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课件网) Unit 8 Follow your interests 主题范畴： 人与自我 主题群： 做人与做事 子主题： 职业启蒙，职业精神 Key question How can we turn our interests into a career talk about my dream job. understand the importance of following one’s interest. explain how to turn my interests into a career. describe ways of choosing a suitable career. Unit objectives 单元目标 I can: New words perform v. 演出；表演 body language 肢体语言 Writing Writing an article about your favourite hobby Teen Life Magazine What is your favourite hobby Why do you like it Write an article and send it to us. Wang Yao made an outline before she wrote an article about her favourite hobby. Read her outline and article to see how she organized her ideas. Pre-Writing Para. 1: Introducing my hobby Para. 2: Describing how I developed my hobby Para. 3: Explaining why I like my hobby Para. 4: Expressing my hopes for the future Tense the simple present tense 一般现在时 Read and answer How Wang Yao developed her hobby watched dancing shows on TV when she was a baby started taking dance lessons at the age of 4 began practising every day Read and answer Why does she like her hobby feel happy and free express her feelings While-Writing Now describe your favourite hobby. Step 1 Plan Brainstorm ideas and make an outline to organize them. You may refer to Wang Yao’s outline and article in Exercise 1. Step 2 Write Write about your favourite hobby. Try to give your article an eye-catching title. My Colorful Life with Basketball My favourite hobby is basketball. I first got interested in basketball when I was six. I saw a basketball game on TV. The players ran and jumped, and the ball flew here and there. It looked so fun. Then, at the age of 7, I started to play basketball with my friends in the park. Now, I play basketball every weekend. We play for about two hours. Running and jumping on the basketball court makes me feel energetic. When I play basketball, I’m really happy. I like passing the ball to my friends and then watching them shoot. Basketball is like a great game that brings us together. We can talk and laugh while playing. It’s a good way to make friends. I hope I can always play basketball. It makes my life full of joy. For example Step 3 Check and revise Tick ( ) the boxes to check your writing, and then revise it. I introduced my favourite hobby clearly at the beginning. I explained how I developed my hobby and why I like it. I used the words and expressions I learnt in this unit. I used correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. Notes I started taking dance lessons when I was four years old, but I got interested in dancing much earlier get interested in 对……感兴趣 近义短语： be curious about be interested in take / have an interest in 汉译英 他对收集邮票感兴趣。 He gets interested in collecting stamps. / He is interested in collecting stamps. I never feel bored with dancing. feel bored with 对……感到厌倦 汉译英 我对他的借 ... ...
