Topic 3:LovePre-reading1. Read the title of the reading passage below and guess which type of love the writer is going to talk about.2. What is love? What's your understanding of “Love is just a thread”？Share your opinion with your classmates before reading the following passage.ReadingLove is just a threadSometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money to cover living expense. They don't act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too luxurious for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine's Day is even more out of the question. Besides, my father has a bad temper. When he's very tired from hard work, it is easy for him to lose his temper.One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat down beside her and looked at her.“Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.“What?” she replied, still doing her work.“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.My mother stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn't answer immediately. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt.I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was greatly embarrassed and didn't know what to do. But at last I heard my mother say gently, “Susan, look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of time it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really there. Love is inside.”I listened carefully but I couldn't understand her until the next spring when my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness.After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother would help my father walk slowly on the country road, along which there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees. The sun gently shone through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world.The doctor had said my father would recover in two months. But after two months he still couldn't walk by himself. All of us were worried about him.“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.“Susan, don't worry about me. ” he said gently. “To te ll you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life. ” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm. ComprehendingI. Read the following sentences and tell whether they are true or false according to the passage.1.Susan's parents often send flowers to each other on Valentine's Day. ( )2.Her mother didn't reply immediately because Susan's words had hurt her. ( )3. Susan couldn't understand her mother's words immediately. ( )4. The next spring both of her parents got seriously ill. ( )5. Susan's father was still seriously ill two months later after he left hospital. ( )II. Scan the passage and fill in the blanks.Susan used to think love meant________________，but___________________ taught her that love is______________________________________.III. Read the passage again carefully and find the right answers to the following questions.1. Why does Susan doubt whether there is love between her parents?2.What made Susan worried and embarrassed?3. What does her mother think love is?4.What happened to her father the next spring?5. Is there love between the writer's parents? How do you know it? Try to find some evidence in the story. Language in useI. Find the words or phrases in the text that have the following meanings.1. the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something ______________2. at once ______________3. feeling shy, ashamed, or guilty about something ______________4. become healthy again ______________5. a person's brother or sister ______________6. that is to say; namely ______________7. fall ill ______________8. form or compose ______________9. get very angry and fly into a rage ______________10. impossible ______________II. Complete the following sentences, using appropriate words in their proper forms.disappear, opinion, recover, reply, gently, luxurious ,temper, spouse, dusk, pale1.When I go out as sun sets and __________falls, there is the Evening Star.2. Sometimes ,I wish I could phone him and ask for some of his ______________.3. Our honeymoon was two days in Las Vegas at a ______________ hotel called Le Mirage.4. You cannot, for example, pay your children to respect you, or pay your ______________to love you.5.I've never seen him get mad or lose his ______________.6. Silence is one of the best ______________ to calumniation(诽谤）.7.Patrick took her ______________ by the arm and slowly led her to a chair.8. The black car drove away from them and ______________.9. After a whole day's hard work, she looked tired and ______________.10. When you ______________ from an illness or an injury, you become well again.Topic 4:HealthPre-reading1. Are you a phubber? Do you use your mobile phone in a healthy way? What do you usually use it to do? Share its applications with your classmates.2. Will your life be affected if you switch off your mobile phone? Why or Why not?ReadingCan you live without your phone?Ask yourself, can you live without your phone for even just a day? Most people would say they can't.In today's society most people use their phone daily, a lot of the time not even for calling. Phones are used to take pictures, play games and other applications. We have become so dependent on our phones that without them we could say we would be lost.Many people rely on phones daily for work, social life, and even the s afety of their children. But is the excessive use becoming dangerous. In some ways it is.We use our phones so much that the fear of losing them has even become a disease. Nomophobiais the name now given to people who have a fear of being without their mobile phone.Another reason why it might be good to kick the habit of persistently being on your phone, isthat people seem to forget it's actually really rude. If you're having a face-to-face conversation we all know it's polite to be looking at that person when you are talking to them. But believe it or not, people have become so used to being on their phones all the time. This happens daily whether it is in a meeting or talking to friends, family and colleagues.We can all agree that with the development of technology, it's not something we can avoid completely. But it is something we should switch off at times. Maybe switching your phone off for one or two hours a day can help you become closer to reality. We often find ourselves looking down at our phones and not looking up at what is going on around us in the world.There are great ways to do this by encouraging your friends and family to get close to the “real world". An example is the phone stacking game. At the beginning of the meal, you all put your phones in the middle of the table faced down. The first person to pick up their phone has to pay everyone's bill.This really does show if you're more glued to your phone than you think.Although technology has given so many advantages for mobile phones, let's not get too carried away. ComprehendingI. If we divide this passage into three parts, how will you make it? Read this passage and find out the main idea for each part.Part 1:(Para 1-2):________________________________________________________________Part 2:(Para 3- ): ________________________________________________________________Part 3:(Para):________________________________________________________________II. Read the passage again carefully and find the right answers to the following questions.1. What are the two reasons mentioned in the passage why we should stop phubbing?___________________________________________________2. What kind of people does “nomophobia" refer to?___________________________________________________3. What is “the phone stacking game”？What's the purpose of playing this game?___________________________________________________4. Do you have any other good ideas to stop phubbing? Write down your suggestions.___________________________________________________III. Summary writing.Tips for writing a summary for expositions(说明文):Divide the passage into several parts and find out the main idea of each part. Usually the topic sentence in a paragraph is helpful. But please remember: never copy the original sentences.Now please try to write a summary for this passage in 60 words or so. Ex. I may help you withyour writing.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Language in useI. Go through the reading passage to find words that mean the same.Alternative expressions Words from the textto make things into a neat pile 1.when someone or something is safe from danger or harm 2.someone you work with 3.something happens again and again or for a long time 4.much more than is reasonable or necessary 5.to prevent something bad from happening 6.practical use 7.a sticky substance used for joining things together 8.II. Complete the following sentences with correct words.1.A_____________（phubbing) refers to someone who keeps using a mobile phone all the time.2. Mike carried out his plan _____________（persistence).3.People were _____________（glue) to the TV when the Olympics were on.4. The parents are worried that their children will grow up to be _____________（excessive) dependent.5. For your own _____________（safe), please do not smoke inside the plane.6. The spoiled kids are used to _____________（rely) on their parents.7.The university welcomes _____________（apply) from overseas students.8. When you fail, don't be depressed. When you succeed , don't get _____________（carry)away.topic 3ComprehendingI. Read the following sentences and tell whether they are true or false according to the passage.1-5 FFTFFI. Scan the passage and fill in the blanks.Susan used to think love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses, but her parents' story taught her that love is inside, making life strong and warm. / love is inside, like a thread in the quilt of our life.III. Read the passage again carefully and find the right answers to the following questions.1. Because her parents never act in the romantic ways.2. Susan's thought that her question had hurt her mother made her worried and embarrassed.3. She thinks love is inside, like a thread in the quilt of life.4. He got sick seriously.5. Yes, of course there is love between them. Firstly, when they got back from hospital, they both looked pale, which shows her mother must have looked after her father very carefully in the hospital for the whole month. Secondly, after they went back, every day in the morning and dusk, her mother would help her father walk slowly on the country road, which vividly shows their deep love. What's more, her father's w ords “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life. ” tells us he loves his wife deeply.Language in useI . Find the words or phrases in the text that have the following meanings.1. expense2.immediately3.embarrassed4. recover5. sibling6. that is7. get sick8. make up 9. lose one's temper 10. out of the questionII. Complete the following sentences, using appropriate words in their proper forms.1. dusk2.opinions3.luxurious4.spouse5. Temper6. replies7. Gently8.disappeared9. pale 10. recoverTopic 4ComprehendingI . If we divide this passage into three parts, how will you make it? Read this passage and find out themain idea for each part.Part 1:(Para 1-2):Phones are widely used in today's society, which are very important to us.Part 2:(Para 3-5):But using phones excessively can be dangerous.Part 3:(Para 6-8):So we should switch off our phones sometimes and focus more on the reality.II. Read the passage again carefully and find the right answers to the following questions.1. Firstly, people may become nomophobia if they excessively rely on phones.Secondly, phubbing is so rude during a face-to-face conversation.2. Nomophobia refers to those who have a fear of being without their mobile phones.3. At the beginning of the meal, all the phones faced down are stacked one by one in the middle of the table; whoever first pick up their phone has to pay everyone's bill. Its purpose is to stop phubbing.4.略III. Summary writing.With a variety of applications, mobile phones are widely used in today's society, which are of vital importance to people's life. However, using phones excessively can be dangerous. For one thing, people may become nomophobia; for another, phubbing is really rude during a face-to-face conversation. So we should switch off our phones sometimes and look up at the real world.Language in useI. Go through the reading passage to find words that mean the same.1.stack2. safety3. colleague4.persistently5.excessive6. avoid7. Application8. glueII. Complete the following sentences with correct words.1. phubber2. persistently3. glued4. excessively5. safety6. relying7. Applications8.carried。
