Unit 2 Improving yourself Developing ideas 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Developing ideas — reading Valuable values Unit 2 Improving yourself 1 Lead-in 1. What are the top three things students from this school spend their money on? Books and magazines, school supplies, clothes. 2 2 What do you often spend your money on? Lead-in Activity 1 Look at the title and the picture of the passage. Predict what the passage is about. adj. 值钱的，贵重的； 宝贵的；重要的 n. 价值观 The passage may talk about some _________________ ideas about _________________. valuable/important money management Read the passage and check your prediction. The spending power of young people varies from person to person. Each, however, is faced with the same question: what to do with their money? Some handle this less well than others. Recent headlines have seen more and more teens maxing out their parents’ credit cards on games or other online activities. Activity 2 Read the passage and find out what to do with the money. What to do with the money? Some handled money terribly: More and more teens _____________ their parents’ credit card. Some prove that age is _____________ making good use of money: Khloe Thompson made and gave away “Kare Bags” including _____________, which were bought with her pocket money and _____________. no barrier to necessities crowd funding maxed out Paras 1-2 However people intend to use their money, managing it seems to be unprecedentedly important to younger generations. Activity 3 Read Paras.3 and find more details. 1.Why are the high school students in America required to take financial courses? A．Because the parents ask them to do that. B．Because they want to be the next Bill Gates(比尔盖茨). C．Because it's important for them to know how to manage money. D．Because they want to own a credit card. 2. What does the writer think of Jerry Witkovsky’s method of managing money? A.Wise and useful B. Meaningless and useless C. Effective but difficult D. Meaningful but impractical 8 Activity 4 Read Para. 4 and answer the question. Why did Jerry send four jars to his grandchildren as their birthday present? A. Because he was too poor to afford the expensive present. B. Because he had no opportunity to buy something they like. C.Because he didn't want them to be big spenders. D. Because he wanted to let them learn lifelong values Activity 5 What are the four jars? Let’s organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. the opportunity to buy something you like your own happiness Read for details Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. the future that special something you’ve seen in the stores Read for details Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. build for the future investing in yourself Read for details Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. kindness and helping whatever cause you believe in Read for details 14 According to the passage, what can be inferred? A. Jerry's grandchildren will handle the money properly and independently in the future. B. Jerry's grandchildren will be able to make informed choices in their adult lives. C. Jerry's grandchildren will be able to think objectively about what will happen to them. D. Jerry's grandchildren will be able to form the habit of saving in their adult lives. Activity 6 Read Para.9 and answer the following questions. 15 BY YUSHEN Activity 7 Think and share. 1. If you are given 1,000 yuan, how much will you put in each jar? Why? 生理需求 安全需要 爱和归属感 尊重，敬重 自我实现 2. What methods of self-management have you learnt in the two reading passages in this unit? The first passage focuses on management of proper use of social media. The second passage focuses on money management. The spending power of young people varies from person to person. Some teenagers have maxed out their parents’ credit cards on games or other online activities. Others have proved that age is no barrier 1._______ making good use of money. No matter how they spend their money, managing money seems to be 2.________________ (unprecedented) important to young generations. Thanks to Jerry Witkovsky and his method of using four jars-Spending, Saving, Giving and Investing, teenagers 3. ___________ (teach) how to spend their money wisely. Complete the summary of the passage with the correct form of the words in the brackets. to unprecedentedly are taught The value taught with the Spending jar is 4.___________ you’re responsible for your own happiness. Money gives you 5._____________ (independent) and the opportunity to buy something you like. The Saving jar gives you a vision for the future. The Investing jar not only 6._____________ (represent) a vision for the future, but gives the chance 7. ____________(build) for the future. The Giving jar is all about kindness and helping. The 8._________(wide) aim of the jars is to encourage teenagers to think more objectively about money and the things that it can do, so that they grow up 9. ______________ (understand) the value of the valuable. In this way, they will be better equipped in their adult lives to make informed choices about how they use 10.__________ money they have. that independence represents to build wider understanding the Lavf59.14.100 $$