Famous girl (P4)
I. Warm-up
1. Have you ever seen this cute girl? Which country is she from?
She is Chibi Maruko-chan from Japan.
2. Can you describe how she looks in English?
She has black hair and pink cheeks, and often wears a white blouse and red skirt.

II. Reading
1. Brief reading
Please read the article and describe what it is mainly about.
Maruko’s popularity and the reasons behind it.

2. Intensive reading
Please read the article and answer the following questions.
1) How many years ago was Maruko born?
25
2) How many people are there in Maruko’s family and who are they?
Six people; they are her parents, her grandparents, her sister, and her.
3) According to Jun Takagi, what has kept Maruko popular?
Her casual lifestyle.
4) Use three adjectives to describe Maruko.
Lazy, disorganized, untidy/casual.

III. Words in focus
Yet Maruko is by no means just for kids.
• means　 n．方法；手段
• by means of… 　　用……办法，借助……
• a means of       一种……的方式
• by all means    当然可以；尽一切办法
• by any means      无论如何(用于否定句和疑问句)
• by no means    绝不，一点也不

•1. means 表示“方式，方法”时，单复数同形，当means 作主语且有every, each等修饰时，谓语动词用单数；由some，several，few, many等修饰时，谓语动词用复数。
•2. 当短语by no means置于句首时，句子要用倒装结构。例如：By no means should you tell him about it.

Practice using words
1. —Do you think their table tennis team will win the first place at the Asian Games?
—________ . Ours is much stronger than theirs.
A．Of course 
B．It depends
C．Don’t mention it 
D．By no means

2. —May I sit in the chair near the window?
—____. The paint on it is wet.
A．By no means    B．Help yourself
C．It depends    D．Never mind

Answers: DA

IV. Pair work:
Please describe Maruko in English to your partner. You can use the information from the questions and answers in Intensive reading.

Remembering Turing (P5)
I. Warm-up
You might not know who Alan Mathison Turing was, but looking at the picture, can you guess in which field he was outstanding?
He was a math genius. Besides that, he was also a computer pioneer, a code-breaker, and the inspiration for the Hollywood movie The Imitation Game.

II. Detailed reading
1. How is the article mainly developed?
By following the order of time.
人物传记是记叙文体的一种，主要描写某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、成长奋斗历程等，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。人物传记类文章一般按照时间顺序为主要线索进行描述。

2. Pleas link the events to the time when they happened
a. He wrote about his now-famous Turing Test.      1950
b. He wrote a report on a typewriter-like machine.      1937
c. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge.   1931
d. He helped the British government break the Nazis’ codes.    The second world war
e. He became curious about the “complex machine” of the human body. When he was a boy
f. He was born into a civil servant’s family.       1912
g. He killed himself.           1954

III. Practice:
Please describe Turing’s life to your partner in English.

Words in focus:
fascinated // 着迷的
用法：be fascinated with sb/sth
The children were fascinated with the toys in the shop window.

shine //
vi. 出众，超群 （shone, shone）
She found a sport in which she could really shine.

deserve //
vi. 值得，应得
I think we deserve a rest after all that hard work.

contribution //
n. 奉献，贡献 （contribute vi.）
He has made a great contribution to the company’s success.

evolve //
vi./vt. 进化，发展
The company has evolved over the years into a multimillion-dollar organization.

Sentence bank:
 But the report turned a new page in Turing’s life.
句意为：但是这份报告掀开了图灵人生的新篇章。

 As computers continue to evolve, challenge and excite, people can’t help wondering what new ideas he would challenge us to think about had he lived into the 21st century.
句中what引导的是宾语从句；had he lived into the 21st century是一个使用了倒装结构的虚拟条件句，相当于if he had lived into the 21st century，此处表示与过去事实相反的情况。在书面语中，if引导的虚拟条件句中如果含有were/had/should时，可以将if省去，将were、had或should移至主语之前，构成倒装。句意为：随着电脑不断地发展并且挑战和激发人们，人们总是情不自禁地想知道：要是图灵活到了21世纪，他会激发我们去思考哪些新鲜的想法。

A harvest mistake (P6)
I. Warm up
1. Can you recognize these two vegetables?
Yes, the vegetables on the left are cucumbers, and those on the right are zucchini.
2. For what reason do we normally lock our cars?
Out of fear that thieves may steal them.

II. Reading
1. Let’s read the first two paragraphs of the article and explain why the author suggests people in her neighborhood should lock their cars.
Because the neighbors might fill them with their harvest.
2. How did Sharon’s friends react to the invitation to take her tomatoes?
They refused it. 
3. What did the neighbor do in Sharon’s garden?
She took some tomatoes and “zucchini”.
4. How did the “zucchini” from Sharon’s garden taste?
They were soft and bitter, because they were cucumbers.
5. What’s the author’s tone in the article?
Humorous.

III. Please find and underline all the expressions about emotion in the article.
1. When that failed, she began asking everyone in the neighborhood like a politician, eventually finding a neighbor delighted at the prospect of fresh produce.
2. She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didn’t go to waste.
3. The neighbor smiled pleasantly.
4. Sharon was confused.
5. Sharon’s curiosity got the better of her and she had to go see where the zucchini had grown.
6. The neighbor looked at Sharon, shock written all over her face.

IV. Please fill in the blanks with an appropriate adverb from the box.
indeed, actually, eventually, especially, slightly

1. Goodhearted neighbors want to share their bountiful harvest. ____ with this year’s large crop, leaving a car unlocked in my neighborhood is an invitation for someone to stuff it full of zucchini.
2. She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they’d begun to feel their skin turn ____ red. 
3. She began asking everyone in the neighborhood like a politician, ____ finding a neighbor delighted at the prospect of fresh produce.
4. Later that day, Sharon found that her garden had ____ been harvested.
5. Well, ____, those are cucumbers that we never harvested.

Answers: Especially, slightly, eventually, indeed, actually

V. Retell the story, using the following words.
Tomatoes, call, find a neighbor, feel free to, harvested, happy, a hot loaf of bread, confused, actually, shocked