Unit 4 Section A 2 (3a-3c) 课件 2023-2024学年人教版英语九年级全册

Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark. (Section A 3a-3c) 1. Let the students learn to talk more about appearance. 2. Let the students learn to use phrases correctly — be used to doing, used to do. 3. Enable students to get the skill of learning article about changes. Learning Objectives Leading in Can you guess what she was like in the past? Do you know the beautiful and outgoing girl? She used to be a shy girl. Yeah. She’s the famous singer Candy Wang. She took up singing to deal with her shyness. As she got better, she was not shy anymore and loved singing in front of crowds. Now she’s the Asian pop star. Do you want to know her story? 3a Read the article and identify the paragraphs in which the following information appears. Number the information. ______ How Candy’s life has changed ______ Candy’s advice to young people ______ Candy’s background 3 2 1 Pre-reading For this month’s Young World magazine, I interviewed 19-year-old Asian pop star Candy Wang. Candy told me that she used to be really shy and took up singing to deal with her shyness. As she got better, she dared to sing in front of her class, and then for the whole school. Now she’s not shy anymore and loves singing in front of crowds. From Shy Girl to Pop Star I asked Candy how life was different after she became famous. She explained that there are many good things, like being able to travel and meet new people all the time. “I didn’t use to be popular in school, but now I get tons of attention everywhere I go.” However, too much attention can also be a bad thing. “I always have to worry about how I appear to others and I have to be very careful about what I say or do. And I don’t have much private time anymore. Hanging out with friends is almost impossible for me now because there are always guards around me.” What does Candy have to say to all those young people who want to become famous? “Well,” she begins slowly, “you have to be prepared to give up your normal life