Practising the pronunciation of should and shouldn ’t
Speaking& Vocabulary
1. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. 1. When is your birthday? 2. What star sign are you?
3. Do you like celebrating your birthday or do you prefer to ignore it? 4. What did you do on your last birthday?
2. Match the two halves of the words or phrases. Which present is not in the photos? 3. Write the presents in your order of preference, starting with the best present.
4. Work in pairs. Compare your lists. Add two more typical birthday presents to the list. Then choose the best present for Speaking
Work in small groups. Discuss these questions. 1. What presents did you get for your last birthday?
2. What ’ s the best birthday present you received as a child? 3. Who gave it to you?
4. Can you remember the worst present? 5. Who gave it to you?
6. Do you like buying presents?
7. Who is the most difficult person to buy presents for? Reading
1. Here is a text giving advice about how to buy presents. Read it and mark the text as follows:
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√ if you agree with the advice ? if you don
’ t understand the advice
×if you disagree with the advice
2. Compare your notes with a partner and answer these questions. 1. Do you agree with all the advice?
2. Do you follow this advice when you buy presents? 3. Which three points do you think are most important?
4. What do you think is the most important thing to remember when you ’ re buying a present?
5. Who are you more similar to, Tami or the man in the cartoon? 3. Translate the following sentences into English. 1. 爱丽丝总是乐于助人。 (offer)
Alice is always happy to offer helps to others.
2. 努力工作多年后，他们买了自己的子，并且搬了进去。
(afford)
Aft er many years ’ hard work, they afforded to buy their own house and moved into it.
(if possible)
3. 别太伤心难过了，如有可能我们很快就会再见面的。 Don’ t be so sad. We will meet each other soon if possible. 4. 皮特买了一束鲜花为女朋友庆祝生日。 (a bunch of)
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Peter bought a bunch of flowers for his girlfriend to celebrate her birthday. 5. 为了这一激动人心的时刻，我们已等待多时。 Language Focus should，shouldn ’t Practice
Translate the following sentences into English. 1. 你应当履行你的承诺。 You should keep your promise. 2. 我们应该永远记住这一时刻。
We should keep this moment forever in our mind. 3. 你不应该忘记说 ―谢谢你 ‖。 You shouldn ’ t forget to say 4. 我应该把这件事情告诉他吗？ Should I tell him about it? 5. 你应该帮助你母亲做家务。
You should help your mother with the housework. Lesson 3
An Unusual Festival
― thank you ‖.
(wait for)
We have waited for the exciting moment for a long time.
Objectives
? Understanding an article about an unusual festival and finding out how it is celebrated ? Explaining rules using have to, don’t have to, can and can’t ? Talking about obligations in day-to-day life Reading & Speaking
1. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
1. What annual festivals are there in your area?
2. When do they take place? What happens during the festivals? 3. Do you like to take part? Why / Why not?
2.Work in pairs. Look at these pictures of an unusual festival that takes place in Spain every year and answer these questions.
3.Read about the festival and answer the questions. 4.Work in pairs. Match the phrases with the pictures.
5. Work in pairs. Cover the text, look at the pictures and explain the ― tomatina ‖ Every year in the small Spanish town of Bu?ol there is an enormous tomato fight. 6.Translate the following sentences into English.
1. 我们要举行聚会来庆祝我们的成功。 (celebrate) We’ ll have a party to celebrate our success.
2. 在公共汽车站有一大群人在等 12 路公共汽车。 ( a crowd of) At the bus stop, a crowd of people are waiting for No.12 bus.
3. 参加这次运动会的运动员人数将近 1000。(up to)
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The number of the sportsmen attending the sports meeting is up to 1,000.
4. 大赛的所有参赛者给观众们带来了精彩的表演。 (participant) The participants in the contest gave the audience an excellent performance. 5. 这次偶发事件在校园内引发了一场争论。 (argument) This accident started an argument on the campus.
3. Work in pairs. Are the laws in Exercise 2 true in China? Write three more rules in China. Lesson 4 A Traditional Celebration
Objectives:
? Understanding a short article about a traditional Hindu festival and taking notes
about factual information
? Listening to someone talking about the Burning of the Clocks Festival and labeling
pictures
? Writing a short article about a local festival 1. Read this description of a traditional Indian festival and match the paragraphs to the photos. 2. Complete these notes about the festival in column 1. 3. Translate the following sentences into English. 1.今年的暑假将长达 2 个月。 (last)
This summer vocation will last for 2 months.
2. 他们的努力最终以巨大的成功圆满结束。 (end with) Their hard work ended with a great success.
3.圣诞节快到了，人们用鲜花和圣诞树装饰房屋。 (decorate ? with)
Christmas Day is coming. People are decorating their houses with flowers and Christmas trees. 4. 春节的时候，孩子们非常喜欢看烟火表演。 (display) On Spring Festival, children enjoy a fireworks display very much. 5. 在我们公司，同事们经常一起去旅行度假。 Listening
1. Match the captions to the correct photo. 1. Brighton seafront2. paper clocks
3. a fire on the beach
4. fireworks
(business colleague)
In our company, the business colleagues often go traveling together on holidays.
2.Listen to someone talking about another traditional festival and complete the second
column in the table in Reading, Exercise 2.
Check your answers with a partner. Writing
1. Look at this description of the Burning of the Clocks. There are six mistakes. Can you find and correct them? Work in pairs. Compare your answers with your partner.
2. Work in pairs. Think of a traditional festival that is celebrated in China. Complete the notes in the third column of the table about this festival.
IV 书面或口头作业 Assignments：
write a short article describing this festival for your local tourist office.
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Book II Unit 1 The Concrete Jungle
Lesson 1
My Town
Objectives
? Introducing yourself
? Reading short texts for information
? Getting familiar with positive and negative adjectives to describe cities ? Revising Present Simple and Past Simple
? Interviewing a partner and writing a short text based on personal information Speaking & Reading Vocabulary
City adjectives
1. Underline the adjectives in the texts on P6.
Which are: a) positive b) negative c) neutral
Key:
a) positive: great ( x 2), interesting b) negative: boring, hectic, tiring
c) neutral: OK, new, small, local, cold, big
2. Are these adjectives positive or negative in your opinion? 4. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. 伦敦是个非常国际化的大城市。（ cosmopolitan） London is a very cosmopolitan city.
2.她的母亲是在一种喧嚣的都市环境中长大的。（ hectic）
Her mother grew up in the hectic urban environment.
3. 纽约被认为是一个充满旅游特色的城市。（ touristy） New York is supposed to be very touristy.
4. 我几年前住过的那个城市是一个充满充满活力的城市。（ dynamic）
The city where I lived a few years ago was a dynamic one.
5. 那班火车非常拥挤。（ crowded）
The train was very crowded.
Language Focus
一般现在时与一般过去时的用法比较
一般现在时表示目前经常发生的行为动作或经常存在的状态，或表示客观真理、科学事实以及不受时间限制的客观存在；一般过去时表示过去某时发生的行为动作或状态。
Practice
1.Are these sentences true (T) or false (F) for you and where do you live? If false, make thesentences true. .
2.Listen and complete the profile with verbs in the Present Simple or Past Simple. Lesson 2
Ethnic Communities
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Objectives
? Reading for cultural information
? Asking and answering questions about different cities and cultures ? Practicing word order and question forms ? Revising Present Simple and Past Simple ? Melting pot Language Focus
Questions
一般疑问句和特殊疑问句
一般疑问句常用来询问一件事情或一个情况是否属实，其答语通常是 yes 或 no, 或相当于 yes 或 no 的词语。
1. Make questions from the prompts. Which are subject questions? 2. Which are subject questions?
3. Work in pairs. Ask each other the questions in Exercise 1. Report the answers to the class. 4. Add three more ― Who ... ? ‖ questions. Find someone in the class who can answer all of them.
5. Complete the following interview with proper question words.
6. Complete the sentences withdo, does, didwhere they are necessary. . Translation
1. 昨晚是谁打的电话？
Who phoned last night? 2. 昨晚发生了什么事情？
What happened last night? 3. 你的哥哥是做什么的？
What does your brother do? 4. 他正在与谁说话？
Who is he talking with? 5. 他们是什么时候离开的？
When did they leave? Lesson 3
Then and Now
Objectives
? Forming compound nouns
? Understanding someone explaining how a city ? has changed
? Listening to four people describing cities ? Listening for specific language: a bit (of ) ? Describing your city. Likes and dislikes ? Word stress Vocabulary
1.Match a word in column A with a word in column B to form compound nouns.
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