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U4 Reading
Problems and Advice
Get ready: Textbook, pen, group card
Objectives
1. To use different reading skills to do reading
comprehension.
2. To talk about how to give advice to your
classmates
3. To learn to use some words and expressions
Getting ready
Look at the cartoon and answer the questions.
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Problems with …
study
friends
difficult situations
Problems you may have.
looks
parents
(family members)
n 情况
Who would you turn to for help?
Advice column/page
Aunt Linda is a professor who has helped many teenagers to solve their problems. Now, she opened a webpage called “Aunt Linda’s advice page”.
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Before you read
What is the text type of the passage?
Narration(记叙文): narrate thing
B. Argumentation(议论文): express own idea by giving reasons and facts
C. Practical writing(应用文) :serve a definite purpose and is functional
D. Exposition(说明文):explain a thing or a theory
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Before you read
1.1 Look at the introduction (Para. 1), the title and the names on the left column on page 51. Then answer the questions.
Where can you find the passage?
On the Internet.
From ______________to ___________.
Anna, Peter, Simon and Julie.
Aunt Linda
Before you start your reading, I want you to take a look at...
2.1 The four teenagers sent their photos to Aunt Linda too. Can you match their posts with the pictures.
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1st reading 1min
She is __________ about her friend.
Anna
Julie
She is ________ with her sister.
He feels __________ about wearing braces.
Simon
He feels ________ of himself.
Peter
worried
annoyed
embarrassed
ashamed
Now please take two minutes to go over the whole text, and fill in the blanks with those key details.
How do they share their problems?
What
Why
How
Who
How can I compare these two teenagers’ problems in a proper way?
Who What Why
Anna Worried about her friend Jolin Jolin is (1)____________________________.
Peter Ashamed of (2)_________ His friends laughed at (3)____________________.
He(4)___________________, but his friends told him not to.