Sharing illness isn’t weakness (P4)
邯郸市第一中学 王永仙

I. Warming up  
Do you like basketball?
Do you know Kevin Love?
What do you know about him?

II. Pre-reading
Nowadays, people are becoming more and more concerned about mental health. What would you do if you didn’t feel mentally well?

III. While-reading
Read the article and answer the following question.
1. What does it mean?
“It is OK not to be OK”?
We shouldn’t feel bad about suffering from illness or having something wrong with us.

2. What keeps people from speaking up about their mental health (心理健康) challenges ?
The fear that many people see them as a weakness.

3. Why did Love find it difficult to share his problems?
He didn’t want his Cavaliers teammates to think that he was unreliable.

4. What inspired Love to speak out about his problem? 
He was inspired to talk about his situation by Toronto Raptors shooting guard (得分后卫) DeMar DeRozan, who had also opened up about his mental health issues.

5.  According to Love, how should you overcome mental illness ?
You have to let some of that stuff bleed out (排出) in order to fully recover from it.

IV. Sentence analyzing
1. In the article, the 29-year-old revealed (透露) how he suffered from his first panic attack on Nov 5 in a game against the Atlanta Hawks and why he was so worried about sharing his story with the public.
解析：1. how 和why引导宾语从句，作revealed的宾语。
2. suffered from意为承受，遭受。
译为：在文章中，29岁的乐福透露，在去年11月5日骑士队主场对亚特兰大老鹰队的比赛中，他第一次恐慌发作。他也解释了为什么他如此担心向公众透漏此事的原因。

2. For Love, it was a journey of empowerment to accept and address his mental illness and share his experience with millions of people who face the same problems.
解析： 1. it为形式主语，真正的主语为to accept and address his mental illness and share his experience with millions of people。
2. who引导定语从句，修饰先行词millions of people。
译为：对于乐福来说，接受、处理自己的心理问题，并把自己的经历分享给无数面临着同样问题的人是一次自我强大的旅程。

V. Post-reading
Discussion and Debate
Discuss the opinions in groups of four. Then, share your thoughts with the class.
Many people see illness as weakness.
What’s your opinion?

Musk Brings In New Space Era (P6)
中国人民大学附属中学  宋玖青

I. Warming up  
Are you familiar with Elon Musk?
 
Elon Musk
• Business magnate, investor, and engineer
• Founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX
• Co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc
• Co-founder and CEO of Neuralink
• Listed by Forbes as the 53rd richest person in the world.

II. Pre-reading
Have you seen this picture before? Where was it taken?

III. While-reading
Scanning
Read the article and answer the following questions.
1.When and where was Falcon Heavy first launched?
On Feb 6, 2018 from the US.

2.What is Elon Musk’s plan?
To put a million people on Mars in the next 40-100 years.

Close Reading
Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1.The passenger in the car is controlling the steering wheel.
2.The car and its passenger will orbit the sun for 10 years. 
3.Falcon Heavy can carry cargo as heavy as 40 cars into space.
4.According to Musk, there will be people on Mars in about 40 years from now.
Key: FFTF

Paraphrase the following sentences.
1.The heavier the craft that can be sent into space, the more ambitious the missions can be.
Possible answer:
If a rocket can send more cargo to space, human beings can use it to achieve more ambitious dreams, like sending people to live on Mars.

2.The future is vastly more exciting if we’re a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species than if we’re not.
Possible answer:
The ability to travel around space and live on different planets will make the years ahead for humans a lot more interesting.

IV. Post-reading
Discussion
Think about your answers to the following questions, and discuss them in groups of four. Then, share your thoughts with the class.
1.Do you believe Musk’s prediction that there will be people on Mars in seven years?
2.If you had the chance, would you live on Mars? Why or why not?

V. Homework
Writing
Stephen Hawking, the great physicist who passed away on Mar 14, once said that “Human knowledge is ever expanding, and the opportunities for discovery are limitless as long as there are people who continue to learn, and ask those fundamental questions”.

Do some research about Elon Musk and Falcon Heavy. Write a 100-word essay, explaining how Musk’s mission is connected with Hawking’s words.