Clubs for all passions (P1)

山东泰安第十九中学 张波

Warm up

Does your school have any clubs or societies (社团)? Which ones have you joined?

Fast reading

1. Which clubs are mentioned in the passage?

Volunteer teaching, high school detectives and fencing.

2. If you want to improve your skills of observation and deduction, which club should you choose?

High school detectives.

Careful reading

Choose the right answers to the following questions:

1. When the volunteer teaching society began, how many members did it have? (C)

A.       Two.       B. Three.        C. Four.       

2. If you were only available on Thursday evenings, which club could you join?  (B)

A. Volunteer teaching.              B. High school detectives.            C. Fencing.

3. What can people learn from fencing?  (C)

A. How to act responsibly toward everyone around them in their community.

B. How to improve their skills of observation and deduction.

C. How to focus and be respectful.

Fill in the blanks according to the article.

Yan Zhaoshi, 42-year-old, gave up his career as an 1.____ and devoted himself to 2.____ migrant children. Along with Yan, three 17-year-old students decide to show their 3.____ for the poor kids.

In the high school detectives club, members gather to 4.____ mysteries, 5.____ detective stories and 6.____ a detective play. Reaching a conclusion through an analysis of the clues is 7.____ and 8.____.

High training 9.____ stop most teenagers from thinking too much about the sport, while in this club, you only have to pay 10.____ yuan per semester for equipment, coaching and insurance.

Answers:

1. engineer; 2. teaching; 3. concern; 4. solve; 5. write; 6. rehearse; 7. competitive; 8. exciting; 9. fee; 10. 800

Discussion:

If you were the headmaster of your high school, what kind of clubs or societies would you provide to students?

Language points

1.       … have fun while learning….

当……时候   Strike while the iron is hot. (趁热打铁)

             She fell asleep while listening to the radio.

尽管（句首）   While he loves his students, he is very strict with them.

While I am interested in fencing, I won’t take part in it due to the high fees.

然而（表对比）I like music while my best friend likes painting.

2.       ….devote himself to educating…

投入做某事，致力于做某事：

sb devote oneself to doing/ sb be devoted to doing

sb dedicate oneself to doing/ sb be dedicated to doing

I devote myself to teaching.

= I am devoted to teaching.

=I dedicate myself to teaching.

=I am dedicated to teaching.

(n) devotion

  show one`s devotion to doing

3.       …show concern for… 对……表示关心 （n）

=(adj) be concerned about

(prep) concerning 关于

这是一本关于美国历史的书。He has some interesting ideas concerning American history.

4.       …it`s up to you to answer.

be up to sb (to do): 取决于……，由……决定

- Where should we have dinner?

- It is up to you.

达到：My car can fit up to 5 people.

      The lecture hall can hold up to 400 people.

够格，合格：= be fit for           

Jack is really up to the task of running the show.

Smartphone, poor sight  (P5)

沈阳市第二中学 吴俣

I. Warming up

1. Do you have a smartphone?

2. How much time do you spend on your smartphone per day?

3. Have you ever felt noticed the damage that your smartphone does to your eyes?

II. Vocabulary

Suffer from 遭受（灾难；疾病等）

At the risk of 有.....的危险

An average of 平均

Take a break 休息一会

Focus on 关注

III. Reading

Fast reading: read the article quickly and try to get the answers.

1. When were smartphones mobile phones introduced in the UK?

2. What damage could can be caused by smartphones to children and young people?

3. What do our eyes automatically do when we see look at something in the distance?

4. Besides staring at smartphones for a long time, what’s another bad habit?

5. What measures can we take to protect our eyes from smartphones?

Answers:

1. Smartphones Mobile phones were introduced in the UK in 1997.

2. Children and young people are at risk of permanently damaging their eyesight.

3. Our eyes automatically blink a certain number of times.

4. Another bad habit is using smartphones in dark rooms before going to sleep.

5. Hold your phone at least 30 centimeters away from your eyes; take a break every hour; regularly look at something at least five meters away from you and then focus on the tip of your nose.

Careful reading: read the article carefully and decide whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE.

1. Most of British people own smartphones mobile phones and they spend an average of two hours a day using them.  

2. Smartphones can cause the same damage as TV and computers.

3. When you look at something in the distance, the your blinking slows down.

4. A Certain certain amount of tear secretion can make our eyes more comfortable.

5. The smaller the screen a digital device has, the harder it is for our eyes to look atto see.

Answers: F F F T T

IV. Practice

Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1.This, along with time spent using computers and watching television, is putting children and young people at risk (危险) of permanently damaging (永久性地损伤) their sight.

2.Using computers and smartphones all the time strains our eyes – especially smartphones, as they have much smaller screens than computers,

3.This can damage the nerve (神经) at the back of the eye, which can cause a disease called glaucoma (青光眼).

答案：

1. 连同花费在电视和电脑上的时间，这可能会对孩子和年轻人的视力造成永久性地损伤。

2. 一直用电脑和智能手机会让我们的眼睛不堪重负——尤其是智能手机，因为他们的屏幕比电脑要小得多。（To strain something means to make it tired. do more than it is able to do.  ）Eg.: The volume of scheduled flights is straining the air traffic control system...定期航班的数量正让空中交通指挥系统不堪重负。

3. 这能破坏眼睛后面的神经，导致一种叫青光眼的疾病。

Letter to herself  (P6)

哈尔滨市第一中学 白金国

I. Pre-reading

Have you ever imagined what your life will be like in 10 years? 20 years? 30 years?

II. Reading

True or false.

1. Sherri wrote the letter about 12 years ago.

2. By 2006, Sherri had realized all the dreams she had described in the letter.

3. Sherri married a man who was doing research in biology.

4. Sherri and her family raised two dogs at home.

answers:

1. T

2. F

3. F

4. T

III. Vocabulary

Match the phrases with their meanings and fill in the blanks with the phrases.

1. put away                a. an important event

2. settle for                 b. to accept or agree to something that is not the best

3. a big deal                c. to remove something to a place where it can be kept, usually for a long time

answers:

1-c; 2-b; 3-a

1. After reading the books, he _______ them _____ on the shelf.

2. I want $1000 for my car and I won’t ______ less.

3. I’ve never travelled abroad. Going to Canada is a really ______.

Answers:

1. put away

2. settle for

3. big deal

IV. Structure

It wasn’t until we moved into our new home in 2006 that I found it again.

强调句式：It is / was (not) + 被强调部分 + that + 句子的剩余部分 …

1. Was it on a lonely island ____ he was saved one month after the boat went down? （2011四川卷）

A. where                B. that                          C. which               D. what

2. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into what we do ____ benefits our work most.（2011陕西卷）                                                        

A. who                  B. which              C. that                  D. what

3. — Have you seen the film Under the Hawthorn Tree?

— Of course, I have. It was in our village ____ it was made.（2011重庆卷）

A. that            B. where                  C. when               D. which

4. It’s not what we do once in a while ____ shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. (2011湖南卷)

A. which                 B. that               C. how                      D. when

Answers:

1. B

2. C

3. A

4. B