Unit3 Amazing people

1. Unit3 Amazing people

2. Task Writing a biographical article

3. Skills building 1: Listening for figures • Answer some simple questions: 1. How old are you ? 2.Which floor are you on at school? 3. What is the date today? 4. How old is your father?

4. 1. Kinds of figures • Cardinal numbers • Ordinal numbers • Plural form of numbers

5. (1) Cardinal and Ordinal numbers

6. (2) Plural form of figures

7. Can you read out these numbers? • 1. 25,000 • 2. 108,000 • 3. 32,000 • 4. 10,200,200 • 5. 十四点三十分 • 6.五十周年 • 7. 五百万四千 • 8.八十万六百

8. Game-playing Ask one student to say a number and another one to translate it into Chinese. Do it in chain.

9. 2. Figures can refer to age Susan will be 16 next month. date Tom was born on 17th December 1988. percentage Anna scored 90 percent in her English test. price Susan bought a T-shirt for $ 20. street number Ye Ping lives at 198 Jiangsu Road time Ivy is playing tennis at six o’clock this evening telephone number Please call at 13657659771 fax number My fax is 999,567,534.

10. 3. Modifier of numbers • We can use certain words and phrases to express an approximate number or to modify a number. about , around, more than, under, at least

11. P52 Listening Steve Fossett became interested in balloons in his late(1) _________________.He has been a balloonist for(2) ____________years. He was (3) ____________ Years old when he flew around the world. He finally achieved success when he tried for the (4)____________ time. He swam across the English Channel in (5)_____________. He has broken (6) ________________ world records. 30s 10 58 6th 1985 14

12. Step 1 Finding a speaker for your school Part A: Requirements for speaker: • Must be older than _______but younger than ______ • Must live in or near __________. • Available between the ________of May and the _______of June. • Able to speak from _______o’clock until _______o’clock. • Prepare a speech of _______hours, with _______hour for questions and answers. 18 35 Nanjing 30th 2nd 10 13 two one

13. exciting 6. Must have achieved something _________ or ___________. 7. Must be able to speak ________ or ________. 8. Nationality: ___________ preferred. 9. Experience as speaker would be __________. 10. __________and outgoing personality. important English Putonghua Chinese helpful friendly

14. Part B Wanted ! Exciting Speaker(2) ___________________is looking for an exciting person to give a talk at our school in May or (3)________. Have you achieved You must be (4) ________ to 35years of something exciting age and live in or near ___________. or (1)_____________? The speaker we choose will Do you want to ．speak(6)_______and(7)__________ inspire students with ．have a friendly and(8) ___________ your experiences? Personality. Your school name June 18 Nanjing important English Putonghua outgoing

15. Skills building 2: reading a CV A CV includes: • Identification : name, address, contact information (phone number and e-mail address) • Objective : what kind of job you want to get • Education: the names of the schools at which you studied and graduation dates • Experience: your past jobs, company names, location and position held for past jobs • References: names of the persons who once worked or studied with you and their contact information • Other: honors you have got, hobbies and interests

16. P54 The CV excerpts (answers) • 1994-1998 Beijing University 1990-1994 No.1 High School • Wang Bing * 123 Nanjing Road * 5555 8920 * wbing @ gets job.com • Referees: English teacher Ms Lu Xia Football coach Mr Zhang Xi 5555 5433

17. Step 2 Introducing a speaker Gao Jian 9407 ZhongShan Nan Road 1 Name: _____________ 2 Home:______________________ ______________________ 3.Male/Female: ________ 4. Age:_____________________ 5. Language spoken: ________________________________ 6. Experience: _____________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ * Flat D* Nanjing* China Female 29 Putonghua(native); English(fluent) 2002-2003 a Goodwill Ambassador for China Travelled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese culture 2002 Started a school to help students get accepted to study abroad programmes 1998-2002 Worked as an English teacher in a college

18. 1981-1991 Lived in Australia ___________________________________________ 7.Achievement(s):_____________________________ ___________________________________________ 8. Interests:__________________________________ 9. Personality:________________________________ BA in English; Goodwill Ambassador for China; start a school; a college teacher for many years Travel and adventure Friendly and outgoing

19. Skills building 3: organizing information • 3 important sections • Introduction:Who we are going to write about and why we are writing about him/her • Body: Details about the person ( what he/she did; what he/she said, his/her opinions, the facts, the statistics, etc.) 3. Conclusion: The important result of his/her deed and what people think about him/her)

20. P56 Part A 9, 10 • Introduction: __________________________ • Body: ________________________________ • Conclusion: ___________________________ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 11, 12

21. P57 Part B E ----C----B----A------D------F • Paragraph E tells us who the passage is about • Paragraphs C,B,A and D tell us some detailed information about the person in the order of the events that happened • Paragraph F is the conclusion of the whole passage.

22. Step 3 Writing a biographical article 1. Introduction: • who the article is about • why a speaker has been invited to the school • when she will speak • why she is interesting • what kind of personality she has

23. Step 3 Writing a biographical article 2. Body : • where she was born • where she has lived • where she lives now • where she studied • what job(s) she has had • what interesting things she has done • what her hobbies/ interests are

24. Step 3 Writing a biographical article 3. Conclusion: • why your schoolmates should be excited to listen to her • what can be learned from listening to her talk

25. A sample We are going to invite Ms Gao jian to our school to give a speech at the end of this month. She once lived in Australia and has travelled around the world. She is friendly and outgoing. She knows China and Chinese culture quite well, and she also knows about the world. She was born in Yangzhou. In 1981she went to Australia and lived there until 1991. The she came back to China and studied In Nanjing No.5 High school. She is good at both Chinese and English. She studied English Language and Literature in Beijing University from 1994 to 1998. After

26. graduation, as a Good will Ambassador for China, she travelled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese culture. She likes travel and adventure. In 2002, she started a school to help poor students get accepted to study-abroad progammes. She will talk about studying in foreign countries, as many students are thinking about this. We are looking forward to her coming.

27. Homework Write a biographical article

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