北京市第三十五中学

吴昊

1. What do you think about business?

2. What would you create if you were a businessman?

3. What type of charity would you like to collect money for?

 

Judge true or false.

1. Steinfeld's father died last year.

2. Her father was an optometrist.

3. Color Me Cured has some harmful chemicals .

4. All of the profits from the sales were donated to a cancer center in New York.

 

Comprehension check

1. Phoebe Steinfeld start a business to ______.

 A. earn more money         

 B. let her father live happily

 C. make the world more beautiful

 D. to honor her father

 

2. Which of the following is NOT one of Steinfeld’s colors?

 A. Walking on Sunshine

 B. Banish the Blues

 C. Orange You Glad

 D. Color the world

 

Vocabulary in use

 Fill in the blanks with the proper forms.

1. _____________ express your feelings.

2. I ___________my mother.

3. ______Lily ________ Lucy likes dancing.

4. He ___________ the name for her grandson.

5. The president _______ a blood disease in 1862.

 

1. What would you like to do if you want to help others?

2. Write a passage about your dream.

 

Pre-reading (Discussion)

1. How often do you eat rice?

2. Where do you think rice can grow?

3. How many people have rice for their meals?

 

1. Rice is grown in _____ places.

 A. all kinds of        

 B. rainy and wet

 C. flooded and dry

 D. cold

2. _____is made of sticky rice.

 A. Ice cream

 B. Zongzi

 C. Chocolate

 D. Juice

3. What’s the main staple food for two thirds of the population in the world?

Wheat. B. Rice. C. Vegetables.  D. Fruit.

 

4. Yuan Longping started the Super Rice program to _____.

A. deal with the rice shortage problem

B. help China consume less rice than other countries

C. lessen the global production of grain

D. produce more colorful rice

 

Post-reading

1. What new information did you learn from the story?

2. Make a poster about RICE.

 

1. Have you ever heard of World Post Day?

2. When and where was the first piece of documented mail found?

 

true or false.

1. Ancient Chinese people sent messages by riding horses as long as 3,000 years ago.

2. World Post Day is a day to celebrate the great work of the worldwide postal services.

3. Before stamps, people paid for the letters they sent.

4. There is no Universal Postal Union today.

 

Comprehension check

1. The first postage stamps appeared in______.

 A. China            

 B. Egypt

 C. Russia

 D. England

2. In 1874, representatives (与会代表) from ____ countries met and decided to accept the same stamps, and to write addresses the same way.

 A. 20                B. 21         C. 22         D. 23

 

Vocabulary in use

Fill in the blanks with the proper forms.

1.We ____ a new company last year.

2.They ________the ideas at last.

3. _________ TV, or you will be tired tomorrow.

4.He_______ Beijing last night.

5.Why don't you _____ the broken glass?

 

1. How many countries does the story mention? What are they?

2. How do you get information about your friends? Is there a better way? What are your ideas?

 

1. Have you ever swam in cold water?

2. What is the farthest distance you have swam?

 

true or false.

1. Florence Chadwick swam from Catalina Island to the California coast in July.

2. The sea was like an ice bath and the fog was thick on the morning of July 4, 1952.

3. No on could see her swimming on July 4, 1952.

4. It was tiredness and the cold water that defeated her.

5. It was still foggy two months later, but she swam with her goal clear in her mind.

6. Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel as fast as a man.

 

Fill in the blanks with correct forms:

1. The fog was so thick that she could ____ (hard, hardly) see the boats that supported her. She _____ (tried, try)   to go on, hour after hour, while millions watched her on _______ (national, nation) television.

While reading

 

2. Still _______ (warm, warming) her cold body several hours later, she told a reporter: “If I could have seen land, I might have made it.” It was not ______ (tiredness, tired) or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the ____ (foggy, fog). She couldn’t see her goal.

 

Post-reading

1. Do you have a goal in your mind?

2. Have you ever met any difficulties? What do you do about them?

 

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