Issue 416

大连市第四十四中学 孙旭

Chat with your dog on iCPooch (P3)

While reading

Answer the following questions:

1. What’s the iCPooch app used for?

2. Who invented the iCPooch app?

3. Can iCPooch feed pets?

4. Where did Martin get her investments?

5. What can we learn from Martin?

Choose the best answer:

1. The iCPooch app was invented to _____.

A. talk to pets and feed them

B. make a call

C. control dogs

D. control your house

2. Where did Martin and her family get their investments?

A.     A local factory.

B.     Local businessmen.

C.     The local government.

D.    Their friends.

Key: AB

Post-reading

   By studying hard, you may be the next person who can change our lives!

Counting down New Year (P4-5)

Pre-reading

Discussion:

    How do people celebrate the New Year?

While reading

Answer the following questions:

1. When did people first start to celebrate the New Year?

2. How do people in New York celebrate the New Year?

3. Why do British people sing Auld Lang Syne?

4. When is the Chinese New Year?

5. How do Jewish people celebrate the New Year?

Fill in the blanks according to the passage:

1.    If you want good luck in the coming year, you’d better eat some small ______. In Spain, people who eat ________ at midnight will have 12 months of good luck.

2.  When you celebrate New Year’s Day in the south of the US, you will be given some black-eyed peas either on New Year’s Eve or Day. Eating the peas is _______ to bring good luck.

3.  In Germany, Ireland and parts of the US, ________ is eaten because it’s green, much like the color of money. So it is a symbol of good fortune.

4. In Greece, when welcoming in the New Year, a pomegranate (石榴) is smashed (打碎) on the floor in front of the door. The seeds ________ good luck and good fortune. The more seeds, the more luck.

5. In many ______ countries, such as Japan, long noodles are eaten on New Year’s Day to symbolize long life. But you have to eat them _____ breaking them. So practice your eating skills.

Post-reading

Do a survey.

     How do your classmates celebrate the New Year?

Being brave after disasters (P6)

Pre-reading (Discussion)

What can you do without hands?

While reading

Answer the following questions:

1. What could the boy do without his hands?

2. How did the boy feel when his brother went away?

3. What did the girl think after she lost her hands?

4. What’s the girl’s attitude to life?

5. What can we learn from the passage?

Post-reading

   Your attitude determines your future!