2018-2019学年度第2期总第721期
烟台第二中学   李欣桐
Building the future (P3)
I. Lead-in  
•What job would you like to take after graduation?
•What factor may be your concern when choosing your future career?
Interest ?
Salary?
Working hours?
•Which of these factors do you think is a must to land a good job?

II. Understanding-fast reading
Read the passage quickly and find out the fact, reason and solution to building one’s future.
Fact: Teenagers’ interest in tech careers may be decreasing
Reason: Teenagers can’t really translate an interest to some career pathways
Solution: Society needs to be better at making those connections for kids

III. Understanding-detailed reading
Read the passage thoroughly, and finish the following tasks:
•(T or F) The percentage of boys aged 13 to 17 who are interested in STEM stayed unchanged.
•Why did the author mention Holmes’ experience in high school?
To explain that teenagers can’t really translate that interest to a______ pathway.
Kids don’t understand how technology can be applied to careers outside of computers, coding and maybe robotics.
•What are the conditions for women in the field of technology like?
Women remain ________ by men in fields like technology.
Teenage girls are more interested than their male classmates in ________ careers in which they can help others.
•What should society do for now?
Society needs to become better at making those connections for kids, said Katherine Latham, founder of an engineering firm.

IV. Understanding-sentences
Find out and analyze the following sentences in the passage.
1. The percentage of boys aged 13 to 17 who are interested in science, technology, engineering (工程) and math – or STEM – careers dropped from ...
•aged 13 to 17  过去分词作后置定语
•who are interested in science, technology ... 定语从句
•drop from ... to ...  谓语
2. But the 1,000 survey participants still named technology as one of two key skills that will be necessary to prepare them for their future careers.
•name ... as 把……命名为
•that 引导定语从句
•prepare sb for sth 为某人准备……
3. I was 16 years old, flying over Lake Michigan, facing down the skyline.
•flying over ...
•facing down … 现在分词做伴随状语
•I flew over Lake Michigan.
•I faced down the skyline.
4. For people working to increase the number of women in these areas, the lack of growth in girls’ interest in STEM careers is concerning.
•working to ...   现在分词做后置定语
•the lack of sth   ……的缺乏
•concerning    令人担忧的 adj.
5. However, the fact that students know they will need tech skills in their future careers is encouraging.
•that 引导同位语从句（解释说明fact内容）
•encouraging  鼓舞人的 adj.

V. Language points
Phrases

•找到好工作     land good jobs
•从……掉到…… drop from ... to ...
•保持不变  stay unchanged
•把……命名为…… name ... as ...
•被应用到…… be applied to
•咨询公司总裁 president of a consulting firm
•把……诠释为…… translate ... to ...
•开飞机 take the wheel
•冲下天际 face down the skyline
•仍然在……超过  remain outnumbered in ...
•在……增长方面的缺乏  the lack of …
•忧心的 adj. concerning
•追求事业 pursue career
•工程公司创始人 founder of an engineering firm
•关键的 adj. crucial

VI. Discussion
How to build one’s future?
List your aims, approaches and devotions.
Aim: to be a ...
Approach：to learn more technical skills ...
Devotion: to work hard …

2018-2019学年度第2期总第721期
烟台第二中学   李欣桐
Image problem (P4)
I. Lead-in  
What do you do before you upload a photo of yourself to social media?
•Make the skin look smoother
•Make the eyes look bigger
•Give longer eyelashes (睫毛) and fuller lips
Why do people do such things?
Edit their imperfections away
Change the way they look at themselves.
What impacts does it have on people?

II. Understanding-fast reading
What changes have been brought by the apps mentioned in the passage?
•They blur the lines between reality and ____. “These apps allow one to change his or her  ________ in minutes and follow an  ________ standard of beauty.
•Born into an age of social platforms where their feelings of _______ can be based purely on the number of likes and followers that they have, which is linked to how good they look. 
What changes have been brought by the apps mentioned in the passage?
•Now you’ve got this daily _________ of your real self to this intentional or unintentional fake self that you ____ on social media.
•People spend too much time making such comparisons, they may become “beauty sick” and find it difficult to accept what they actually look like.

III. Understanding-detailed reading
Para. 1-3  • Brief introduction to image problems.
Para. 4-7  •Reasons for editing our selfies.
Para. 8  •Conclusion and promotion.

Para. 1- 3
1. chances are that
2. with a couple of taps on our mobile phone
3. get a quick fix
4. present the “best” version
Para. 4- 7
The article Selfies – Living in the Era of Filtered Photographs published _______  the bad impacts of photo editing app on people’s self-esteem and their ______ to cause appearance ______ .
In the past, people may have  _______their looks to ____ of celebrities. But for today’s young people, beauty standards are most likely  ____ by what they see on social media.
When people spend too much time making such comparisons, what may happen?
A. Suffer an identity crisis.
B. Become “beauty sick”
Find it difficult to accept what they actually look like. “Because between you and the world is a mirror, it’s a mirror that travels with you everywhere. You can’t seem to put it down.”
Para. 8
What should we do when facing a real mirror?
When we look in a real mirror, we shouldn’t think to ourselves,
“Do I look as good as myself in the filtered photos?”
Instead, we should think, “I feel good; I have my health.”

IV. Understanding-words
1. ... smooth our skin ...
2. ... edit our imperfections away...
3. ... bad impact on ...
4. ... cause appearance anxieties ...
5.which is linked to how good they look

V. Discussion
We should present the real us on social media.
Do you agree? Why?
I agree.
Foremost, social media is for...
While some people may ...
Last but not least,...