Issue 506 For Junior 2

北京市太平路中学 于红

Stressed by exams? P(2)

I. Warm up

1. Do you often get stressed out?

2. What makes you worry a lot?

II. While reading

Read and choose:

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A. English students have similar worries as us.

B. Students in the UK have less homework and exams.

C. We need to care about the worries that British students have.

D. Students feel too much pressure with homework and exams.

2. Which of the following is NOT a common way for British students to deal with pressure?

A. Turning to their families.

B. Asking their friends for help.

C. Turning to formal services for advice.

D. Keeping it to themselves.

3. The expression “have cancelled” in Paragraph 5 means to "____".

A. cut something

B. stop doing something

C. tried something

D. look down upon something

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?

A. Many English students worry about the gaokao.

B. Schools should take action to help stressed students.

C. Counselors help students deal with lots of worries. 

D. It's hard for students with mental illnesses to stay silent.

III. Post-reading

In what other ways can students deal with pressure?

Read these quotes, and discuss them with your partners.

Best way to boost your brainpower p(5)

I. Warm up

What class do you like best? Why?

What do you do when you can’t focus in class?

II. While reading

Read and choose:

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

A. Students pressed every number repeatedly 

B. One group looked at a green roof during the break.

C. The other group looked at green plants during the break.

D. The first group didn’t make any mistakes.

2. According to the article, what's the best way to boost brainpower?

A. Listen to music.          

B. Do some exercise.

C. Look at nature.                

D. Build a green house.

3. The scientist Kate Lee will probably agree that ____.

A. People can get a lot of benefits from city planners.

B. City planners should design more buildings with green roofs.

C. Students in the first group were smarter than the other group. 

D. Looking at green plants may prevent us from feeling stressed.

4. The study mainly talks about _____.

A. a way to help you concentrate

B. a way to study well

C. how city planners should work

D. how to improve your brain through activity

III. Post-reading

Can you find some green objects in your classroom that can help boost your brainpower?

Six ways to boost your brainpower.

What makes a beautiful heart? P(6)

I. Warm up

What does a beautiful heart look like?

II. Pre-reading – cloze

ONE day a young man said that he had the most beautiful heart in the world. Many people came and they all said his heart was   1  . The young man was very proud.

Suddenly, an old man appeared and said: “Why is your   2   not as beautiful as mine?”

The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating (跳动)  3  , but full of scars (伤疤). In some places there were even   4  .

The young man   5  . “You must be joking,” he said. “Mine is perfect and yours is a mess (混乱).”

 “Yes,” said the old man, “Yours is perfect looking, but I would never trade (交易) with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I   6   my love. 

“Sometimes I gave pieces of my heart away and the other person didn’t   7   a piece to me. But I don’t care. These are the empty holes. Although these holes are painful, they remind me of the love I have for these people. So now do you see what true beauty is?”

The young man stood silently. He   8   to his perfect heart, and ripped (撕) a piece out. He gave it to the old man.

The old man   9   it in his heart. Then he took a piece from his old heart and placed it in the young man’s heart.

The young man’s heart is not perfect anymore, but it is more beautiful than ever –   10  from the old man’s heart flowed (流) into his.

1. A. perfectB. warmC. kind        D. big

2. A. look    B. handC. heart      D. hair

3. A. slowlyB. stronglyC. quicklyD. heavily

4. A. marksB. roomsC. holesD. lines

5. A. cried    B. askedC. advisedD. laughed

6. A. getB. gave    C. leftD. took

7. A. move B. share     C. sendD. return

8. A. reached B. led      C. turnedD. held 

9. A. gotB. showedC. placedD. felt

10. A. love B. bloodC. painD. secrets

III. While reading

Read and choose:

1. How did the young man feel before he met the old man?

A. Proud.

B. Painful.

C. Shamed.

D. Surprised.

2. How did the old man get the scars?

A. He had fights with others.

B. He gave his love to others.

C. Some people hurt his heart.

D. Some people traded with him.  

3. What can we learn from the story?

A. The young man's heart isn't perfect anymore.

B. The old man's heart is full of love.

C. The young man exchanged his heart with the old man.

D. Without giving love back, there‘ll be holes in others people’s hearts.

4. What is the best title for the story?

A. How to get true beauty?

B. Where the scars come from

C. Why his heart wasn't perfect

D. What makes a beautiful heart?

IV. Post-reading

What have you learned from the story?

Love makes a beautiful heart!