2013年（新版）新目标英语八年级上册Unit 5教案
印塘新泽中学谢映红
Unit 5 Do you want to watch a game show?
The First Period (Section A 1a-2d)
Teaching aims
Key words and phrases:
news, plan to, expect to, find out，hope to, talk show, game show,
soap opera, go on, around the world，have a discussion about，one day
Key sentences:
Do you want to watch the news?
What do you think of talk shows?
I don't mind them.
I hope to be a TV reporter one day.
Grammar Focus:
(1)What do you think of talk shows?
(2)Then let's watch a talk show.
(3)Lin Hui thinks she can learn some great jokes from sitcoms.
(4)happen to do sth.
Teaching aids: Tape recorder; computer
Teaching Steps:
Step 1 Lead-in
Play different kinds of TV shows, then ask students “What do you want to watch?”Write your own answers on the blackboard:
I want to watch a game show.
Step 2 Teaching aims
Show the teaching aims on the blackboard or on the screen, let them know what they will learn.
Step 3 Self learning and presentation
A.1a. Students read the sentences, make sure they understand them.
Learn the new words and phrases:
Explain and extension:
What do/does + 主语+ think of …? 用于询问他人的看法，与How do/does + 主语+like …? 句型同义，意为“你认为……怎么样？”
例如：What do you think of your English teacher?
=How do you like your English teacher?
B.1b. Listen to the tape and finish 1b.
C.1c. Students talk about talk shows? Use “love” “like” “don't mind” “don't like” “can't stand” to practice
conversations.
D.2a.and 2b. Listen and finish 2a and 2b. Then read the sentences aloud.
E.2c. Ask and answer questions about the TV shows in 2a.
A: Do you plan to watch the news tonight?
B: Yes. I like watching the news. I watch it every night.
A: Why?
B: Because I hope to find out what's going on around the world.
6. 2d. Role-play the conversation. At first, give students five minutes to find his/her partner and practice the conversation. Then I will ask some groups to act it.
Step 4 Grammar focus
Read the sentences in the Grammar Focus, help students understand them. Then
ask students to have a competition to recite the sentences.
Step 5 Summary
Notes:
(1)I like watching the news.
总结：News is uncount nouns.
The news makes the children excited.
(2)Then let's watch a talk show.
总结：Let sb. do sth. “让某人做某事”
（3）Lin Hui thinks she can learn some great jokes from sitcoms.
Learn from “从……获得；向……学习”。常用于下面两种情况：learn from sb./sth.或learn sth. from sb./sth. 例如：You should learn from Tom.
难句突破
(1)Sally thinks games shows are more educational than sitcoms.
译句：________________________________________________________________
（2）Because I hope to find out what's going on around the world.
译句：________________________________________________________________
Step 6 Exercises
一、反应：
1. Do you want to watch a game show? _____________________________________
2. What do you think of talk shows? ______________________________________
3. Let's go to school. __________________________________________________
4. What can you learn from the talent show? _______________________________
5. Why do you like watching sitcoms? ______________________________________
二、单项选择：
1._____ do you ______ sitcoms?
A. What, think of
B. How, think of
C. What, think
2. My mother wants me _____________.
A. watch TV
B. not watch TV
C. not to watch TV
3. Let's _________ for a walk, shall we?
A. to go
B. going
C. go
4. This summer they didn't plan _____ to London for their holiday.
A. to go
B. going
C. gone
5. An accident happened _______ him yesterday.
A. on
B. to
C. of
三、词形填空：
1. She likes _______ (watch) the news.
2. You can expect ______ (learn) a lot from them.
3. Sally hopes _______ (be) an actor one day.
4. I don't mind _______ (close) the window.
Step 7 Teaching reflections
2013年（新版）新目标英语八年级上册Unit 6教案印塘新泽中学谢映红
Unit 6 I'm going to study computer science?
The First Period (Section A 1a-2d)
Teaching aims
Key words and phrases:
grow up, computer programmer, cook, doctor, engineer, violinist,
drive, pilot, pianist, scientist, be sure about, make sure, keep on
Key sentences:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
How are you going to do that?
Grammar Focus:
(1) What do you want to be when you grow up?
(2) How are you going to do that?
(3) Wow, now I know why you're so good at writing stories.
(4) Well, I'm going to keep on writing stories, of course.
(5) My parents want me to be a doctor, but I'm not sure about that.
(6) Not everyone knows what they want to be.
(7) Just make sure you try your best.
Teaching aids: Tape recorder; computer
Teaching Steps:
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask students “What is your dream ?”“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Write your own answer on the blackboard:
I want to be a teacher.
Step 2 Teaching aims
Show the teaching aims on the blackboard or on the screen, let them know what they will learn.
Step 3 Self learning
1.1a. Students read the sentences, make sure they understand them.
Learn the new words and phrases.
2.1b. Listen to the tape and finish 1b.
3.1c. Students talk about the other jobs in 1a? Use “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and “How are
you going to do that? ”to practice conversations.
4. 2a.and 2b. Listen and finish 2a and 2b. Then read the sentences aloud.
5. 2c. Ask and answer questions about Cheng Han's plans in 2a.
A: What does Cheng Han want to be?
B: He wants to be a teacher.
A: Where is Cheng Han going to move?
B: He is going to move to Shanghai.
....
6. 2d. Role-play the conversation. At first, give students five minutes to find his/her partner and practice the conversation. Then I will ask some groups to act it.
Step 4 Grammar focus
1.What do you want to be when you grow up?
当你长大以后打算做什么？
（1）want to be “想成为......”,后常加表示职业的名词。
Example: He wants to be an artist.
(2)grow up “成长，长大”
Example: I grew up in China.
2.Well，I'm going to keep on writing stories, of course.
哦，当然我要坚持不懈地写故事。
keep on doing sth. “不断地做某事”
Example: Tom kept on asking questions.
3.My parents want me to be a doctor, but I'm not sure about that.
我父母想让我成为一名医生，但是我对此没有把握。
be sure about（= be sure of）“对......有把握，相信”，后接名词、代词或动名词。
Example: That woman is sure about/of living to eighty.
4.Not everyone knows what they want to be.
不是每个有都知道自己要做什么。
not everyone “不是每一个人”，是一种不完全否定形式。
类似的有：not all ...(= all...not) “并非都......;不是所有的都.....”
not both...(= both...not) “并非两个......都......”
not every...(= ever y...not)“不是每个......都......”
Examples: Not everyone likes cakes.
Not every book is interesting.
I don’t want both two dictionaries.
5.Just make sure you try your best. 保证尽自己的最大努力。
make sure “确信，务必，查明，弄清楚”。常用于祈使句中，表示请求或要求对方按照要求做某事，后
接牫引导的宾主从句或of短语。
Examples: We made sure of our seats for the film.
Make sure that you me up at six o'clock.
Step 5 Summary
1. Students summarize what they learnt in this class.
Key words:
Key phrases:
Key sentences:
2.难句突破
(1)I want to be an actor because I want a job that's fun,
译句: _________________________________________________________ （2）I am going to practice basketball every day.
译句: _________________________________________________________
(3) My parents want me to be a doctor, but I'm not sure about that.
译句: _________________________________________________________ Step 6 Exercises
一、反应：
1.What do you want to be when you grow up?
______________________________________________
2. How are you going to do that? _______________________________
3. Do you want to be a teacher when you grow up?
____________________________________________________
4. Where are you going to work? ___________________________________
5. When are you going to start? ___________________________________
二、单项选择：
1. ---- What time will Diana get to Chengdu?
---- I'm not sure. When she ______ ,I'll call you.
A. arrives
B. will arrive
C. arrive
2. I hated Mary. She kept on _______ in English class.
A. talking
B. talk
C. to talk
3. She ______ a math teacher when she grows up.
A. is
B. am
C. is going to be
4. Don't ______ about me. I can take care of myself.
A. look
B. worry
C. talk
5. My uncle is a _____ and the food that he makes is very nice.
A. violinist
B. cook
C. doctor
三、补全对话
A: Hi, Tom. What do you want to be when you grow up?
B: .
A: Are you going to move to Shanghai?
B: _______________________________________.
A: Beijing? That's a good place. I am going to move to Beijing, too. And how are you going to become a teacher? B: Well, __________________________________________________________.
A: When are you going to start?
B: ___________________________________________ .
A: I hope you can do it. Now I have to leave. See you later.
B: _______________________________________________________________ _.
Step 7 Teaching reflections
The Second Period (Section A Grammar-3C)
Teaching aims
Key words and phrases:
college, education, medicine, university, London, article, university,
take acting lessons, send ...to ...
Key sentences:
Where are you going to work?
When are you going to start?
Grammar:
be going to 的用法
Teaching aids: Tape recorder; computer
Teaching Steps:
Step 1 Lead-in
Greet the students. Revise by asking “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
And “how are you going to do that?”
Step 2 Teaching aims
Show the teaching aims on the blackboard or on the screen, let them know what they will learn.
Step 3 Self learning
1. Grammar Focus. At first, ask some students to translate these sentences into Chinese. Then ask students to follow me to read them twice and give students five minutes to recite these sentences.
2. Let students finish 3a.by themselves.
Step 4 Practice
1.3b. Students fill in the blanks. And then find a partner to practice the conversation.
A: Kelly, what do you want to be when you grow up?
B: I want to be a doctor.
A: Wow! How are you going to do that?
B: I'm going to study medicine at a university.
A: Hmm ... sounds difficult. Where are you going to study?
...
Step 5 Explain and Extension
1.I'm going to start when I finish high school and college.
我打算上完中学和大学时开始。
finish “完成”，后接名词、代词或动名词作宾语。
finish doing sth. 完成做某事
Example: When did you finish doing your homework?
2.He's going to take acting lessons. 他打算上表演课。
take...lessons(= have...lessons) 上......课
Example: Are you going to take/have dancing lessons?
3.I'm going to write articles and send them to magazines and newspapers.
我打算写些文章并把它们寄给杂志社和报社。
send sb. sth.= send sth. to sb. “把某物送给某人”
Example: Tom sent me a present.= Tom sent a present to me.
★be going to 的用法
（1）“be going t o + 动词原形”表示将来的打算、计划或安排。常与表示将来的
Tomorrow, next year 等时间状语或when引导的时间状语从句连用。其各种句式变化借助be动词完成。
Be随主语有is, am, are的变化。
肯定句：主语+ be going to + 动词原形+ 其它。
Example: He is going to take the bus there.
否定句：主语+ be not going to + 动词原形+ 其它。
Example: He isn't going to take the bus there.
一般疑问句: Be + 主语+ going to + 动词原形+ 其它？
肯定回答：Yes, 主语+ be.
否定回答：No, 主语+ be not.
Example: Is he going to take the bus there?
Yes, he is.(肯定回答)
No, he isn't.(否定回答)
特殊疑问句：疑问词+ be + 主语+ going to + 动词原形+ 其它？
Examples: What is he going to do this weekend?
When are you going to see your aunt?
(2)表示位置移动的动词如go, come, leave等常用进行时表示将来。
The bus is coming. 汽车就要来了。
His parents are leaving for Shanghai next week.
他的父母亲们下周要去上海。
Step 6 Summary
1. Students summarize what they learnt in this class.
Key words:
Key phrases:
Key sentences:
2.难句突破
（1）I'm going to start when I finish high school and college.
译句：__________________________________________________________________ （2）I'm going to write articles and send them to magazines and newspapers.
译句：__________________________________________________________________
Step 6 Exercises
一、单项选择
1. Do you want _____ an English teacher when you're older?
A. is
B. to be
C. am
2. Hey, Lisa. Did you finish ______ that book?
A. read
B. to read
C. reading
3. Next week he ______ his pen pal in London.
A. is going to visit
B. visits
C. visit
4. They ________ a picnic tomorrow.
A. have
B. are going to have
C. had
5. Ms. Green ________ her e-mails next week.
A. checks
B. is checking
C. is going to check
二、完形填空
One day at the end of the class, a wise teacher told each of her students to 1 a plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school.
The next day she told her students,“From today on, for every person you don't like in your lives, you can choose a potato, write the person's name and the date 2 it and then put it in the plastic bag.” Day after day, some of the students' bags were very 3 . They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere they went for a week. They would put it inside their quilts 4 , on the seats when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desks at school. The days carrying the bag around with them 5 students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. They had to pay attention to it all the time 5 they wouldn't forget it. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and 7 nasty(恶心的). They all tired to get rid of them.
Too often we think of tolerance(宽容) as a gift to 8 people, and it clearly is for ourselves! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred(仇恨) in our 9 ，we will have to carry them around all our lives.
Do you think you have got 10 from the wise teacher and what she asked her students to do?
1. A. take B. put C. bring
2. A. at B. on C. with
3. A. strong B. light C. heavy
4. A. in the morning B. during the day C. at night
5. A. made B. kept C. asked
6. A. since B. as soon as C. so that
7. A. smelt B. tasted C. felt
8. A. another B. the other C. other
9. A. hearts B. eyes C. hands
10.A. somebody B. anything C. nothing
Step 7 Teaching reflections
The Third Period (Section B 1a-1e)
Teaching aims
Key words and phrases:
resolution, team, foreign, make a New Year's resolution, get good grades, get lots of exercise Key sentences:
What are you going to do next year?
But foreign languages are not for me.
Teaching aids: Tape recorder; computer
Teaching Steps:
Step 1 Lead-in
Revise what they learnt yesterday. Ask students to answer the following questions:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
How are you going to do that?
Where are you going to work?
When are you going to start?
Step 2 Teaching aims
Show the teaching aims on the blackboard or on the screen, let them know what
they will learn.
Step 3 Self learning
1a.Students finish 1a and report their answers to the class.
Step 4 Practice
1b. Students talk about what they are going to do next year in pairs. Give students five minutes to get ready and ask some students to practice.
1c. and 1d. Students listen the tape twice and finish 1c and 1d.
1e. Ask the students to read the conversation in 1e., then two students make
a similar conversation. Then the students work in pairs, follow the example:
--- I want to be an actor.
--- How are you going to do that?
--- Well, I'm going to study hard and get good grades.
Step 5 Explain and Extension
1.get good grades 取得好成绩
2.get lots of exercise 多锻炼
3.Sounds interesting. 听起来很有趣
sound 在此用作连系动词，意为“听起来”，后常接形容词作表语。常见搭配还有sound like ,表示“听起来像”。
Examples: The music sounds very beautiful.
Oh, that sounds like a good idea.
Step 6 Summary
Students summarize what they learnt in this class.
Key words:
Key phrases:
Key sentences:
Step 7 Exercises
一、选择填空
( )1. -- Are you going to be ________ engineer?
-- Yes. I'm going to study math.
A. a
B. an
C. the
( )2. -- What is your New Year's ______ ?
-- I'm going to study a lot.
A. exercise
B. job
C. resolution
( )3. The piano music _______ very beautiful and I like it,
A．tastes B. looks C. sounds
( )4. This singer practices ______ in the garden every morning.
A. sing
B. to sing
C. singing
( )5. Oh, his elder sister says she is going to be a nurse when she _______.
A. looks up
B. grows up
C. walks up
二、阅读理解
Happy Middle School
We're a bilingual(双语的) school for children of 6-15. We want a cook, library assistant, a sports coach and a language teacher.
1.Which of the following can go to Happy Middle School?
A. A four-year-old child
B. A ten-year-old child
C. A sixteen-year-old child
2.Happy Middle School doesn't want ________.
A. a cook
B. a nurse
C. a library assistant
3. Which of the following may not speak English?
A. The library assistant
B. The cook
C. The teacher
4. The cook can cook________.
A. western food
B. Chinese and western food
C. Chinese food
5. Which is not needed as a sports coach?
A. He can cook western food.
B. He majors in P.E..
C. He must be healthy and strong
Step 8 Teaching reflections
The Fourth Period (Section B 2a-2e)
Teaching aims
Key words and phrases:
be able to, question, promise to, the meaning of, different kinds of,
write down, have to do with, hardly ever, too…to…, self-improvement,
weekly, hobby, schoolwork, discuss, take up, agree with，at the beginning of
Key sentences:
1. Were you able to keep them?
2. To question the idea of making resolutions.
3. To give the meaning of resolution
4. Mom, I promise I'm going to tidy my room when I get back from school.
5. …and the most comm on kind is New Year's resolutions.
6. When we make resolutions at the beginning of the year, we hope that
We are going to improve our lives.
7. Many resolutions have to do with self-improvement.
8. Some people might say they are going to take up a hobby like painting or taking photos, or learn to play the guitar.
Improve students' reading ability
Teaching aids: Tape recorder; computer
Teaching Steps
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask students: Did you make a New Year's resolutions? What are your New Year's resolutions? And how have you done that? Now let's study a passage about it.
Step 2 Teaching aims
Say to students: We will learn an article about resolution.
Step 3 Self learning
Task 1 Students learn the new words by themselves, offer help as needed.
Task 2 Read the passage twice and finish 2b，2c, 2d and 2e individually.
Step 4 Explain and extension
1.Were you able to keep them?
你能坚持执行它们吗？
be able to “能”。后接动词原形，可用于多种时态，也可与情态动词连用。
Examples: I was able to speak English when I was two years old.
I'll be able to see you next week.
2.To discuss the different kinds of resolutions.
讨论不同类型的决心。
different kinds of “不同种类的”
Examples: There are different kinds of books in the bookstore.
3.Mom, I promise I'm going to tidy my room when I get back from school.
妈妈，我保证我从学校回来时整理我的房间。
(1)promise to do sth. 许诺去做某事
My mother promised to buy a piano for me.
(2)promise sb. sth. 许诺某人某事
My aunt promised me a bike.
(3)promise + that 从句答应......
Tom promises that he can return on time.
4.When we make resolutions at the beginning of the year, we hope that we are going to improve our lives.
我们在一年的开头下决心时，我们希望会改善我们的生活。
（1）at the beginning of “在......初”
At the beginning of this term, I found it hard to learn math.
5.Some people write down their resolutions and plans for the coming year.
一些人写下来年的决心和计划
Write down “写下，记下”。是动副词组，名词作其宾语可位于write down之后，也可位于write 和down 之间；如果代词作其宾语，代词必须放在write down的中间。
Examples: Please write down these new words.
The words are important. Please write it down.
6.This helps them to remember their resolutions.
这会帮助他们记住他们的决心。
(1)remember sb./sth. 记住某人/某事
Do you remember the boy with glasses?
(2)remember to do sth. 记住做某事（事情没有做）
Remember to open the window when you enter the room.
(3)remember doing sth. 记住做过某事（事情已做）
I remember meeting you in Beijing.
7.Many resolutions have to do with self-improvement.
许多决心与自我提高有关。
have to do with “关于，与.....有关系”。
Most of his questions had to do with his lessons.
Miss Sun has to do with this matter.
8.Some people might say they are going to take up a hobby like painting or taking photos, or learn to play the
guitar.
一些人可能说他们要培养一种爱好，比如画画或照相，或学习弹吉他。
Take up “开始做，学着做”
Example: His father took up the study of English at the age of fifty.
9.Sometimes the resolutions may be too difficult to keep.
有时决心是太难以保持了。
too ...to... “太.....而不能”
Examples: The girls are too young to go to school.
Step 5 Summary
1. Students summarize what they learnt in this class.
Key words:
Key phrases:
Key sentences:
2.难句突破：
(1). Mom, I promise I'm going to tidy my room when I get back from school.
译句: _____________________________________________________________
(2). However, promises you make to yourself are resolutions, and the most common kind is New Year's
resolutions.
译句：______________________________________________________________
(3).Many resolutions have to do with self-improvement.
译句：______________________________________________________________
(4).Some people might say they are going to take up a hobby like painting or taking photos, or learn to play the guitar.
译句: _____________________________________________________________
(5).Some resolutions have to do with better planning, like making a weekly plan for schoolwork.
译句：______________________________________________________________
Step 6 Exercises
一、单项选择
1. When Jack was a small boy, he was able to ____ the piano and the violin.
A. playing
B. played
C. play
2. Well, my grandpa promised _______ a new computer next month.
A. talking
B. to talk
C. talked
3. Let me _______ your phone number and I'll call you when I'm free.
A. cut down
B. write down
C. look down
4. He is so careful that he always looks over his reports to _____there are no mistakes.
A. make sure
B. find out
C. think out
5. I'm going to be a reporter and I'm going to keeps on ______ article for newspaper and magazine.
A. write
B. writing
C. wrote
二、阅读理解
Every time when I look at the moon, I wish I could go there. Do you wish you could fly to the moon in a spaceship one day? For hundreds of year, men have wanted to travel to the moon. When they looked at the moon, they asked many questions. Was the moon hot or cold? Were there any plants or other living things there? They asked many, many other questions. Some people said there were living plants on the moon. Others said nothing could live there because there was no air or water on the moon.
We know much about the moon now. Scientists have studied the moon for many years and have found out many facts. Not long ago spaceships with men in them flew to the moon. What do we know about the moon? We find that the moon is much smaller than the earth. It is about one quarter size of the earth. It is traveling round the earth all the time. Days and nights on the moon are very long. One day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth. One night is also as long as two weeks on the earth. In the day the moon is very hot. At night it is very cold. The moon is much hotter and much colder than the earth.
There is another surprising thing. On the moon, things are not as heavy as they are on the earth. Isn't that interesting! Perhaps one day we can all travel to the moon. It must be great fun.
( ) 1. There are not any plants or other living things on the moon because _______.
A. there is no air there
B. their is no water there
C. both A and B
( )2. The moon is ______ the earth.
A. much smaller than
B. much bigger than
C. about as big as
( ) 3. One day on the moon is as long as ______ on the earth.
A. one week
B. two weeks
C. one month
( ) 4. The moon is much hotter in the day and ______ at night than the earth.
A. much hotter
B. much colder
C. as hot as
( ) 5. On the moon things are _______ they are on the earth.
A. heavier than
B. lighter than
C. as heavy as
Step 7 Teaching reflection
The Fifth Period (3a —— Self check)
Teaching aims
Key words and phrases: own, personal, relationship, love to
Key sentences:
The first resolution is about my own personal improvement.
I think this will also make my family happy because they love to learn to music and sing together. Grammar:
Revise“be going to ”的用法
Teaching aids: computer
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask students “表新年决心” and revise the knowledge we have learned.
Step 2 Teaching aims
Show the teaching aims on the blackboard or on the screen, let them know what they will learn. Step 3 Self learning and presentation
Part 1. 3a. 1. Students learn the new words by themselves.
2. Use the words in the box to complete the first two paragraphs about resolutions.
3. Translate the passage.
4. Finish 3b.and check the answers.
Explain:
★ The first resolution is about my own personal improvement.
第一个决心与自我提高有关。
Own 形容词或代词，意为：“属于自己的”。用在所有格之后，强调某事物为个人所有。
Example: His mother came to own her bag.
★ I think this will also make my family happy because they love to learn to music and sing together.
我认为这也能使我的家人快乐,因为他们喜爱一起学习音乐和唱歌。
love to do sth. “喜欢做某事”
Example: I love to play ping pong.
★ The last resolution is about how to do better at school.
最后的决心是关于怎样在学校做得更好。
better 是“good ”和“well”的比较级，“更好的”意思
Part 2. Ask students to finish 3b.3c and 4.
Step 4 Practice
Writing:
1. Use the notes to write the passage 3C.
2.小组内互相批改并评比
3. 4 and Self check
let students complete the sentences and read them aloud.
Step 5 Summary
Students summarize what they learnt in this class.
Key words:
Key phrases:
Key sentences:
Step 6 Exercises
一、Ask students to memorize the words in this unit. Get ready for a dictation.
二、词汇
A) 根据汉语提示填写单词或短语。
1. Is Jack's father an ________ (工程师)？
2. Do you ________ (同意)我？
3. What do you want to be when you ______ (长大)？
4. Can you help me ________(提高)my English ?
5. How can you _________ (对......有把握)that ?
B)根据句意及所给单词的首字母提示填空。
6. I want to s_____ a postcard to my parents.
7. What's the m_______of the word “take” in Chinese?
8. --- What's your h_______ ?
--- Collect coins.
9. I want to be a p______ as Liu Yang.
10. I like science and I want to be a s_______ someday.
三．阅读理解
A man took a pair of brown shoes to a shoe repair shop and said to the shoemaker, I’d like you to repair these shoes for me, please．”
“Certainly，sir．” the shoemaker said．
“When will they be ready ?”the man asked．
“I’m a bit busy ，but they’ll probably be ready for you on Thursday .” he said．“That s fine，”the man said and left the shop．
The next morning he received a letter，giving him a job in another country．Within 24 hours he was on a plane to his new job．
Twenty years passed and he returned to his hometown ．He remembered his shoes．“They were a good pair of shoes，” he thought，“I want to know if the shoemaker is still there and still has them. I’ll go and see．”
He was pleased to see that the shoemaker was still in the same shop, though he was an old man by now．
“Good morning. ”he said to him, “Twenty years ago, I brought in a pair of shoes to be repaired. Do you think you’ve still got them?”
“Name?” the shoemaker asked．
“Smith.” the man said．
“I'll go and see. They may be at the back．”
The shoemaker went out to the back of his shop and a few minutes later returned，carrying the pair of shoes．“Here you are.” he said. “One pair of brown shoes to be repaired．I'm a bit busy now but they’ll probably be ready on Thursday．”
( )1．Why did the man go to a shoemaker?
A. He wanted him to make him a new pair of shoes．
B. They were old friends．
C. He wanted him to repair a pair of shoes．
( )2．Why didn’t the man return to the shop on Thursday?
A. He knew the shoes would not be ready．
B. He forgot．