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Your Life is What You Make it
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Learning Objectives
By the end of this class, I will be able to:
1. use prediction and skimming skills to understand the text;
2. acquire the details of the text by skimming and careful reading;
3. understand the deep meaning of “The life is what you make it”
Lead-in
Let’s appreciate a short video together.
1.Who is she? What does she do?
She is a volunteer teacher in a poor area.
2. What do you think of the schools in those poor areas?
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Pre-reading
Look at the pictures and predict what the passage is talking about.
The text talks about a volunteer teacher at a village school.
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Task 1 Match the main idea with each part.
Part 1 (Para. 1)
Part 2 (Para. 2)
Part 3 (Para. 3)
Part 4 (Paras. 4-5)
Changes Zhang Tian made
Reasons to be a volunteer teacher
Situations when he arrived
a typical day for Zhang Tian
Fast reading
Task 2--Part 1 ——Para. 1
Name
Job
Work Schedule
Where
Zhang Tian
a teacher
started working at seven in the morning
until late in the evening
in Guizhou Province
Careful-reading
Task 3--Part2
What did Zhang Tian’s parents want him to do?
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What did his friends do?
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Why did he want to become a volunteer teacher?
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Read Para 2 and try to answer the following questions.
His parents wanted him to go to a big city to find a teaching job.
His friends all left his hometown for work in Shanghai or Beijing.
He wanted to a new lifestyle.
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Read Para 3 and try to find out the situations when he arrived at the school.
Task 4--part3
The school
1.It is much smaller than he had expected;
2.It only has three classrooms;
3. The playground which got dusty on windy days and muddy on rainy days.
Living conditions
1.The power and water supplies were unstable;
2.He could only shower once every three or four days;
3.He had to learn how to cook.
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Changes He Made
School subjects (para.4)
School activities (para.4)
Students’ learning (para.5)
Villagers’ life (para.5)
Task 5--Part 4
(Paras. 4-5)
Changes He Made
School subjects
School