Issue 294
山东烟台一中 曲君
北师大实验学校 李和
Big dreams come true (P2)
Pre-reading (Discussion)
1. Have you heard of Geely cars? How many car brands can you name?
2. Are you familiar with Geely's chairman Li Shufu? Is he a successful businessman?
3. Volvo is an international car brand with a long history. Can you believe it is taken over by Geely -- a Chinese private enterprise (民营企业) in March, 2010？

While reading
Judge true or false.
1. Li Shufu began to make cars with other engineers in 1963.
2. At the beginning, the government wouldn't allow private companies to produce cars.
3. Volvo is a Swedish brand and it was sold to American Ford Car Company in 1999.
4. Li Shufu is an interesting man and he always does something unusual.
5. Li Shufu has showed his business talent since he was young.
6. Geely is a popular car brand with a long history in China.

Vocabulary in use
Fill in the blanks with the proper forms.
talent, eventually, have a habit of, ambition
1. My father _________ singing songs while he's cooking.
2. Parents are often highly _______ for their children.
3. He studied so hard that _______ he passed the test.
4. She showed a ____ for acting at an early age.

Post-reading
1. Some people think Geely taking over Volvo is like a poor young man marrying an international star. Do you think so?
2. Li Shufu has talent, ambition and dreams. Are these characteristics helpful to his success?
3. Nowadays there are more and more cars on the road in China, which also brings a lot of problems. List some and discuss with your classmates.

View the world from your window (P3)
Pre-reading
Discussion:
1. Do you have your own e-mail address? How do you keep in touch with your friends?
2. Blog is also called "WebLog", which is a platform for people who want to write something on the Net. Do you know how to set up a blog? Share your experience with your partner.
3. Have you ever seen the outside scenery through your window?

While reading
Judge true or false
1. Coreen Burke is a 16-year-old American girl.
2. She loves her life and nature.
3. She happened to see a scenery picture and put it on her blog.
4. She collected many window view pictures from around the world and named them "Outside My Window".
5. Coreen expects to learn about how people in other countries live from the pictures.
6. The first window view Coreen got for her "Outside My Window" blog was from Sweden.
7. Up to now, she has got pictures from all over the world, including from Africa and Antactica.

Comprehension check
1. The main idea of this story is to tell us that _____.
A. Coreen is good at using computers.
B. setting your own blog on net is very interesting.
C. you should love your life, and you'll find the unusual beauty around you.
D. if you have no chance to travel the world, you may look through window view pictures.
2. Coreen enjoys ____ her window view pictures with people.
A. to share B. sharing C. to post D. posting
3. The word "skylight" in the last paragraph may be____.
A. a painting brush
B. a lamp outside the wall
C. a glass covered opening in a roof
D. a small ladder

Post-reading
From Coreen's story we learn that we can find out many amazing and beautiful things about the world if we look. If you have any unusual discoveries in your daily life, please share with us.

The value of time (P6)
I. Pre-reading (Discussion)
1. Do you know how many seconds there are in a day?
2. What is the most valuable present in the world?

II．While reading
Judge true or false.
1) Every evening the bank keeps all the money that remains.
2) Every night your unused seconds appear.
3) The editor of a weekly newspaper knows the value of ONE WEEK.
4) The person who missed the train can realize the value of ONE HOUR.
5) Yesterday is mystery, tomorrow is history.

2. Comprehension check.
1) According to the passage, we know there are _____ minutes in a day.
A. 1400 B. 1440 C. 1040 D. 1444
2) Each of us has such a bank, so ____.
A. we can use time freely B. we can save time freely
C. we don't worry about time D. we know the value of time
3) Why is the loss yours if you fail to use the time?
A. Because there is no going back.
B. Because there is going back.
C. Because we can't use the time well.
D. Because we spend a lot of time playing.
4). If you ask a student who failed a grade, he will let you ________.
A. realize the value of the year
B. realize the value of the month
C. realize the value of the week
D. realize the value of the hour
5) Today is a your gift, because _____.
A. today is your birthday
B. today you have no homework
C. today is the treasure you can share
D. today you will get some presents

Vocabulary in use
Fill in the blanks with the proper forms.
someone special, share…with, such a(n), be called, if…will…
1. ____ you don't finish your homework, you ___ be punished by your parents.
2. I'd like to make friends with ____________.
3. Why not ____ your ideas _____ all the class?
4. You're _____ creative boy that all the teachers like you.
5. Why ___ that village ____ " desert"?

III. Post-reading
1. If you've got enough time every day, how will you spend it (apart from doing your homework)?
2. Will you arrange your time well? Take today as an example.

Story of our names (P8)
I. Pre-reading (Discussion)
1. What is your family name? Are you proud of it?
2. Do you know some differences between Chinese family names and Western family names? Take some examples.

II. While reading
Judge true or false.
1) Most Chinese family names originated from the Emperors Yandi and Huangdi.

2) The Chinese family name is not different from the Western family name.
3) Most Chinese feel unhappy when they find a new friend with the same family name.
4) Fewer than 250 million people have one of these three names.
5) Smith is the most common family name in the US.
6) Around the world, family names may reflect jobs, moods, seasons or names of animals.

2. Comprehension check.
1) The Chinese family name is placed _____.
A. instead of a person's given name
B. after the mother's family name
C. before a person's given name
D. after a person's given name

2) Which statement isn't right? _____
A. There are more than 4,100 family names in China
B. Li, Wang and Zhang are the top three family names.
C. Over 250 million people have one of these top three names.
D. Smith is the most common family name in the UK.

3) Have you got any ideas about a strange name such as 李 Billy? (Open answer)

3. Vocabulary in use
Fill in the blanks with proper forms:
thousands of, be different from, take pride in, more than, one of …
1. There are ________ 40 students in my class.
2. Andy is ____ the best basketball players in our school.
3. ________ visitors are from Spain. Unfortunately, I can't speak Spanish.
4. You relatives will ________ you if you get the first place in this competition.
5. ____ you _________ your classmates? Is that the reason that you never finish your homework?

III. Post-reading
1. Is it important to spread our Chinese culture? Why?
2. What do you think of western culture in China like KFC?

Key: P2 FTTTTF has a habit of, ambitious, eventually, talent
P3 TTTTTFF DBC
P6 FFTFF BDAAC If, will, someone special, share with, such a, is called
P8 TFFFTF CD more than, one of, Thousands of, take pride in, Are different from