学案八下Unit4SectionBreading(赵芳).doc

Unit 4 Why don’t you talk to your parents?

Section B Reading(2a-2e)
Step 1 Survey调查
What do you usually do after school? (Check （√） the after-school activities you do, if the activities are not in the table , write them down.)
Activities
Name
do
homework

watch movies

use the Internet

Play
sports or exercise

hang out
with friends

Other after-school activities you do:
_____________________________________________________________________________

Step 2 Peter is a middle school student. What does he do after class?
weekdays
Activities
8:00am-4:00pm
study at school
4:00pm-5:00pm
go home and have dinner
5:00pm-6:30pm
do homework
7:00pm-8:30pm
Math class
8:30pm-9:30pm
English class
10:00pm
go to bed

Saturday/
Sunday
Activities
8:00am-12:00am
English and Math class
2:30pm-5:00pm
Piano lessons
7:00pm-9:00pm
Physical class

1. What do you think of Peter’s life after school?

2. Why do you think Peter’s parents let him take so many after-school classes?

Step 3 Add a sentence to complete the title.
When you ________________________________________, maybe you should learn to relax.

Step 4 Read the article quickly and answer the questions.
1. What is the common problem for Chinese and American families?
2. Who gives their opinions about the problem?
Common Problem:

Name
Opinion and details

Step5 Read the passage carefully and try to complete the following blanks.
1. Read paragraph 2 carefully and fill in the chart.
After-school activities
Person
Activities
Feeling
One of her two boys
1. _______________
4. _______________
The other son
2. ________________
Her daughter
3._________________
Cathy Taylor
Take her children from activity to activity.
Maybe I could 5. ________a few of their activities, but I believe these activities are important for my children’s future.

2. Read paragraph 3 carefully and fill in the blanks.Linda____________( agrees/disagrees) with Cathy.
She also thinks that people shouldn’t _____ their kids so hard.

She thinks that it is _______ to compare the kids with other children.
Linda Millar

3. Read paragraph 4 carefully and answer.
She agrees with _______. She says that kids should have time to _______ and _________________, too. Although it’s normal to want successful children, it’s even more important to have happy children.
Does Dr. Green agree with Cathy or Linda? What does she say?

4. What’s the author’s opinion according to the passage?

Step6 Writing
Whose opinion do you agree, Cathy Taylor’s or Linda Millar’s? Why ?
Cathy Talor: After-school classes are important for her children’s future.
Linda Millar: It is crazy to compare the kids with other children, and parents shouldn’t push their kids so hard.
I agree with _________’s opinion that_____________________________. I don’t agree with ________’s opinion that____________________________. I have the following(以下的) reasons.
First,_______________________________________________________________________________.
Second,_____________________________________________________________________________.
At last,______________________________________________________________________________.
All in all, I believe students ____________ (should/shouldn’t ) have many after-school classes.