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Unit 1
Lesson 3
Your Life Is What You Make It
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新 课 导 入
What can we do
for them?
What do you think of the village school?
What’s life like for a volunteer teacher there?
Students in the village school
Zhang Tian in the village school
课 堂 学 习
Pre-reading
Look at the photos (a-b) and skim through the report. Predict what you will read in the report.
What did Zhang Tian’s parents want him to do? What did his friends do?
Where did he work as a volunteer teacher? Why did he choose to go there?
What did he decide to do after a year?
Reading Skills
Skimming means reading very quickly to get a general idea of what a text is about.
• Look at the first and last paragraphs, but don’t read every word. Pick out key words.
• Read the first sentence of each paragraph very quickly.
>>Answer the following questions after fast-reading.
A. He wanted to help the poor become richer.
B. He needed the experience to get a teacher’s certificate.
C. He was inspired by the teachers he had met during his
early school years.
D. He couldn't get a good job in the big city.
1. Why did Zhang Tian go to Guizhou Province to teach?
While-reading
2. What was quite out of his expectation after his arrival?
A. Living conditions were worse than he had expected.
B. Students were short of books and desks.
C. Students were quite naughty and wouldn’t listen to him.
D. The school even didn’t have a playground.
3. What did the fourth paragraph mainly tell us?
A. The school was short of teachers.
B. Zhang Tian’s job was quite tiresome and not exciting.
C. Zhang Tian tried his best to make up the rest of the subjects needed.
D. Zhang Tian developed his own hobbies,like music,art and so on.
4. What did Zhang Tian do besides his teaching in Guizhou Province?
A. He helped many people treat their illnesses.
B. He tried all kinds of methods to make the villagers rich.
C. He devoted all his salary to building houses for the school.
D. He helped to rebuild the playground and set up a lib