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课件网) playground Academic/Teaching Building Confucius Sculpture classroom How about village school What’s the life like in village school No whiteboard Heavily-used chalk residue on the blackboard Pitted walls Uneven ground Rudimentary environment Lesson 3 Unit 1 Life Choices Your Life is What You Make It identify new words such as typical, province, graduate, inspire, apply, eager and so on, classify new words into different kinds based on the part of speech, apply new words in various situations in life, and choose right words in correct circumstances; Learning Objectives By the end of the class, students will be able to: learn new words with specific strategies such as combing with prior knowledge, inferring from the context, word formation and lexical chunks. Activity 1. Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on what you know. 1. After a long day, Zhang Tian finally got back to his small room, feeling tired. He had started working at seven in the morning and it was eight in the evening now. He had to prepare his lessons for the following day. 2. This is typical day for Zhang Tian. Coming to Gui Zhou Province to teach has been quite an experience for him. typical: adjective. / t p k( )l / You use typical to describe someone or something that shows the most usual characteristics of a particular type of person or thing, and is therefore a good example of that type. (某人或某物) 有典型性的; 有代表性的 province: noun. / prɑ v ns / A province is a large section of a country that has its own administration. 省 Type 类型 Learning Tip 1 Try to guess the meaning of new words based on what we knew both in class (the words, phrases and other language points that you have learnt) and in real life (general knowledge about reality). e.g. type→typical; Gui Zhou is the name of a place in our country Activity 2. Part 1 Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on context. 3. Zhang Tian graduated from university and got a teacher’s certificate last year. His parents, like most, hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job. Likewise, his friends all left his hometown for work in Shanghai or Beijing. Zhang Tian felt differently, however. He wanted to start a new lifestyle. 4. He had met wonderful teachers from small villages during his early school years and he was inspired by them to go and teach where he was needed the most. For that reason he applied, and became a volunteer teacher in a village school. Activity 2. Part 1 Read and guess the meaning of the underlined words based on the context. 3. Zhang Tian graduated from university and got a teacher’s certificate last year. His parents, like most, hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job. Likewise, his friends all left his hometown for work in Shanghai or Beijing. Zhang Tian felt differently, however. He wanted to start a new lifestyle. graduate: verb. / gr d u e t / When a student graduates ... ...
