Issue 463

大连枫叶国际学校 尹丽恒

Bravely stand up for what you think is right P(3)

I. Warming up

If you are a resident  student  (住校生)and your school cut off  the hot water supply, what would you do?

II. Fast reading

Answer the questions below.

1. What problem did students meet?

2. How long did the problem last?

3. What idea did students come up?

4. Was the problem solved at last?

III. While-reading

Choose the best answer:

1. What happened to the students three weeks ago?

A. They didn’t talk to each other.

B. The school didn’t care about their problems.

C. They had no hot water.

D. The dean was too hard on them.

While-reading

2. How did the writer’s dorm leader deal with the problem?

A. She kept silent and waited.

B. She went to the headmaster’s office.

C. She wrote a letter to the headmaster.

D. She asked her parents to help them.

While-reading

3. According to the story, the headmaster _____.

A. didn’t reply to the students

B. criticized the dorm leader

C. asked all the teachers to help the students

D. took action to solve the problem

While-reading

4. What did the writer learn from the dorm leader?

A. One should stand up for his or her right.

B. Being a dorm leader is a difficult task.

C. It’s good to get along with your roommates.

D. Posting something on the Internet often helps.

Key: CCDA

IV. Post-reading—discussion

Have you ever met something improper (不合适的) in your school? How would you solve them?

How to win a child game classic P(5)

I. Warming up

Have you ever played this game? What will you choose?

II. While-reading

Choose the best answer:

1. Which of the following is TRUE about the study?

A. Foreign scientists did the study.

B. 300 students took part in the study.

C. Each student played 300 rounds of the game.

D. They played many kinds of games in the study.

2. What does the study find?

A. Each player chooses each action one third of the time.

B. Winners like to choose the same action they won with.

C. Losers like to choose the action the winners won with.

D. Winners and losers usually change action in the next game.

3. Which of the following agrees with the “win-stay lose-shift” strategy?

A. Winners will still win the next round.

B. Winners will lose the next round.

C. Losers will still lose the next round.

D. Losers change their action in the next round.

4. According to the article, rock-scissors-paper _____.

A. is a simple game for fun

B. is a useful model in some fields

C. can help you make money in trading

D. can make you more clever

Key: CBDB

III. Post reading –discussion

Play the rock-scissors-paper game with your partner, using the theory the passage tells you.

Find the power of confidence P(6)

I. Warming up

Making up a story.
Who are the young man and old man?

What is the relationship between them?

What will happen next?

II. Fast reading

Answer the questions below.

1.Who were the young man and the old man?

2.What problem did the businessman meet?

3.How did the old man help the businessman?

4. Did the businessman pay the money back at last?

III. While-reading

Choose the best answer:

1. The businessman may have felt _____ when he received the check.

A. calm   

B. nervous   

C. worried   

D. happy

2. Why did the businessman put the check in his safe?

A. He wanted to make sure that the check was safe.

B. He would feel full of confidence when thinking of it.

C. He knew that the lender wasn’t John D. Rockefeller.

D. He was afraid he wouldn’t return the money a year later.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Self-confidence plays a positive role in your life.

B. A mentally ill man can save a businessman.

C. It is always good to have some money in a safe.

D. An offer of money can change a man’s life.

IV. Post-reading

Please share your story about how to build up your confidence! 

What can you learn from the story?