Issue 508 For Junior 2

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Class tradition of cookies and quizzes p(3)

I. Warm up

1. Who is your favorite teacher?

2. Why do you like him or her?

3. If you were a teacher, what kind of teacher would you be?

II. Fast reading

Who is Mr Tarr?

2. What does Mr Tarr think of cookies?

III. While reading

Answer the following questions:

1. Who made brownies for Mr Tarr on his birthday?

2. Why is Mr Tarr called Cookie Tarr?

3. What do students expect from Mr Tarr’s class?

4. What was the relationship between the cookies and the quiz?

5. What other meanings do cookies have for Mr Tarr?

III. Post-reading

What do you think of Mr Tarr’s class?

What makes a good teacher?

What class do you think is funny?

How is the class carried out?

Showing love on Father’s Day P(4)

I. Warm up

1. What kind of person is your father?

2. How do you show your love to your father?

II. Fast reading

1. What qualities does a father have?

2. According to the study on Live Science, how does a caring father help his children? 

III. While reading

Read the story and fill in the blanks:

      Will Smith and his father:

      Will Smith learned important lessons from _________ taught by his father. His father once planned to tear down _____________ and rebuild it. But little Will thought it was ________. After a year and a half, they did it. “You don’t try to build a wall. You are going to ________ every day. And soon you have a wall,” he said on TV show Charlie Rose.

      Bill Gates and his father:

      Bill Gates was ____ and didn’t like to talk with others when he was a little kid. So his father often ____________ and let Bill play games with family members. “Games like soccer and swimming seemed to be _____ at that time but they improved my ability of _____ and cooperating,” Gates once said in an interview with US Fortune magazine.

IV. Post-reading

How do you understand George Herbert’s words “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters”?

What do you want to say to your father?

Do you have any suggestions for him?

How do we measure our intelligence? p(5)

I. Warm up

How do you measure whether a person is intelligent or not?

Do you know anything about Mensa?

II. Fast reading

The two examples are from the Mensa IQ test. Can you explain the answers?

III. While reading

Read and choose:

1. When Aahil knew his IQ test results, he _____.

A. felt surprised at the high score

B. thought it was an average score

C. felt unhappy with the score

D. wanted to take the test again

2. Which of the following is NOT true about Mensa?

A. It’s the largest and oldest IQ society in the world.

B. The members must have very high IQ test scores.

C. There are over 120,000 members of Mensa in 100 countries.

D. Members of Mensa must be aged between 2 and 103.

3. Keith Stanovich thinks the IQ tests are _____.

A. creative                    B. incomplete

C. unreal               D. perfect

4. What does the article mainly talk about?

A. The youngest member of Mensa.

B. What Mensa is.

C. How to pass the Mensa test.

D. Why somebody is intelligent.

IV. Post-reading

Search online about Mensa. For example, what do the members do? What requirements do they have to meet?