(共21张PPT)
Task
Writing a biographical article
Revision
Kinds of figures
Cardinal numbers(基数词）
Ordinal numbers（序数词）
Plural form of numbers （复数）
Skills building 1: Listening for figures
(1) Cardinal and Ordinal numbers
Ordinal numbers
one
two
three
four
fourteen
forty
seventeen
seventy
first (1st)
second (2nd)
third (3rd)
fourth (4th)
fourteenth (14th)
fortieth (40th)
seventeenth (17th)
seventieth (70th)
Cardinal numbers
(2) Plural form of figures
in the _________
in the_________
in the_________
in the_________
in the_________
in the_________ in the 20s (20’s)
in the 30s (30’s)
in the 40s (40’s)
in the 50s (50’s)
in the 60s (60’s)
in the 70s (70’s)
twenties
thirties
forties
fifties
sixties
seventies
Can you read out these numbers
1. 25,000
2. 108,000
3. 32,000
4. 10,200,200
5. 十四点三十分
6.五十周年
7. 五百万四千
8.八十万六百
twenty-five thousand
one hundred and eight thousand
thirty-two thousand
ten million, two hundred thousand, two hundred
fourteen thirty
the fiftieth
anniversary
five million, four thousand
eight hundred thousand, six hundred
2. Figures can refer to
You will be 17 next year.
Tom was born on 17th December 1988.
40 percent of the students in our class are girls.
Miss Zhou bought a dictionary for $ 5.
We live at 18 Er Quang Zhong Lu
You were getting up at six o’clock this morning..
Please call at 13657659771
My fax is 999,567,534.
age
date
percentage
price
street number
time
telephone number
fax number
3. Modifier of numbers
We can use certain words and phrases to express an approximate number or to modify a number.
about , around, more than,
under, at least
Step 1 Finding a speaker for your class
Part A: Requirements for speaker:
Must be older than _______but younger than ___
Must live in or near __________.
Available between the ________of May and the _______of June.
Able to speak from _______o’clock until _______o’clock.
Prepare a speech of _______hours, with _______hour for questions and answers.
4. Listening (P53)
18
35
Nanjing
30th
2nd
10
13
two
one
6. Must have achieved something _________ or ___________.
7. Must be able to speak ________ or ________.
8. Nationality: ___________ preferred.
9. Experience as speaker would be __________.
10. __________and outgoing personality.
exciting
important
English
Putonghua
Chinese
helpful
friendly
Part B
Wanted !
Exciting Speaker (2) ________________________is looking
for an exciting person to give a talk
at our school in May or (3)________.
Have you achieved You must be (4) ________ to 35years of
something exciting age and live in or near ___________.
or (1)_____________
The speaker we choose will
Do you want to ．speak(6)_______and(7)__________
inspire students with ．have a friendly and(8) ___________
your experiences Personality.
Tian Yi High School
important
June
18
Nanjing
English
Putonghua
outgoing
Skills building 2: reading a CV
A CV includes:
Identification:
Objective :
Education:
Experience:
References:
Other:
name, address, contact information
(phone number and e-mail address)
what kind of job you want to get
the names of the schools at which you
studied and graduation dates
your past jobs, company names, locat
and position held for past jobs
names of the persons who once worked or
studied with you and their contact information
honors you have got, hobbies and interests
P54 The CV excerpts (answers)
1. 1994-1998 Beijing University
1990-1994 No.1 High School
2. Wang Bing * 123 Nanjing Road
* 5555 8920 * wbing @ gets
3. Referees: English teacher
Ms Lu Xia
Football coach
Mr Zhang Xi 5555 5433
*Education
*Sex
*Interests
*Experience
abroad
*Work
experience
*Nationality
*Languages
*Born
Step 2 Introducing a speaker
2007 Graduated from UC Berkeley
2003 Graduated from a public school
2007 was a volunteer teacher in Wux
travelled around China
2006 was an assistant doctor in Wuxi
I’m a friendly, energetic and outgoing person who
loves travel and adventure. I want to encourage
more young people to experience other cultures.
Wuxi, China 1985
Female
American
1987—2008 Live in America
English (fluent); Putonghua (fluent)
* Born
Sex
Nationality
* Experience
abroad
* Languages
* Education
Work
experience
* Interests
Step 2 Introducing a speaker
2007 Graduated from UC Berkeley
2004 Graduated from a public school
2007 was a volunteer teacher in Wux
travelled around China
2006 was an assistant doctor in Wuxi
I’m a friendly, energetic and outgoing person who
loves travel and adventure. I want to encourage
more young people to experience other cultures.
Wuxi, China 1985
Female
American
1987—2008 Live in America
English (fluent); Putonghua (fluent)
Skills building 3: organizing information
The important result of his/her deed and what people think about him/her)
Who we are going to write about and
why we are writing about him/her
Details about the person
( what he/she did; what he/she said, his/her opinions, the facts, the statistics, etc.)
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
1
2
3
3 important sections
Page 56 partA
P57 Part B
E ----C----B----A------D------F
Paragraph E tells us who the passage is about
Paragraphs C,B,A and D tell us some detailed information about the person in the order of the events that happened
Paragraph F is the conclusion of the whole passage.
Write a biographical article for one of your classmates.
Group work:
Decide who you will write about.
Collect information.
Organize the information.
Proofread the information you have collected about one of your classmates.
5. Write a biographical
article about him/ her.
A sample
We are going to invite Betty to our class to give a speech in May,2008. She has lived in America for twenty years and has travelled around the world. She is friendly and outgoing. She knows America and American culture quite well, and she also knows about China and the world.
She was born in Wuxi. In 1987 she went to America and has lived there until now. She comes back to China once every few years. She is good at both Chinese and English. She studied biology in UC Berkeley in California from2003 to 2007. After graduation, she travelled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese and American cultures.
Step 3 Writing a biographical article
She likes travel and adventure. In 2007, she came to our school as a volunteer teacher to help us with our oral English and introduce American college life to us.
She will talk about studying in foreign countries, as many students are thinking about this. We are looking forward to her coming.
