Tian make to the school and the village?
School activities
Students’ learning
School subjects
School facilities
Villagers’ life
Fast-reading
How did Zhang Tian’s feeling and attitude change as a volunteer teacher? Find evidence.
Careful-reading
Events Graduated from university Travelled to the village Saw the school for the first time Lived in the village Introduced subjects and activities End of the first year
Feelings inspired
Evidence Applied for and became a volunteer teacher in a village school
Think and share with your partner.
Careful-reading
Was the village school as good as Zhang Tian expected?
What do you think of