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Module 5 Lao She Teahouse

Unit 1 I wanted to see the Beijing Opera.

Betty: Lingling and I went to Lao She Teahouse last night.

Tony: How was it?

Betty: It was great! You know, I wanted to see the Beijing Opera, so Lingling offered to

take me there. We drank tea and watched an opera.

Tony: Did you understand the opera?

Betty: No, it was difficult to understand the words. But the actors and actresses were

excellent.

Tony: How long did you stay?

Betty: We only planned to watch for an hour, but in the end, we stayed for three hours.

Tony: Did you enjoy it?

Betty: Well, it was interesting---that’s the main thing. I hope to understand more next time.

Tony: Do you often go to see the Beijing Opera, Lingling?

Lingling: No, I don’t. I wanted to take Betty to the teahouse because it’s famous.

Tony: Who is Lao She?

Betty: No idea. Ask Lingling.

Lingling: Lao She is a great writer. He’s especially famous for his play Teahouse.

Unit 2 It describes the changes in Chinese society.

Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.

a)Lao She Teahouse b) The story of Teahouse c) Lao She

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Teahouse is one of Lao She’s most famous plays. He wrote it in 1957. The play has

three acts and shows the lives of common people in China from the end of the nineteenth

century to the middle of the twentieth century. It tells us the story of Wang Lifa and the

customers of his teahouse in Beijing. It describes the changes in Chinese society over fifty

years.

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Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. His mother sent him to a teacher’s school in 1913.

After finishing school in 1918, he became a head teacher of a primary school. In 1924, Lao

She left home and went to England. He taught Chinese at a college in London and returned to

China five years later. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories about people’s lives, and

was named “the People’s Artist”. Lao She is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the

twentieth century.

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At Lao She Teahouse today, customers can drink tea and eat delicious Beijing food. If

you like the Beijing Opera, traditional music or magic shows, you can enjoy them at the

teahouse. Lao She Teahouse gives a warm welcome to everyone from all over the world.

1Module 6 Animals in danger

Unit 1 It allows people to get closer to them.

(Lingling and Betty are leaving the zoo)

Lingling: Did you like the zoo?

Betty: Yes! I saw the pandas at last! But I am more interested to see the pandas in the

Wolong Panda Reserve, because it allows people to get closer to them.

Lingling: It’s sad to think of pandas and other animals in danger.

Betty: We need to protect them better.

Lingling: Yes. Many wild animals don’t have a safe place to live, because villages and farms

are growing bigger and are taking away their land and forests.

Betty: Also, often there isn’t enough clean water. I think we all need to help animals live

in peace. Look, there’s a notice.

Lingling: It says, “Help! We want to save animals in danger, and we need your help.”

Betty: But what can we do?

Lingling: It says, “Your money pays to look after the animals.” That means we can give

money to help protect the animals.

Betty: Maybe we can raise some money at school. Let’s first find out what else we can do

to save as many animals as possible.

Unit 2 The WWF is working hard to save them all.

Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.

a)Nature parks for pandas c) The panda’s home

b)WWF and animals in dangerd) An animal in danger

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Pandas are in danger. There are only about 1,600 pandas in the wild today. Zoos and

research centres are looking after about 340 pandas. Pandas do not have many babies, and

baby pandas often die. The situation is getting very difficult. Scientists are doing a lot of

research to help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.

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Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. Each panda needs to eat a lot

of bamboo every day. The bamboo forests are getting smaller, so pandas are losing their

home.

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In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks and

developing other plans. The nature parks will be big and there will be more bamboo to feed

the pandas. Pandas born in zoos may go back to live in the nature parks.

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