(
课件网) Unit 6 A Day in the Life Reading plus Review 1. What does your father/mother do 2. What time does he/she usually get up /have lunch /get home 3. What do you think of his/her workday routine 4. Does he/she make good use of his/her time He/She is a/an ... He/She gets up/has lunch/gets home at about ... I think it’s relaxing/tight(紧密的)/good. Yes, he/she makes good use of his time on work, sports, family and rest. Prediction Read the two titles and pictures. Answer the questions. They are Wenwen’s mother and Colin’s father. Wenwen’s mother is from China. Colin’s father is from the UK. Wenwen’s mother is a nurse. Colin’s father is a bin worker. Yes, they do. They are smiling. Wenwen and Colin. Tip1: Before reading, the titles and pictures can help us know some basic information(基本信息) about the texts. 1. Who are they in the pictures 2. Where are they from 3. What do they do 4. Do they enjoy their work How do you know 5. Who wrote the two texts Scan the texts and complete the timelines for Wenwen’s mother and Colin’s father. Wenwen’s mother Colin’s father 06:30PM 10:00PM 08:00AM 09:00AM 10:30AM 04:00AM 05:00AM 03:00PM 04:30PM 06:00PM 08:30PM Scanning Tip2: Move your eyes quickly to find the specific(具体的) information. eats dinner starts work finishes work arrives home goes to bed gets up starts to empty rubbish bins ends work picks up Colin eats dinner goes to bed eats dinner at half past six. ... gets up at four o’clock. ... Wenwen’s mother works at night and goes to bed in the morning. Colin’s father works early and goes to bed early. My mother is a nurse in a hospital. When she works at night, we eat dinner together at 6:30 p.m., and then she goes to work. Her work starts at 10:00. She checks on each patient every three hours. She finishes work at 8:00 the next day and arrives home by 9:00. Her bedtime is around 10:30. She is busy with her work, but when she is free, we go to the park and have a good time together. Further reading Read the workday routine of Wenwen’s mother again. Ask and answer the following questions in pairs. 1. Is Wenwen’s mother hard-working How do you know 2. Does she make good use of her time How do you know 3. Does Wenwen love her mother Why do you think so Yes, she is. Yes, she does. Yes, she does. She works for 10 hours a day and checks on each patient every three hours. She makes good use of her time on work and family. She knows her routine well and they have a good time at the park. My father is a bin worker. I usually don’t see him in the morning because he gets up at 4:00 a.m. He has something to eat and then goes to work. By 5:00, he is at his first house to empty rubbish bins into a lorry. Work ends around 3:00 p.m. Then he comes to school to pick me up at 4:30. We talk a lot on the way home. Dinner is at 6:00. After dinner, he watches TV for a while. Then he goes to bed early at 8:30. We try to keep quiet at night so he sleeps ... ...
