4. earn: v.
1) receive money for work that you do 赚得，挣得
e.g. Some students earn pocket money by mowing lawns for their neighbors. 2) acquire or deserve as a result of effort or action 博得；赢得 e.g. They earned a reputation as hard workers.
5. The idea that popularity could have a serious impact on one’s earning potential shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Paraphrase:
It’s not very surprising that some people hold the idea that how much money one can earn depends greatly on how popular he/she is. 6. note: v. call attention to; make known 注意
e.g. Many foreigners have noted a great change in Shanghai since 1990. 7. kid: v. deceive 欺骗
e.g. When you said that you were not hurt, I knew that you were just kidding. 8. If you want to get ahead in life, social skills and networking are easily as powerful as talent and hard work. Paraphrase:
If you want to gain success in your life, skills in communication and interacting with others to expand your friend circle are almost as important as your talent and hard work.
9. get ahead: continue going forward; advance 前进
e.g. The government granted our proposal to get ahead with the expansion of our company.
10. A woman even complained that the networking website Facebook’s 5,000-friend limit was too low for her large reserve of social contacts. Paraphrase:
A woman even complained that the limit of 5,000 friends on the networking
website Facebook was not large enough for her to keep all her friends.
11. regard as: consider someone or something as something 把……看作，把……认为
e.g. Yang Liwei has been regarded as a hero.
12. In any case, these friends have been assigned value not necessarily because of anything they’ve actually done with you or for you, but because, well, they just exist in the world and so do you. Paraphrase:
But anyhow, you still think such friends valuable. They become your friends not because they have done something with you or for you, just because they exist in the world, as you exist in the world.
13. “Call me uncool, but I think of a friend as an actual person with whom I have an actual history and whom I enjoy actually seeing. It seems, however, that this is no longer the definition (定义) of ‘friend’.” Paraphrase:
You may think I’m not cool, but I think a friend should be a person with whom I have spent some time and whom I can actually meet in my life. However, it seems that my idea of a friend is out of date now, and it’s quite different from the popular definition of “friend” now.
think of … as: regard … as 认为
e.g. People think of the Great Wall as one of the four world wonders.
14. She thought the idea of friendship, at least among the growing population of Internet social networkers, was to get as many of not-really-friends as possible. Paraphrase:
In her mind, more and more people are making friends through the Internet. Their idea of friendship is to make as many friends as possible without caring whether there is true friendship or not
3. Text analysis
Paragraphs Main Ideas
1 2 What factors can help a person to make big money in the future. Social skills and networking are as powerful as talent and hard work in influencing one’s earning power. 3 4~5 6~7 8~9 Young people are crazy about finding friends. A friend may not necessarily be one you know personally. Ms. Daum prefers to have friends she knows personally. People with more friends whether they know personally or not may earn more money.
4. Summary
To summarize the text III. Exercises
1. Let students do the exercises on pages 39-41. 2. Check the exercises.
3. Teacher explains important points in detail. IV. Listening and speaking 1. Listening
1. Give students a few minutes to read through the printed materials for each listening item.
2. Listen to the material for the first time without looking at the book.
3. Listen to the material for a second time, and ask students to try to do the exercises.
4. If the class finds it a difficult job fulfilling the tasks, teacher can play the recordings third or more so that most of them can understand.
5. Listen to the material for one more time with a pause after each sentence, and ask students to repeat the sentence during the pause. 6. Do exercises in the section. 2. Speaking Useful Expressions:
I really want to apologize to you. I’m really sorry about sth.
Forget it. (It doesn’t matter./ Never mind.)
It was a terrible thing to say. (thing to say说出的话) Please forgive me. I accept your apologies. What happened to sb. Sorry about that.
Forget about it. (Never mind.) V Grammar and Phonetics
1. Grammar: Word-building (Prefix+Stem+Suffix)
1. Introduce the common prefixes, stems, and suffixes in grammar tips. 2. Ask students to do the exercises. 3. Check the answers.
2. Phonetics: Central Vowels (|Λ| |?:| |?|)
1. Invite some students to read the vowels, words and sentences. 2. Play the recording.
3.Tell the students the different positions of the speech organs for these vowels. 4. If the class finds it an easy job fulfilling the task, play the recording once and check the students’ answers.
5. If not, better play the recordings two or three times and let the students listen and repeat after the recordings.
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