Issue 36/494 for Junior 3
北京市太平路中学  任晓圆

Surviving on one yuan P (3)
Pre-reading
1. How much money do you usually spend in one day?
2. If you only have one yuan, what can you do to live a day?

About One Yuan Metropolis Survival:
It is an activity in which four to six teenagers are in one group and finish nearly 20 survival tasks including lunch within a specific time in the city. Every one or each group has only one yuan. The purpose of this activity aims at developing teenagers’ abilities of problems solving, interpersonal communication, moral thinking and discovering new possibilities etc.

While reading
Read the passage and answer the questions:
1. Did students from Xi’an successfully live in a city for one day?
2. Who held this activity? And what did students need to do during the activity?
3. What did students choose to do to make money?
4. What did they learn from the most amazing task?

Key: 1. Yes, they did.
2. The charitable organization for teenagers called Imperceptible Education.
Students not only have to live, but they also have to deal with a lot of hard tasks.
3. Many students looked for part-time jobs and some made use of their talents to make money.
4. How to persuade others.

True (T) or false (F).
(  ) 1. This activity has been held in 12 cities.
(  ) 2. Zhang Qiyue got a chance as soon as he wanted a job.
(  ) 3. Zhao Jiacheng realized the importance of learning a special skill.
(  ) 4. All the money they made will be given to poor schools in Tibet.

Key: FFTT

Grammar point
    Many students looked for part-time jobs and saw how hard life was.  
  分析：划线部分是一个感叹句，在句中作宾语。通常以how 或者 what开头，其中what修饰名词，how 修饰形容词、副词。
1）What +名词+主语+谓语！
E.g. What a shame!
2）What+形容词+名词+主语+谓语！
E.g. What a slow train it is!
3）How+形容词或副词+主语+谓语！
E.g. How beautiful the city is!
4）How +形容词+ a +单数可数名词+主语+谓语！
E.g. How interesting this story it is!

Words in use
Fill in the blanks with the words from the text:
1. The Americans and the British _______(不仅  ) speak the same language，______ (而且) share a large number of social customs.
2. _________ (是重要的) to practice English more.
3. __________ (完成这些任务) for some children is a little bit difficult.

Post reading
1. If you are a teenager, would you like to join this activity? 
2. If you do, please write a letter to this activity’s organizers and introduce yourself to show you are qualified and tell them why you want to join.
The beginning of the letter is given:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to join your activity called One Yuan Metropolis Survival…

Putting together best-selling Xinhua Dictionary P (4)

Pre-reading
1. Do you remember your first Xinhua Dictionary? Who bought it for you?
2. How many editions (版本) have you bought? Are there any differences between the new and old?
3. What do you think of this book?

While reading
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. How do the editors continue to revise the dictionary?
2. Why were the phrase “晒工资” and “晒照片” included in the dictionary?
3. Is the Xinhua Dictionary useful for foreign learners?

Key: 1.They usually summarize the meaning of words again while revising. If the example sentences are out of date, editors need to have experiences and make new examples.
2. Because to keep up with the times, the dictionary added some popular and widely used internet words.
3. Yes, it is.

Grammar point
According to the Guinness World Records, the Xinhua Dictionary, published by the Commercial Press in China, is…    
分析：划线部分是过去分词短语后置定语，  修饰先行词 the Xinhua Dictionary。可改为定语从句which was published by…
E.g. Her house, built 100 years ago, stood still in the earthquake.

Words in use
Use proper form of the following words to fill in the blanks.
however, show off, keep up with, add to, go into, continue
1. Hurry up or you won’t __________ them.
2. Don’t _______ your knowledge to  your friends.
3. After a short break, the play _______.
4. Do you have anything to _____ the list?
5. The mayor (市长) _______ politics as a very young man.
6. I'd like to go with you; ______, I’m very busy now.

Post reading
1. What edition of the Xinhua Dictionary do you have now?
2. Do you remember how you learned to use the dictionary?

Science and math star in big movies P (5)

Pre-reading
1. Do you love science movies? Why?
2. Are all the scenes you see in a movie real?
3. What or who makes them?

While-reading
Answer the following questions:
1. What do animated movies use to look as real as possible?
2. How can mathematicians make the snow look more natural?
3. What are superheroes supposed to have?
4. Does the movie Frozen have something to do with science?
5. What can scientists do in real life to make new elements?
 
Post reading
a. Science and movies
Besides actors and directors, there are often some scientists on a movie team. That is because more movies depend on science to make them more real, not only for plots but also in how the movie scenes look. So, don’t worry about earthquakes or cars crashing in movies, since they’re only made by science!
b. Movies and science
On the other hand, movies also influence science in some ways. For example, getting the idea from movies, Google invented the Google glasses, just like the ones James Bond used in movies.