Issue 323
湖北省黄州中学 吴静
北京市三十五中 吴昊

US students pick forgotten fruit (P3) 
Pre-reading (Discussion)
• Have you ever been a volunteer?
• What do volunteers often do?
• Do you want to be a volunteer?

While reading
Judge true        or false.                                 
1. Christopher has picked fruit from trees since she was thirteen.
2. The volunteers picked twenty thousand pounds of fruit in 2010.
3. Galloway brought her students into the project last year.
4.  Frazier always gets on the top of the tree.

Comprehension check
1. When was the project set up?
A. In 2008.   B. In 2009.  C. In 2010.  D. In 2011.

2. Who works for the project?
A. Kelly. B. Randy.  C. Shannon.   D. Donato.

3. How do they deal with the fruit that they picked?
A. The fruit will be sold.
B. The fruit will rot on the ground.
C. The fruit will be eaten.
D. The fruit will be donated.

4. What does the teacher think about the project?
A. Lively.   B. Significant.   C. Harmful.   D. Powerful.

Vocabulary in use
 Fill in the blanks with the proper forms.
be different from, one of, set up, because of, on the top of
1. I often look at the whole city when I’m                     the mountain.
2. His hobbies                                mine.
3. She is                  the volunteers in our school.
4. We lost the game                        his mistake.
5. The PRC was                in 1949.

Post-reading
1. Imagine you are a reporter from a radio station. Think of five questions to interview Frazier with.
2. Design a poster about a volunteers for environmental protection.

Newspapers: inside the pages (P4-5)

1. Where is the news usually written?
2. What do the newspapers include?
3. How do you read “news” now?

While reading
Judge true        or false        .
1. In Rome, news is written on stone.
2. Newspapers on paper in Europe came out earlier than they did in America.
3. The Reference News has more readers than Yomiuri Shiimbun.
4. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper in the UK.

Put the sentences in correct order
With the help of the war, newspaper on paper came out.
News was written on silk in China.
You can log on to the website and read the news.
News was written on metal or stone.
Newspapers came to North America.
The correct order should be ___________.

Vocabulary in use
Fill in the blanks with the proper forms.
used to, a large number of, not…until, take the place of
1. Websites have even                                 books.
2. She                  be a  teacher at this school.
3.                               useful books are published.
4. We            stop talking            Maria came in.

Post-reading
1. Search online to find out information about the history of newspapers.
2. Make a survey about the ways of reading news, then write a report  .

Making waves (P6)
Discussion
• Do you often show your feelings without thinking about other people?
• In what ways does a person affect others? Can he or she do whatever he or she likes?

While reading
Tell true       or false
1. The writer was asked to throw a stone into the fishpond and watch the waves when he was young.
2. A person may make a lot of splashes in his life like the stone, but they don’t affect others.
3. The waves that come from both your goodness and anger can send these feelings to other circles.
4. We can’t make the world peaceful unless we have hatred, doubt, jealousy and anger.
5. The title Making Waves is about spreading our feelings and thoughts and touching all the other circles of life.

Vocabulary in use
Fill in the blanks with the proper forms
affect, be responsible for, circle, realize, create
1. In the end, he _____ his mistakes and said “sorry”.
2. My sister is outgoing. She has a large _____ of friends.
3. Even when parents no longer live together, they each continue to __________ their children.
4. Does television _____ children’s behavior?
5. The government plans to ____ more jobs for young people.

Post-reading
1. Tell the story to your friends and share your feelings.
2. Try to be responsible for what you do in your life and set good examples to others.

Fair day for science (P8)
Pre-reading
• Do you like doings experiments in your school science lab? Why or why not?
• Have you ever done an experiment to try out your idea? If so, what was it?

While-reading
Choose the best answer:
1. In late March, almost every middle school student in the US ____.
A. takes part in the school science fair
B. takes part in the school fashion fair
C. begins his/her experiment
D. talks about his/her project

2. Most US middle schools hold a science fair in order to _______.
A. judge their students
B. give students special homework
C. give students a chance to show their inventions and use their science knowledge
D. encourage their students to collect some information

3. Put the following sentences in the right order according to the passage.
a. The students choose topics that they wish to research.
b. Students form a hypothesis to design an experiment.
c. Do some research and write down the conclusion in a report.
d. Make presentations for their inventions.
e. Collect all the information they can about the topic.
f. Design the experiment or object.
B. a-b-e-f-c-d                    B. a-e-b-f-d-c
C.   b-a-e-f-d-c                    D. a-e-b-f-c-d

4. If a student wins in the school science fair, _______
A. he/she can work in the White House
B. he/she can be chosen to take part in State science fairs
C. he/she will be rewarded by President Barack Obama
D. he/she will get lots of money

Vocabulary in use
Fill in blanks with the proper forms
1. I’ve come to the _____ that he’s not the right person for the job. (conclude)
2. She said nothing and gave me a ______ look.  (mean)
3. During the summer camp, we visited a village and watched the villagers do their _____ activities. (day)
4. Thomas Edison was a great ____. In his life, he had more than 3000 _______.        (invent)
5. The team has been training hard in _______ for the big game. (prepare)
6. That picture comes from his private ______. (collect)

Post-reading
1. Think of a problem you have in your life and try to solve it with a new invention or object.
2. Share your experiment with your classmates and help them to solve their problems.

Key:
P3 FTFT  BBDB
P4-5 FTFF 4-2-1-5-3
P6 TFTFT
P8 CCDB