Unit1 Life Choices
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Unit 1 Life Choices
TOPIC TALK
Talk about your new school life.
Listen and complete the information in the Text Builder.
(Exercise 2 on page 6)
1. How does she feel about the new school life?
She feels excited.
2. Why does she feel so?
Because her school is very different from her previous one.
Don’t have fixed classrooms.
Sit around in groups.
Have group discussions.
Share ideas or check our work together.
Have different class schedules.
3. What are her expectations of the senior secondary school life?
Learn new things.
Develop confidence in speaking English.
Have a happier, more fruitful and satisfying life.
Which are true of your new school life?
Tick them out if they are true to you.
How should we arrange all the ideas when we talk about our new school life?
感受
很多方面不同
First, 硬件设备和老师
Second/ What is also...学习方式
All in all, 你的期待
Tell us something about your new school life.
Arrange your ideas in a logical way.
Use the expressions in the book if necessary.
Listen to Bob, Fred and Ms Johnson talk about their lives and complete the notes on page7 Ex4.
Bob – ____________
Leave the apartment at _________ am
Get to work by _________ am
Work _________ shifts
Love helping people _________
Making correct decisions put a lot of _________
on me
Bob – a doctor
Leave the apartment at 6:30 am
Get to work by 7 am
Work 12 hour shifts
Love helping people recover from illnesses and injuries
Making correct decisions put a lot of pressure on me
Fred – _______________
Train for ___________of the year
For ____________a day
____________to different countries
Hear people __________________
Can ______________while training
Fred – a football player
Train for 10 months of the year
For 5 hours a day
Travel a lot to different countries
Hear people cheer you on
Can get injured while training
Ms Johnson – ________________
Work in the office from __________until _________in the evening
Enjoy ____________________
_____________when challenges arise
Work so much that I _________________
Ms Johnson – a business manager
Work in the office from 8 am until late in the evening
Enjoy making important decisions
Stressful when challenges arise
Work so much that I don’t see my family enough
Find out the similarities in their lives.
They are busy.
They lead stressful lives.
Their work has positives and negatives.
They don’t complain about the negatives.
There is no substitute for hard work.
-Thomas A. Edison
Quote
?努力是无法取代的
Quietude promotes learning, frugality cultivates virtue. One can’t show high ideals without simple living; One can’t have lofty aspirations without a peaceful state of mind.
--Zhuge Liang
Quote
静以修身,俭以养德。
非淡泊无以明志, 非宁静无以致远
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
--Alfred Tennyson
Quote
造物之美, 行必能至
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Quote
发现自己最好的方式
就是全身心投入到为别人服务当中。
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
--Hans Selye
采取正确的态度可以把负面压力转化成积极动力
Write a short passage to introduce your new school life.
Organise ideas in a logical way.
Use the expressions we learnt today if necessary.
Homework