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playground
Academic/Teaching Building
Confucius Sculpture
classroom
How about village school What’s the life like in village school
No whiteboard
Heavily-used chalk residue on the blackboard
Pitted walls
Uneven ground
Rudimentary environment
Lesson 3
Unit 1 Life Choices
Your Life
is
What You Make It
identify new words such as typical, province, graduate, inspire, apply, eager and so on, classify new words into different kinds based on the part of speech, apply new words in various situations in life, and choose right words in correct circumstances;
Learning Objectives
By the end of the class, students will be able to:
learn new words with specific strategies such as combing with prior knowledge, inferring from the context, word formation and lexical chunks.
Activity 1.
Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on what you know.
1. After a long day, Zhang Tian finally got back to his small room, feeling tired.
He had started working at seven in the morning and it was eight in the evening now.
He had to prepare his lessons for the following day.
2. This is typical day for Zhang Tian. Coming to Gui Zhou Province to teach has been quite an experience for him.
typical: adjective. / t p k( )l /
You use typical to describe someone or something that shows the most usual characteristics of a particular type of person or thing, and is therefore a good example of that type.
(某人或某物) 有典型性的; 有代表性的
province: noun. / prɑ v ns /
A province is a large section of a country that has its own administration. 省
Type
类型
Learning Tip 1
Try to guess the meaning of new words based on what we knew both in class (the words, phrases and other language points that you have learnt) and in real life (general knowledge about reality).
e.g. type→typical; Gui Zhou is the name of a place in our country
Activity 2. Part 1
Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on context.
3. Zhang Tian graduated from university and got a teacher’s certificate last year. His parents, like most, hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job. Likewise, his friends all left his hometown for work in Shanghai or Beijing. Zhang Tian felt differently, however. He wanted to start a new lifestyle.
4. He had met wonderful teachers from small villages during his early school years and he was inspired by them to go and teach where he was needed the most. For that reason he applied, and became a volunteer teacher in a village school.
Activity 2. Part 1
Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on the context.
3. Zhang Tian graduated from university and got a teacher’s certificate last year. His parents, like most, hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job. Likewise, his friends all left his hometown for work in Shanghai or Beijing. Zhang Tian felt differently, however. He wanted to start a new lifestyle.
graduate: verb. / gr d u e t /
When a student graduates, they complete their studies successfully and leave their school or university. 毕业
e.g.
When the boys graduated from high school, Ann moved to a small town in Vermont.
男孩们中学毕业后,安迁到了佛蒙特州的一座小镇。
graduate from… 从…毕业
graduated from
graduated from
Was Zhang Tian still in his university
No, he wasn’t in his university.
leave
Activity 2. Part 1
Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on context.
4. He had met wonderful teachers from small villages during his early school years and he was inspired by them to go and teach where he was needed the most. For that reason he applied, and became a volunteer teacher in a village school.
inspire: verb. / n spa r /
If someone or something inspires you to do something new or unusual, they make you want to do it. 鼓舞; 激励
e.g.
Our challenge is to motivate those voters and inspire them to join our cause.
我们的艰巨任务是要激励那些投票者并鼓励他们加入我们的事业。
inspire sb to do sth: 激励、鼓励某人做某事
be inspired by ... 被…激励、鼓励
was inspired by
inspire them to join
Does Zhang Tian want to be a volunteer teacher
Yes, he wants to be a volunteer teacher.
Activity 2. Part 1Read and guess the meaning of theunderlinedwords based on context4. He had met wonderful teachers from small villages during his early school years and he wasinspiredby them to go and teach where he was needed the most. For that reason heapplied, and became a volunteer teacher in a village school. Does Zhang Tian need to do some preparation to be volunteer teacher Yes, he does. What kind of preparation is needed Daily necessities. Official permission.Activity 2. Part 1Read and guess the meaning of theunderlinedwords based on context4. He had met wonderful teachers from small villages during his early school years and he wasinspiredby them to go and teach where he was needed the most. For that reason heapplied, and became a volunteer teacher in a village school.apply:verb./ pla /If you apply for something such as a job or membership of an organization, you write a letter or fill out a form in order toask formallyfor it.申请e.g.I am continuing toapply forjobs.我在继续申请工作。They mayapply tojoin the organization.他们可能申请加入该组织。apply forapply toapply for sth:申请,请求,应用:指向某个机构或组织提出申请或请求,或者使用某物。apply to do sth:申请做某事:向某个机构或组织提出申请,希望获得许可或机会去做某件事情。,Learning Tip 2
Try to guess the meaning of new words based on the specific context.
Learning Tip 3
We can learn new words in word groups, also known as lexical chunks to learn about their collocations (such as graduate from…, be inspired by…, apply for and so on).
Activity 2. Part 2
Can you find something in common among these underlined words
graduate: verb. / gr d u e t / When a student graduates, they complete their studies successfully and leave their school or university. 毕业
inspire: verb. / n spa r / If someone or something inspires you to do something new or unusual, they make you want to do it. 鼓舞; 激励
apply: verb. / pla / If you apply for something such as a job or membership of an organization, you write a letter or fill out a form in order to ask formally for it. 申请
verb.
verb.
verb.
verb
Activity 2. Part 2
What about their noun forms
graduation noun. 毕业;毕业典礼
inspiration noun. 鼓舞人心的人 (或事物)
application noun. 正式申请,书面申请;
申请书,申请表;应用软件
tion
tion
tion
-tion: noun
-tion:是一个附加在动词上的构词元素,用来构成表示状态、条件或动作的名词。
它源自法语的 -ion,或直接来自拉丁语的 -ionem(主格 -io,属格 -ionis),主要用于从动词构成抽象名词,引申意有“行为的过程,结果,情况,性质,状态,动作”。
graduate: verb. / gr d u e t /
inspire: verb. / n spa r /
apply: verb. / pla /
Learning Tip 4
-tion is a kind of suffix that can change the part of speech, and more specifically, it can turn verbs into nouns.
e.g. communicate → communication
educate → education
motivate → motivation
compete → competition
prepare → preparation
imagine → imagination
Activity 3.
Look up the meaning of underlined words in your dictionary.
5. Bringing with him lots of books, clothes, and two pairs of trainers, Zhang Tian travelled to the village with an eager heart. He imagined all sorts of exciting things about living independently and teaching in a village.
eager: adjective. / i ɡ r /
If you are eager to do or have something, you want to do or have it very much. 渴望的
e.g.
Robert was eager to talk about life in the Army.
罗伯特渴望谈论军旅生活。
was eager to talk
be eager to do sth: 渴望做某事
Activity 3.
Look up the meaning of underlined words in your dictionary.
3. Bringing with him lots of books, clothes, and two pairs of trainers, Zhang Tian travelled to the village with an eager heart. He imagined all sorts of exciting things about living independently and teaching in a village.
sort: noun. / s rt /
If you talk about a particular sort of something, you are talking about a class of things that have particular features in common and that belong to a larger group of related things. 种类
e.g.
What sort of school did you go to
你上的是哪一类学校?
There are so many different sorts of mushrooms available these days.
这些日子可买到各种各样的蘑菇。
sorts of
sorts of
sort of
all sorts of: 各种各样的
different sorts of: 多种多样的
what sort of… : 哪一种/哪一类…
Talk about what you want to do when you graduate from YingHua Junior High School and from university, using the words we have learnt in this lesson;
Please form into groups and try to discuss with your partners:
Notice: Pay attention to the tense and collocations you used.
Group Discussion
Summary
Summary and Homework
Learning Tips:
Combing with prior knowledge;
Inferring from the context;
Lexical chunks or collocations;
Word formation
Review all the words we’ve learnt;
Try to write 3-5 sentences by using the words you have learnt today;
Preview the following paragraphs and try to guess the meaning of new words based on the learning tips.
Homework
Summary and Homework
See ya!
Have a nice day!